Number One daughter had a birthday this week. I can’t believe we have a child who’s 42 years old! It doesn’t seem like I should be that old, let alone my child. She doesn’t look old at all. . . . . Isn’t she pretty!
I don’t think I ever looked that good, even when I was young. We gave her the snowman picture as part of her gift. She saw it at a craft fair we went to a few weeks ago and acted like she really liked it. So I got it for her! She likes snowmen.
Dad and I took her out for lunch the day before her birthday. I was going to have to work on her birthday and I knew her family would take her out to eat, so the day before was the only time we would get to see her.
We picked her up at her house and she showed us all the changes that she and her hubby were doing to their house. They have new carpet, furniture, and a freshly painted bathroom with new art hanging on the walls. The color isn’t something I would have used, but we all have our own tastes. As soon as I saw it, (and got past the color issue) I thought that it needed something. It looked too… “thick” to me. The walls are textured — a project her hubby did several years ago. I’ve always liked the textured walls. But for some reason they just didn’t look “finished” with that “thick” mustard color on them. Something wasn’t “right” to me.
Later that evening I was thumbing through a magazine, and suddenly I saw a picture of what I knew was in the back of my mind but just couldn’t “see” it in my mind’s eye. What the walls need is a randomly sponged-on effect with a lighter color. It would bring out the texture again, lighten up the walls, and add the depth to it so it wouldn’t seem so “thick”. All they would have to do is add some white to the remaining mustard color and sponge lightly and randomly all over the walls. Oooh, I think that would be soooo pretty! Should I tell her about my idea?
I had a fun day with some friends of mine from K.C. They came down to spend the day with me. We had lunch at the Olive Garden then went shopping at the Mall. We went to Macy’s first. They spent a lot of money and I enjoyed watching them spend it. We tried on hats, sprayed ourselves with perfume, tried on clothes and shoes, and kidded each other all afternoon. It was really a fun day! They dropped me off at my house at 6:00 and still had the long drive back to K.C. They’re already talking about another trip down next month to pick me up and all of us head to Branson to do some Christmas shopping. I told them I’m game! They’re fun to be with. . . . they make me laugh and I feel like a teenager again.
I had the motivation to finish up several UFO’s when I had to get my act together for the craft fair I was in last weekend. A kick in the ol’ butt, you know. It felt good to get some of them done and out of the way. After the show I finished another pair of socks that somehow was becoming one of those dreaded UFO’s.
As I was just finishing them up, Hubby asked me to make him a pair of socks that had the heel in them. (The socks that I’ve always made him before were tube socks with no heel.) He hasn’t asked me very many times to make something for him, so I felt proud that he thought enough about my talent to request something. I found the yarn, (“something plain and dark”) and got this pair of socks made for him. He wore them the very next day!
I think I’ve mentioned before that I have a lot of birthdays along with the holidays the last two months of this year. (Oh my, I just realized what I just wrote — only two months to go in this year!) Two grandsons’, two daughters’ and a son-in-law’s birthdays this month besides Thanksgiving. Then a son’s, two grandsons’, a m-i-l and a sister’s birthdays besides Christmas next month! Yes, it’s going to be a busy two months for sure. To be continued next week. . . . . . .
