A day in my life...

Some days have me being more busy than others. Yesterday I had a couple errands to do in town, came home and I've been busy ever since. Prepping fabric then cutting, sewing and ironing it takes a long time- especially when you're doing as many tote bags as I did yesterday. Today starts the long process of getting the little parts made for the tote bags (handles, ties and liners).

I've given up on machine embroidery- to tedious and too boring. It's a lot of practice practice practice to get the feel of the stitching. It's a lot of work trying to get the hang of the stitching to look even and uniform. Mine looked like I had a crayon for the first time and was all over the page, LOL! I'll have to post a picture so you can laugh- it kind of resembles an airplane and that's being nice, LOL!

We'll be celebrating our 5 year anniversary of being stationed at Ellsworth AFB this September. Why am I telling you this? Well there are several things we've wanted to do but have never gotten around to doing it and yesterday we were able to check one off of our list. So what was it right? There's this Auction house in Box Elder- now before you get carried away with your thoughts let me tell you that this place is nothing like Sotheby's or Christie's (nowhere close). So this "Auction House" has auctions every Wednesday and the parking lot is always packed and cars are parked in the grass down the side of the road in both directions for a half mile. My husband and I were out and he said "hey lets check out the auction", I was concerned that I wasn't dressed well enough (shorts and a sweater set and of course my Crocs) apparently I was way over dressed. There were at least 100 boxes of crap (and I do mean crap) up for live auction. This was all stuff we (the Thrift Shop Volunteer Staff) would have thrown away if it were to have shown up at the Base Thrift Shop. We're walking around the crowd looking at the boxes of junk on the tables thinking "why on earth does anyone want this stuff?". Some people were hovering over some of the boxes like there was a pair of $20K diamond earrings to be found it. The majority of the stuff up for auction was boxes of nasty used blankets, dirty used can openers, dirty glassware, old stereo equipment, odd pieces of melamine dishware, a couple of lamps and some books, all had been left out in the rain. All of it was soaking wet not to mention most of it was just dirty and so old that it would have been useless. My husband and I walked around, looked at each other and then left. So if you're here and you see the crowds at the auction house my advice- just keep on driving, you're not missing a thing!

We came home and had a good laugh. My husband tinkered around with a new toy- a hands free phone device for his car. This day and age something like that is a must have. I have a Parrot in my kid mobile and LOVE IT! Click on Parrot in blue and it'll take you to the website and show you my model and what it retails for click on Parrot in green and it'll show you a close up and all of the little features- shop around on the web for the best prices (we did).

Alright I'm off...need more coffee and have to finish up 10 medium sized tote bags so I can list them on Etsy.