Reality Sucks!

Sorry for the harsh title there - but it's back to reality tomorrow and I really am not looking forward to having to get up and go to work - Sunday evenings I always get that "dreaded" feeling but it's worse after having over a week off! Well anyway - we have to do what we have to do I suppose!

Today was a lazy Sunday - this morning I managed to get my challenge pattern transferred to my linen. Then I went out for a bit and it seemed everyone and their brother were out doing errands! I skipped some of mine and came home! Didn't do much except straighten some wool and clean-up from the mess i made hooking the last rug. Then I was sorting thru my wool for the challenge and it's all great wool - There was a piece of white wool and I just can't bring myself to use a pure white wool in a rug - never ever have and probably never will - so it somehow mysteriously fell into a pot of onion skins on the stove with another 1/4 yard piece of wool - If it hadn't found it's way in that pot then I betcha my cup of tea might have spilled on it! Here's the result - much more yellow/gold in person - never tried the onion skins before but at the rug hooking class I took in Maryland one of the women, Purple Beth, gave me a bag of skins (So i'm sending a big thank you out to her!) Love the results - can't wait to try it with some other colored wools to tone them down.

Now I'm ready to sit and hook - Always hard for me to start a rug - but once I get going then I usually become obsessed and won't stop (usually!).

Went downstairs to the "bunker" - Must be an All Boys Club today - my husband is down there watching the football game and on the big chest he has two cat baskets with blankets over them - and there i actually found Miles and Riley - each in a basket - next to other - a very rare siteing - so i ran upstairs and grabbed the camera. I swear they were looking at me like "go away, no girl's allowed" - As you can see, King Miles is on his heating pad - we leave it on for him day and night - i think it's helping him - you can see how much he's aging too - I don't like it when our furry ones age or they don't feel good. Riley was just tired from a day of following sunbeams around and then playing with everything he could get his paws on - it was a busy day for the tiger!

Wishing everyone a wonderful first week of the New Year! Hope all your dreams come true.

joanne