Author: leilani

Ye olde car, she is an ex-car, finally went tits-up once and for all.  The daughter’s boyfriend has a free towing service, fortunately, to bring her here so I at least don’t have to pay an abandoned vehicle fee.  ‘Cuz she croaked mid-street.  Daughter unit was en route to a doctor’s appointment and managed to…

Now and then we are reminded of how extraordinarily fortunate we are.  In my case, I am employed and my children are alive and relatively well, as are my grandchildren.  I have a roof over my head and food to eat.  Literally too much food. I take for granted such fundamental things as safety.  Yes,…

I woke up at 5:30 this morning, which for me is somewhat sleeping in.  Considering I’d slept through from 3-ish yesterday afternoon, it’s definitely sleeping in, heh. Ambition kicked in shortly thereafter and I whipped out a couple of sewing projects, both hand sewing. Daughter unit is still in school with her eye on a…

The car is still rattling on down the road – for the moment.  Not sure how many more moments she’s got left in her but we can’t realistically afford to replace her, not yet. I finally snapped a photo of one of the pillows I finished.  BIG pillow, just a few inches shy of fitting…

I got the sewing machine set up and running and whipped up a matching set of pillow covers for the big pillow forms we were given.  I hit the fabric store a few days ago and bought some wale-less corduroy.  Fortunately it was wider than I thought, since the pillows themselves were larger than I…