The good and the bad 8/27-9/2

I see that I’ve neglected my blog this week…I’m terribly sorry for that. This week has been a rough week and as such I’ve gotten about…not much done.  

I’ve not been feeling well and have been having some very odd symptoms for the last couple of weeks. Those that love me have urged me to see my doctor but I’m really not a doctor fan, and as my symptoms were odd and easily ignored I did just that. I ignored them. I couldn’t however ignore my loved ones, so on Monday I went in and saw my doctor. She was concerned. That’s not what I was looking to hear. So we did quite a large blood draw and we’ll see what comes back. I am hoping and praying for nothing. This is one time that I don’t think I’d mind for a doctor to scratch their head and shrug their shoulders and assume its nothing. Cancer is one of things mentioned and I’d much prefer nothing to cancer.  

A dear friend of mine chose to start hospice this week. She went to stand with her creator on Wed. While I was deeply saddened, and still am I’m comforted to know that her pain has ended and her sorrow is over. I will miss her so dearly. She was on dialysis for thirteen years. She was waiting for a kidney donation in all that time. She…never got it. Please. Please, if you haven’t already…please become an organ donor. If your not already..this didn’t need to happen to this wonderful wonderful woman. So please, save someone’s life.  

In happier news this week was a record week for the business! I was so so very grateful for the distraction and I am confident that it will keep up. I’m proud of what I do, I love what I do and I can’t wait to share with as many people as will allow me! The record was a record number of orders in any one week. It came at a nice flow, and I got everything out in record time as well! It was great. I thank you for your orders and I hope everyone enjoys.  

I did get the “Air” skirt started (part of the Earth, Air, Fire, Water series of skirts) I really like the color scheme I’ve chosen for the patchwork. I’ve got the idea and color scheme for the Fire skirt as well, but life needs to give a long enough break to sit down and work at my sewing machine.  

Speaking of my sewing…that’s another blessing for this week! My area (while very messy…) was all stuffed into a corner of the dining room and set up on a folding card table. Any time my sewing machine would go semi fast it would start rocking the entire table and so I would have to sew really slowly because otherwise it would vibrate to the point of not being able to see what I was doing. My neighbor moved away this week and decided to offer us his large (six person) dining room set, the table is very sturdy and my husband thought it would be best used as my sewing area! Oh my goodness….the amount of space I have now is glorious! Still a mess…cuz that’s just “how I roll” but that stems from having to have everything right at fingers length at all times. If I could just put ANYTHING away….hehe. Here’s a few pictures:  

Now I have actual cutting space that is separate from my sewing space (before in order to cut I had to put my sewing machine on the floor…and my serger was stored on the floor) Now my serger can fit on the table, all my cutting supplies, threads. Its all there!  

and I just had to share this. Anyone who isn’t lucky enough to have a cutting table knows that cutting on a normal height table is a back breaking thing. Normal tables are just too low. I knew I had to lift the table up but I had no idea what I could lift it with…I thought about it for about a week and I thought about the paper packs we have! We just happened to have four of them and its the perfect height. Now when I’m sewing and need to see close up for my satin stitching I don’t have to hunch over. Its been a life saver, for both cutting and sewing. Had to share. Cheap fix too!  

Last but not least I’ve signed up for a quilting class. I’m very excited about that, and while I know how to quilt there is always room for improvement and I think this will be a great help and boost for my skills. Not to mention I hope I can meet some other women my age. I’m painfully shy and as I work at home its hard to meet anyone. Here’s hoping!

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