October 30, 2007

Just a quick update before I crash for the night. We spent the weekend in So IL fixing stuff around my mom's house. I'm meeting with the mission sewers at church on Saturday, so if you sew (or know someone who does that's local) c'mon down! The more the merrier, we're finishing up hats and scarves.

My sewing studio is pretty much completely trashed. I've been cutting fleece and serging, and I moved Alice's toybox in here, so there are doggie toys all over the place. I need another quarter yard of the background fabric I was using for DMIL's Christmas place mats and can't find it. I thought I had enough, but then realized that the amount I bought was for the original 4 pieces, and now I've added 2 more. Ah well, I'll figure something out, I'm sure. Haven't really finished up any more projects lately, but I did get 40 more hats and scarves cut out in anticipation of the sewathon this weekend.

The DCFS classes are over, but I'm having a hard time getting ahold of our licensing worker. I wanted to sign up for an education advocacy class that started last night but apparently we weren't in the system. Not sure what that means yet.

The Helping Hands projects are coming in right and left. I think everyone is trying to get stuff done before the weather gets really nasty.

I'm reading a new book on postcard quilts and have been asked to teach a class at my mom's local sewing store on the subject. I continue to be fascinated by these very tiny quilts.

Black Friday ads are coming out almost steadily now. You've probably all heard about the legal threats Walmart is making against my buddy Brad at www.GottaDeal.com. I'm not a Walmart shopper anyway due to other reasons, but this bugs me for some reason.

I need a suburban. It dawned on me this weekend, we barely had room in the big Jeep for the 2 dogs and 2 cats plus The Russian and I. We took one suitcase and that was too much. Must. Get. Bigger. Car. I'm smelling car lots in our near future.

Posted by tomiandc at October 30, 2007 10:14 PM