A New Week

Well, where to start...Leslie, Gina and I went to the Corn Wagon in Springville on Friday. We all got some goodies. You might question my need for more fabric...do I need more...heck no, but I'll never have enough. I got some civil war repros so I can get started on my Dear Jane Quilt. This is a quilt made by a woman, named Jane, that lived during Civil War times. She worked on a quilt during the war to help pass the time. There are 255 blocks in the quilt, so this one is going to be a long time in the making. My delema at present is...do I make the whole quilt by hand or do I use the machine? If I choose to do it by hand, then I will want to hand quilt it, which will extend my finish date by months, maybe even a year or more. If I do it by machine it's still going to take a long time. I think I'm leaning toward handmade on this one. I think it would be more appropriate for the design, fabrics (all 100% cotton-that's all that was available then), and time in history. If I ever figure out how to get pics on my blog then I'll be sharing my progress with you, not only in word, but visually as well.

I decided, at the beginning of the year, that I was going to do mostly, if not all, handmade gifts for Christmas this year. Well, projects abound. I have several going all the time, but what self -respecting crafter wouldn't have more than one project going at the same time? That's why the term "wip" was invented. For those of you who don't know...wip stands for work in progress--what else.

Can't remember my work schedule for the week, at present, but I don't think I have any days off during the week, so that would mean that I don't have a day off until next Sunday. RATS!! Less time to craft. I keep promising myself that I'm not going to pick up any extra shifts, but somehow the extras always seem to show up on my schedule. Oh well, I'm very grateful that I have not only 1 job, but 2.

I hope that you all have a GREAT week filled with tonz o fun!

Once Again...What's With the Weather?????

By my reconing, it's Spring, or at least I thought it was, after all, it's the 24th of April. This past week the weather has been pretty nice, but this afternoon I think that Mother Nature must have been in a bad mood or maybe she was just letting all of us know that we shouldn't take her for granted. She threw a pretty good snow, yes, that's right, I said S-N-O-W, storm at us . It had been cloudy all day and colder than earlier this week and then this afternoon...BAMMMMMMMMMM!!! I was in American Fork when the storm hit. I tried to get pics of the snow falling, some flakes the size of quarters (but my phone was full as were both of my photo cards) oh and the wind H-O-L-Y--C-O-W!!! This is the kind of thing one would expect in January. Hummmmmm, come to think of it we did have this kind of thing in January.

I'm still waiting for my tulips to bloom. There are lots of buds, but no flowers yet.

I hope that all are having a wonderful week, in spite of the weather.

What's With the Weather???

What's with the weather around here??? One day it's over 80 and the next day it's snowing!!! That's right, snowing. It was a whopping 31 degrees on my way home from work last night and an even colder 27 degrees on my way to work this morning!!! I thought Spring was here.

Not too much going on this week. I did have Monday off so I worked in the yard. It felt good to get out in the sunshine (Monday was the over 80 day). I miss living in a climate where I can plant all year round, but I do love the change of seasons here.

I have 2-12 hour days under my belt so far this week. Ssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhh don't tell Dr. Cook because he doesn't want me working more than 8 hours a day. Tomorrow will be an 8 hour day and then Thursday and Friday will be 6 hours each, oh yeah, and then there's Sunday. I think I'm working Sunday too. Sound exciting?????? It's not.

I hope that everyone has a great week!

Here's to more sunshine!!!

Conference Weekend

Oh, how I love this time of year! It has been Conference Weekend and I was blessed to be able to watch 3 of the 4 general sessions. While I missed seeing and hearing from Pres. Hinklely, I know that Pres. Monson is fulfilling the calling that the Lord has been preparing him for throughout his life. What wonderful talks were given and sound advise to all. I saw Mary Ellen several times when the Choir was singing and on The Spoken Word, which preceeded this mornings session.

While watching Congerence this morning I decided to get some yarn and knitting needles out. I started a pair of socks. They're black, grey, red, and white. Addie came to visit this evening and pulled some yarn out of my scrap box. It was some left over yarn from some previous project, pink, orange, turquoise, green, and yellow verigated. She asked if I would knit her some socks from the yarn. I told her that there wasn't enough yarn to knit some socks for her but that there might be enough to knit her some slippers. She was ok with that so I made her a pair of slippers. I used the pattern that my mom taught my Brownie Troop forever ago. Amazing I can still remember the pattern.

Spring is here even tho' we might get snow tomorrow morning (forcast says that it might get up into the high 60's by next weekend). My tulips are doing great. No flowers yet, but they're getting bigger. The roses are starting to send out new shoots and the weeds are starting to rear their unwanted heads. I hope to get a few more blueberries this year. I only got half a dozen last year, but that was from a first year bear root plant. Also hope that there will be some boysenberries this year too.

I was supposed to be off tomorrow, but told one of the people I work with that I would work part of her shift (12-17). A short shift to be sure, but tomorrow is the first day that the restructuring of our department goes into action. It will be interesting to see how things go. Monday's usually start out slow but by 1700 are getting really busy and continue to get busier as the night goes on. I'm glad I'll be off at 1700.

As I close this entry, I am remembering that today in the closing session of Conference that Pres. Monson asked us to pray for him and said that he would be praying for us. What a wonderful blessing to have the opportunity to pray for our prophet and, in turn, have him pray for us. We are truly a blessed people.