YOP WEEK 32

 

Happy Super Bowl Sunday!  Do you have any big plans for this special day in the USA?  Hubby and I are going to spend it at home with our dogs.  Our son and his wife did invite us over to their place.  Which was very nice but, we decided to just stay home.  We will, however, need to do a short grocery run today before the game starts.  Hopefully, everyone will be home getting ready for the game so we won't need to deal with crazy football fans grabbing last minute snacks.

Let's talk about my week of craftiness.  Or lack there of.

This is the only item I worked on as far as knitting or crocheting went.  Sock #1 is getting really close to the toe and then sock #2 will be cast on immediately.

I did turn on the sewing machine this week.

 I made these jammy pants for my son about 3-4 years ago.  The first time he put them on, the elastic broke.  They have been sitting in my mending pile since then.  They are now back at their respective owners house.  It's not that I hate to sew or mend.  It's that I enjoy knitting and crocheting so much more.  The only thing left in my mending basket is a dress that needs to be hemmed.  I want to buy a rolled hem foot for my machine to make that process easier for me.  Once I have that foot, I will hem the dress.  Then there will be about 7 other dresses that will have their hems realigned and hemmed up.

See the way this dress hem is so much longer in the back than the front?  I love these dresses for their ease of wearing them.  I am not a fan of the hi/lo hem anymore.  I have cut the hem on one of my dresses and am going to see if when I hem it up I will fall in love with it again.  Hopefully I will.  Otherwise, all those dresses will be heading to my donation pile.  (No that is not me in the photo)

That is all for crafting this week.

DECLUTTERING

This week I finished up my craft room.  How nice to be able to walk in there and not be attacked by copious amounts of 'stuff'.  The walk in closet was my biggest challenge.  It is so easy to just throw stuff in there with the thought of 'I will get to it later'.  Well, later happened this week.

This is the part of the closet you see when you open the door.  On the left is what it looked like before I started on it.  The right, is what it looks like today.  The closet took me 2 and a half days to complete.  My donations from the closet included 2 kitchen trash bags, one of the plastic storage boxes, a large cardboard box as well as several items that did not fit into any boxes because of their size.  It filled the back of my SUV with the back seats folded down.

This coming week is going to be my guest bath, powder room, linen closet and Josie's room.  That should completely fill up my week.

PERSONAL NEWS

Hubby and I got our first Covid vaccine this past week.  We received the Pfizer vaccine.  Going at 1:30 in the morning made for a loooong day/night but we were in and out of the vaccination center easily.  Hubby had a little sore arm the next day, I had and still have a red injection site.  It was sore to the touch the first two days but now it is just red.  We were told these were all possible side effects with the first dose.  We are scheduled for our second dose already too.  They scheduled us before we left the injection site.  That sure makes it easy.  The best part of our injection site we went to is.....................we never left our car.  Just rolled down the windows and they came to the car and gave the injection.  Of course there were 4 stations we had to stop at before the injection was given, for interview questions about our health.  

St Vincent De Paul came on Friday and we finally have the 447 boxed up books out of our family room.  Sure does make it easier to walk around in there LOL.  I still have not decided what to put on the shelves, framing the fireplace, in the family room.  Right now, I am enjoying seeing empty space.  When we get to the declutter of the family room, I will make a decision then.

Hubby and I are leaving on Valentine's Day to go to Las Vegas to visit his mom.  We will only be gone 3 days.  While we are there, we will get to see our dear, dear friends (R & P) that are more like family than friends.  The P is the person I call when I need help with bread making or knitting or medical questions.  We make sure we see them each time we get to Vegas.  It is so nice to just sit and relax at their home for a few hours.  It is a nice break from the hustle and bustle of the casino we stay at.

So, if I don't update next week, it will be because I am on the road.  My update may be later in the week.  It all depends on what time we leave on Sunday.

Until Next Time......................................Happy Crafting & Stay Well!!!!!!!!!!!