Friday, August 16, 2019

At the last two meetings of 100+ Women Who Care I didn’t cast my vote for the winning group. But last night I backed a winner. The runners-up don’t go away empty handed though as they each get $400 which amounts to the donations made by the organizers. This is such a worthwhile and easy way to give back.

Once I was home I dug right into that amazon box and when I saw what was inside I knew why I hadn’t ripped it open immediately. I ordered a new ink cartridge for my printer. While I waited for the new one to arrive I took out the old one, gave it a good shake, and it has been working quite nicely ever since. I totally forgot that I had ordered a new one.

I have been tidying for most of the day. This morning I emptied several bags that I brought back from Texada – cross stitch projects and floss mostly. My floss is now all organized and in the proper drawer, I have three small bins for my small projects and my needles and tools are all close at hand.

Although the weather said it wasn’t going to rain until Sunday it looked rather threatening to me so I went out just before lunch and cut the weeds on the boulevard. I did the same with the yard inside the fence; I think there was more grass than weeds in the yard this time. The sun is shining now so there was no rush but it is nice to have it done.

I’ve spent more time this afternoon tidying. I had a plan at one point to wrap my fabric around cardboard for better storage. The plan was never really put into action but I had lengths of cardboard and bundles of fabric all over the place. All cleaned up and put away now!

For the rest of the afternoon I have a couple of choices – I could clean off my cutting table (again!) or do some cross stitch on my ver clean working table. And read on to see what I found under all those piles!

The Blackberry Festival Street Party is on tonight. I remember that I was disappointed in it last year. No matter how sparse the entertainment and the vendors might be though you can always count on some wonderful Blackberry Shortcake from the Townsite Heritage Society. Fireworks later tonight and we can see them from the deck.

Thursday, August 15, 2019

My clean-up went well yesterday but there is still work to do. How is it that once I had my cutting table cleared and moved on to my working surface my cutting table all of a sudden was cluttered again? One day everything will have a proper place and several days/months/years later everything will be in that proper place. Until now I continue to work around the room and hope that with each turn I make some sort of improvement.

The show at the Hall last night went well in spite of the renovations. It was a comedy show, which really isn’t my “thing”; a couple of performers (out of five) weren’t too bad. We had a pretty full house and kept having to add more tables and chairs. We did okay on the concession as well – almost $90 just from cold drinks and tea. I guess the hot weather is good for sales.

The morning just slipped away – most of it was spent at my computer. I did most of my running around before heading off to my afternoon of sewing. I hadn’t worked on my project for three weeks and I was slow to figure out just where I was in the process. Gail sorted me out and I’ve left her all the blocks so she can arrange them in a somewhat pleasing manner. If I don’t like what she’s done I can always change it, but placing blocks together is another of my “least favourite” things to do (I have several least favourites it appears).

I’m off to my 100+ Women Who Care meeting in a few minutes. I enjoy finding out who the potential recipients are much more than I enjoy listening to them make their pitch; I’ve usually made up my mind about who I want to support after reading the ballot.

In my tidying up I came across two boxes in the hallway between my two rooms. One is the tuffet kit I purchased this spring in Vancouver but what is in the other one? It is an amazon box and I can’t imagine what I might have ordered that had so little appeal that I didn’t rip it open immediately.

I’d open it right now except Pat says there are humpback whales out on the ocean so I’m going to go have a look.

Is today the day I clean up this mess on my cutting table?

Is today the day I clean up this mess on my hand sewing table?

Is today the day I actually clean out all these bins?

I don’t know, but I’m going to try!

Tuesday, August 13, 2019

I had a terrific day at the bee. I worked on cards all day but I accomplished a lot.

The card I started last week but couldn’t finish because I had done the cutting wrong is finished and quilted. That particular card really included a bit of everything – some appliqué work, some embroidery, and some free-motion quilting.

Next I quilted the paper-pieced card top I made last week. It is all ready to be sent out to someone with a birthday next month.

And I remembered the right book for another card package. The focus on this one was curves and, if I do say so myself, I think I did a good job. So good in fact that I’m going to try sewing Deloise’s Farmer’s Daughter block by machine. No to worry though Deloise, I have lots of fabric to make a second one by hand.

I stopped at the Hall on the way home. The renovations are progressing well. We have a show in there tomorrow night (not Friday as I thought) so they will have to do some tidying up before then.

It was just a quick stop at Walmart and I was home before three. I love those days where things move along quickly – or maybe I’m just rested and it is me who is moving more quickly.