Yes...this has been the best week ever. Some would say I'm crazy but it's been a super week.
Sunday I took the bibs and hats to church and sold a bunch. Preacher preached about when is enough enough. Super thinking on his part and it got me to thinking when he mentioned plastic or paper as one would hear at the grocery. Well, the brain went into action and I know what I was going to do this week with yards of denim I was given along with yards of red poplin. Bags...bags...bags. I've sewen 10 bags this week that could be used for groceries. They are bright and colorful and have some sort of applique on the front. Some have a ladies' hat, kite, apple, umbrella, bee, cart etc. I got to use fabric scraps, buttons, ric rack, ribbon and just had a blast decorating all of the above. I call it coloring with fabric. What fun. I have enough fabric to make 3 more. That could happen next week if I need them. What fun. Then also this week boxes of yarn were delivered to the door sent from Georgia from a friend of Dee's. So...on Wed. which was a huge snow day...12 inches in fact I cleaned up my sewing room and got it organized with colorful yarn just everywhere. I felt like it was Christmas opening the boxes. The yarn makes the room look very cozy. I knitted a hat this week and am starting another one this evening. Just to busy with the bags. I'm giving some yarn to Regena Slater who also knits hats and will send some to Jared at some point. He is way to busy with his new toy. It's a tv things I think called wii or something like that. Wed. we did not move from the house on Wed. Just sewed and sewed and did a bit of shoveling and finished up Thursday morning. Our snow removal guy didn't get here for some reason so the shovel method still works. Thursday soup kitchen was huge even with all the snow. We gave away gloves and hats and fleece scarves and need to stock up on both. I cut all the fleece which came to .50 a scarf. How cheap can it get? Well it wasn't free but .50 is pretty good. Hats will be easy. Church ladies are knitting. TOMORROW...Souperbowl. Go Steelers. It was a very good week.
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Thursday, January 22, 2009
WEd.
Kimmy had such a full day I thought I would mention a busy, busy Wed. It was fun.
1. Up and running at 6:00. Breakfast with the paper and watched Morning Joe with coffee and my knitting needles.
2. Left the house at 7:30 and off to Meijer buying supplies for Soup Kitchen and Hospitality Time
3. Arrived at church at 8:40 and put things in the refrigerator, etc.
4. 9:00 at the church desk for the morning. Folded a Lenten Brochure that will be mailed next week, answered the phone, knitted and answered questions. 3 people came in thinking that it was soup kitchen day. We had food left over from yesterday so fixed bags for take out.
5. 1:00. Got a lot of things ready for soup kitchen. Vegetables out, sacks counted. It makes Thursday so much easier.
6. Took a financial bulk mailing letter to the downtown post office
7. Dropped off some things at the IU Medical Center for Kenya
8. Came home and made a great vegetable soup for supper. Knitted some more. A friend at church gave me some yarn. More is coming in the mail. I will have lots of YARN. Yahoo
9. Went to sister Mary K to deliver a bib.
10. Ate supper and knitted watching the evening news.
11. Went to bell practice with a bunch of stuff in the trunk to deliver to the office. (Doug picked up VBS kits for church)
12 Bell practice. Lots of fun.
13. A trip to Dunkin Doughnuts to pick up doughnuts for Soup Kitchen. I must have a ton.
14. Home and more time with the knitting needles and TV. Bed at 10:30.
What a day. Nothing boring about yesterday.
Wow...today is soup kitchen and I'm staying with the Cottingham children for an hour this afternoon and then it's Choir night. And knitting when ever there is time.
1. Up and running at 6:00. Breakfast with the paper and watched Morning Joe with coffee and my knitting needles.
2. Left the house at 7:30 and off to Meijer buying supplies for Soup Kitchen and Hospitality Time
3. Arrived at church at 8:40 and put things in the refrigerator, etc.
4. 9:00 at the church desk for the morning. Folded a Lenten Brochure that will be mailed next week, answered the phone, knitted and answered questions. 3 people came in thinking that it was soup kitchen day. We had food left over from yesterday so fixed bags for take out.
5. 1:00. Got a lot of things ready for soup kitchen. Vegetables out, sacks counted. It makes Thursday so much easier.
6. Took a financial bulk mailing letter to the downtown post office
7. Dropped off some things at the IU Medical Center for Kenya
8. Came home and made a great vegetable soup for supper. Knitted some more. A friend at church gave me some yarn. More is coming in the mail. I will have lots of YARN. Yahoo
9. Went to sister Mary K to deliver a bib.
10. Ate supper and knitted watching the evening news.
11. Went to bell practice with a bunch of stuff in the trunk to deliver to the office. (Doug picked up VBS kits for church)
12 Bell practice. Lots of fun.
13. A trip to Dunkin Doughnuts to pick up doughnuts for Soup Kitchen. I must have a ton.
14. Home and more time with the knitting needles and TV. Bed at 10:30.
What a day. Nothing boring about yesterday.
Wow...today is soup kitchen and I'm staying with the Cottingham children for an hour this afternoon and then it's Choir night. And knitting when ever there is time.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Bibs for Sale
Sold 6 already. Guess they are worthy of buying so if anyone out there wants one just reply to the blog. Now...if I had pictures...Yeah...I know. Bibs for little babies...bibs for boys...bibs for girls...Bibs, bibs. Bibs for gifts and just bibs.
Friday, January 16, 2009
Friday
It's freezing cold today. 58 in the house. Hot water baseboard heat never has kept up with the cold. So...it's lots of clothes today. -`12 this morning outside of course without windchill. I'm thinking space heater. This usually happens about once every three years. So...I had a dish of icecream for lunch. brrrrr. I got the sewing machine back in practice. It pays big time to use needles that work. I'm finishing up remake of the 6th Christmas banner. Just to many bags and sags. And another bib is in the box. It's a slow day. Hard to believe how cold it is. Dave D from church visited with homeless men living under bridges Wed. night. What a gig. Passed out blankets, gloves and sweatshirts. The goal of the visitors is to let the homeless people know that someone cares about them. NOT to change what they are doing. That needs to come from the homeless person to really make a difference. No school anywhere today. Even IPS who just about never closes for cold. The kids could be warmer at school in some cases.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Tuesday Evening
It's getting colder...It's brrrr weather. Tomorrow promises to be COLD. Lots going on. I finished the 31st baby bib. Most of these will go to our youth who are raising money for their Kenyan trip. I've had a blast. There are valentine, st.patrick's, easter, african animal, bob the builder , butterfly and john deere bibs. Fun, fun. I used a bunch of buttons that I got from Doug's mom. So...using up stuff. Stuff. The Podcast of the Sun. sermon is all about STUFF. You can hear the music as well. What a great Sunday was.
This week I also have been working on reconstructing our 6 Christmas banners. They are unbelievable baggy so that meant taking them all apart and starting over. I'm hoping for better results but the fabrics are of different weights and the humidity just does crazy things to hanging fabrics. But if this doesn't work, I'll be taking them all apart again and trying something different. My sewing machine has become very unhappy with bad stitching and bad tension so it's back to Mr. Sewing Machine Arbuckle. I'm hoping that my 36 year old machine can find happiness again.
I started knitting another stocking hat. This is my 15th hat. We have had at least 100 donated at church. Some small ones about 40 are going to four schools, some are going to be delivered to homeless men who choose to stay out on the street tomorrow night, and others are given out at church. It's only January and I'm telling the knitters to keep on knitting.
I keep thinking of my snow weather friends in the UP of Michigan with snow to give away and my brother who is sitting on the patio in Mexico for another month or two. What a contrast.
This week I also have been working on reconstructing our 6 Christmas banners. They are unbelievable baggy so that meant taking them all apart and starting over. I'm hoping for better results but the fabrics are of different weights and the humidity just does crazy things to hanging fabrics. But if this doesn't work, I'll be taking them all apart again and trying something different. My sewing machine has become very unhappy with bad stitching and bad tension so it's back to Mr. Sewing Machine Arbuckle. I'm hoping that my 36 year old machine can find happiness again.
I started knitting another stocking hat. This is my 15th hat. We have had at least 100 donated at church. Some small ones about 40 are going to four schools, some are going to be delivered to homeless men who choose to stay out on the street tomorrow night, and others are given out at church. It's only January and I'm telling the knitters to keep on knitting.
I keep thinking of my snow weather friends in the UP of Michigan with snow to give away and my brother who is sitting on the patio in Mexico for another month or two. What a contrast.
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Another week
Time sure moves along quite quickly. This week friend Sarah Ellen went back to Eldoret Kenya. Well, Joe went also. I have my little red car back and it sure beats the Spider that I was driving. What a tank with a convertible top. Ofcourse I didn't undo the top. Now it's sitting in the garage and the owner isn't home so the little red is sitting outside. Brrrr. SEM and I shopped until we dropped at Once Upon a Child...Toys, toys for a new children's playroom at the hospital.
This week was a week of getting Christmas back in the box at church. At least a hundred nativity sets were packed along with other decorations taken down. Today should finish the job. Now...the Russell household hasn't been touch and I'm not in a hurry to do that. I love the lights. I finished the 28th bib for babies. They are so cute. Three years ago I worked on 6 Christmas banners for church. The construction was horrible done with directions from a friend and they are one baggy mess so...I've taken them all apart and putting them back together another way. Might work and might not. The selection of fabric is so important and I might need to stabelize everything before I put them back together. It could help...It could not help. It's always a guess.
Worked at the church desk. So many people needing so much help wanting the church or lady at the front desk to fix everything for them. It's a bit discouraging. But we offer what we can. We just can't fix what has been undone by our visitors. Some come in crying. It could be a ploy or it could not. Impossible to really know. I would imagine that it will get worse. It's money for car gas, heat, rent, food, bus passes. I should be able to handle one day a week with this but we'll see. One of our staff members works on this but there is just not enough of anyone to go around.
Tomorrow is church. Kevin is having a series of sermons of Biblical Wisdom for Challenging Economic Times. Check the pod cast. The west entrance display case has a wonderful collection of antique banks and bibles that really look interesting. That was a fun thing to do. I found some banks at the Dollar Store and broke them. The antique collection comes from one of the parishoners. And I am starting to work on some visuals for Lent. I'm hoping for 4 foam core boards 4X4 with a theme for each Sunday hung in the west entrance. I have the design done. The fifth Sun. in Lent will include a barbed wire crucifix that one of our ministers made years ago. It's really makes a statement.
So...enough for this time on the blog. It's a little messy outside. Rain with perhaps a bit of ice.
This week was a week of getting Christmas back in the box at church. At least a hundred nativity sets were packed along with other decorations taken down. Today should finish the job. Now...the Russell household hasn't been touch and I'm not in a hurry to do that. I love the lights. I finished the 28th bib for babies. They are so cute. Three years ago I worked on 6 Christmas banners for church. The construction was horrible done with directions from a friend and they are one baggy mess so...I've taken them all apart and putting them back together another way. Might work and might not. The selection of fabric is so important and I might need to stabelize everything before I put them back together. It could help...It could not help. It's always a guess.
Worked at the church desk. So many people needing so much help wanting the church or lady at the front desk to fix everything for them. It's a bit discouraging. But we offer what we can. We just can't fix what has been undone by our visitors. Some come in crying. It could be a ploy or it could not. Impossible to really know. I would imagine that it will get worse. It's money for car gas, heat, rent, food, bus passes. I should be able to handle one day a week with this but we'll see. One of our staff members works on this but there is just not enough of anyone to go around.
Tomorrow is church. Kevin is having a series of sermons of Biblical Wisdom for Challenging Economic Times. Check the pod cast. The west entrance display case has a wonderful collection of antique banks and bibles that really look interesting. That was a fun thing to do. I found some banks at the Dollar Store and broke them. The antique collection comes from one of the parishoners. And I am starting to work on some visuals for Lent. I'm hoping for 4 foam core boards 4X4 with a theme for each Sunday hung in the west entrance. I have the design done. The fifth Sun. in Lent will include a barbed wire crucifix that one of our ministers made years ago. It's really makes a statement.
So...enough for this time on the blog. It's a little messy outside. Rain with perhaps a bit of ice.
Friday, January 2, 2009
January 2 Friday
Busy, busy. Thank goodness Hancock Fabric Store was open on New Years Day. Lots of ladies buying fabric! Me included. Well, not a lot of fabric but some. I'm into Baby Bibs once again. I'm making a huge bunch of bibs for the kids going to Africa to sell at church. There are safari bibs with safari animal buttons, butterfly bibs, parrot bibs, bibs for Valentines Day red and white with lots of eyelet, red and white rickrack and buttons and I have a little fabric for St. Patricks and Easter to make. There is enough fabric to make four of each kind of bib. And...I'm out of yarn! Help. That's critical. Finished another hat this morning. It's red, black and white. This last one was number 14. We are getting quite a stash at church to give away. I'm sure they will be gone by spring. Today I'll work on the St. Patricks Day bibs. My sewing machine is soooooo happy. The poor thing...I bought the dear little Singer new 35 years ago and it just keeps on giving and giving. It's had two repair jobs in 35 years. That's a much better record than I've had. Some times I have thought about getting a new one that can do more but then when I really think about it...this one does exactlly what I would ask a new one to do.
I'm thinking of making wren houses out of this years crop of gourds for the kids to sell. I might wait till closer to spring to do that when people are in the bird mood.
This morning the TV stations advertised Colt and Charger posters that could be picked up at Meijers..So...I jumped in the car and picked up three posters. Go Colts. They are great posters and are hanging around the house. Go Colts...Tomorrow evening is the time. We've got to stay positive. I think Payton can get the job done if the rest of the team comes along. What a team.
I'm thinking of making wren houses out of this years crop of gourds for the kids to sell. I might wait till closer to spring to do that when people are in the bird mood.
This morning the TV stations advertised Colt and Charger posters that could be picked up at Meijers..So...I jumped in the car and picked up three posters. Go Colts. They are great posters and are hanging around the house. Go Colts...Tomorrow evening is the time. We've got to stay positive. I think Payton can get the job done if the rest of the team comes along. What a team.
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