The Weekend Flew - planning for next one.

My St. Paddy's weekend flew by - Thursday night:  picked up the new machine (I'm in love) on the way home from work, Friday:  got up at a decent hour just after hubster left for work (poor sucker) and walked the pooch, played with the new toy for a while, then wound up napping from 10 am to 4 (the hip was truly unpleasant) and can't even recall what happened for the evening....likely zilch, Saturday: hubster and I went to Ikea to trick out the sewing room with new shelving and such, got home and hubby dismantled the old and moved it to it's new room and then put all the new stuff together (have I shared with you yet what an amazing husband I have?) and when it was finally done about 10 pm it was time for bed, Sunday:  played in my 'new' room with my new toy and put together a jelly roll of Moda's Tropicana batiks.....just simple strips all lined up that will look lovely on the wall over our bed.  I attempted FMQ'ing with the new machine - I suck at it!!, but it's the first time I tried and I still kind of like the way it looks....so I finally finished up about 9 pm and got the binding sewn on just in time to watch the final end of the Women's World Curling final before I staggered into bed to start the week again.


And now it's Monday night and I had intended to finish hand sewing the binding down while watching curling, but alas......Urkel decided it was ball time.  He has no trouble coming up and down the 3 steps from the back door to the main area except when he has something in his mouth - in this case a ball.  Therefore, since he missed the catch I went over to 'assist' him back up the steps....and well down I went - and not gracefully.  My arm and wrist are hurting like 8(*&U*^&&^&Y and I didn't even break my *(&*((&*( hip!!!  Argh!!  At least if I would have broken the hip they would have to move me up the waiting list for a new improved one.  :-O  Alas, no....I'm just bruised from wrist to elbow.....and that's without even checking my fanny.


So, instead I am watching Dancing With the Stars (our dog's namesake "Urkel" is on this season), pouting about my sore arm, reading blogs and such.  :-(


I did take before and after pics of the sewing room that I will share when the pouting stops, I will also share pics of the batiks quilt/wallhanging when the binding is done and it's washed and in place and maybe even some ideas for what I'll be doing for my first FNSI. Input welcome!!


Here's hoping your Monday night is going better than mine.  Ta ta all!!