The Making of Harley Quinn Part II: Diamonds are NOT this girls best friend

So, I have had rather eventful and entertaining day which I will tell you about now. It's a rather long story so hold on to you butts.

Today is my oldest son, Jaxons, birthday.  He turned 5.  What a crazy fun age.  Anyway, we already had the big party in Kansas so we decided to just have a little thing at the park with cupcakes and a couple gifts.  I invited my sister-in-law and her two boys (my brother being out of town and all).  Her boys are roughly the same age as my boys about 6-8 months younger than mine.  Sooo, we are at the park and my nephew, Vaden, wants to go on the tire swing.  I'm like "sure dude, lets go".  I head off that way with his little brother, Jonas, in tow.  We get there and Jenny and I are standing around waiting for Vaden to decide to come over.  Now the tire swing is on this freestanding metal frame and for some reason the powers that be decided to put a very low bar as a crossbar.  Like really low, ankle biter level.  So I tell Jaxon to come on over and he can swing too. (It is a habit to get all four boys on this sucker).  He comes hauling ass across the park and trips over the low bar.  He fell on the soft rubber ground and it was kind of funny so I laughed.   Then Vaden sees us and comes running over.  He trips on the same bar, and now Jenny and I are both laughing.  SOOOOO, as wicked as we are, we decided to see if we could get 3 for 3.  I say, "Carter (my youngest), do you want to swing".  "yeah yeah"  Here he comes, racing as fast as his little 3 year old legs can carry him...right for the crossbar.  Guess what, he trips.  Jenny, Ryan (the hubs) and I CRACK UP laughing. 

I know, we are total assholes.  But it was effing hilarious.  After than we threw some rocks off a bridge into the water, went on a mini-safari and did some more swinging.  Then we went to dinner, which was as uneventful as dinner with 4 small boys can be, though fun.


THEN, I have the bright idea to work on my Harley Quinn get up.  I think, "I'll just cut out the diamond patters and then sew them on the shirt.  Then I'll be one step closer to being done."  Riiiiiight. First off, I could not figure out how to cut out diamond patters without the ragged edges showing.  I eventually decided on cutting out 5in squares and just folding in the edges and sewing them shut.  So I get started....and my machine keeps bunching up, reminding me constantly that I am a less than stellar seamstress. 

Who am I kidding, I'm a total novice.   So I spend an awful lot of time ripping seam and rethreading (two things I am fairly good at by now).  I FINALLY get all the black diamonds done, load up a red bobbin, get it in the machine and....the bottom thread won't come up.  Now, this is a MAJOR issue.  I try everything.  I take it apart, rethread, troubleshoot online, cuss, rant and almost break into tears (it is almost 2 am at this point).  So I figure, what the hell one more time......put it back together, load it up, turn the little wheel on the side.  no good.   Dammit.  So, in frustration, I crank the wheel the other way.  VIOLA!!  thread.  Would you believe I had simply been turning the damn thing the wrong way.   What the HELL?!?!?  Who dreams up these contraptions.  So, here I am, 3 hours after starting this simple, quick project.  I am finished with the diamonds!!!! Then I set them on the shirt to see how they will look when sewn on and realize that I should have sewn them on BEFORE sewing the two sides together.  Looks like I will be hand sewing on most of them  /head desk

At least I have something to show for all my woe.  These diamonds are definitely not my best friend:

Yes, I know, one of the red ones is crooked, shut up!!  Did you not just read that^^??