Plans

This weekend I am headed to NEW YORK CITY!/Princeton. My Bryn Mawr friends and I are finally reuniting. Our plans include a visit to Kleinfeld's and a Murder Mystery dinner theater. As a travel addict I have been going absolutely stir crazy so I'm pretty excited.

As for other plans, I actually have a goal, which is pretty crazy for me. I would like to get my Master's in Public Policy from ASU. It is a 2 year program that you can do while working full-time. Now I just have to get an application together and figure out when I want to start, among other things. It is on the Downtown Campus which is nice, because I'd really like to live in/around downtown Phoenix. A big reason to go to grad school, though, is networking. Getting a job is really all about who you know. And apparently I don't know enough people.

So far I've applied to about a gazillion government jobs and haven't gotten one yet. After this NYC trip, I'm going to hunker down and see which service/retail job I will hate least. I am indecisive about a few things though. The main thing is should I look for jobs close to home, or close to downtown? Since I want to live and go to school downtown, it would be nice to have a job I could carry on with while I'm in school, although it'd be a little bit of a commute from living at home. And work somewhere I've worked before, or somewhere new? I can't decided what is bet yet, so I will be mulling things over the next few days.

T-Shirt Pillow

So here I am, unemployed once again. Job applications get boring very fast, so I have been Pinterest obsessed. This project was inspired by ideas for t-shirt pillow crafts. The simplest seemed to be sewing the bottom, sleeves, and head hole closed.

I bought some batting, thinking I would make several of these. However, since I don't have a sewing machine, the hand-sewing took more time than I had anticipated. I haven't done anything crafty or sewed in a while though. 

I used a tee from my first China trip from the Beijing Hard Rock Cafe- a shirt I wanted to keep but that is now too small. Often when I was a teen I would buy child sizes to save money, but now I have a few too small shirts. 

I think this turned out really cute but I still have a ton o' tees and I don't know what to do with them all.  They are sentimental ones I want to keep. Maybe make a few more pillows, but that's only a few more shirts. I tried cutting up a big tee to make a tank but it didn't look all that great. I am thinking about doing some kind of wall art with a few of the shirts. What I'd really like to do is have a t-shirt quilt made of all of them to use as a picnic blanket, or couch blanket. I do not have a sewing machine, nor the skill I suspect. There are companies that do it but it is way out of my budget at the moment. So for now I'm just saving all my favorite tees I can't stand to part with (I must have around 20 at least).