Monday morning

This morning is a church morning with decorating for Lent. A few ladies are joining me and I think I'm organized so that this morning should run itself. Lots to do but I think we'll do as much as we can today. Tomorrow is another day. Janet W, got her Christmas stocking for Belle. The bags for the children for the Easter retreat are finished and out of here. Knitted two hats yesterday. Watched a little basketball. Hospitality went well at church. Lots of people stoping in and connecting with folks. It's just a fun place to be. The long banner we will use during Eastertide is back at church. A few more projects to do but it's break time for a few days. Now it's coffee time and the newspaper. Might make a trip to the mailbox or I might just read on line. That's the lazy way.

Wednesday

Costumes...Jacob is wearing the hat and vest. I have so many things that are on the reservation table...I'm making 40 bags for Janet W. for Bible School. That's a few months away but I don't like to get behind. I'm making a Christmas stocking for Janet W's grandbaby Belle, revising some banners that Doris made and now need much needed attention because of use and age. One is in pieces on the floor of the sewing room, the other in pieces on a shelf, I made 4 4x4 foam core boards that illustrate 4 of the Sunday sermons in Lent. I did paper mache on a lamb that was falling apart and now looks like new. Tom Woo, an orthapedic surgeon fixed it with plaster and and fiberglass bandages used for casts and he is on board to fix the donkey that has two broken ears. He's having a blast with this project and I am to after wanting these two things fixed for at least 10 years. I finally figured out who could get the job done. I'm a little slow would you say. Still knitting hats and last night learned how to make purses out of plastic bags. I did get some fabric given to me today that would make great costumes. I need to wash the musty smelling fabric. Broke a tooth some time...don't know when and I got a temporary cap on it this morning. The washing machine gets fixed on Friday, the well pump got a new pressure tank last week, the grinder for the new sewer system being put in the neighborhood was delivered yesterday...Way to much stuff going on but when it rains it pours. Tonight is bells, tomorrow is soup kitchen. We have plenty of food. Yahoo. Choir tomorrow night. Friday...I'm looking forward to. Might be bag day come to think of it.

Thursday again

Time flies. Still knitting, knitting. It's fun to choose colors to knit hats. This week I bought with someone elses money!! 52 pr. of men's gloves for next winter. Always thinking ahead. These will go to soup kitchen guys. The days are flying by and I forget what happens 24 hrs. after it happens. I did some sewing for Kat and church making costumes for children in Sunday School as Kat ordered. I worked at the front desk two days and worked at the hospitality table for church picture taking for a new directory, soup kitchen was today, handbells was last night, choir is tonight and tomorrow I'll be at home I THINK! And Saturday is JB's birthday. It's a bummer we are not in Michigan. It's handbells Sunday morning. What a bummer. Things happen I guess. The snow is gone, gone. Yesterday was a huge wind and rain storm. It was a little scary at times. Got to get to my knitting. So long you all.

A flying week

Saturday evening again. Jim called tonight. That was very good. I was doing the instant message thing with him and the phone rang and there he was! Just about a year ago Mary K and I saw him in Mexico. That was very, very good. This week has been a gut buster again. Just lots going on. Still sewing...two bags to sell and starting on some costumes for the 6 year olds at church to play in. It's all bible type stuff. Head gear, bags to carry things in and some vests and little coat type stuff. It's all coming out of my brain and that keeps me occupied. I love it. Knitted two hats as well. It's been DARN @#$^%& cold this week. It gets to my brain after a while. Wed. and Thursday at church we had some real hardship cases. One guy was ready to commit suicide. So...that took a bit of time. He was new to the city not having a good place to stay and out in the cold and no job. That would stress the best. Brian on our staff was scheduled to be at a meeting but changed his plans and was a huge help. He is a wonderful addition working on community issues and a seminary graduate from Duke. And then he had his apartment broken into Thursday afternoon and was totally cleaned out. Terrible, terrible. That's after his car was broken in to Christmas Eve in our parking lot. Thursday at soup kitchen a girl came in high on drugs with no socks, and canves shoes that were torn and soaked to the max. That was another tough one. We found shoes in our church lost and found and I gave her my socks. I have more in the drawer. All of this is a bit unusual but who knows how many other cases we will have? She probably won't remember where she got her shoes and who knows how long she will have them. Life is crazy. Today I purchased 42 pr. of gloves to add to the 20 I found yesterday all of these coming from Walmart. We're getting ready for next winter and hitting the sales. We gave out about 50 pr. of gloves this year. It's interesting to realize that receiving a pair of gloves on a very cold day will help the receiver make it through another day.
There's more but that's all you are getting!!!

Best week ever

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.

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.

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.