Saturday, January 5, 2008

Spread Eagle

For Xmas, I gave each of the girls a sewing basket with eveything they'd need to sew a garment and I'd give them lessons to complete the job. Daimhin decided that we should have 'Sewing Saturdays' on Saturdays that nothing else was going on. This morning was the first 'Sewing Saturday'.

I headed over to Scott's to arrive at 10:00 am. Upon arrival, I was thinking about the teaching task ahead and not watching my footing. The next thing I knew I was spread eagle on my stomach on the sidewalk with the wind knocked out of me. My glasses were off, my purse was somewhere on the sidewalk and I was crying. There was a small patch of ice on the sidewalk as I turned to go to the front door and my foot briefly made contact with it. Boommmm! I was afraid to move for a few minutes but then realized no one would hear me if a yelled so I better try to get up. I began to move and realized that I seemed to be intact. When Scott opened to door, he wanted to know what was wrong. I told him and that I just needed to take a moment to settle myself. He left me and went to salt the patch of ice.

I am quite stiff all over but no broken bones or any serious hurts or sprains. Thank God. We carried on with Sewing Saturday and the girls got their garments cut out and ready to sew on the next SS. This is one time that I'm glad there is no picture to post on the blog.

I shall survive to make life interesting for all of you.

Thursday, January 3, 2008

I'll Try Again

As you can see, I'm having some problems finding my way around this blicketty blank blog site.

I had a wonderful birthday with Scott, Siobhan and girls. Chinese food for dinner and we watched 'Hairspray' in the evening.

On Wednesday I headed out to purchase material for 3 baby quilts - 2 for Amber and Scott's expected twins and 1 for Steve and Jen's June arrival. After purchasing the material, my eyes wandered to the machine section. The picture below is a Janome Memory Craft fully computerized sewing machine and IT IS MINE. I am so excited. My Singer machine is 50 years old and doesn't do all the things that make quilting easier and more exciting. I had enough trouble getting a picture blogged the first time so I'm not going to try again to include it in this post. I spent 4 hours yesterday playing with my new toy and getting a feel for what it can do. If you want to contact me, I'll answer you from my work room from now on.

A Happy Birthday for Me

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Tuesday, January 1, 2008

Gramms is 70 today!!!

Happy Birthday Gramma!!!