May 6th, 2008

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Cross-Stitch Sampler for My Mother

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

My mother is amazingly gifted at crafty stuff. She can sew spectacularly, she can paint a beautiful face on a porcelain doll, she can cross-stitch, crochet, quilt and even has been known to weave a basket or two.

I can make scrapbooks and sometimes a decent card. I can sew in mostly straight lines in order to make very plain curtains. But where my mother creates beauty, I struggle to make something look just okay.

I am bound and determine to get the crafty genes I am positive are in me somewhere to start working. So I bought a cross-stitch sampler and have decided to give it to my mother for Mother’s Day. Since it is Tuesday, I don’t think I’ll make Mother’s Day, but hopefully she’ll get it within the week following Mother’s Day. So far it actually looks pretty good…we’ll just not discuss the whole decorative detail I had to remove completely after I noticed I had counted over too many spaces. The fact that I am mostly deficient in math should have been a cue to do embroidery instead of counted cross stitch. But I really want to finish something nicely to send to my mother. She’s made zillions of crafty/sewn things for me (including a beautiful wedding gown) so ’tis time to return the favor.

When I complete it, I will put a photo online.

Electricians

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

I’m kind of confined to the office for the time being because there are two electricians running around in the house. Actually, one fellow is currently hanging precariously from a ladder outside the window to my left casually yelling at the screws and drill he is using to attach a large new cord to the outside of the house. The other is upstairs working on one of the four electrical jobs we’ve got going on up there today.

By the end of the day though we should have a new outlet in the living room, a new outlet below the window at the top of the stairs, a new circuit box in the attic, two new lights and a new outlet in the attic too. Let there be LIGHT in the attic, finally!

Hmm, the guy outside the window is having great gobs of “fun” trying to drill through the asbestos siding. At least he doesn’t curse, most fellows probably would have been cursing up a storm by now with all the fits he’s having with that cord.