All posts tagged: Colors

I have the best coworkers… just sayin’

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“These are for the Captain” was all I heard behind me. I turned around to see these being handed through the pharmacy window: My techs know that I’ve been worn down lately. After taking over as Flight Commander almost two months ago, it’s been one thing after another and I’ve been averaging 11-13 hour work days plus weekends. We’re getting everything together, and it shouldn’t stay like this forever, but for now it’s busy. Very busy. But this was such an unexpected surprise… I almost started crying right then and there. I’ve been truly blessed (can I say blessed if I’m not religious?) to be working with such a great group of people. We may have our ups and downs in the workplace, but at the end of the day everyone really cares about one another. And with that I really couldn’t ask for more! So I set the flowers by my checking station and got to smell them the rest of the day. Count a narc… smell the flowers… check a dose… smell the …

Colors Quiet Book: Putting it All Together

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There are definitely a number of tutorials out there on how to put together a quiet book, but I didn’t particularly love any of them. So here was my attempt at creating my own way. Disclaimer: I didn’t pay attention and ordered the pages completely wrong! :/ My original goal was to put them in the order of the rainbow… you know; figured that made the most sense. But then I didn’t plan it out. I blame it on being a beginner… or maybe I was just lacking that attention to detail they always talk about in the military :/ But either way, I wasn’t about to take it all apart once I realized what I did. lol… so you will notice there is absolutely no logical order to the colors in the finished book. Anywhoo… we’ll just ignore that little detail and show how I put it all together: Step 1: Cut long rectangular strips of fleece and sew your pages to them. With right sides together, sew coordinating pages together, flip inside out …

Colors Quiet Book: The Rest!

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Ok, so maybe I’m not cut out for scheduled blog posts. Here are the rest of the pages… now I just need to finish putting it together and get it mailed out before I leave for training and I’ll be good to go :) Page 4: GREEN My options: The end result: The making of: Page 5: BLUE My options: The end result: The making of: Page 6: PURPLE My options: The end result: The making of: Page 7: PINK My options: The end result: The making of: Page 8: BROWN My options: The end result: The making of: Page 9: BLACK My options: The end result: The making of: Page 10: WHITE My options: The end result: The making of: See the rest of the book.