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Saturday, May 14, 2011

in with the new

Three things to be happy about:
(1) a good night's sleep
(2) the perfect pillow
(3) finding a sought-after book

Well, two out of three ain't bad!

I'm a great fan of Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series; I've read the entire series in hardback several times, and I also downloaded them to my iPod. But... I only want the unabridged versions.  For a very long time I've wanted The Fiery Cross and A Breath of Snow and Ashes but they were only available in abridged format.  I don't think so!  I want every single word she wrote in those books!  So, at the end of April Snow and Ashes became available in unabridged, and I got it, yaaaay!  Things are looking up.

I had to say goodbye to a couple of scrungy old friends...
I've had these awhile and now the left one has a hole under the bottom... right where kitty's chin would be.  So I made an executive decision and bought a new pair.  I wanted another pair of kitties but I couldn't find them - it's not as if I looked very hard!  Had to settle for these...

sock monkeys!  I'm not even a big fan of the sock monkey but I won't be staring at my feet, so that's okay.

At the office I was changing some pictures on my Webshots screen saver, swapping out anything with snow because I want spring and summer themed pictures.  Then I realized I might as well delete them because I won't be using them anymore... reality check!  In a way it made me kinda sad because I have some really nice snow pictures on there, Christmas too!  I have Webshots installed on my home PC but when I try to download pictures, McAfee's monkeys with the sledgehammers don't like it, so I haven't downloaded any new ones in a couple years.  In fact, I don't even use my screensaver at home.

Meanwhile I'm still slowly clearing out at the office, bringing junk home that I don't want to toss out, which will join the junk in the basement that I don't want to toss out.  I'm thinking it's time for a new kind of reality check down there!

Well, enjoy your day everybody; I have to pick up a sewing machine table someone is giving me.  I want this one because it has drawers, which my old one that came with my Singer Touch n Sew doesn't have.

Sew forth and sew on...

5 comments:

  1. I totally agree with your 3 things to be happy about (and would add a fourth--a hot shower!). Also love, love, LOVE the Outlander series. I hope she NEVER concludes it!

    Btw, created an Alzheimer's quilt today (for Ami Simms' Alzheimer's project) and made a crumb background based on your tutorial. Not sure I did it exactly the same way, but am happy with the result. Thanks for the idea.

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  2. I'd really like to see your quil! Is it on your blog?
    Linda

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  3. Thank you Linda for letting me know about the Outlander series. Sounds right up my alley. And it is on audio to boot. I have an iPod too. Your quilt is shaping up beautifully with all those rich, luxurious textures.

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  4. Linda,

    Have you listened to Diana's interview with Barbara Peters of Poisoned Pen on the YouTube? It is really interesting. It is in 6 parts.

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  5. Sorry, Linda, but I don't have a blog. At some point the quilt with the crumb background will be on Ami's website. Will try to let you know when it's up. (To see my other quilts on her website, I think you can just go to http://www.alzquilts.org/ and then type my name (christi winter) in the search box).

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