ARE YOU A CLOCK WATCHER???

 I am not sure I ever got over going to school and the schedule we had back in those days!!  Cause I still watch the clock--plus growing up --there was 'set' times for breakfast, lunch and supper--dinner was  saved for Sunday noon--dinner time!!!

I find I always have a breakfast time--between 8-8:30 am--Lunch since I moved here 6 years ago has been going down stairs at 11:15 to pick up lunch around 11:30--BUT--now that I am not going down all that much I have changed my lunch time to around noon!!!  And supper is 5:30--unless my kids are taking me out to supper and then it is usually much later!!!

I also find I do certain things at certain times of the day--Like mornings after breakfast--that is my counted cross stitch time--this past week -- I was, of course working on this project--

And Sunday morning is this project--

Got his second wing in and started filling in the wing with white thread!!

Around 10 am I go on to other things--could be some household chore or maybe preparing fabric for sewing together after lunch--if I haven't went shopping in the morning-- I am a morning shopper!!

Lunch is lunch and while I am eating lunch around noon time or a bit after--I am on the computer--first I read emails--then other blog sites and then lately a bit of time on facebook catching up on news and getting my kitten fix--along with seeing new craft ideas--

Then it is usually quilting time--this is what I am working on now--

I found this pattern in a Quilt magazine my girlfriend in NY sent me for my birthday last month--and I just found that straw fabric recently when I looking for some backings for a couple projects--

so the next day--Saturday I cut the pieces for 3 more--after I did all the background fabric pieces for a total of 9 blocks I believe--Well--the first one was a red one--I started with the first row of the chicken head and tail--only it was too short--what--I finally realized I had used a too short strip of the background fabric--that shorter piece goes down from the beak piece--OK--then on the wing piece--notice there is 2 small pieces on the print of the wing piece to make the point on the wing--well--this time when I did the points it was too long of a piece--now the letter for the tail piece is 'K' and that is also what I cut for the wing pieces--K is a 2" square--it took forever for me to figure out and to SEE that the wing pieces are letter 'N'--and are only 1.5" square--once I cut those--it came out correctly--I am sooo glad I did the single block the day before to check all the sizes so  I wouldn't have an issue when I went to do the other 8!!!!!!Maybe my 'brain' was on snack time, instead of sewing????  I only got the 2 other ones done--the red one needs some new pieces cut or some unstitching done!!!!

Yesterday--Sunday--morning after the cross stitching--I decided it was time to --clean out the sewing machine and put in a new needle and to put a new blade in my rotary cutter--so got out  my case of those supplies and first did the rotary cutter--then went to the machine--and here is what I found--

Oh my goodness--Diane--why have you not cleaned this out--So I began cleaning--forgot to take a photo of it all clean--but it looked really nice--put the big piece of bobbin housing in and then put the small bobbin holder in--and put the plate back on and managed to get those small screws back in place--then put a new needle in the top and went to pull up the bobbin thread--only the needle would not go far enough into the case to do it--sooo--had to take those 'tiny' screws back out--and read the machine manual to see I needed to line up a small white arrow with a small white dot--did that and put it all back together and the needle went down and did pick up the bobbin thread--only,it would not stitch--tried a couple things--no go--was lunch time--so left it--went back later and still couldn't get it to work--for some reason I happened to wonder if it was the new needle and luckily I had a different brand of needles so I got one of those out and put it into the machine--and just like 'magic' it is stitching now!!!

I usually quit work around 4 pm and fix me a cup of tea and a snack--this week I had fresh organic strawberries with my vanilla ice cream or honey yogurt--yum--

after supper I work on hand quilting, knitting, or/and more hexie flowers--

the grey one is a new color--the aqua is a second one of that color and yesterday afternoon while watching Nascar in Mexico City I got a second pink flower done--

I have all the blocks hand quilted on my Pink quilt--and have started on the border going all around it--and am trying to get the 2 baby sweaters I have on the needles knitted by this coming week end so I can put on buttons and get that package off to World Vision before the new postage raises July 1st!!

Last week--Monday was the Van trip to Walmart--

Tuesday--was a bus trip to Publix and to show a new neighbor the bus route and how it works

Wednesday--my friend Cheryl and I went on a venture --to two thrift stores--at the first one I found this old sugar spoons--

They where $1 each--

at the second shop I found these--

and these were $3 for the set--and that is all I bought-- guess I wasn't in the thrift mode--then we went to iHop for the pancake special and then on to Walmart--on Monday at Walmart I had found an organic t-shirt for only $8--I only bought one--really liked how it fit when I got home--so when Cheryl needed to stop at Walmart--I went it and got the other 3 colors--$8 for organic t-shirt is a 'steal'==I know have a navy and white strip--a grey, black and white t-shirt!!!

Well--guess I best get back to work--oh wait --today I did get things at the Dollar  Tree to redo the hallway table--cause it was time to take this display down--

Daniel is our Janitor and he is a special guy--not only does he do a good job cleaning this building--he is always joking and making us laugh--his birthday was June 13th--so this was up for 2 weeks!!!

I JUST DO NOT KNOW WHAT TO SAY OR HOW TO FEEL--OTHER THAN SAD ABOUT ALL THAT IS GOING ON --HERE AND AROUND THE WORLD--EXCEPT--GOD IS IN CONTROL AND WE JUST NEED TO KEEP STITCHING AND ENJOYING THE LITTLE THINGS IN LIFE--

SO LOTS OF HUGS--DI