Monday, March 18, 2019

The show is over but the work isn’t done – at least for me. It took me two car loads to get everything to the Hall on Friday. It was a long day getting everything set up. I had to be there early as I was supplying the coffee and hot water for tea; the tea bags didn’t show up until about 9:30 but the rest was ready by 8:30.

I checked in the Boutique inventory until noon. It is a job I’ve done for the last few shows; I love seeing everything that is going to be up for sale. Sadly I had my eye on a couple of items but by the time I got to the boutique (on Sunday) the things I wanted were gone. Friday afternoon I got my table set up for the door prizes and another area set up for used magazines that the Guild was selling (for next to nothing). I like to be there after the quilts have been hung as I get a good look at them when there are only a few people around.

I sat at the door prize table all day Saturday. There was a nice flow going with the crowd; guests started at the Admission table, were directed to the Door Prize table and then on to the Fat Quarter draw table and finally to the Raffle Prize table. Sunday was pretty much the same routine except I had someone relieve me occasionally so I was able to have lunch and do a bit of shopping. With a draw every hour it kept me busy tracking down winners and recording prizes.

I had my first load of laundry outside on the line by eight this morning and headed out of the house about ten to run numerous errands. I had a door prize to deliver, a wheelchair and walker to return, a book to pick up at the library, bags and bags and bags of magazines to take to the thrift store, and a birthday present to buy. I have one more door prize to deliver this afternoon.

It should come as no surprise that the entire house is a disaster. I wrapped a couple of birthday gifts this afternoon and did a few of the jobs that needed to be done that arose from the show. I still have more of those jobs to do and the paper has piled up for both the Hall and my personal finances.

Once I get my projects packed for the bee tomorrow (and another bag of things that need to be returned to the Church), I’ll get the last door prize delivered.

Tuesday, March 12, 2019

This was a more productive day than yesterday – but then how could it not be?

Pat and I got the living room set up for the concert tonight and then I headed off to the bee. I took four of my Splendid Sampler 2 blocks to work on and came home with one finish; I ran out of time or had problems with the other three. One of them I sewed the pieces together wrong and didn’t have any fabric with me to make the correction; one was using fusible appliqué and I left my appliqué sheet at home; on the third one I ran out of time but I managed to get several pieces cut. Two of those three blocks were using templates – I hate templates!

I brought home the last of the donated door prizes today. I’ll start putting baskets together tomorrow when our guests leave for Texada. I think I may have to purchase some bags or nice boxes to put some of the door prizes in. I had a lot of large wicker baskets donated when I planned to do only one door prize each day but because people have been so generous I think I’ll have to do more than that.

Our house guests are out exploring the town and enjoying the sunshine. One of them is celiac so we thought it might be easier (and safer) to take them out for dinner.