Todo list

I have the next two days to accomplish some stuff at home that simply needs to get done. I re-organized my paperwork at work recently, and now it's time get some organizing done at home. So here's the list of stuff to do this weekend:

- Dig up sewing machine... this will require quite a bit of organizing of craft stuff, as it all gets thrown on top of the sewing machine. This will probably take most of a day.

- Sew a zippered "pillow case" for felting. I don't have a zippered pillow case for felting things in the washer, instead I've been closing a pillow case with safety pins, but that is rather annoying to open and close to check on the felting process. In the end, I don't check on the felted item often enough, and things turn out bad. But I have plenty of fabric leftover from a toga, and plenty of zippers (I think those must have come from Aunt Ginny).

- Felt the latest project.

- Sew a knitting needle rollup, as inspired by Pam. The needles are getting out of control, and I have plenty of fabric scraps that could be made into a roll-up. I'm terrible at sewing, but I think I can handle this.

- Figure out what project to do next.

There's also stuff to be done in the garden and yard, but it's small enough that it doesn't require a list.

Toga!

So I've been busy lately, but at least I was having fun! I even enjoyed the long drive out to Vegas and back. It's 9 hours of high desert. On the way back, I think we took an extra hour just to cross Hoover Dam. The main highway is a mere 2-lane over this dam, and apparently all of Arizona needs to squeeze through this bottleneck to get home from their Vegas weekends too. I'm still catching up on lost sleep from last weekend. But I've managed to get my flower garden started (with help from Mom) this week and start a new knitting project - a felted purse (pdf pattern).

I'm heading out of town again tomorrow to enjoy spring break with some skiing in Durango and backpacking in southern Utah.

Christmas crafts

Naturally, I have had plenty of time to work on crafts during my recuperation. One of the projects I picked up recently was a pre-printed fabric cowboy stocking kit from Hancock Fabrics. These two stockings will eventually be Christmas decorations hanging on the wall, because I have no need for more stockings. I am busy making them Christmas shiny with sequins, beads and stitching. Then I'll stuff them and sew them. There are also some smaller patterns with little cowboy boots, starts and holly that I may sew up and turn the whole assemblage into a cowboy-Christmas mobile. (I'm on a painfully slow and error-prone internet connection today, so you're lucky I was able to post at all, but no photos).

As of Thanksgiving, I am supposedly allowed to resume all activities including exercise. However, today I had such intense abdominal muscle pain that I had to take a Percocet (I tried ibuprofen first, but it just wasn't enough). I can already hear my Mom asking what crazy thing I did to overexert myself... well, I didn't climb a mountain, go skiing, or even go running... I swept the floors and vacuumed the living room.

According to the doctor, this muscle pain is perfectly normal. So she gave me an all-better diagnosis at my follow-up appointment this week. I guess I'm better, but I really can't jump into all of my usual activities yet. This leaves plenty of time for me to get more crafts done :)