Weekend Update

That was for my type obsessed son in case he ever checks my blog--- hi Nate!

Sorry I haven't been doing much blogging since returning back to MA. I think my new FL drivers license still has me in a funk. It was something I really didn't want to do, but the MA license was due for renewal this year on my birthday and the accountant yelled at me for paying all sorts of unnecessary taxes every year to a state I don't really live in anymore. So I bit the bullet, but still am having a hard time emotionally not being a Bostonian any longer. Go Sox, and all that.

But I have made all my overdue appointments, had my mammogram, run my errands, and had my first meeting with my crit group so that makes me feel better. We had just the original 5 of us this week and it was nice to reconnect and make some plans for the summer. I've also signed on to a class at the Fuller Craft Museum in spite of not wanting to do the long drive late at night- one of those times when one's eyes are bigger than ones stomach, sort of. But it will frame my week by having a 'thing' I have to show up for. I'm just a little daunted by a materials list since I have nothing here but a sewing machine and a bone folder! Guess I will need to schedule a shopping trip into Cambridge to the art supply store, poor me... Bet they are putting up the Welcome Back Sandy banner across Mass Ave. right now.

The Quilters Connection show is this weekend and I worked my two shifts yesterday. There are fewer quilts than before with twice the members which is scary, but the things that are there are good.  Yesterday's gate was slow but steady, and they are anticipating a crowd today and tomorrow.  I have to get in early on Sunday to make a few bids on some nice work they are auctioning off.  The three things I loved are of course the three that are getting the most bids so I probably won't win them, but I gotta try!

Today I am headed to Lowell to the Brush Gallery to see the kimono exhibit before it leaves, then popping over to the Western Ave Studios for their Open Studio day.  I need to make about five stops there so I hope they are all in their rooms where they are supposed to be.  And while I am there I need a few things at Classic Elite yarn so I can make a set of twin baby hats-  two hats that are related but not alike.  I want to do fish hats and have made a prototype but need heavier yarn so it all goes faster.  The prototype is also too small so I have to put it aside for now.

I visually gauged Elias' head this week when I visited him and at 4 months he would be out of the size of the prototype-  I need something that will last them through a winter.  His mother probably wondered what the hell I was doing as I felt his little round head, rubbed it and tried to put my fingers around.  It was real hard for me to get my hands off his little meaty thighs too!  I really was enjoying him and his massive changes in just 6 weeks.  Hazel also changed in that time, became a 2 year old, and all I heard was NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!  Yup, right on schedule.  She spent my visiting hour by wedging herself behind furniture to be invisible.  Hope she will let me work on that.