It's Been a Long, Long Time. I Just Can't Get You Off of My Mind.

Well hello sewing community.  How are you?  I'm doing just fine, having finally broken my paralysis and seeing progress on the old homestead.  I've also managed to begin to make a dent in cleaning out the storage unit containing my father's possessions.  It is definitely no longer in the budget and it's just time.  Thankfully 2 years of waiting has made this process much more tolerable.  Now I can look at everything and see it for what it is...the items that facilitated dad's lifestyle.  The hard part will be the garage sale.  Sometimes I look at all of it and wonder if we can really do this on our own.  Then I just take a deep breath and keep going.  It may take a couple of garage sales, but we'll get there and what doesn't sale will make it's way to the nearest charity shop.

So what have you all been doing?  Are you enjoying your summer, heat notwithstanding?  Rest assured that although you have not heard from me, I've been lurking in the background reading your blogs and enjoying your creations.  I've also amused myself with blog posts that are still dredging up the same old subjects.  They crack me up.  Especially the constant discussions questioning the wisdom of using quilting fabrics for garments or making muslins.  In the end I say this, who cares? Do what makes you happy?  You want to make a dress out of a tarp, then go for it. Just because it doesn't suit me, doesn't mean it's wrong.  Want to just go for it and make those pants out of your fashion fabric?  Do that too!  Life is too short to debate and argue about what other people are doing.  Just do your own thing and everything will be fine.  Of course, that's just my view and it's tainted with age.

I've managed to find a favorite commercial, which is unusual. It's the car commercial where the young girl is in front of her laptop talking about her parents and how they needed to sign up for Facebook.  Then she complains that they only have 19 FB friends and she has 628 (or something to that effect).  Yet we cut away from her to see her parents out on their bikes with friends hitting the trail.  What does this young woman think of that?  That her parents aren't living because they don't maintain a huge online presence and that she's the one who's really living as she sits alone in the house in front of a computer.  That commercial is priceless.  And no, I don't know what make and model car the advertisers were trying to sell (I guess that makes the ad a bit of a fail in that department). 

What else?  Ah yes.  Sorbetto.  I love seeing all of the iterations of it and am planning a few for myself.  I even have the print out on the top of my stack.  Lovely indeed.

Well, sewing world, I think I'll retire for a nap.  I was up quite early this morning because I was scheduled to read at the first mass.  Time for my post-church nap and then another trip to the storage.

Take care y'all and stay cool.

Christy