What a fun day we had yesterday! The sun finally came out and we took a friend to lunch, then bought tulips at Trader Joe's and met a new 5-year-old friend who lives two doors down and has a lovely family and a fun swing set to boot. I think this could be the beginning of Something Good.
While all that was going on I was busy not planning my week, so now it is Free Play Friday and I have yet to Think It Through. I'm afraid that, this week, I have extremely high hopes and dreams and may find it difficult to stay realistic, but I will give it a shot:
Free Play Friday is a catch-up day and will probably see very little crafting -- I need to pull the house together as best I can for the busy week to come.
Studio Saturday means getting my old desk moved into K's room once and for all! Then D and I will empty the closet and do proper measuring for custom shelves, which we will purchase at a later date -- maybe in a week or two. Not sure if we should install them before or after painting. Suggestions? (Will also be purchasing fabric for a large new project -- what fun! I'm being deliberately cryptic about the nature of the project, except that it's a full-sized quilt, because it is a gift.)
Stick-with-it Sunday will have to be forfeited this week, as my sister and nephew will be visiting and family comes first. Any available time will be spent making the current sewing room as functional as possible for making a full-sized quilt.
Mix-it-up Monday will of course include a menu plan for the week -- the wheels are starting to turn about that, and I hope to include at least one meal that K can help prepare now that I've bought an electric skillet to help make things easier for her. Will continue to prepare the sewing room for the new quilt -- I want this project to run like clockwork!
Try-it-out Tuesday is the day the beginners' knitting group meets at the county library headquarters, so I hope to attend that. Otherwise the day will be completely given over to the full-sized quilt -- sewing the panels together and beginning to pin the sandwich.
Works-in-progress Wednesday looks like it will be an exercise in will power -- I may need to set a timer so that I'll be working half time on the new project and half time on older ones, just to keep myself on task. I want to go through my Crochet-WIP basket to see whether there is some yarn I can give away to buy myself some space; I may have mentioned this before, but it bears repeating that I just don't enjoy working with yarn the way I once did.
I'll include Think-it-through Thursday because it's a no-brainer: I'm just going to work on my full-sized quilt until I'm done. The project instructions say to give it about 10 hours, so I'm figuring on about 24 of my own working hours to get it done properly. I think I have enough time to get it done -- I'll keep you posted!
What's on your plate for the weekend to come? Got any plans spilling over into next week?
If you have some non-parenting time and the room is mostly empty, painting would be easier then--without the shelves. It would go fast on flat plain walls. And there are fewer drop cloths and cleanups needed.
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