Oh Blog...How Do I Neglect Thee?

I think of you often, as you are never far from my to-do list.

I want to be with you daily but alas I am a busy gal.

Please forgive me.....

It has been a great week.
We have been busy with all the usual goings on, friends, sports, blissful living, gardens, crafts, and food.

What a wonderful life really.

I made the sweetest little skirt for a friends beautiful baby's first birthday and I think she loved it. I know I did.

It would be so much easier if only I wore skirts.

I wonder if it is okay to fall in love with material things.

Why you ask?

Because today I recklessly fell in love.

This morning I started to sew a skirt for a lady friend of mine and my machine flailed and kaput..yup it upped and died.

So I was on a mission, and several sewing deadlines, to acquire a sewing machine.

And that I did.

I have had dreams of being a good sewer,(that word is another one of the English languages faults), that a machine could help me achieve those goals a cheap old second hand one just wouldn't allow.

I have had visions of a machine that would thread it self, self regulate it's stitches and particulars and practically run itself while I am out of the room.

Cheaper than hiring a labourer if I could get my machine to do the dirty work.

Guess What??

My dreams have been answered.

Please do not ask how much it cost, and I won't tell you.

But it would have helped if we won that lottery last week.

Here is what I was able to whip up after dinner.

I think I am justifiably enamoured.

The rest of the day was simply sweet. The girls were full of beans and we laughed so much my guts hurt a bit.

The girls chose to set up a swim center for the afternoon and even though the rain came and went they persisted until dinner.

As I sit here at the end of my day, I am fruitfully reward with some delectable desserts I made today from the fresh rhubarb I traded for some eggs. (Thank you Lou)

I couldn't decide on the crumble cake or the honey ginger raisin compote, so I had a sampling of each.

Yummy.

Good night.