Week 35
Happy Sept. everyone! This is one of my two favorite months of the year. One reason being that it’s the month that Fall starts. The other reason is that’s it’s my Birthday Month! I know, I know, each birthday just makes me one year older, but I’ve never looked at birthdays that way. When I think of a birthday, whether it’s mine or anyone else’s, the first thing I think about is “this is the day that your were BORN!” I’m so thankful for being born and living all the time that I’ve lived so far. I don’t even think about how “OLD” a person is! Because of this, I really enjoy having birthdays and celebrating the birthdays of others.
I’ve actually crossed-stitched on Willie this week. I was going along pretty good and was so proud of myself when I got his head done and started on the scarf around his neck. Ooooops!! I counted wrong and put his head one row lower than it was supposed to be. Darn it! I hate it when that happens! I tried to see how it would do if I worked around it, but alas! However I tried to visualize it, it just wasn’t going to happen. So, frog his head I must.
To make it double the trouble, I was using a filament thread with the floss to give his body and head a bit of a shine. I used all the filament thread except for a yard or so to finish his head. That would have been ok because I was through with his body so I wouldn’t need any more filament. But nooooow…. If I rip it out carefully, I’ll be able to re-use the filament. If not, well…… Needless to say, Willie has been patiently waiting for me to come back to him. I’m just going to have to use a little of that small amount of will-power I have and get back to him sometime this week.
I don’t get the urge to clean house very often, but the bug has been biting me lately. (I’m not a clean freak, but I like to keep things picked up and relatively clean on a daily basis.) I’m talking about the “spring-cleaning” type of clean. We’ve been in this house for eight years. One of the first things I did when we moved in was re-do the bedroom. I took out the old carpet down to the wood floor. I sanded and re-finished the wood floor (that was a hard job for this old lady!) I papered the plain-painted walls with a pretty wallpaper, and hung curtains that had been in another bedroom. We ordered new furniture, but it came before I had a chance to get the trim around the windows painted. So that job was put on hold. By then I was getting so tired of working on the bedroom. Well, I decided that I would get the trim painted finally, so that’s what I did over the Labor Day weekend. I HAD to wash the mini-blinds, windows, and the curtains too! Wow! I wonder why I put it off so long! They look great!
Nothing would do then but to take everything I could move out of the room, clean all the furniture, (I even cleaned out all the drawers and got rid of some more clothes etc.), give the floor a good bath, wiped down all the walls and pretties on the walls and even re-arranged a little. (And I do mean A LITTLE! Our room is just big enough for what furniture we have in there and there’s not much room left to “play” with it.) But now it’s done and I LOVE the result. It even looks like the room is bigger!
I WILL start on my sewing room next. Gads! What a mess I’ve made in there!! Our son and his family will be coming down from KC in a couple of weeks, and since the sewing room is also the guest room, it will HAVE to be cleaned up. Sometimes I need some motivation to get me to do what needs to be done. It shouldn’t be that way, but it is for me. I’m betting a lot of you out there are a little like that too, right? (Please say “yes”, so I don’t feel like such a lazy procrastinator.)
When I sit down in the evenings, I pick up another cross-stitch kit for Christmas ornaments that I’ve been working on for a couple of weeks.
The kit is supposed to make only five ornaments. Instead of using the aida cloth for the backings, I’m going to use some printed Christmas fabric. That leaves me enough aida cloth for 14 ornaments all together. I have about half of them done so far. I’ll keep you posted.
My hubby likes to surf the net and he came across a show called Talk Shoe. He found one that he thought I might like. It’s called Crafticast. This is a couple of ladies that sit and chat about knitting and other crafts. I like their “valley talk” style of talking and the fact that it’s like sitting with them at the table with a cup of tea or coffee. It’s a little informative and very entertaining to say the least. He downloaded some of their entries on his ipod and I can listen to them as I craft. I thought I would pass along the information in case anyone is interested. Check it out, I think you’ll like it. This is a site I will visit again.
Well, better get started on that sewing room! Happy crafting and see you here again next week.
