a post merry xmas

I hope everyone had a very wonderful holiday. We were out of town for a week and I spent very limited time on a computer…hence the lack of blogs. Santa was very good to us this year, we got a new laptop…the macbook pro!!!! It’s glorious! My current laptop is about 6 years old and slowing dieing. I still need to transfer everything over but right now I’m enjoying a clean fresh new computer, and relearning Mac’s OS.

This was also a very productive week with the family. Before we left I cut my fabric to fit as table clothes on two tables. Then last Tuesday we dug out my Mom’s sewing machine and she and Gram taught me how to sew on the machine! I had originally thought I’d hand sew the hem, which would have taken forever! So I’m glad to have learned the sewing machine, it’s not quite as frightening now! I made a large table cloth for a 6 foot table and the cloth reaches the floor on 3 sides. Then I made two table cloths for a 3foot square table. One is a wonderful red and the second is lace which will go on top of the red.
I did do a little beading. Not as much as I could have but it was vacation. What I did accomplish was pick out color combos for two significant flowers that I’d been thinking about for a month now. So far I’m happy with the color combos. This can be the most important decision in the entire creation. I can have a flower on hold for months b/c of color indecisiveness. I’m excited to have a couple of quite evenings in the bead room playing with these color combinations.

This week I’m putting on my imaginary tool belt and Chris and I are going to make some boxes out of wood. These will serve as a display for some finished flowers. Yesterday we measured and marked the wood. Today I’ll set up an area in the garage and hopefully will cut with our new saw. It’s sorta scary since neither of us have really used a circular saw before but it shouldn’t be too bad. I’m excited to try new things!

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