Do you realize that this week marks the half-way point for this year? That’s right, 2007 is half over already! Where does the time go? I thought that after the kids got out on their own, I would have more time to myself and accomplish all these wonderful things. The time goes faster now that ever! Are we in a car with no brakes rolling down a steep mountain? Ooh, that’s a scary thought! Let’s move on!
I had to get my act together and turn in my entry form for the fair this week. We still have until July 21st before we take the items to the fairgrounds, so I usually bite off more than I can chew (or finish in this case.) I’ve done this every year since my 20’s, so I don’t think I can change. So the night before we have to have our items at the fair, I’m burning the midnight oil to frantically get them all done. The older I get, however, the more realistic I’m getting. Or maybe I’m just running out of energy! In any case, most of the crafts I want to enter this year are already done or just need a little more work to be done.
I have 19 craft items and 11 food items this year. The food items will be made and taken to the fair during the fair, so it’s not like I have to have them done by the 21st. More about the food items later.
I finished the set of Easter coasters made from felt. This was a kit that Cynthia actually started. She cut all the pieces out but didn’t get any farther with it. I think that was about the time that they started the process of moving, so she got a little side-tracked away from crafts. It took me a couple of days to get all the stitching done on them. The directions didn’t say anything about finishing the box that holds all the coasters. It’s just a plain paper mache box. I took the rest of the green felt and covered the box and stitched the top coaster to the side of the top of the box. It looks like it was meant to be that way, and difinitely looks finished now.
Next, I dug out the hugh red and white afghan that I started two (?) years ago. It has 72 8″ blocks. I got all the blocks crocheted, then it went to the back burner. The main reason I wasn’t in a hurry to sew it together was that I “lost” the book that the pattern was in and I couldn’t remember how to finish the edge after I got the blocks all sewed together. I thought I would have found the book by now, but I’ve been looking for that book ever since! I KNOW it’s around here, but I have the feeling that I’ve loaned it to someone and just can’t remember who.
In any case, I NEED to get it finished, so I’m just going to make up my own edging. It’ll be something really simple like a few rows of single crochet. If I remember right, it was something pretty simple anyway.
I have it about half-way sewed together so far. We had company over the weekend, so I haven’t had a chance to sew on it. The company was daughter Cynthia and her boys. She called Wed. and said, “How would you like to have some company this weekend?” It was a last-minute decision, and I was so excited but I had a lot to do. The boys were going to spend the night with their cousins. They always get along so well and have a ball when they’re together. Cynthia, however, was going to stay with us. My sewing room is also the guest room, and it was a MESS! I had all my UFO’s out of the closet all over the room. Plus, working on them also makes a mess—-hey, I don’t need to tell you crafters how much of a mess things get when we’re crafting, right? I had to spend the next day getting the bed cleaned off and everything at least out of the pathway to the bed.
We had a great weekend though, in spite of all the rain! The boys spent the first night with their cousins and the next night with their dad. He bought fireworks for them and they got to shoot off fireworks and could even see the “Firefall” from their other Grandma’s house in the country. I had to work Sat. morning, but it worked out ok because Cynthia stayed busy transporting the boys around from one place to the other. I got off work at 2 pm and that gave us some time to run south and do some shopping. We both got some good buys on some new clothes and made a stop at Hobby Lobby, of course, where we got yarn on sale. She isn’t sure what she’s going to make with hers, but I kept saying, “I don’t know why I’m buying more yarn!” (I’ve already made up my mind a long time ago that it’s a disease!)
We stayed up late Fri. night watching Stephen King’s “Rose Red” movie. It was a mini-series when it first aired on tv, so it’s about four hours long. We watched half of it, and at 11:00, hubby reminded me that I was going to have to get up at 3am to get ready to be at work at 5:00. After shopping all afternoon with Cynthia on Sat., we stayed up and watched the rest of the movie. It was going on midnight when we finally went to bed Sat. night.
I had to go to work at 10 am Sun. morning. Cynthia and the boys had lunch with me before they headed out of town. I really got worn out from the weekend, but it was worth it!
