Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and Sales!
It's hard to believe that Thanksgiving 2007 is over already. We were surprised with the visit from our North Dakota son. He will be leaving tomorrow, and we have not seen too much of him. His wife and our grandson will be staying in the area until Christmas. It is also hard to believe that Andrue is nearly 4 years old already. Where has the time gone??
We had a nice day, yesterday at my sister's house, and my parents and grandmother were also there. The weather was playing it's usual wintry games in western NY. We left home here in PA in the temperature at a balmy (and rare for this season) mid-upper 50's. By the time we arrived at my sister's, near Rochester, it was getting pretty cold. About the time we ate dinner, the snow started falling, and blowing. It was not a lot of snow, but the conditions in spots were a bit icy when we were ready to return home. Luckily, the snow slowed and the roads dried, the farther home we got.
This morning, I got up to fridgid winds blowing outdoors. I left home at 5AM to get to JoAnn's Fabric and Crafts Store to get a new rolling tote for my sewing machine. I got one last year, but found that they don't hold up too well to being backed over by the van- a BIG OOPS! I was lucky that there were a couple of the sets left that were on sale. If not for that one item on such a good sale, I would have slept in today. I did also get a bolt of white fabric for painting with a 50% off coupon too, so I made the trip worth while. I was home by noon, and only went into 3 stores that were not too crowded- I sayed way clear of the busy places.
I now finally have some of my postcards, pins, notecards, and bookmarks
in the Tioga County Historical Society Gift Shop, in Owego, NY. I
should have gotten my work there sooner, but getting my hands on a
vehicle that will run has been a challenge. The mini van, which is now
misbehaving regularly, now has a workshop of tools in it. Ken has been
using it for work, and our son's Jetta needs 2 fuel pumps and is not
trustworthy more than to Towanda in a pinch. I claimed use of the van
for today and got a lot accomplished with it.
My fabric bowls have been selling this week! One customer bought all I
had listed at Etsy, then I added one more, and it also sold. I spent
this afternoon taking photos and uploading more bowls. My Etsy Store
now has 5 new bowls listed, along with another 5"x7" mini quilt. The
two in the above photos are not uploaded to the store, yet. I need to
take more photos of pins, and upload some more colors of those. I also
need to do some more updating at My Website, and add more pins there, too.
I will also be making another large batch of Christmas evergreen wreaths. The order I am working on now, is up to over 90 wreaths to be ready by next Saturday. I have 7 whole days to go! Last week's order was really hard to do. I only had parts of 4 days to get nearly 100 wreaths done, and a bunch of the were quite large ones- thankfully they did not need to be decorated like the present order. Lot's of sticky fingers and clothes from all the pitch. I will post some wreath photos when I get some done.
