Crafting Envy

   Looky what I found a couple of weeks ago at Target. I hit the motherload of clearances.








  And no, I'm not opening a hotel. This is pure Stasheesh, ladies. I have visions of Christmas tree skirts, pajama pants, quilt backs...sigh

  Doncha wish your Stash was hot like mine?lol




   Its finally raining a bit here...I like rainy days. They feel restful to the soul.




   My plants are thirsty too.


   I'm whittling down the to-do list before the Thanksgiving Fest at my house but it seems to keep growing somehow though. It's back to the grind for me with some sewing thrown in for fun.

   Well, I did actually get my rear in gear and manage a few things around the house. We repainted the kitchen and re-trimmed the windows and re-did the baseboards and cleaned and cleaned and cleaned and bottled beer and cleaned....
Here's a before and after.












Much better, no?




   I'm still cleaning. In cleaning our children's bedroom I ran across a tote of my old journals...every time I run across these in the midst of cleaning I always look, it's too tempting. It's so interesting to see what you were thinking at 15 or 16 and then at 20 and 24. Interesting and utterly embarrassing....I mean, wow. EMBARRASSING. I hope one day I can read those incredibly naive "poems" and not shudder and look over my shoulder as I stuff them back into the black hole they came out of hoping no one else saw them. Maybe someday I can laugh a little more at them or think them sweet in their innocence.
   Also in the tote was a post card from an old friend. Funny how reading something in some one's own handwriting can conjure up the image and sound of them so perfectly. The mind is an incredible thing.
   Enough of this little jaunt down memory lane. I have much more cleaning to do....Oy.

   Not too much has changed since I posted last. No news on the deployment front so far.
   We decided to paint the kitchen and redo the trim on the windows in there but we haven't really started on it yet so no progress to show you. I have managed to get some necessary cleaning done and almost caught up on laundry so it hasn't been completely unproductive.
    We'll be visiting my Sister in a little bit which will be fun. I need to get my rear in gear and get some stuff done for Thanksgiving and the holidays.... 0_0 I'll let you know if I'm successful in that endeavor....