What we did instead of quilting again

Three things to be happy about:
(1) a much-needed break
(2) installing new software (you might as well be happy about it!)
(3) decorating a cake

Yesterday Charlene, Felicia and Pat took me to lunch at Golden Corral to celebrate my birthday, it was a fun and yummy break.  I always like their food but yesterday the big hit seemed to be their sweet potato casserole, it not only tastes good but it's good for you too!  Felicia likes their jalepeno poppers - hot!

After lunch we dropped by Wegman's where Felicia and Charlene got boring healthy stuff, while Pat and I went for the real  stuff - candy by the pound, yeah!

After that we hopped across the parking lot to Gallery Africa, they have such unique clothing in that store!

We found pretty two-piece outfits, jackets and one item we weren't quite sure of ... looked like a combination shrug/jacket but it slipped over the head.  Oh well, we were just looking anyway. 


At the back of the store we hit the mother lode... is this hat me, or what!!?

I think it's a "what"!

Felicia found a red hat!  I think this one had an open crown...

We were all ooohing and ahhhing over this coat, taking turns trying it on.  Pat decided to try it with THE HAT!

We were having so much fun... there's nothing quite like a group of ladies giggling in a clothing store!  The sales clerk asked us politely... "Are you ladies finding everything you need??"  Yes'm.

Pat decided to take the coat, after I encouraged her to ask for a discount because the lining wasn't quite all it should have been, but she can fix it.  It's a really pretty coat - we left the hat for another snappy shopper.

Well, that's all for now, have a great Tuesday, sew forth and sew on!

Silent Sunday

Go Ravens!

Go 49ers!

Sew forth and sew on

Just a little bit

A little bit of snow...

now you see it, now you don't - what a difference an hour can make!

We got just a dusting in this area and the winds are blowing, blowing, blowing!  Virginia seems to be in worse shape because some of the schools are closed, I understand the road surfaces are the reason.

Just a bit of sewing...

to be sure yet again that I didn't want to go with light sashings, I laid some houses out on a piece of off-white fabric... I just don't like it!

I went ahead with the black sashings but I cut them down by 1/2 inch...

My sister Ruby would call it "majoring on the minor."  I'm going to finish this little top today after I run an errand, put it in the done pile!

The good news is I went to Costco yesterday and got a $45 refund on my printer - I didn't even have to take it in!  I just showed them the receipt and after a lot of fiddling - for some reason the computer kept rejecting the coupon code - I got my money refunded.

Does anybody remember way back in the last century when we didn't even have computers??  If you wanted a refund the clerk would bring out a bedraggled ledger book, look up your info, call over the manager to authorize it and refund your money? 

No cell phones, no social media, no apps, no iPads, no Facebook, no rotary cutters, no blogs - OMG what did we do without blogs!??

Sew forth and sew on...