I made this one for me! I made myself and ear-flap hat last winter and ignored my son and husband (and brothers) when they made fun of me for wearing it but when an old friend from high school told me that I looked “cute in a cancer patient sort of way” I had to admit that an ear-flap hat is not the best look for me. I found this pattern on Etsy last week and fell in love with it. It looks much better on me! It is so darned cute that I can help singing silly little songs to myself when I wear it. Since no one in this house is capable of taking a decent photo of me and my arms aren’t long enough to get a good view of the hat in a self taken photo, I had my kid model it for me. He has requested that I make him one as well.
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About evilseamstress
Hello, my name is Katie. I am first and foremost, the mother of an amazing 14-year-old boy. There are days that I am unsure if he is amazing in the “extraordinary human being whom I adore spending time with” sense of the word or just an amazing pain in my ass… I am sure he will get over this with age. On the whole he is a great kid and I wouldn’t trade him for the world. I am also the wife of a pretty bad ass barber. He is my co-pilot, and more often than not, my conscience (he pretty much keeps me from telling everyone what exactly it is that I think of them or what they have done on a regular and unedited basis). I am also a daughter; sister, aunt, niece, granddaughter and a friend to those brave souls who choose to voluntarily spend time with me. Obviously my family and friends mean a great deal to me (mess with them and I will cut you… OK not really, but I may make you cry nonetheless).
I spent many years struggling to find me in all that I thought I “should” be doing. I thought that I had to be just one thing for many of those years and could never choose what that one thing was to be. I have led a pretty interesting life thus far and hope that I continue to have many great adventures (but perhaps these good times could be more easily won once in a while. yeah, that would be nice wouldn’t it? Meh, we all need our pipe dreams). I have been a lot of things so far; I was a “Dead Head” in the early years, I have been a waitress and sales associate… I devoted the first five years of my son's life to being a stay at home mother and went back to work in the medical field once he was old enough to go to school. I started as a CNA in the home care industry where I did a lot of hospice work. That job made me sad after a few years so I moved on to my work as a “Birth Control Fairy”. I did this at a very busy and well known family planning clinic and I truly loved what I did there. Unfortunately I was stricken by a rare illness in 2006 which has left me unable to continue working and after struggling to grasp what has happened to me for a few years, I realized that I have yet another chance to reinvent myself, which I dearly love doing.
I recently realized that through all of the years of trying to find myself, I have always known who I am. I am an artist. I create and I don’t have to create one thing. I write and I sew, I decorate my home… I paint and draw and glue things to stuff… I don’t have to be told I am an artist by anyone else. It is who I am and is what I need to do. I can be fickle and silly and whimsical (which is one of my favorite things to be by the way) and indecisive, this is who I am and I think that if I can learn to live with it then so can the rest of the world. So after this little gem of a discovery I have yet again reinvented who I am by becoming a college student!
I just began my first term at the Art Institute and will be working toward my Bachelors of Science in Graphic Design. I hope to hone my crafts and gain the experience and knowledge I need to make a career of doing what I love. You will find my writings here… you better belt yourself into your chair though; sometimes reading my thoughts can be a bumpy ride. I also do more serious writing but generally keep that to myself and will continue to do so until I actually publish these mysterious bits of fiction that I hope to turn into books one day (you know, I don’t want some wanker stealing my work or something like that). I will also be posting and writing about my art and sewing here; this is a new thing so it may take a while to get a lot of that posted.
I do hope you enjoy my blog, if you don’t that is alright too… it is you who has to live with your ultimate suckiness.
