Crazy Week

Last weekend we pretty much had a laid back weekend. It didn't start off that way, though. Nope. Had to go get Aly from school in the snow storm. Normally it's a 50 minute drive each way. It took me 1 1/2 hours to get there and 3 1/2 hours to get home. So many accidents! And most of them caused by people braking too much and sliding off the road. Ugh.

Saturday I puttered around the house until Aelfgifa/Shiro/Andrea popped by fora visit. She oohed and aahed over the Luttrell. Showed me her new book (which I've decided that I need to get!). And told me about Affordable Fabrics in Rocky Hill. With $2 a yard linen. Yes. linen. Wow! Guess where I went on Monday???? Yes and I bought 30 yards of linen. All but one of them was 100% linen. The other one was 98%. Love it! I was going to make myself some new garb for this weekend. But couldn't. You'll read why in a little while.

Sunday I picked up Miss Frances and we went to see the Easter Bunny! Who was 40 minutes late. Ugh. Thank goodness we weren't the only ones in line, plus there was Bella the Balloon Lady. I took her home in the afternoon after we had lunch. :-) She's so much fun. I was supposed to babysit her on Tuesday, but got sick. :-( Hopefully, we can get together again maybe next weekend.

So, Aly is home this week from school and has a project to make a Burgundian outfit. She has made a pair of leather shoes. We shopped for the material to make the garb. She had a pattern. Unfortunately the pattern was crap. So, I spent the last two days helping her make her new garb. The only good thing that came from the pattern was the hat. Tonight she needs to get jenness to serge the veils for her and she'll be done. I'll post a picture of her after this weekend. She looks fabulous! And because Aly's garb took so long to make, I didn't get new garb made for myself. Oh well.

Today we have a ton of things to do! Including, clean up from the sewing, finish laundry, pack for the laundry, do some errands, etc. etc. Crazy life!

I'm off to shower and get this day going.......................................

Change of Plans

Man, I've been having a case of the winter blahs/cabin fever. I want to apologize to all my friends for not writing at all and/or rarely. Ive even been bad about not returning emails. During the week I've not been doing much of anything, then our weekends are SUPER full. So, we've declared the 17th and 18th a free weekend. We're working the little things around the house, but we're not leaving the house. No travelling to New Jersey, or elsewhere. We've even canceled our get together for this weekend. Well, except for those individuals who want to come over for the afternoon to look at the Luttrell facsimile. :-D (remember to bring your own drool bib!)

This past weekend was Ian (aka Max)'s Bar Mitzvah. Barbara and Bruce put on quite the wonderful shindig. We had so much fun! And Ian's friends are so polite and charming!

Well, I need to finish uploading some pictures, then it's back to working a scroll. I'm in a mood to paint! Waiting to hear back about possibly getting some new assigments. :-D