Friday, April 22, 2011

I just noticed that Wednesday was my 100th post. I should be doing a give away or something. Maybe I can fit that in next week? Wow, there have been lots of good things going on here in my world this week. I just finished up a huge project at work that has taken me about 6 months to do. I’m a jack of all trades in the position that I hold at my day job and one of them is taking care of the filing of all the project files. I’ve been re-boxing and cataloguing project files from 1989-2004 to get them ready to go to an off-site storage facility. All the boxes had to be catalogued, labeled with a UPC code, and registered in the computer, as well as printing out a spreadsheet with all the information on it for the driver of the truck who is going to be picking up 200 boxes of old files today! Yippee! I also had a small mailing of 150 postcards that had to go out by today and I am happy to report that they were all mailed yesterday. On top of that I mailed out my Mother’s 80^th birthday invitations yesterday. That leads me to a little story about the similarities of 2 sisters. It’s funny how my sister and I are similar in some ways and especially when we are designing. Me with my afghan of many granny squares and triangles, where I had to fill all of the holes and each time I would get done with one step I would end up with another hole I needed to fill and on and on it went.

Jackie has also done this with our Mother’s birthday invitations. She carefully chose the paper to print the invitations on as well as searched everywhere for the right size and color of envelope. She designed how the words and pictures looked on the page and made sure everything was just perfect before printing.

When she placed the invitation inside the envelope she noticed that the words showed through. (I know you can’t see it in this picture, but the words were really showing through) Well we couldn’t have that, so her and I went out looking for new envelopes and we finally came to the conclusion that we already had the only envelopes that were to be found for our Mother’s invitations.

She finally decided that she would make a little sleeve out of blue paper and wrap it around the invitation, but it couldn’t just be plain, she wanted it to be very special, so she used her scalloped edge rotary cutter and edged one side of each sleeve with a cute little scalloped edge,

and oh no she couldn’t stop there she decided to add some stitching through the 3 layers of paper and then she was pleased when she slid it into the envelope and no letters showed through.

But then the envelope was a little bare, so she not only stamped a beautiful pink bird on the front of the envelope, but also on the back. Then she placed each invitation in the envelope and sealed them, placed a stamp on each one, and then brought them all to me so that I could place the address and return address labels on each one.

By the way Jackie, I saw your face when you noticed that I couldn’t match the address label font to the return address label font. I seen you cringe, and I’m so proud of you for not saying anything; as I know you were very tired at the end of all the designing of our Mother’s beautiful invitation. But sometimes we just have to let those things go and now that they are all out in the mail you can mark that one off of the birthday preparation list. It’s a good thing you love me, right? 

Also, everyone still has today to let me know if you have a name for my CGOA Design Granny Square Afghan Naming Contest. Please let me know by leaving me a message here, or email me at: have_2_crochet@yahoo.com.

I have started on the doily that I plan on giving to the first place winner in the Afghan Naming Contest and I do love these Japanese patterns because they have the charts and you crochet the motifs in as you go, plus when you’re done the outside edging is already done. Some of you may remember that very large ball of thread from the doilies that I gave away on Crochet Soiree. Yes it’s still the same one and I made about 4 doilies from this thread already and see how much thread is still left on it?

Tonight I’m going on a little road trip with a couple of the ladies from KS My Stitch crochet guild. We’re going to El Dorado, Kansas which is about a 30 minute drive from Wichita. We will be visiting a yarn shop there and having dinner there. It should be lots of fun.

Saturday will be spent with my beautiful daughter Jennifer to celebrate her upcoming 35^th birthday on Monday. We’re going to spend the day together; and maybe even get in a few hooking minutes? I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend and I’m sending lots of hugs your way.