Everyone seems to be sewing up a storm.  I am so hoping to be able to sew something this weekend.  I am currently taking classes to earn my B.S. in Business and have signed up for a Algebra Boot Camp.  I have been learning a lot and enjoying it very much.  There is just so much homework right now. It will be so much fun to get back into sewing.

My goal starting today is to post at least something in my blog every other day.  I really want to get to posting at least 4 times a week and having photos to add each time.  For some reason my computer does not like my camera any more to upload photos from.  I have my husband put them on a jump drive from his computer so I can still use them.  It is a  mystery to us why this is going on.  We have reinstalled stuff and numerous other things.  I just face the fact that my computer is very old and simple.  But, will keep using it until it will work no more.  It has been a faithful friend and is still getting me through my schooling.

Today starts the adventure!  I am actually very excited and look forward to a year of planning the items I need to sit down and make.

Counting Down to the No RTW Year

Today I need to start making plans for the year of buying no Ready to Wear.  I am looking forward to sewing again.  I have just been procrastinating over the last few years and this is just what I needed.  I am going to start out with just a few tops, which I already have fabric for.  The more I think about this, the more excited and happy I get!

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I have decided to give this a try next month.  Let's see if I can do it.  I figure it will make me commit to doing the following:

• Start sewing on a regular basis
• Post at least 3 to 4 times a week in this blog
• Be more creative again 

So, game on! I will now have to start making a plan.

Saturday Saturday

Today is going by fast yet again.  I have taken the boy to work and ran all the errands.  After lunch I did sit down and watch this weeks show of Project Runway.  I will admit, I really liked the jacket that won.  While watching the show I am trying to work on either knitting or crocheting (makes it seem less like goofing off time).  I knitted a Christmas dish-cloth.  I am not sure if I care for using this yarn for the whole thing. It might look better as just ascent stripes.  Will have to think about that one. I have a lot of this cotton yarn, it will be around for sometime.  May the yarn will become Christmas package ribbon this year too.

Sunday the First Day of September

Today is the start of September.  Where has the year gone.  Above are two things for September.  My goal is to at least sew one to two clothing items each month.  This month I want make the top on this Simplicity pattern 2059.  I just have not decided what color to make it.  My goal with sewing right now is to only purchase fabric as I do a project.  I am hoping this will keep my fabric buying in check.  I love Belle Armoire magazine (just wish they were so expensive).  I would love to become more creative in my sewing and less utilitarian.

Speaking of  utilitarian, I am working on making new dishcloths.  I usually crochet them, but, I am making a knitted one out of some Christmas cotton yarn.  I also have some crochet ones start for a very nice person as a gift.

The rest of my evening will be working on schoolwork.  Yep, one of the reasons I have let this sad little blog slip is because it was time for me to start up school.  I am currently working on my B.S. in business management.  I really am hoping to be done by the end of next year.  I have missed working on creative things, so, I am looking forward to getting back to doing that more often. I think not being creative has made a large gap in my daily life.   

Our Kendo World

Over the last
few years, the boy
has taken up Kendo.

Yep, I can find him during this
warm up before the tournament.

Back to the Blog

After a many years away, I have come back to my little blog.  I have missed this.  So many, many things have happen over the past few years.  There is very much to share.  I know I will have plenty of things to share.  First thing is to update the blog list.  I read so many wonderful blogs now days.  Just need to now remember how to add them.

I Am Very Far Behind...

Poor, poor, little blog....So neglected....I have been making things, but, yet I don't post any pictures.....I will have to stop and get back into the swing of things....I read so many wonderful blogs and see the beautiful pictures....Life has been interesting, again....So, I will have to start writing and picture taking....Soon little blog I will update you.....

Sunday Afternoon...

The day has gone by way to fast for me....I am starting to make dishcloths again and want to make some matching towels to go with them. But, for now I am just working on the cloths because they are easy to do at work. I am also trying to finish up a baby blanket I started months ago. Seems that life just go in the way of that one and now there is time to get back to doing those kinds of things.

Saturday Late Afternoon...

The day has been nothing but grocery shopping and getting paperwork around the house caught up. My big plans for the evening will be crocheting and reading this:

After looking and reading that one I will be reading this one:

That is my big plans for a Saturday evening.....

Start of the New Look...

This is the start of the new look to the blog. I am working on the links right now. Hoping to make it a little more colorful after that. Blogger has become so much more user friendly. I am liking it very much so far. Time for bed and another day of work tomorrow. See ya...

April Is Here....

I know I said I would start posting to this forgotten part of my life. I am trying to clean up a few things on the blog and come up with a banner for it.

I have been making some items. I just don't have any photos to share right now. I made Easter cards this year. I have become interested in some mix-media things this year. So, I have made my own water-color paper to use on the cards. I am very happy with how they have turned out. If I had more time I am sure I could have made them a little more interesting looking. I am looking forward to painting some more paper to use for other things. I really liked doing that.

Hopefully this week I will start posting pictures of items and writing more. It is hay fever time here and it has hit me big time. So, I guess what I am saying is that there may be a little delay in the photo stuff.....

I Am Coming Back Next Soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, well, I have been gone for a very long long time.......I guess you could say life took a big turn on me way back when and I haven't had the time to do the things I would enjoy. One of which was reading blogs!

I will now give the short version of life. Hubby's illness got worse, not better. I ended up full time at Target working in the Human Resource area. Finally got the hang of that. Target decided to go through with our stores remodel. Which means taking down the building and putting a new one in its place. My boss decided to leave in the middle of it. Ended up doing way more than I ever thought I would (like finding 120 people new homes for the next 6 months at other Target stores). You know there is a lot of packing and paperwork to do when you close a store. All in all it has been an interesting experience that I hope not to do again any time soon. Also have learned how to feed over a 100 people 3 times a day on a budget. Love the people I work with and will miss many of them over the next few months.

Anyway, how this all works is Target bought the little building next door to us and we will expand into that area now. This is an area that really could use a larger and newer store. We closed the doors at 5PM on Saturday. They were taking the sign down by 5:02 PM. We were packing up what was left in the store on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday morning. Tuesday people were coming in taking away office stuff. Even took the chair I was sitting in while working! By the time I left on Tuesday the building next to us was down and half gone. I think they can build a store in 6 months.

I am going to try and get some pictures this week of items that interest me right now. I will have a better schedule and lot more driving starting Monday. So, I hope to be able to post a couple times a week to start with.

I doubt there is anyone still checking in on this poor neglected little blog; but, if you are, I have missed all of you!

A No Picture Post....

Today is Father's Day. I will be cooking some crab here shortly for the man of the day. Still need to figure out one more side dish to make with it.

I have been training for the past couple of weeks. I realize that they should have kept me at the store for one of those weeks since the gal I am replacing is already leaving. She told me she just doesn't understand why they give the executives 2 months of training and us only a couple of weeks. And yet, we are to know the exact same stuff. Go figure....Guess what I am saying is, this is why the poor blog as been neglected. My little brain has been on over-drive these past few weeks. There is still so much I have to learn.....I think in another month I will have to whole thing down. Just so many rules, laws, and just plain stuff about folks that I have to remember.

I am almost done with one baby blanket and need to start another. I will have to try to make the next one a little larger I think. Maybe when I am done with the boarder I will be able to judge better on the size.

My goal for this week is to get some pictures taken and get this blog up again. Until then see ya...

New Post For Tuesay....

Yes, yes, I have been very bad again about posting. But, as the title of this blog says it has been some Eclectic Day's.....As faith would have it I have a nice new position at Target. Pretty much regular hours, a little more pay (would have liked it to be a tiny bit more) and a whole lot of stuff to learn. I am in training for the new position and it is taking up my time. But, I have been working on a baby blanket lately and will post pictures of it soon. I actually have 3 days off coming up so I should be able to get this poor little blog all caught up again.

Oh, I will be working in the HR department for our store and for now will actually have a little office. Which means I will have to make something for the space. And being in HR means I get to help plan events and promote the whatever it kind of month at Target. This month has been Asian-Pacific Islander month. Above you can see the origami paper that was put out for store members with instructions to make something.

All for now. Have been having to drive much further for work this week so think I will go visit with the family. I miss them during the day.......

Monday Is Here....

Today is my day off, so have been cleaning up a few things around the house. Got the boy working hard on his schoolwork since there was a little lag in it for awhile (figuring out new scheduling with dad home). Have also learned that things do run differently with Mr. V home now days. Very interesting so far. See work habits are hard to give up right away. This morning he made new spread sheet for the daily and weekly things that need to be done around the house. Then he assigned everyone to there tasks he came up with (including himself). I seem to be left off for now, so I am the odd cleaning job person now. This is not the only thing that has been spread sheet/computer keep track of.

Anyway, since he was using the computer all morning (tweaking his spread sheet), I wasn't able to get some new photos of things to post. He wanted to go Sam's Club after lunch, so that is where I spent some of the afternoon. On the upside, I got 3 new magazines while there. I will post some pictures from them.....

The first one is Martha's magazine.

I wanted to get this one after seeing and reading about the above chicken on Linsey's blog. I really want to try this sometime.

Also, I find this outdoor cover very interesting. May have to make a trip to K-Mart to take it look at it. It is part of the Martha Stewart Collection there.

The next is Victoria.

I like the articles and most of the pictures. I am just not sure if the pictures are as charming as I remember from years ago when the original was still in print. I will keep buying it and see how it goes over the coming months. I use to love the original, so maybe it will just take time to warm up to the new one.

Finally there is this one, Quilt. Thought the cover quilt was very pretty. I just have never been that good with bright colors. But, I do like them when I see them. (Wow, that was a pretty bad job of scanning now that I see that picture up there, too lazy to fix it today...)The cover quilt reminds of some of the quilts that are seen on Patchy Work of Mini Grey....

I like these two versions of the same quilt pattern. Very cute room. The quilt is by Toby Lischko.

Last, we have this really nice quilt that is picture in the above ad. Follow this link to learn more about Valori Wells.

There, that is all for today. I now have some fun reading for the rest of the week. Wait....Mr. V just said that the new cabinets will be here on Friday. That should be interesting. This means we will have to store them, somewhere around the house while we take apart the old kitchen.....Until next time, hope you have or had a wonderful day.......

First Day Of Blogging Again...

Today is the day I start blogging again. Wanted to download some pictures from my camera, but, Mr. V has seem to have moved the cable for my camera. And it is not where he said it should be. Guess I will post pictures from the camera tomorrow. The above picture is a scan of a doll blanket I made out of some fine baby yarn. It is just a big granny square and works really well as a doll blanket. Doesn't scan well, but, looks good wrapped around a doll....

Well now, where to start on why I haven't been blogging for awhile.....Guess life just got a little more interesting than I cared for and time got away from me. Throw in some feeling sorry for myself and that is how one misses a couple months of blogging. Think the fastest and easiest way to sum everything up is in a list. So here goes:

1. Had a mammogram come back that had a spot that they didn't like. Yes, here is where I started felling sorry for myself.

2. Saw a surgeon and he seems to think all is fine, but, we will do pictures again in July.

3. Mr. V's company decided to down size and he was the chosen manger to go. We really weren't surprised by this and won't put the reasons why we figured he was going to be the one.

4. Upside he ended up with a few weeks home while still on payroll.

5. Mr. V got a package deal for all the years he worked. So, he is still getting paid until October.

6. Been big adjustment to having him home now for a month and half. Had to give up my control of most household areas because he feels he is home and I am still working part-time. Wow, really hard giving up ones control of stuff one has done for so many years....

7. Have been helping Mr. V learn how to do schoolwork with the boy. Interesting so far....

8. Have been putting in as many hours as I can at work with hopes of getting a better paying position. Keeping fingers crossed that something will happen this month or next. Know times are hard in the world of retail so hope this works out.

9. Mr. V still having problems with neck and back. But, have made some good progress. That is why I would love to get something with more pay/hours so he could take sometime off from working full time. Tomorrow he is getting some injections into his back to help with pain. Will be interesting to see how all of that works out.

10. Rebecca has been offered a job with the help of a start up manga book. She has been working on the characters and all is going well. They are still lining up the right publisher but there seems to be a lot of interest in it so far. All the copyright stuff is almost done now too. We really need to get her a phone of her own now. Maybe this week we will get her a pay as you use phone like we switched to a couple of months ago. She is very excited about this and I hope it works out well for her (as of this week she is head artist, really excited gal). Since we really didn't know the guy doing this manga I go along and sit in Star Bucks while they talk business (that too is where a lot of my time has gone in the past few weeks). As soon as it is alright to do I will post some of the drawing from it. She seems to be loving this deadline stuff so far too....

There I think that pretty much sums up the last couple of months. We have had to do some replanning with our plans in life and I think everything will work out just fine. We are going to have to do somethings sooner than we had thought, but, that is fine.

Since we are going to pay off the house in the coming months, and Mr. V is home, we are going to start fixing up the house some. Many projects have been put off over the years because Mr. V was always working or something.

The first project to get done is going to be putting up new kitchen cabinets. They have been ordered from the folks at Shenandoah Cabinetry. Above is a picture of the cabinets from the catalog. We are getting the natural oak and there will pulls on the doors & drawers, no knobs like in the picture. The top cabinets will be cathedral style and the bottom cabinets will square. I will lose my sewing area now in kitchen, but, will have more cabinet space!

I know I must have one of the few husbands that actually want to have a say in any kind of remolding work. He is the one that really wanted the natural looking cabinets, fine with me. And he has always like the shade of green above and that is what we will be painting the kitchen this time. It is called frosty pine by Olympic Paints. We left the paint card up on the wall for a couple of weeks and we still liked it so that is what it will be....(The green isn't as bright as it scans, think it will show up better when the walls are painted...)

Think that pretty much brings everyone up to date. I hope to post pictures tomorrow because I got something very nice in the mail yesterday that needs to be seen. Until then take care everyone.....

WOW, The Sun Is Out Wednesday....

Since, I have not been creating much of anything these past couple of weeks I thought I would share the above. It is a towel made by my sister-in-law Sherri. It is machine emboreried. I really like the little purple love bug. I thought he came out very cute. Thank you Sherri.

I really want to sit down and start sewing again. I still have not cleaned up my little area. But, of course I have a couple of people dealing with that awful cold/flu thing that is going around. Poor Mr. V and Rebecca. They just feel awful right now. But, I have been working on my granny squares again. I decided to start over, because they were looking alittle goofy in the shape. So, I say, hey, bet I should be using a bigger hook. Yep, they look much better now. Glad I hadn't gotten too far yet.

Short post for today. The sun is and it is a beautiful day. Ricky helped me get the front all raked up. So many dead leaves, grass, and branches in that lawn. Maybe tomorrow we can do the back. The tulips that I planted are starting to come up and those way early blooming daffodils are just starting to bloom. During one of the storms we lost our split rail fence in the front and now I have to find out who still sells that kind of fencing in this area. Otherwise will have to come up with some kind of new fence. Until tomorrow, see ya.... (I wonder why my spell check has now stopped working on Blogger. Will have to figure that one out some time.)

Thursday Morning, Another Dark Rainy Day....

Yesterday just got away from me. We did stop at a Borders book store on the way home (this Borders drives my Rebecca nuts, because the Manga books are not in the correct order; she always just wants to clean it up for them). I found this Valentine's Day book in the kid section. The cards are easily punched out.

I just really enjoyed all the different little cards.

Nothing exciting going on around here. I am still working on a top cover thing for the microwave, knitting baby bibs, and have to get back to the granny squares. Just have a few appointments to go to today so will have to wait until later to work on things If the sun comes out tomorrow I will take some pictures of things I am working on....