Pennsic Countdown

One week left, seven days to the start of Pennsic 40, 8 days until we leave. All I really NEED to do is finish the grocery list for cold things, finalize the packing list, pack, and buy Meg's SCA membership. I am actually in reasonably good shape, with a week left to go. Of course there are other things to do for other commitments, but that is beside the point. I finished my entry for Month at the Museum.... finding out about it so late didn't help any, but that is done for now. I am already thinking about next year for that too!

I still have to finish up my Hanging Man Tarot card for my art group, but that is almost complete, I just need to print the back and shrink it all down. Then mail it of course.

Lets see, I also have to get in a class proposal for the phototransfer class I will add to the schedule next quarter. And that should be it before Pennsic. Can't wait. Really can'r wait. I definately need a vacation, and 2 weeks of doing first nothing and then classes and dancing and concerts sounds just the ticket to me. I don't have a thing planned until Friday of the forst week, so chillin' is the order of the day.

More of Meghan's Wizardry

So the pics are now up for the fashion show, and here are Meg's designs. The pieces she didn't actually desin aren't here, but she had alot to do with the fabric and trim choices.... especially things like peacock feathers! They couldn't find a model that fit the yellow dress as well as they liked, but I still like it. I will just let the pieces speak for themselves.

My Very Talented Daughter!

With the ever gracious Kenneth Flanagan, on the night of his anniversary show at National Harbor, MD. I am so very proud of her, and love the way she has taken her dream and pursued it, and Saturday watched her own pieces walking down the catwalk on beautiful models. I will see if I can put up some pics... don't know if that is okay yet. Here is a link to one of the YouTube videos.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4Qfs1mclLU&feature=related there are several. This one has my favorite piece of hers I have seen so far... the white Tulip Coat, first out. Love, love, love it!

I am so very fortunate to be the mom of two such talented and bright kids.... though they are children no more. Meg and Josh.... I love you both so very much, and you make me proud to be your mom!

Done!

Meghan now has 10 skirts and 10 shirts to wear at Pennsic! She can wash midway if she needs to, and I am done sewing for her. I have a couple small things to make, like a pouch and a belt, but I am essentially done. I have packed the sunshade into the case and begun the grocery list. I will test the first bread mix tomorrow, and have to do the video for my application for Month at the Museum. Then I have to finish up the tarot card for TravellersHart. Then, I pack, Iand then I LEAVE!!!!!!!!

Great Evening!

Fat juicy ribs on the barby! Yum! Dinner was perfect, ribs, tater salad, coleslaw, and iced tea, with a later desert of a toffee Klondike Bar! What more could I want? My man did all the cooking, AND the cleaning, and then we watched A Capital Fourth on telly and I didn't move again until the folks in out square started lighting off sparklers and roman candles and such. Had to get a couple pics then. It was a good day, and a good day to remember the import of the original. It truly changed the world.... America IS a very different place, special no matter what our current president says. I am very proud of the US, though our ancestors are not perfect. Whose are? But all in all, our history is one in which we can be very gratified. Let us hope we do not throw it all away. Here's to another 235 years of a fine Republic.

Nautical Napkins

So over at Purl Soho there is a great tutorial on how to make nautically themed napkins... so I thought I would give it a try. I chose M, G, and K since those are the initials of those of my family who will be at dinner tonight (I will do J later!) and found blue yellow and white fabric and off I went. It took a little longer than I thought (putting the lining on backwards didn't help) but I finished before midnight, with what I considered success. My Navy husband informed me they were the wrong colors (cur) but they were what was available, so I told him to suck it up, the yellow had faded! Anyway they are done and were fun. I will probably make a table runner eventually, though I don't have the perfect red either.... so I am a rebel!

Fascination....

So I came downstairs for breakfast and found my boys side by side, faces to the glass door.... ignoring the squirrel right in front of them! What could be holding their attention so fiercely? Do you see him? Getting a picture wasn't easy.... he was very fast! Behind the broom, zooming away to another herb pot! A chipmunk! Yep! The first I've seen here in the seven years I have lived in this house! I have seen evidence of them, their homes and scat, but not them. You can't see in the photo, but he has a clear little stripe on his face, cute as a button. He hopped from herb pot to herb pot, making the fronds quiver and shake, and scampered across the deck oblivious of the cat's fascinated death stare. Meanwhile those bad squirrels were trying to raid the birdfeeder, though they happily transfered to the peanuts I threw out to distract them. Sleek and fat, they are, mostly. I suspect I am not the only one who feeds them.

Don't Know Why

But I couldn't attach the photo to the previous post.... so here it is.

Who me?

Is this not the very face of innocence? What doesn't show is that mere moments before this there were terrible sounds issuing from the room, portending wounds and maiming of some kind. As I climbed the stairs to investigate, one cat raced down them at full speed, taking great leaps down several steps at a time. When I stuck my head into the bedroom, there was Trouble, reclining on the carpet, lounging at ease, and looking perfectly calm and without either guile or rancor. Hmph.


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New Skills, New Stuff

So Meg needs all new clothes for Pennsic this year, and I thought I woiuld try out my embroidery machine on a couple shirts.... only my computer crapped out on me and I ended up on a Bernina 830.... oh my gosh, it is really fantastic. Anyway, many hours later, and two embroidery techniques and several software skills later, I have three shirt's necklines embroidered. I made a shirt, Meg tried it on and it is good to go, so now I will make the embroidered ones. I am feeling only a little anxious...35 days left to get ready, but only 4 weekends left I can actually sew on. Well, what happens, happens. It will be nice to have Meg along, I enjoy my alone time (as I am sure she will too) but a little company will be nice too. I will do more cooking this year since I don't want to spend as much money.... so planning the menu will come into it too. Planning is a challenge for me!

Murder on Maui

So

So off we went to the National Marine Corps Museum for an evening of murder and mayhem.... and other fun!

We were supposed to wear Hawaiian outfits, so I found some terrific fabric at work that had hawaiian shirts printed on it, in aqua and coral, and got enough of them to make a shirt for Chaps and a muumuu for me. A generous friend let me borrow the yoyo and maile leis, and my daughter furnished the purple one... we were well outfitted! The dinner was great (Hamlet the pig tasted very good) and the entertainment was terrific. All in all a most successful evening! Gotta do this again!