Will I ever be sewing again?

Well I have my sewing area set up and almost all unpacked. I still need to hang the overhead light, the room has no lighting to speak of. Once I have everything unpacked, maybe I can get down to sewing again. The stress that I have been under for these past months has really made it hard to take the time to sew. I need to find my happy place again and get back in the swing of things.

I do seem to keep up with all the blogs I have been reading. I like to see that there are others still do sewing out in the world, even if I am not.

On to the New

Today our son bridged from Cub Scouts to Boy Scouts. It was our last Blue and Gold ceremoney. I am such a wimp, I always have a tear in my eye when onhe of my kids are recognized as if it was my great achievement. Well, in a way why not, I am the one that had to go to all the meetings and campouts and other activities with them.

I am hoping to get started on my sewing area tonight. I really have been wanting to sew.

Just Another Day

Well, we are in. Now we get to set everything up. This could take a while. So I will just take it as it goes. Starting a new department at work this week. Going to be working at the service desk. Hopefully, my hours will be better than lately. The kids are already moaning that they don't see me enough.

I don't have my sewing set up yet, but I have the next three days off, so that should give me time.

All Moved In

Well, we are all moved in. My husband has been complaining the whole time. The kitchen is too small, he doesn't have enough cupboard space. For a chef this is the worst. But what can we do. Now I get to spend the time getting everything set up. It always amazes me how much stuff we have. And I know that we have gotten rid of a lot. When we moved to California, we gave away alot of our things like all of our outdoor furniture. When we moved from one house to another in California after the first two years there, we got rid of more of our stuff like furniture that was getting run down, and alot of things that we found we hadn't used in that time. When we left California we downsized the truck to come back and so again we got rid of so much stuff, kids toys and clothes, appliances and such.

So now again we have moved and it took two days to move everything out. We have not replaced any of the things that we gave away in the last seven years, but we still seem to have more junk than anyone I know. Ok I have been replacing my Girl Scout supplies, but that was because when we moved anything that I had, was reinbursed by my Troop there, so of course I would need to collect new things here, and that is not hard to do. With a meeting every two weeks from September to June, you do collect alot of supplies for crafts and info to teach things needed to work on the patches the girls will earn.

I hope I can get my sewing up and going again in the next two weeks, I want to get started on the new mystery that Bonnie from Quitville is doing, but I still need to unpack boxes, however I am trying to unpack the smart way, by having a box available for garage sale items and one for items that we will keep but do not have room for so they will stay packed. Like our knick knacks we want to keep or our dishes that will not fit in the cupboards. And I need to get the kids rooms put together so they are comfortable and reflects there personnalities.

I'm so sad

I'm so sad , the house that I have loved for the last ten years has been lost to us. We moved back from California when my husbands job closed last year, we had hoped that he would find a new job somewhere in the country and the kids and I would stay here while he went off to work. I would have been fine with this as moving to California had not been the joy we were had expected it to be and we were now heavy in debt. But he has yet to find a job after a year and a half. It is hard to imagine that there is not a job somewhere in this big country of ours, but we haven't found it. We are not being picky either, he has went on a couple of interviews but to no avail. So now we will be moving this weekend, as the new bank that bought the house did not want to work with us. They would not even talk to us, they just served us an eviction notice.

So again I have not done any sewing and have instead packed it all away for the move. I am going to unpack it and set it up right away, but I do not know if I will feel like sewing or not. I am just trying not to get depressed about this and hope that this is all part of a bigger plan for my life, but right now it just feels rotten. This is the house that I had told my husband when we lived in California and he wanted to get rid of it, I would divorce him first before I gave up the house. I know you will say but it is just a house, but this is my house, I had another house when I meet my husband, and sold it after we got married because it was too small and he promised that in time we would buy a house together. This I did and three years later we bouhgt this house. This is the house I bought my children home to from the hospital, this is the house where I started on my road to volunteerism, signing up for the association board, helping out in the neighborhood and just enjoying sitting on the front porch at night or the back porch while the kids played in our park that backed to the house.

I started many of the current fun familyactivities that my neighbors now enjoy in this subdivision like Easter Egg hunt in the park, the annual Christmas lighting contest of which after the first year I started this, our city government took my lead and expanded the contest to the whole city. I start the first neighborhood caroling, and at Halloween my neighbors would welcome a nice tall cup of warm apple cider during their walks with the trick or treaters.

I will miss sitting by the pool on warm days and enjoying nice parties for the kids and their friends. I don't want to think of someone else living in my home, the home I expected to grow old in where my grandkids would visit. Now I am going to have to start all over and hope that by the time I have grandkids I will have a place of my own for them to visit me instead of the nice house I just pay rent for.

I AM SO BAD!!!

I really am. I just don't see to think about keeping up this blog. I want to, but I spend so much time doing other things that when I get to it I can't think of anything important to say.

I have been reading some blogs of other quilters, want more, can't seem to find enough. I don't have time to go to the quilt shops. Couldn't get anyone at Quilt in a Day to answer me when I asked to do the BOM through the mail again. Really miss having the patterns to look forward to every month. Found Bonnie's mystery quilt, copied the instructions and keep telling myself I am going to start working on it. Made my ducks, but stopped before stitching them. I just haven't felt inspired to sew.

I don't think anyone has found my site. I am probably the only one to see it HAHAHA.

Oh well, just have to keep trying.

Update for the Week

OK, So I have been very busy this week. I have my duck applicates on their background, and have been playing around with the stitching. I think they are going to look great when their done, unfortunately, I have not had a lot of time to play with them.

I have also been playing around with my son's cub scout photos. I am making a slide show for his blue and gold banquet. I knew people had been making them in the past and they looked great, but working on one yourself and seeing how cool they can look is a whole other feeling.

This week starts a month long involvement with Girl Scouts, from activities and field trips to cookie booths. First we have a meeting tomorrow to finish up the swaps we will need for Saturdays field trip to the splash bash. Then we have a cheer competition, pine wood derby and the splash bash all in one day. I don't think there will be one minute to have for myself to sew this week, but I will get to it soon. I also want to try making the Carolina Crossroads Mystery quilt I found on the Web. So I will keep plugging along.