Sewing Monday

A Good Monday

Took today off.  It's nice and quiet in the house.  Sewing away and enjoying some favorite movies.  Lovely day!  Hope you're having a good Monday too! 

Quilt for a Friends' Mom

I have a very dear friend who's mom is battling cancer. She's on the last stages of chemo and they are having a surprise birthday party I asked Mary over at /http://mollyflanders.blogspot.com/ for help on a pattern to make a quilt my friends' mother's birthday. She came up with Manchester Rose.  Of course, Mary picked the perfect pattern for the fabric I chose.  Thanks Mary.  Have a great night All!

Sewing Room

I've been working on getting my sewing room in order. I finally realized that my sewing room is like my desk at work. When I have so much crap on my desk I can't focus on one thing I know I need to clean it. The same thing has been happening in my sewing room when I go in there...so I've been working on cleaning it. I am also grateful to have a room that is dedicated to what I like to do. Let me rephrase that...What I LOVE to do! I've been working on it and I decided I'd show you what it looked like before I started cleaning it up. ACK! It's super messy! Here goes! Stay tuned to the same Bat time and the same Bat channel for the new and improved sewing room. ;)

Okay Here's the Deal

I always intend to sew and craft when I get home from work. The issue is when Martin gets home, I just want to sit with him. If he's out and about doing things I'm okay with going into the sewing room and sewing. When he comes in though...out my butt goes to plop in my chair. On the weekends I am more apt to be in my sewing room, but these days our weekends are so busy I'm not even home. I have a quilt I need to cut out, I haven't been able to because he's been home. I'm hoping to get something done. I have a lot of Christmas gifts I'm working on, but not getting done. HELP!!!!

The Hands of A Grateful Nation Comfort Our Soldiers!

I was reading one of the great blogs I follow when I followed a link on her page http://modafabrics.blogspot.com/2011/03/just-one-star.html (I'm not very good at putting things like this in my blog). I am going to do this. Several of my family member were in the armed forces and I am proud of them, our Nation and all of our soldiers. I'll try to put up a picture of my star. I hope you'll join this wonderful project.

Things We're Going to Miss When They're Gone

I've seen a couple of different articles about this on different topics. It got me to thinking though about what I'll miss when it's gone.

1. Letters - A pretty piece of stationery and some eloquent penmanship. Ohhh I love stationery and beautiful penmanship.

2. Incandescent light bulbs - Did you know GE shut down the last plant that makes incandescent light bulbs. All you can get are the compact flourescent light bulbs. Sad! Edison and/or his counterpart Swan whichever man you believed actually invented the light bulb first is I'm sure rolling over in his grave!

3. Newspapers/Books - It's only a matter of time (I hope I am wrong) before everything is on the computer. No paper books, no newspapers. Can you imagine. Now, I'm just as guilty as the next guy. I belong to an audible book club, however, I still regularly visit my Barnes & Noble to buy books to read and quilt/sewing books, because there's just something about holding that tangible hardbound story in your hand.

4. No sex before marriage. Sorry guys I don't like it and I miss the fact that it's okay for people not to have sex before they're married. It drives me crazy when I tell people that I've only made love with Martin and they look at me like I have two heads. There are many reasons that we are meant to be with one person. Not that I'm judging...it's just my feeling/opinion.

5. Unconnectivity - Dunno if that's a word, but what I mean is we're constantly connected to the...the WORLD. I remember when Martin and I didn't even have a TV. I went outside and dug in the dirt with William and played barbies with Sarah. We read and did puzzles and all sorts of fun stuff.

Which brings me to...

6. Time - All of these gadgets and gizmos that are sold to us to save time. What do you do with all that time you're saving? Sit on the internet, watch TV? We don't have time to just be quiet and do stuff that's good for our souls. Pray, sew, sit, talk, play cards or put together a puzzle. Time...how do you spend yours?

That's my two cents...for what it's worth.