{"id":864,"date":"2012-02-15T01:15:40","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T01:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paytonandgrace.com\/?p=864"},"modified":"2012-02-15T01:15:40","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T01:15:40","slug":"taxes-necks-and-potato-sacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/payton-downing\/2012\/02\/15\/taxes-necks-and-potato-sacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxes, Necks, and Potato Sacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Winter is the perfect time for crafty things–I mean the paper and fabric kind, not the sneaky kind. Well, I’m sure winter holds plenty of room for deception, but I prefer hauling out the sewing machine or the folder with all the magazine cutouts. Although, I did have to haul out the folder with all of the tax stuff last week. This year I can happily say that I did not growl or bite anyone’s head off while doing them. I might have done that last year.<\/p>\n

Back to the crafting, I’ve been hooked on clothing for a month or so. I found that if you have a jersey pillowcase or sheets, you can turn them into a t-shirt. I also converted two of Payton’s old shirts. One turned out fine and the other didn’t like the stitch on the neck and it looked wobbly. There’s surprisingly little on the internet about making t-shirts. Does anyone know how they get the necklines to look so nice? Necks are my newest nemesis.
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Right now, I’m working on a vest-ish thing. It looks like a potato sack right now. It’s not supposed to, and hopefully it won’t when I’m done with it. I have to do everything without a pattern because I don’t know how to read them, sadly–I’m the same with reading music too. \ud83d\ude41 \u00a0And sometimes I don’t have enough material, which also throws a monkey wrench in the whole business. The hood on my vest-ish potato sack thing is made of about 8 scraps. You know, if you have a little time, try it! Making a shirt gave me the same sense of satisfaction as making a good loaf of bread for the first time. I felt like I’d snatched a little bit of independence back from somewhere. The biggest sacrifice of making clothes is finding a good-fitting favorite you can cut up as your pattern. Hey, even if that’s too big a project, enjoy being stuck indoors and glue paper and magazine cutouts to make cards, and you can send them as a cheer-up in the middle of winter!<\/p>\n

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As for school, it’s been a while since we’ve been on a double block–one where we have the same classes for 6 weeks (Daniel\/Revelation and Christian Life). It’s kind of intense, I’m not going to lie. Although, we do have 1+2 Thessalonians which will switch out with Pastoral Epistles in another week and a half. We have a book a week to read, plus homework! And the Hermeneutics Practicum also adds another 2 hours a week. Plus, the things we’re learning at church merit just as much thought and study. I just keep praying that I’m storing all of this information somewhere in my head where I can retrieve it later on down the road!<\/p>\n

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