April Fool's Day

It seems a little sacrilegious that today is both April Fool's Day and Palm Sunday.

Did you ever have one of those days that you knew Candid Camera was hiding just around the corner? Or you were dropped into an old "I Love Lucy" skit. Well, I had one of those days today. Every time that I attempted to do something, there was something else that needed to be done and it seemed like it would be a quick fix so that I could get back to doing what I wanted to do, but instead, it took much longer and I wondered why I even started. Whew, how was that for a run-on sentence? Even Blogger wasn't playing nicely for me today. It has taken me forever to do this posting. Maybe it is fitting that it's April Fool's Day after all - I really felt like the April Fool.

After a few really nice days of 70-degree temperatures, today was dismal, cloudy and chilly. Mother Nature is letting us know who is the boss. I worked in the garden for a bit yesterday and that was a nice surprise, since it was supposed to rain and never did. We have gone 7 days without rain - that is a record so far this year. I just adore Spring flowers and they seem to be bursting out of the ground.

Today was a good day to sit down and do some mindless sewing, once I made it up to the sewing room. I have a few projects that I could have worked on, but nothing was singing to me to work on it or it required more thought than I wanted to spend time thinking about. I do have my Stitchery finished and even got the rick-rack sewn on, but I'm having a difficult time trying to wrap my mind around how to put it together -- so I shelved it for the time being.

So instead, I sat down and just started sewing together some 1-1/2" strips together to duplicate a pattern from the Handmade magazine. 1-1/2" strips are really small - since they only finish at 1" -- but, I'm pretty happy with the result even though it will only finish 35-1/2" square. Mindless sewing is just so therapeutic. I want to get two of the three borders on so that I can transfer the embroidery designs of different flowers in each of the open space blocks. Doesn't this just scream "Spring is Here"? It's going to be a table topper for my kitchen table.

Speaking of new beginnings, my Mom got a Yorkie puppy, Toby, and he is just so cute. Look at that sweet face. He's going to be a lot like Bailey, he just loves to mug for the camera.