Hi everyone! I’m here. At the seaside. With Vancouver’s Sunset Beach as a backdrop. Thanks bunches for your comments on my last post. It was actually with great effort that I resisted loading up on balloons again today. For the moment I’m carrying this crazy idea in my head that a photo op without balloons is blah-blah-boring. I’m sure I’ll get over it…eventually…but actually no…I don’t think I will…so there will indeed be balloons featured in the future. Anyhoo…onwards, we’ve got another pair of Ginger Jeans to discuss. Okay, so what have I been up to? Not a whole lot really. I have, however, been eating a whole lotta Girl Guide cookies. Whomever created the concept of sending young girls door to door, armed with sweet smiles and even sweeter boxes of cookies, was pretty much a marketing genius…just sayin. Oh yeppers…we caved…as in three boxes caved. I get hooked every spring…I mean, a cute kid, a tidy little box of chocolate and vanilla sandwich cookies, all at my front door…I can’t say no. In autumn GG sells chocolate mint cookies….which although lovely little morsels, mercifully tempt me less keenly. They should sell the traditional sandwich cookies spring and fall. Not just to make me happy, but to make more money. You see, every time I reach into a trad box, I take two cookies…one chocolate and one vanilla…’cause how could I not? There’s only one choice in the mint box, so I’m content with a single cookie. It’s by necessity really, that I buy twice the number of boxes of traditional cookies as chocolate mint. Of course the downside of eating twice the number of cookies, is…well….you know. Still. I managed to squeeze into my latest me-made pants, my Blue Gingers. Yep..these be Closet Case Files Ginger Jeans pattern. The fabric you may recognize {my buttonholes on my Orange and Pink Coat}. It’s cotton with about 2% lycra {whew}. It’s a lighter-weight fabric than denim, and was therefore pretty easy to sew. Even so, I picked up some helpful tips from Leila of Grow Your Own Clothes… Grow Your Own Clothes: Sewing Jeans. I used my now TNT Ginger Jeans pattern. And the name, Blue Gingers? Well…obviously they’re blue, but they also remind me of a fun aloha filled clothing retailer in Hawaii called Blue Ginger. Although I haven’t bought any clothing from them….I sew … Continue reading ORANGE AND BLUE :: BLUE GINGERS THAT IS : : GINGER JEANS