Pretty Thing

 I have something else to stitch once RST 1779 is history.

Look what came in the mail!

Amy Mitten's Needleworkers Reticule arrived! This is actually all BDE's fault because she saw it first and told me I had to get it. She is going to do it, too. We've decided this might be a good SAL for the two of us.

Along with the two classes we're taking at Salty Yarns next week. (Actually, I'm taking three classes.)

Like daughter, like mother, I guess. Interesting when the roles start to reverse . . . 

Eating my veggies and dishpan hands

 I decided to eat my veggies and do those two big geometric designs that were fully filled in.

That whopper of a design--which we have been calling the conjoined twins motif--took way more time to fill in that I anticipated. I was beginning to think that the gremlins were pulling stitches out after I went to bed. But it's done--and I can move on to some smaller geometrics and the last pretty floral designs.

My time was also taken up by washing dishes. For the second time in our marriage, we have had to endure a dishwasher that was out of order. For a week. O.M.G.

Now, I don't mind washing my fine china by hand, but the everyday stuff . . . it's a big enough pain having to figure out what to eat three meals a day, When you add washing dishes three times a day on top of it, well, domesticity loses all allure. And, yes, we did resort to paper plates when it was practical, but there are some things that really need solid dishes. 

And working with silk with dishpan hands . . . I think I have used up half a tub of CeraVe hand cream in the last week.

However, we now have a working dishwasher again. Happy Days, especially since we have ribs in the crock pot and a large bowl of marinated veggies and plans to bake cornbread for dinner tonight. By the time I scrubbed all those pots and pans out, I'd have to finish the other half of the tub of CeraVe!