pls let me know if you got a notification today from the new blog telling you that I have put out a new post (only if you signed up yesterday). So far I only know of one person that received that notification, even though about 20 people have signed up on the new blog. I HATE trying to do new stuff when I don't know what I'm doing, and there's no one to ask!!! Remember, to just go in everyday and read the new posting, here's the website address: http://dreamsoaps.wixsite.com/website

This site is not working....I've tried to develop a new site...go here https://dreamsoaps.wixsite.com/website I believe you can sign up to receive and email as you did before, let me know if this works pls!!

This site is not working....I've tried to develop a new site...go here https://dreamsoaps.wixsite.com/website I believe you can sign up to receive and email as you did before, let me know if this works pls!!

design wall sewing started

 Current COVID-19 US deaths: 214,280

    Yesterday - 213,543

So before the debate, Trump was making fun of Biden:

 “I don’t wear masks like him," Trump said. “Every time you see him, he’s got a mask. He could be speaking 200 feet away from me, and he shows up with the biggest mask I’ve ever seen.” 

Who's smarter now???

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My honey was up and out on Saturday (10/3), while I headed once again to my studio.  After getting my blog out (a nightmare that took over an hour….my pictures would NOT transfer from my phone…I got a ton of weird errors and eventually had to shut down both phone and computer before things would work.  Why can’t anything ever go smoothly?!?!?!), I spent the morning getting my first customer quilt cleaned up.  I stopped to have a bite around lunchtime, and continued on to load up another customer quilt onto Xena.  But I only got this far: 

backing loaded, batting and top laid on

when I said ‘I haven’t sewn in FOREVER and I want to sew!!!’  So I got the rest of my setting triangles cut and laid out: 

Yes, one missing on lower right....couldn't find for the longest time...
it was on the ironing board!!

and started to sew:  

It was a wonderful afternoon sewing and watching MURDOCK MYSTERIES!  

It was date night Saturday, so Michael made popcorn and we watched MISS PETTIGREW LIVES FOR A DAY.  If you’ve never seen it….you need to….it is delightful!

customer quilt finished, cookies for golf pro

 Current COVID-19 US deaths: 213,543

    Yesterday - 212,702

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Michael and Cookie headed out for a walk on Friday (10/2) while I headed downstairs, determined to spend the day in my studio.  I had to do a bit of clean-up and get my blog out and by then it was 10 AM and I decided I was hungry and needed some breakfast.  With one thing and another, Michael left for errands (LOWE’s, CVS, pierogi store, liquor store, pet store) and I finally made it back downstairs around NOON.  

I got my first customer quilt basted, and set up the program and loaded bobbins before kicking it off:  

I think I picked a good color for the quilt thread....you can barely see it!

I worked on that all afternoon (with company): 

and by dinnertime it was finished:  

My honey made potato and cheese pierogis for our dinner while I continued to straighten up and throw out stuff from the living room….it is almost finished and we both love it!!  

The golf pro’s birthday is on Saturday, and Michael asked if I could make some cookies for him to take, so that was a quick project after dinner….chocolate cookies….some with peanut butter cups: 

and some just plain with sprinkles:

gas housers, living room/kitchen disarray

 Current COVID-19 US deaths: 212,702

    Yesterday - 211,805

I'm sure you've heard that Trump and Melania have tested positive for this corona virus.  But I'm sure there's nothing to worry about, after all he has a couple of cures:

4/23/2020 “Suppose that we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it's ultraviolet or just very powerful light,” Trump said at a White House coronavirus briefing on 23 April, before continuing: “Supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way.”

He then suggested that ingesting disinfectant might kill the virus: "Is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning? It sounds interesting to me, so we'll see. But the whole concept of the light, the way it kills it in one minute. That's pretty powerful."

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Thursday (10/2) was just a crazy day at our house.  First up, since we had fresh bread, Michael made gas housers for his breakfast:  

After that we continued to move stuff around and continue to de-clutter until I ran out at 11 AM for a haircut!  I got home after NOON and had a quick bite before weaving/knitting/spinning friends showed up at 1 PM:  

Donna

Rosalie

Pam showed up around 2 (Bill is having radiation treatments every day, so that definitely interferes with her schedule) and we all had a good time out on the lanair.  

Angie & Kevin showed up around 1:30 and I headed inside to help shove furniture around (stuff is still pretty much everywhere!!).  

We still have a ways to go….and one of our chairs is missing (out being re-upholstered), but we already like the look of things.  

It was leftover pizza for an early dinner, a couple of hours of reading and then a little TV before bed.

The best thing was...in clearing out the mirrored buffet, we re-found some beautiful glasses from one of our cruises, so that's what we were drinking out of last night....a fuzzy navel and a vanilla/cherry bomb:

decluttering living room

 Current COVID-19 US deaths: 211,805

    Yesterday - 210,797

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My honey had a super early tee time on Wednesday (9/30), so I hopped up to make his breakfast before he left just after 7 AM….it was still kinda dark when he left!  

After getting my blog out, Janice and I spent 1-1/2 hours on the phone….SKYPE still isn’t working for us and we don’t know why  

:~(....especially since Michael pointed out that we had just SKYPE-d with Marc & Kate and everything worked fine.    

After that I started to remove everything from our mirrored buffet in the living room.  Along with new rugs, we’ve decided to re-arrange some of our furniture and that was the first step.  When my honey came home (they played rather quickly.  He said he didn’t play so much as work on his short game, which seemingly deserted him on Monday!), he jumped in to help de-clutter other parts of the living room.  It was really nice to do it together so we could talk and ask each other whether or not we should keep things!  

Our furry babies didn't quite know what was going on, but as usual, the kitties were fascinated by everything:

Michael ran out and got a pizza for dinner, and we spent the evening watching a silly movie (THE MEG), while I had a heating pad on my shoulder for most of the night.  My right shoulder has been bothering me since before the beginning of the year (I remember complaining to my PCP at our January appointment), but washing 44 windows from the lanair really torqued up the pain.  I thought maybe putting some heat on it might help…we’ll see.

I wonder if I'll ever get back to my studio???

STASH REPORT - 

I did cut a bit of fabric during September....so I am up to 123 yards used so far this year!