my newest hobby

Can I just say that I absolutely LOVE seeing my little boy's face light up when he's excited about something. It's my favorite! :) I made Caden an appliqued drum shirt on Monday and he was thrilled. It's such a great feeling to make something you are proud of and have somebody that is as excited about it as you are. It's even better when that person is your child. But I'm getting ahead of myself.
A while back Mom/Memaw gave me a sewing and embroidery machine. It sat around at my dad's house for quite a while. However, in the last few months I've decided that I really do want to learn to sew. Until this point I've had the attitued that my mom could make anything I needed and probably do a better job at it than I could so why do it, ya know? It was a bad attitude to have, but it's the truth. My mom does live and hour and a half away from me and she has a life of her own. She is not my beckon call girl just waiting around to do things for me, and sometimes it's just hard to get around life to get to her. So, I decided it was time to take initiative and do it for myself.
My inspiration came from seeing another kid on a friends facebook page in the cutest little outifits. In the picture I saw, he had on an appliqued shirt with his name monogrammed on it and matching gingham shorts. I of course sent her a message to ask her where she got the outfit. She responded and I immediately went to the website to see about buying one for Caden. It was more that I spend on Caden's clothes. Let me just insert here that I am cheap. Really I am. In this situation I'm glad though because it provided a little kick in the butt for me. I was officially inspired to use my sewing machine.
My mom was thrilled when I called her and told her I was ready to learn how to sew. She said she had been waiting for the day. Okay so we were both excited. I am one of those people who jump into things with both feet. It's all or nothing for me. I get into something and I want everything that has anything to do with my hobby of the moment. She gave me a few lessons so I could make some shorts for Caden. He is like my little chearleader by the way. He was so happy that I was making something for him. Unfortunately it wasn't as easy as I expected and I still have about 5 pairs of size 3T shorts cut out that are not sewn together. Yeah, I'm like that. It's terrible...I know!
So maybe the actual sewing will come in time, but for now I'm happy with doing the applique and embroidery. I'll post more pictures of stuff I've made another time.