I'm so Bad!

Yes, I am! I have been procrastinating! My poor blog is suffering from lack of communications. But it has been a crazy month here. My Charlie was sick with cancer and we have been babying him. He's my first and probably my last cocker and we finally couldn't watch him suffer any more. I had to take him to the doggy doctor and put down. That was the hardest thing I ever had to do. I know it sounds strange when I worked in a hospital for twenty five years and have seen a lot of humans die. I just keep telling my self it was the humane thing to do. It still doesn't seem right around here and I just hope that he is happy running thru God's fields.

Well, I have been playing around with cotton piping and strips of material. Darling daughter has been making baskets to sell but I can't do what she does because it takes me too long and I get bored. I made one basket her way and it took me a week. I don't think anyone wants to pay $600. for a basket! lol! So I was at the fabric store one day and ran across a really cool book showing how to make baskets using your sewing machine. I thought, I can do that! So I bought it, and started making hot plates. Then I made the hubby a coaster. But dummy here couldn't figure out how much piping she was using, so I tried cutting 4 1/2 yards and sewing it up. It didn't quite reach the size I wanted for hot plates so I tried again. But this time after I hit my mark for a coaster I stopped and measured how much I had left and now I know what I need for those. I'm not too bright some days, well most days anyway! Now I have all these ideas.

After a week of hot plates (which I sold most of at the Peach Festival) I got brave and tried making a basket. Ohhhhhhhhh, was it pretty! And yes, I am proud of it! It was the only basket that sold at the Festival. And yes, now I am all fired up about making more. But I did run into a small problem, I ran out of cording. So I cleaned out the local places that were reasonable and I couldn't get anymore from them. Good thing hubby has a brain. He suggested I get online and look around. I found a good place to buy in bulk and am now waiting for my big order. Good thing these come on spools for easy storage. I am saving the empty spools. I am sure someone will come up with a good idea how to recycle these too! lol!

Well, dang! I am out of time today! I have to be at the chiropractors in an hour and have yet to take a shower. Oh, yeah, that's a good story. I gotta tell ya that one tomorrow! lol!