As My Mind Wanders, Sew Are The Days Of My Life

My usual Sears repair man is here today fixing our dishwasher... again... The extended warranty was the best thing we ever did on this thing. I think it's been replaced probably 3 times part by part over the years... We're getting a new computer panel thing put in because the start button doesn't start.

I made a fluffy pink purse over the weekend and it looks like it's snowing pink into the entry way which is directly beneath my sewing hall. That stuff sheds *almost* more than a golden retriever in the summer. But only when I cut anything for it. I think I'll toss it in the dryer to shake off any extra before it gets wrapped up. Oh and I did the handles wrong... What was I thinking? I'll have to fix that. They're looping the wrong way. Meri thinks I should put some eyes and whiskers on it and then it would look more like a bunny. What do you think?On Saturday night we celebrated Maddy's 17th birthday! It was a few days late, but with her schedule, you have to be flexible to see her for any extended period of time. *Hi sweetie! Get off the internet and pay attention in class* As usual I didn't have any actual birthday candles on hand, so I made use of our traditional Birthday single candle. It works and you won't seem like you have emphysema when you try to blow it out. However it did take her two tries... I think she missed on the first attempt.On Sunday, I also traced out a pattern from a 1990s Burda magazine for a winter top for Meri, but then realized that I don't have the right fabric for it. There's a sewing meeting coming up this weekend with ASG (American Sewing Guild) and there will be a free table, so I'll check it out then.

So I also found a fly away type top pattern in my pattern vault and pulled out the 3 pattern pieces to make a top. This might be my pat gift for nieces this year. Not sure yet. I'll have to do the first one and then decide...I read a few more chapters of "The Undertaker's Gone Bananas" with Meri both last night and this morning. Robb even read one of the chapters in the car to us as I drove us home yesterday after visiting a friend. Hilarious to hear him making voices as he reads. We're only a few chapters from the end and Meri is getting anxious to hear how it all ends up. We're at a very suspenseful part. That Bobby and Lauri, they crack us up!! Meri's already checked out another book by the same author and done a book report on it in the amount of time it's taken us to read this one together.

Meri's Project Runway item arrived on Friday! We pulled it out of the box expecting it to look fabulous. But then remembered that it IS made of dog food bags. How awesome can THAT be? It basically looks like a glorified middle school art project up close.She lugged it to school in the ginormous box it came in to show her class today. Her teacher is a huge Project Runway fan too.

LAST cross country meet tonight. I'll have to leave work early but haven't told anyone yet.

Maddy went to a retreat for a school club yesterday and today and gets to miss all of today's classes, but she'll be back in time to run.

Yay! My dishwasher is fixed now!!! Back to work for me. Have a great Monday!