Hey guys!

I got a brand new sewing machine! A great way to stay creative on my music down time! After messaging about five ads, one came through, the best offer yet! This machine wasn’t used even once and I got a good deal. I promised the previous owner that I would make her something…

 

Then boom! After a weekend of squinting over the manual, rereading instructions over and over and over again, I made this tote bag! Here is the grand debut it deserves at the Eaton Centre.

 

 

 

 

And when I say a weekend, I don’t mean an hour here and there. I devoted my entire Friday, Saturday and Sunday morning on this. I spent a good hour at Fabricville choosing the fabrics. I went first to the stuff on sale, which was a disorganized pile of upholstery. I pulled out a few fabrics from the mountain and came up with these two main upholsteries: the dark blue and the spring flower pattern.

Then I spent the rest of the evening cutting the fabrics. It was important to get every measurement right. But it was so hard! I had a little bit a break of “Arrested Development” in between.

Don’t let the smiles fool you, it was tough! I had no idea what I was in for.  The instructions seemed so fun on this website, but it was a tough challenge, especially for someone who only started sewing buttons on a shirt a month ago: http://www.makeit-loveit.com/2013/07/two-tone-fabric-totes-2-variations.html.

All in all, the experience was absolutely worth it. It is good to have a skill, and know where your garments are coming from and fully customize it to your liking!

Readers, I can’t contain this urge to make clothes anymore! Also, I want a handy skill that doesn’t involve computers! Plus I have so many ideas for clothes I don’t see in stores! Plus it looks like so much fun.

I wrote to a fellow on craigslist selling his sewing machine. He said he will text me tonight to tell me when he can drop it off … stay tuned!

Music is an overwhelming world. So I tried to focus on one aspect every month. This March I focussed on drums. I learned about the 40 rudiments of drums, and more on fills, more on how to write drum notation, I analyzed a lot of beats and focused on the drum parts when listening to a song.

Soon it will be April, I will dedicate this month in building my site reading skills on piano. I met a woman in Cuba (from Calgary) that could do this, and it looked like lots of fun, almost liberating to play whatever the paper said. I know how to read fluently, but to play with both hands right away is hard! So I borrowed a few books in the library to build on this skill. I am a fast typer, so I hope that skill somehow helps…

Dear Diary,

Yesterday, on the 55 St. Laurent bus vers nord, a short scrappy type man was causing quite the commotion. He had a beard. Beat up jacket. Stained and strained everything else. He smelled. You could say he did not have a particular home to go to, yet he acted like he had to go somewhere by asking a young atttactive lady if this bus was going to Jarry park.

Then he sat down on a seat and put his head down on the next seat. He got bored of that after two seconds so he grabbed the bus pole and started humping to it and dancing erotically. He went up and down and even laid down. “Nice moves!” Said a jockish-hipster type man.

My stop was coming very shortly. Then I left before things got out of hand.

Then I went home and worked on music.

The end.