We are still pretty wet here. And I can't remember the last time I left the house :-)
I think it was Christmas Eve - is that right?! I guess so.
I've been madly cleaning and from the sounds of things on other blogs I read, it's a common post-Christmas activity. Yesterday I washed all the curtains, screens and windows - which is great since today looked like this (again):
We have a new solution to keep water out of the living room....nothing like a big piece of wood.
I am officially leaving the house today when Hubby gets home from work. Off to Walmart, Costco and the sewing machine shop - to drop off my baby (not my real baby but you guys know what I mean).
She's having some tension issues and I don't want to sew anything that later is going to fall apart - I talked to the lady on the phone and she said 2-3 weeks! Ughh.
I am going to check out the Brothers and Singers at Walmart since Bela has been really wanting to learn and that way we could both sew at the same time. And I'd have a replacement for a couple weeks. And we could say it was a "school" expense. Good excuses don't you think?!
I did try and start a new project but the tension troubles are resulting in loose stitches. I'm tearing it all out (the free-motion part) during a movie-watching time later.
I am going to make the boys some curtains out of this material.
I also talked to our eldest about making him a quilt - poor guy is the only one who doesn't have a "made by mom" quilt.
I ordered some fabrics (blues, greens and blacks) and now I'm looking around at patterns/ideas and am thinking something like this or this.
Hope everyone has a Happy New Year...Hawaii is pretty wild about fireworks (this was last year) but I'm hoping the weather will curb it a little this year.
Tomorrow night we are off to a friend's for some fun times and delicious food...mochiko chicken, tempura, mochi and lots of other goodies.