Julie Measures

Measure your life by yards, cups, and miles

new job

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I got a new job! Of course I'll still be blogging and running my Etsy shop. But this job is related to my Business Marketing degree that I have been working towards. I signed all the paperwork this week to start as an online ad sales rep for the student newspaper on campus!This was last falls back to school publicationIt's only a few hours a week, but I'm excited to be able to do some real world … [Read more...]

Tardis hat

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Are you a Dr. Who fan?In all honesty, I've never watched an episode. But I did know who Dr. Who was and what a Tardis was when a customer contacted me and asked if I could make a Tardis hat for her. I was able to learn a new technique to make this hat. (Stranding, where you carry the yarn along the back of your work as you change colors.) And I was really happy with how it turned … [Read more...]

Fun with Cousins

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My sister-in-law and her kids are here visiting from Minnesota and my kids are loving it. It's been two years since we've been able to see them, so we've been trying to spend every day together.Over the weekend we took all the kids to the Founders' Plaza park near the Dallas/Fort Worth Airport. It's an area where you can watch the airplanes take off and land.Oldest twin with oldest cousinMy … [Read more...]

Friday Favorites – music class

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This is the first year that the twins will be able to do orchestra in our school district. When the signup sheet came home in the spring they were so excited (and I was too).After some discussion oldest twin decided he wanted to play the viola and youngest twin decided he wanted to play the violin. School starts pretty soon so this week we went and rented their instruments, bought their shoulder … [Read more...]

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