30 years of service!!

My dad and I on My Wedding Day

It has been a long 24.5 years

of being a Marine Corps brat, 

 but an even longer 30 years 

of service to the Marine Corps

for my favorite 

Master Gunnery Sergeant.

If you have not guessed who this is

It is none other then my Dad!!

In preparation for his weekend long 

retirement festivities,

I decided to make a bunting banner 

I call it "Semper Fi"

It is in its final stages, but not yet 100% completed

 

  I started off using my sewing machine

but 

I decided that my hot glue gun would be faster.

(This Singer was my Nana's)

  All the materials that I used , I already owned.

1) Holey pair of my husbands jeans

2) Pair of blue Dickie Shorts missing a clasp (Hubby's as well ;-) he is such a giver)

3) White and red shirts he no longer wears

  The rest was pretty much up to my imagination.

A ton of ripping, cutting and gluing and it turned out great. 

All that is missing is some good ol' country rope. (Still on the hunt)

SO this is how the panels turned out...

not bad for a pair of old 

jeans, shorts and some t-shirts!

Photo's of the finished project coming soon!

Catch up? I think so!!!

To say I have fallen on the face of the Earth, would be an understatement.


I have been busy with work, took a vacation and of course the ends and outs of everyday life and the unexpected moments of that.


Hopefully I will be able to catch up with the time I have been away

(as I type this at work)

I will have a few projects soon.