What are some things I can sew?
Q. I'm 16 and I have alot of leftover fabric but I cant find anything to make except pillows, clothes,bags, and make up bags which I don't want to make.
Any suggestions?
Any suggestions?
A. Make a bean bag throw game. You have the material for the bags, buy a board, put props on the back, and paint it. Great for kids and bored adults.
Xmas ornaments and crafts. Sew the material into a shape, and stuff it with fiberfill. Check the Yahoo menu, type in Xmas fabric crafts.
Doll clothes. Barbie, Madame Alexander. If you do a good job on these, you can sell them.
check out simplicity.com for ideas, there is a little pincushion that looks like a cupcake that I want to make.
Or make a fancy pincushion.
Stuffed animals, for humans or 4 legged friends.
Lamp shades. I bought some sheer material and ribbon to glue on an aging bedroom lampshade.
If your material is all of a kind, do patchwork. Make a small quilt, a tote, a purse, whatever you design. go buy some already cut squares at the fabric store to supplement your fabric supply if you need to.
I made a little doll out of muslin, and embroidered her face and dress, she had yarn hair. Great for putting in a nook in the Xmas tree, or as a puppet, or a small gift for a child.
Xmas ornaments and crafts. Sew the material into a shape, and stuff it with fiberfill. Check the Yahoo menu, type in Xmas fabric crafts.
Doll clothes. Barbie, Madame Alexander. If you do a good job on these, you can sell them.
check out simplicity.com for ideas, there is a little pincushion that looks like a cupcake that I want to make.
Or make a fancy pincushion.
Stuffed animals, for humans or 4 legged friends.
Lamp shades. I bought some sheer material and ribbon to glue on an aging bedroom lampshade.
If your material is all of a kind, do patchwork. Make a small quilt, a tote, a purse, whatever you design. go buy some already cut squares at the fabric store to supplement your fabric supply if you need to.
I made a little doll out of muslin, and embroidered her face and dress, she had yarn hair. Great for putting in a nook in the Xmas tree, or as a puppet, or a small gift for a child.
Husband going to army, when can i (wife) live on base?
Q. how long usually after boot camp can an army wife expect to move on to base? and how exactly does that work?
A. Okay, once your hubby gets out of AIT he will be able to go get you. He will have about 10 days after he graduates AIT to sign into his new unit. Once he is there, he will have lots of stops to make. One of them being Housing. You guys getting a place on post all depends on the wait list they have. This depends on his rank and how many dependents you have. If you are married and have no kids you will be offered a 2 bedroom. Most army bases don't offer 1 bedrooms anymore. Sometimes the wait list can be up to 12 months and they will give you a referral to live off post. But DO NOT go put a lease on a house or apartment until your hubby has talked to someone at housing. You can go with him when he goes to housing. Usually once you go to housing what happens is this:
-they will give you a paper with some addresses on it (anywhere from 3-4 different houses)
-you will be able to drive to those houses (onpost) and check them out. You will only be able to look at the outside. The houses will be locked. I have gotten up the nerve to ask the next door neighbor if they are home if I can look in their house, cause it is usually the same design sometimes just backwards.
-you will then write down your choices in the order that you like them.
-then turn the paper back into housing and wait (the army is all about hurry up and wait). If no one else picked your house you will be offered it. Remember most posts, if you don't accept the house they are offering you, they will put you on the wait list again at the bottom. Sometimes they will give you another list espeically if the houses you looked at were taken by someone who was on the wait list before you so you will be offered 3 more houses to look at.
-Once you have been offered a house and you have accepted. They will usually let you move in a few days up to a month, sometimes the house needs a bit of work on it.
-Once you get the keys to the house, you will have 10 days to make any marks about the condition of the house. Be extremely picky on what you find wrong in the house. They will give you a sheet in which you will list anything wrong in the house on this sheet. Look at every nook and crany of each and every room. Check out the carpet, look under the cupboards, look in the sinks and bathtubs, write down anything that you think is wrong or has a crack or has a rip or has a leak or has a nick. If you don't write it down and after you PCS or ETS, they will make YOU pay for it. If it is written down, they will pay for it. They might tell you to call in a work order for it, make sure to call in the work order for it. And when you get ready to move out make sure you call a work order for anything that is broken so you don't have to pay for it later.
They do offer housing to ALL soldiers in the army no matter what rank you are. You do not have to be E4 or higher. They do have certain housing areas that will be offered to each rank. They have lower enlisted housing, junior NCO housing area, senior NCO housing and officer housing. Then they even have the Senior Officer housing and of course the big guy's housing area (the general of post and officers like that). So yes you can get housing on post as an E2 and E3.
Hope this info helps and wasn't confusing.
-they will give you a paper with some addresses on it (anywhere from 3-4 different houses)
-you will be able to drive to those houses (onpost) and check them out. You will only be able to look at the outside. The houses will be locked. I have gotten up the nerve to ask the next door neighbor if they are home if I can look in their house, cause it is usually the same design sometimes just backwards.
-you will then write down your choices in the order that you like them.
-then turn the paper back into housing and wait (the army is all about hurry up and wait). If no one else picked your house you will be offered it. Remember most posts, if you don't accept the house they are offering you, they will put you on the wait list again at the bottom. Sometimes they will give you another list espeically if the houses you looked at were taken by someone who was on the wait list before you so you will be offered 3 more houses to look at.
-Once you have been offered a house and you have accepted. They will usually let you move in a few days up to a month, sometimes the house needs a bit of work on it.
-Once you get the keys to the house, you will have 10 days to make any marks about the condition of the house. Be extremely picky on what you find wrong in the house. They will give you a sheet in which you will list anything wrong in the house on this sheet. Look at every nook and crany of each and every room. Check out the carpet, look under the cupboards, look in the sinks and bathtubs, write down anything that you think is wrong or has a crack or has a rip or has a leak or has a nick. If you don't write it down and after you PCS or ETS, they will make YOU pay for it. If it is written down, they will pay for it. They might tell you to call in a work order for it, make sure to call in the work order for it. And when you get ready to move out make sure you call a work order for anything that is broken so you don't have to pay for it later.
They do offer housing to ALL soldiers in the army no matter what rank you are. You do not have to be E4 or higher. They do have certain housing areas that will be offered to each rank. They have lower enlisted housing, junior NCO housing area, senior NCO housing and officer housing. Then they even have the Senior Officer housing and of course the big guy's housing area (the general of post and officers like that). So yes you can get housing on post as an E2 and E3.
Hope this info helps and wasn't confusing.
How can I get organized? I really need some help.?
Q. I live in a two bedroom trailer with my boyfriend and three kids. My house is not dirty, but it is so cluttered.What can I do to get everything organized. I need help with everything from clothes, toys,household stuff and things in general.
A. The first answer was a good place to start but don't just throw things out. There are so many in need these days. As long as an item is still usable, functional and in good condition someone can use it. Please donate to the local Salvation Army, Goodwill or church. Designate an area for each persons belongings. Look around the trailer for any nook or cranny that can store items. Give each child a storage box for their own personal items that they can keep under their bed. Use the space under your bed too.Look for pieces of furniture that have more than one function. Use a trunk or cedar chest as a coffee table and store winter blankets in the summer and summer clothes in the winter. The cubes that most Targets carry are great for extra seats for the kids but can hold toys inside. Things that make a mess in the house like muddy shoes or boots can go on an inexpensive metal shelves just outside the back door. Look in the cabinets, cupboards and closets and notice the empty space you see. You can add extra shelves or stack things inside of other things to take up less space. Go to a container store and look at what's there. It will get your imagination going and you'll be surprised how clever you'll become. Good Luck!!
What dangerous childhood activities did you do?
Q. What did you enjoy as a child that would be considered too dangerous today? Here are mine:
1.Rode my bicycle all over town, no helmet of course.
2. Played kick-the-can in the street after dark.
3.Galopped on a horse through the farm fields and woods with a younger cousin; no helmet of course.
4. Stayed out trick-or-treating with my best friend till the last porch light in town was turned off.
1.Rode my bicycle all over town, no helmet of course.
2. Played kick-the-can in the street after dark.
3.Galopped on a horse through the farm fields and woods with a younger cousin; no helmet of course.
4. Stayed out trick-or-treating with my best friend till the last porch light in town was turned off.
A. Learned to ride a bicycle on my older brother's ten speed when I was only 8 years old...could barely reach the pedals, let alone the GROUND. And I had to mount the thing by walking it up to our two foot high side porch and mounting it like a horse. It was REALLY SCARY being up there and NOT in control, so I learned to balance really quickly just from sheer fright!
Explored the whole neighbourhood by myself from the age of five. By the time I was ten I knew every nook and cranny of it in a 10 mile radius (and yes I DO MEAN radius!), except for what was actually out IN the lake that is located two miles to the south of us. (But I DID dive and explore everything underwater out to where the bottom dropped off suddenly about 30 feet out. AND I learned about rip tides from first hand experience--which were thankfully not as bad in our lake as they could be in an ocean!). That is Lake Ontario--big mother--you can't even see haflway across it from shore.
Toboganned down the ravine hills behind our houses. Got VERY good at steering to avoid all the trees in the way. And got REALLY CREATIVE by weaving back and forth across the shallow valleys to make the trip longer and more "fun", with twice as much tree dodging of course.
Went skating in the winter on the river in the bottom of that ravine. Which is a normal passtime for most kids...EXCEPT, this river has lots of deep pools that never fully freeze over. Learning how to extricate yourself once you fall in is a must for any kid adventurous enough to do this to begin with.
Lived next door to the local paedophile. All us kids knew about him, because his own kids were very specific about what he would do to us if we let our guards down. Our parents just "refused to see" what was going on with this man and all his religious and police "friends" who thought the same way he did. The courageous thing was learning how to grow up STILL believing in the inherant goodness in people! A view neither his daughter nor his son shared.
Oh, yeah...nearly forgot this one! Stole the fruit out of the trees of a not-so-close neighbour. At night. It was dangerous because we needed to sneak up right underneath his bedroom window to get to the peach and apple trees. And the ONLY way you got enough to go around between your friends was to break off BRANCHES of the fruit and run. And the guy had a shotgun, AND a German Shepherd!
Explored the whole neighbourhood by myself from the age of five. By the time I was ten I knew every nook and cranny of it in a 10 mile radius (and yes I DO MEAN radius!), except for what was actually out IN the lake that is located two miles to the south of us. (But I DID dive and explore everything underwater out to where the bottom dropped off suddenly about 30 feet out. AND I learned about rip tides from first hand experience--which were thankfully not as bad in our lake as they could be in an ocean!). That is Lake Ontario--big mother--you can't even see haflway across it from shore.
Toboganned down the ravine hills behind our houses. Got VERY good at steering to avoid all the trees in the way. And got REALLY CREATIVE by weaving back and forth across the shallow valleys to make the trip longer and more "fun", with twice as much tree dodging of course.
Went skating in the winter on the river in the bottom of that ravine. Which is a normal passtime for most kids...EXCEPT, this river has lots of deep pools that never fully freeze over. Learning how to extricate yourself once you fall in is a must for any kid adventurous enough to do this to begin with.
Lived next door to the local paedophile. All us kids knew about him, because his own kids were very specific about what he would do to us if we let our guards down. Our parents just "refused to see" what was going on with this man and all his religious and police "friends" who thought the same way he did. The courageous thing was learning how to grow up STILL believing in the inherant goodness in people! A view neither his daughter nor his son shared.
Oh, yeah...nearly forgot this one! Stole the fruit out of the trees of a not-so-close neighbour. At night. It was dangerous because we needed to sneak up right underneath his bedroom window to get to the peach and apple trees. And the ONLY way you got enough to go around between your friends was to break off BRANCHES of the fruit and run. And the guy had a shotgun, AND a German Shepherd!
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