Thursday, May 11, 2017

The coffee jar was empty this morning and, since I was up before Pat, I didn’t think the coffee grinder would be the best “waking up” sound. I made plans to meet a renter at Cranberry Hall between 8:30 and 9:00 so I was out the door before I even had a coffee. Even on bee days I set my alarm early enough that there is time for coffee before I leave.

I got caught up on so much paperwork today that I didn’t really mind that it was pouring rain outside. I was less thrilled though when I went out to the bank after lunch in the downpour. The bright spot was stopping at the fabric store. I put a couple of things on order; when Deb asked if I wanted anything else both she and her co-worker laughed when I said my order wasn’t something I wanted, it was something I needed! I’m glad I stopped in because we are all taking a class this weekend and they alerted me to some work that needs to be done before we get started; fabric has to be picked, washed and Best Pressed. I’ll get at that tomorrow.

I received a new cross stitch pattern in the mail today; it was one I added to an Amazon order so I would get free shipping. Having so many new cross stitch patterns has spurred me on to get the one I’m currently working on finished.

Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Lainey (who owned the first fabric store I frequented) still has a lot of fabric, patterns and threads for sale out of her home. She invited me over today to see what she had, and I took my Celtic Crystals quilt for her to see. I purchased the pattern as Blocks of the Month through her shop. She was very generous in her praise and she showed me all the beautiful wool felt appliqué she has been doing. She will have a big sale in the near future and I will look through my patterns before I shop next time.

But I had fun today! Lainey maintains an Etsy Shop (The Wool Felt Ferret) and I knew there were a couple of patterns  I wanted. I also got four colours of hand-dyed burlap – I think it might be fun to try some cross stitch patterns using burlap. Her thread was a real deal at $6 so I got a few colours to add to my collection. Fat quarters were only $2 so I got a few – some colours for my Bingo quilt and a bit of neutral.

Tuesday, May 9, 2017

Last night I managed to finish the card I was working on but not much else. About 9:30 I started feeling ill and it was after 1 AM before I was able to settle my stomach enough to keep a gravol down. Since I had nothing prepared for the bee today it was an easy decision to stay home.

Pat got the recycling out this morning and I took care of the garbage. I took a walk to the mailbox mid-morning and it is a nice day out there.

I’ve done a bit of planning for another card and cleaned up some scraps but that is about all I’ve accomplished. I was up early this morning and, with the grogginess that comes with taking a gravol, I think I may nap this afternoon. Too bad the hammock isn’t set up yet or I could nap outside.

Monday, May 8, 2017

Normally, on Monday, I set my goals for the week, clean up my cutting table, sort through some scraps and get projects ready for the Tuesday bee. When that is done I pick a project to work on for the rest of the day. Today was nothing like that.

I had several bags of cash from various Cranberry Hall events that needed to be prepared for a deposit. We’ve been taking memberships for the Hall so I had to record all the names and addresses so they will be ready for our first mail-out blitz. While I was at it I did a bit more organizing for the Hall, mainly for my own satisfaction. It was past ten before I was ready to head out to the bank. I had a few other errands to run while I was out so it was close to noon before I was home.

I have been working on a card that should have gone out in today’s mail but it wasn’t ready; the push for the rest of the afternoon was to get it done. It still isn’t ready to be put in an envelope but I should be able to (in fact I’ll stay up tonight until I’m able to) get it ready for the mail tomorrow.

The day started out with showers but the afternoon has been sunny with a breeze so I decided I’d go out and get the grass on the boulevard cut. It too needs some trimming around the fence but it certainly looks better than it did yesterday. It turns out that my problem with the mower yesterday was operator error! I recharged the batteries and put them in place this afternoon. Before I dragged the mower down the steps to the boulevard I tried starting it but nothing happened. I called Pat down to look at the machine and I was using the wrong sequence to start it. I did it fine yesterday for our lawn but it appears that in the time it took to get the mower to the boulevard I had forgotten how it was supposed to be done. Clearly resting my brain overnight didn’t do the trick either!

I have one more stop to make on Cranberry Hall business this afternoon. Sometime between now and bedtime I need to find some projects to work on tomorrow at the bee.