Even though I got the gift of a cold from my kids that I substitute taught last week, yesterday was soooooooo much fun!!
Right off the bat, I woke up to beautiful snow - the first of the season!!
I think this must have been a snow ghost coming out to see what I was doing!!
Then my mailman brought the mail and amongst all the bills and junk mail was a lovely package that turned out to be a gracious little gift from Donna over at
Brynwood Needleworks.
It was a wonderful surprize - thank you Donna!!
Then, it was Class week at our Guild and I signed up for it. Lynn, the teacher, was excellent and we learned to do all kinds of embroidery stitches. Some I knew but the bullion stitch and the shadow stitch were new to me. I love that little bullion stitch!!
Then, Lynn also made us a little note book with instructions for all the stitches and this cool liitle piece of muslin and a plastic holder, so we could make a little sampler of each stitch and keep it in our book!!
Then on the way home from the class, I stopped at the sock store and got some socks. Well, it did snow today - new socks were a vital necessity!!
Are they cute or what?? And they are manufactured right here in the Cache Valley - right in the building where I bought them!! Hey, how did those Butterfingers sneek into the picture??
Next, I stopped at the grocery store where I picked up my first Egg Nog of the season!! Oh, Yum!! A yearly tradition for me!! :-))
Then when I got home my handyman, who had to put me off for two weeks because of a "job from heck" he was working on, was finishing up the last ceiling fixture down in the Studio!! Woo! Hoo!! Now I can really get to work - after I finish with this cold - and get some sewing done!!
And the final excitment for the day was going to my weekly sit and knit at the local yarn shop that is outrageously fabulous!! I am working on a bag that I am knitting and then will felt for all my knitting goodies. Well, come on, I can't use my Quilting Goodie bag for my knitting stuff!!
While working on it, I noticed the lady on the other side of the couch knitting socks with a 40" circular needle. Well, I have always wanted to knit socks but I have never been able to coordinate the 4 double pointed needles. So, when I saw her working with a circular needle I just had to find out how and, even though I promised myself I would not buy anything last night, I ended up getting this ~
Okay, several folks have suggested I am ADHD - do you think so??
I was sooooooooo tired last night that all I could do was take my cold medicine and fall into bed!! That's why I am posting today!! Thanks for stopping by and listening!!
The Beehive and word "industry" became the official motto and emblem for Utah on March 4, 1959. Industry is associated with the symbol of the beehive. The early pioneers had few material resources at their disposal and therefore had to rely on their own "industry" to survive. The beehive was chosen as the emblem for the provisional State of Deseret in 1848 and was maintained along with the word "industry" on the seal and flag when Utah became a state in 1896.
