Recent Project

The story: One October evening I was hanging out with some friends, and I told them about my Raggedy Ann & Andy project. And my new friend E said, "So are you the one I should talk to about making a garment bag for my temple dress?"
I'm not. But I knew the right people to talk to.
First, I asked a friend about a pattern. She didn't have one per se, but had created her own after not liking any of the patterns she'd seen. She offered to walk me and E through the process. (After E mentioned it, I decided I needed a garment bag too).
And then I called another wonderful friend who makes custom draperies, etc. and has a really great stash of decorator fabrics. Not only that, this friend is nice and very generous with her stash. E and I went over to her house one night and she showed us the fabrics she had. E and I both fell instantly in love with one of the fabrics in particular, and fortunately, there was enough of it that we could both get a bag out of it. When we mentioned that we were going to head out to the store to get zippers and thread, my generous and nice friend scoffed at that idea, and sent us off with everything we needed from what she had in her own supply. She completely hooked us up.
We spent two evenings working on these bags. Once they were done, I left mine hanging in the living room for about a week and a half--for me to easily admire each day.
Here's the pictures of the final product:

Peanut and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

I've been working on a project for my boss. A project that my target date for completion was today. Initially I thought I'd have today to work on it, but after talking with my boss I realized she wanted it this morning.
With the change in timing I knew I'd have to do some work from home, but I could definitely get it done.
Last night I stayed up very very late working on this project.
And then when I was done I saved all my documents, closed them, and went to bed.
I woke up early this morning (I didn't even snooze once!) to get into the office early to wrap up a few loose ends.
And then, and then, and then I tried to open my word document from my flash drive. And then I tried again, and again. Nope. My file has a problem and word won't open it. Neither will Open Office, or any other programs I thought of to try to open it.
And when my boss came to me this morning wanting the files, I stammered a bit explaining about the corrupt file, and how I had put together another file for her, but it wasn't the full project.
I had hoped to be able to give her a flash drive that she could just take with her with the entire project on it. Instead I cobbled together a pitiful "it's better than nothing" file.
Good news, my supervisor thinks he can at least recover the text even if we can't find a solution for the whole file. He's working on that. In the mean time I've been sent home to take a break.
And then this afternoon and tomorrow, I'll be reconstructing the lost file. Because while my boss was fairly understanding this morning, she still wants it by Sunday.
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4:45pm Update: I never did get the whole file recovered, but my supervisor was able to recover the text. And truthfully, though it's pain to put it all together again and copy and paste the figures again, recreating the lost text was the part that I was dreading most.

Still frustrating.

Plus, I appreciate my supervisor's understanding in telling me to come home and take a break when I was at a peak in my frustration. Plus he even mentioned comp time for having to work this weekend.