Okay, time to get down to business. Been sitting on my butt for too long. Move is almost finished. Seems like I have gone through 3 tons of stuff. Most of it is still owned by me. Have given away lots to Goodwill and lots of paper to my church for recycling. All the big stuff from Huntley is now here. Have to finish my room to get the last sewing machine in and my cutting table. Hmmmm....room is tiny, no doubt about it. But this place feels more like home than the Huntley house did. Maybe the neighbors have a lot to do with it. Except for the dog next door. If that dog was gone, it'd be close to heaven here. Well, not going to spend time worrying about Lacey. I'd rather do stuff that is productive. Trying to make a list of things I'm going to do that are positive. Like make a bunch of stuff to sell somewhere. Another goal is getting rid of stuff I won't use anymore. I've been going through my craft stuff and deciding what crafts I'm no longer going to do. Hate doing this, but has to be done. Guess I want to be really good at a few crafts rather than being okay at several crafts. Hardanger, quilting, stitching are my favorites. Beading, knitting/crocheting comes in right behind. Sending a lot of plastic canvas stuff to my nephew Cory. I'm hoping he is enjoying all the stuff I'm sending. He sends me Green Bay Packer stuff and the codes from the Coca-Cola caps. A nice trade-off.

Back to my blog! Hurray!!

Lots of stuff has been going on the past couple of years. Hopefully we will now be starting a new chapter and life will be much more pleasant.

I'm working hard on my sewing projects, trying to get enough to sell online. Can't find enough energy to sew more. Oh well, could be worse.

Feels like the middle of May and it's only the middle of March. Too many record breaking days in a row. This really makes me nervous. Waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Back to the kitchen.

September 25

When is summer going to get here? Oh, guess it's not going to make it this year. It's already fall. Where has the time gone? Leaves are changing colors, been running the furnace on and off since July for the cold nights. Furnace is July?? Crazy weather.

Been working on quilt blocks for a Halloween block swap. Haven't signed up for any plastic canvas swaps lately. Just got overwhelmed for awhile. Trying to get craft stuff made for a craft show this fall. Have to start taking pictures and getting them into an album.

Jacob is showing me how to use Facebook. My only problem is that Facebook is soooooo sllllooowww to load anything.

Time to get some hamburger out of the freezer for dinner. Chili sounds awesome for tonight. Yea, guess fall is really here. Starting to think of cold weather food. :-(

My first blog posting!!

I'm excited!! I'm getting more 'savvy' as I get older. Love learning new computer stuff, like blogging. And it sometimes helps to just type to think things through. I think that I think with my fingertips, by typing, and I feel better when I'm through typing. Then you hit delete and no one knows except me.

I went to the McHenry County Fairgrounds on Friday and signed up to enter projects in this year's county fair. I did the county fair thing years ago, when I was a 4-H'r, then I was involved when our kids were in 4H. I started out just wanting to enter a piece of Hardanger. Then saw jewelry, beads. Okay, I've made a few bracelets that I love. So I added jewelry to the list. Then potholders. Okay, I like to knit dishclothes and have made a few potholders along the way. Okay, knit potholders. But wait! I'm trying to start a potholder swap on we_love_30's_fabric. Well, I can make a few potholders. Then I happened to see the word FUDGE jump out at me. Well, patting myself on the back, I think I make some pretty good fudge. So fudge will be entered.

Went with Denise on to the Midwest Fiber fair in Crystal Lake. Love going there. Gives me so much inspiration to keep working on my 'stuff'. I had forgotten about my spinning wheel until I went to this fair 2 years ago. Now I'm getting ready to refurbish the needed parts and start spinning once in a while. That probably won't happen until next year, but at least it's a plan in my brain.

Loved seeing and feeling all the fibers. Alpaca roving is heavenly!! Saw silk worms, met more great people. Talked to Judi Ann from Texas for the 3rd year. She's awesome. Talked with the Oddest Goddess, met her last year. Her craft is taking off. I'm happy for her. Met a lady who does her thing with poly clay. I know just a tiny bit about poly clay, but ready to really start making beads. She showed me her beads, she then sold me 2 of them for $3.00. Beautiful beads, you wouldn't think they were clay just by looking at them.

Then showed Denise the lake in Crystal Lake. She had been there many moons ago. Then we stopped at the local needlework shop in Crystal Lake. I wanted to get some Watercolors thread for my Hardanger project. Well, actually bought thread for 2 projects, but I ended up with having 37 cents change for the whole day. I had a great time!!!

Weather is cold today. At least, cold for July. Temp right now is 64. And it's only 3:25. The 'high' was 67. Very overcast, feels like fall. Had to run the furnace for a bit last night, just to take the chill off the house.

Enough for today. Have stitching and cleaning to do.

carol