Sewing Saturday

I plan on spending the whole day, or at least most of it, sewing or prepping to sew.  Had a busy day yesterday with the grand kids and a friend of theirs.  We shopped at Joanns for stuff and Meijer's for a pizza for lunch and fruit for smoothies.  Then home for a day of fabric painting, sewing, baking and eating.  They slowed down in the afternoon, Emmie and Natalie had been up since 4:30 AM, they went into Geneva to be part of the group shown on NBC news for a program featuring Geneva Swedish Days.  Fifteen seconds of fame.  lOL

William  spent the afternoon learning to chain piece, he did a darn good job.  He workied on a packet of charms, next time he will sew the pairs into 4 patches, then we'll do sashings to put them into a quilt top.  I posted aphoto of his efforts at the sewing machine.

I should have some stitching time tomorrow too, George will be driving the votemobile in the Swedish days parade from 11am to 3 pm.  Today he is at a friends house helping him to replace some windows, there is a lot of rehab work to do on this house so I think he will be busy for the rest of the summer.  MOre sewing time for me. 

Quiet Thursday

I putzed in the sewing room most of the day, decorated some dish towels with some fabric to use some bits of fabric and pretty up the kitchen towels.  The sun finally came out this afternoon.  George and I went out for a quick dinner, nothing fancy but tasty.  George spent the day helping Teri measure more windows for shutters and getting things ready to put the shutters up tomorrow.  They really look nice on the house, they already put some on the front now they are doing the rest of the windows. 

Tomorrow should be another quiet day, need to do laundry and  get some things ready for the P. O.  I'm giving my serger to a friend who uses hers all the time and it died.  I don't use mine so off it goes to a better home where it can be put to good use instead of sitting around and collecting dust.

OMG what a day

Took Kathleen to the Day Surgery this morning, they found some pol lops, diverticulitis and stomach ulcers. They think the ulcers were caused by her migraine meds which she needs for the cluster migraine's she suffers from. They also did biopsies for viruses and infections. Well hope she's on the road to feeling better.

Then George and I were taking a walk and all of a sudden he got real dizzy and weak. He wouldn't go to Dr. or Er so I"m keeping an eye on him. I started the day by losing my balance and falling in our bedroom. That left me with a sore shoulder and sore back so I'm doing Tylenol,hot packs and rest.

Tomorrow I'm spending the day in my sewing studio and hopefully out of harms way.

I'm so blessed to have such a thoughtful grand daughter, Emily came with me and was a big help toting groceries and helping Aunt Kathy.

Hoory for Kaneland Baseball team

The Kaneland baseball team won this afternoon and tomorrow is the final game. My friend's grandson plays 2nd base for Kaenland, he is a Sr. and has already graduated. What a way to go out.

My cousin made a surprise visit this afternoon, it was nice visiting with her, haven't seen her since my accident.

I was all set to sew today but that will have to wait until tomorrow, I found some nice dish towels and I want to decorate them with fabric or embroidery. Just do a little something cool.

Yup it's cool today, hope it stays that way for a few more days.

Coooool Thursday

After some real nasty storms and lots of rain we have been cooling down all day. We shut the house up, don't want to have to turn the heat on. Shees I've got "no peek stew" in the oven and I baked an angel food cake so the kitchen is nice a warm. Didn't think I'd be saying that for a while. George got the grass cut and fixed the alarm system, some of the windows weren't signaling open or closed. Now they work. I'm looking for my yoyo makers, want to start putzing with those in the evenings when George is channel surfing, if I keep my hands busy I'm not tempted to kill him.

Hot, hot, hot!!!!

Woke  up the lst 2 mornings about 4 am having difficulty breathing, my throad was closed up.  It passed after a minute or 2 but sure is a damn scary way to wake up.  Poor George doesn't know what to do and neither do I.

Went to lunch with the neighbor gals today, it was Sandy's birthday, we had a really lovely time.  Karen, the neighbor who hosted the l unch, had a beautiful table runner she made on the table that would be so much fun to make.  I think I'm getting into the sewing spirit again.  Carolyn shared pictures of the Kaneland high School baseball team who are going to the State semi finals.  Her grandson Brian Dixon is a player on the team, he is a Sr. so this is his last year for the high school scene.  Brian's dad went to school with our son Mike. 

My Saturday so far

I think we are going to have to put the AC on today.  I just came in from watering and weeding and boy am I warm.  Will have to wait until George gets back from Mike and Robins, he drove his mower over there to help Mike mow.  Boys and their toys, oh well he doesn't complain about my sewing machines and fabric.  Well not too much.  LOL 

Had my big straw hat on when I went outside but didn't cover my arms so the area where they froze the skin cancer is all red and blotchy guess I had better put a long sleeve shirt on when Igo out. 

Today is going to be a good day to sit and do some hand sewing, maybe yoyos or my drunkard's path blocks.