A Blanket Of White

I'm still seeing white when I look out my window! We've
had this snow/sleet/ice for over a week now and I'm getting
kinda tired of looking at it. Every time I need to go
somewhere I skate out to the truck! lol The roads have
been graded so they are clear and the highways are
salted so they are clear too. Yesterday was the first day
they've had school here in over a week. I bet there were
some happy Mommas.

I've been playing with my new sewing/embroidery
machine and I think I have most of it mastered now.
I thought the embroidery part would really be hard,
but surprisingly it wasn't. I'm sure I don't know it
all, but I know enough to get by right now and I can
learn more as I go along.

I'm working on summer clothes for my GrandMonsters
at the moment. I have some shorts made up for
Honey Wayne and 3 more pieces of fabric laying on the
sewing table to cut up for more. I have 3 pair of
shorts cut out for Jaylan and coordinating fabrics
for some shirts to match.

Monday I recieved my vintage swimsuit pattern
I got on eBay. It is a cute pattern, has a bikini,
a sarong, boy's swim trunks and a button up shirt
pattern. I wanted vintage because the older swim-
suits were made from plain ole cotton fabric, we
didn't have the knits and spandex back then. I
don't paticularly like sewing knits, rather sew
cotton. But anyway, the pattern has sizes 1, 2, 3,
and 4 in it. If the 4 doesn't fit Jaylan I'm sure I
can enlarge it, Honey Wayne takes a size 3, and
Miss Cookie takes a size 1.... soooooo, I've got all
my bases covered. I want to finish up some other
projects though before I start swimsuits.

I finished up a really cute purse a few evenings
ago. I used McCall's #5599 and used view C.
I used a piece of Amy Butler fabric and it is
cute, but it's a bit plain. It needs some kind of
embellishment, maybe a crocheted flower or
some big pink buttons. I have it propped up
on my dresser so I can look at it and I'll
eventually figure out exactly what it needs.
The pattern is easy and fairly quick. the purse
turned out much larger than I expected. I
didn't look at the finished dimensions on the
envelope, which is my own fault.

Have you ever been sick and tired of being sick
and tired? I've had several different little bugs
lately and then with the cold weather the
arthritis has kicked up in high gear. Everyone
I talk to around here either has a bug or has
had one lately. The flu was so bad around here
that they ended up closing school for a few days
a couple weeks ago. That did get it under control
a little bit.

But I'm amazed by some of these parents! Their
child is sick, home from school, but yet they drag
them into the local restaurant and all over town.
The kid will sit at the restaurant all hollow and
glassy eyed... take those babies home and give
them some TLC! Don't bring those sicky germs
out in public so I can get them! lol