Back at it!

And now back to our regularly scheduled blogging!

I can’t believe it has been so long since I last blogged.  The regular old excuses are there- a new job that for a while had me commuting an hour and a half away (and for a gal who is used to commuting a 2 minute walk away that is a big change!),  the latest edition of our community Dinner Theatre that I always have a large role in (this year it was onstage as opposed to stage managing), and now, an unexpected accident in the family that takes our new son-in -law away from the farm for a while.  He will be fine- if you want to read about it, head over to my favourite blog in the world, the one that belongs to my girls- http://www.fiveblondes.com/health/an-unfortunate-accident/

Then there was that whole insecure – every one but me is having fun blogging and giving each other those great blog awards and I was feeling left out… and undesirable…and started the “nobody likes me, everybody hates me” song. 

Luckily the sun came out, I got a much deserved kick in the pants (Thanks Karen, Kate, and Erica, and Leah, and Lauren!) and started to sew again!  I will snap some photos tonight and start blogging in ernest tomorrow.  Miss Lauren has a new house lined up in Ottawa for University next fall, and was so excited to text me with the information that “mom, our new house is a two minute walk from a Fabricland!!” Hmm – I’m not too certain how that last piece of information stuck itself in there right out of the blue- but it is cute!

Oh yes, a cool Patternreview-y thing happened to me yesterday.  I was in Guelph for work, and stopped by Fabricland to pick up these two Vogue Patterns                                   

I overheard (I confess that I eavesdrop on interesting conversations an awful lot) a lady talking about the dire need to get some pictures taken.  It sounded like a Patternreview thing(!) so I casually mentioned to the woman cutting my fabric- oh did I forget to mention that I bought some fabric too!  A few yards of red, and a few yards of a great yellow for jackets, but I digress.  Anyways I asked the woman who was cutting, if the other woman was taking photos for something for PAtternReview.  “Oh it was for some internet site thingy” she replied.  Some internet thingy???!!! I don’t think Patternreview has ever been described that way!  Any how, the lady I was asking about overheard me and said “well actually it is for the Timmel Swap, but I do belong to PR as well!  We introduced ourselves and were both tickled pink that we could go home and declare that “See, PR people are REAL- not just virtual friends”!  While I have met a lot of PR members, I do not think she has, and we are trying to make plans to get together again.

Next up – a comparison of two favourite pant patterns, and my new TNT pant pattern outcome and Tada! my first finished Nicole M purse - complete strangers have asked me about this one!  Here is a sneak preview of the purse in progress... 

Ahh – It’s good to be back – let me know if you missed me at all!