If I had a brain…

Posted on January 31, 2010 by Suzanne

I’d be seriously dangerous. Yes, it was one of THOSE days today. I probably shouldn’t have even attempted to drive my car or run the quilting machine, but I managed to do both of those things just fine. The problem is all of the little stuff that makes me crazy.

Mark asked me to do 2 things for him. Print a report and write a check. About 10 minutes after I’d gotten downtown this afternoon, the phone rings. I had forgotten to do BOTH. SO…Mom kindly let me run home while she kept watching the shop (tough job, I don’t think anyone came in…), as long as I took her coat with me, so Mark could look at the zipper.

I was nearly out the door (not 30 seconds later, after promising to do so…) when she says “The coat?”

I’d almost forgotten it.

There were other examples, but…I’m so brainless I can’t remember what they were. Oh, one of them was that I couldn’t actually print the report right when he wanted it, because I had done something stupid when I entered some transactions, so I had to fix that brainless mistake…

I did manage to make some pretty feathers though:

I also worked on moving some stuff out of my sewing room, so that Mark could begin some deconstruction. After my second trip down the stairs, I suddenly thought to myself:

“HELLO??? THIS IS WHY YOU HAVE CHILDREN.”

And then I made the boys carry the rest of the boxes downstairs.

I was going to sew or do some more straightening up and packing, but I got distracted by a big wad of yarn in my yarn drawer. It was pretty nasty: a whole bunch of yarn that had gotten all tangled together. I dominated it, though…there may have been some cheating by way of cutting some of the yarn free…but still…I cleaned that mess up. I also found a scarf that I had started knitting….more than 2 years ago. The scarf was plenty long enough to wear, so I took a few minutes to go ahead and a bind it off. Now, I’ll probably stick it back in the drawer, because a whole bunch of ends need to be sewn in, and that sounds like too much work.

I think I’ve finally managed to finish the things that Mark asked me to do…so I’d better get to bed before I hurt myself.

TTFN-

Suzanne

We have some winners!

Posted on January 31, 2010 by Suzanne

Phew.

There were a LOT of entries. Between blog comments, blog links and shop orders, we ended up with 1996 entries in the giveaway.

Everyone got entered into a spreadsheet which, of course, is numbered. I used Random.org to generate a sequence of numbers and took the first 6:

We figured out who each of those numbers corresponded to, wrote them down on a slip of paper, and then I had my lovely assistant (MOM) draw the grand prize winner out of a bucket…

Carol Candlish

Has won her choice of a 100 fat quarter collection (chosen by me) or a yarn collection (chosen in conjunction with the winner) valued at $125 (full retail value)

Five more winners will each get a Baker’s Dozen fat quarter collection (that’s 13 fat quarters, chosen by me) or yarn of their choice that totals $15 retail.

Those winners are:

Paula (e-mail starts with: ap_l…) and Susie (e-mail starts with drho…) (who left blog comments)

Maya M, Janice C, Lenore N (who each ordered something from the shop)

I’ll be in touch with the winners to make arrangements, thanks to everyone that commented, shared the link, or bought something at the shop. I can’t give you the exact numbers, but in the last 2 weeks I’ve emptied approximately 80 bolts and sold over 1000 yards of fabric.

Firing up the quilting machine and embarassing the dog

Posted on January 28, 2010 by Suzanne

I haven’t even been able to get to my quilting machine for most of the last week, but today I finally reached the bottom of the piles and started trying to catch back up on some quilting. This little cutie was a quickie. It was made by a young lady whose grandmother brought it to me to quilt. I think the quilter was in the 8-10 year old range, but I’m not positive. Freehand allover swirls (in lime green thread!) were easy to do and helped hide the little bit of waviness around the edges. It was actually pretty well pieced: I wish my first quilt had been that nice.

I’m not really sure how this happened:

There was Mark, taking off his work shirt, and there was the dog, wanting attention, and the next thing I knew, we were sticking her arms in the sleeves and I was running for the camera.

Sooooooooo hungry

Posted on January 28, 2010 by Suzanne

Katie had an ear infection, and we’ve been glooping her ears up with ear goop for the last week. Wednesday was her recheck, and there was a possiblity she might have to stay and have her ears flushed, so…no food or water after 10 PM Tuesday night.

Which meant that Cocoa didn’t get to eat, either, first thing in the morning, because…trust me, it’s easier this way. We figured she could survive until 9AM when Katie either returned and they ate together, or…I returned and fed her on her own.

It turns out that Katie’s ear infection is gone, however her ears are still completely clogged, and the vet didn’t want to risk hurting her trying to get the gunk out without softening it up first. So…now she’s on a week of ear wax remover drops, and another recheck next Wednesday. Whoopee. She just loooooves having her ears messed with.

The vet said something about how we must have noticed that she’s probably been ignoring us because she can’t hear very well.

Um, yeah, we hadn’t really noticed any difference from her normal I’m-a-princess-and-am-not-paying-attention-to-you behavior.

The picture is from right before I took her to the vet. Don’t they just look like they are wasting away from hunger?