This & That

Not much been going on over in my neck of the woods.

Last weekend we went to my parents’ to celebrate my birthday. It was good spending time with them and the nieces. This time it was a short visit since Brian was in Memphis Friday night with the guys to see Dark Star, but an enjoyable one.

For my birthday, I asked for money to put toward a new sewing machine. My poor “loaner” machine finally bit the dust a month ago. I guess after almost 45 years, it was time. Not sure how long before she got married Mom had it, but she did make her wedding dress with it. I put her in charge of looking around for a new one for me. She found one, Janome DC2010, she thought would be a good machine for me. Then we saw Hancock was having a huge sale and they had a Janome 8050 on sale for half the price of the DC2010. Last weekend we checked out both and from what we could tell, the 8050 had the features as the DC2010, just designed differently. I had to order it due to they did not have any in stock, so Mom and Dad are meeting us for dinner to delivery it to me! I’m so happy I did laundry yesterday, we decided not to go to the game (early games with no tickets makes it hard to hang out with the fam), and plan to clean house tonight so I can spend all day tomorrow playing and learning about my new toy! I’m not used to an electric machine like this one. It will be a learning curve I’m sure. All I need now is for mom to teach me how to really sew so I can start making more interesting things. I really want to learn how to appliqué so I can make more flags for the holidays (my yard flag) and those cute little kids shirts as gifts. I need to get back into my quilts as well. Sigh, too many projects and not enough time. :)

Here are a couple of fun stories about Ole Miss and football.

Oh, have a mentioned how I'm SOOOO ready for fall! I'm actually ready for it to start getting dark earlier; which is so unlike me.

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!