Odd Couple of Days

It's been an odd few days. Friday I spent 3 hours sewing out this applique name tag for D's work apron. It's got over 300,000 stitches so takes forever to sew out.

Anyway, everything was going perfectly until about the last 3 minutes. Check out the bottom of the design. For some reason the darn thing came out of registration. I'm thinking it's because of the large size of the design and it has to go into my biggest hoop. It's too big for the next hoop down but too small for my largest hoop.

I've been scratching my head on how to stabilize the darn thing. I might change some of the sew out order and see if that might do the trick. Oh well....who says life was supposed to be easy? LOL!

I spent all day Saturday putting up more Christmas decorations. I have about 2/3 of them out and have decided to quit. I've got to come up with a quicker and easier method of decorating.

Soooo...the family room pretty much only has the fireplace decorated. The kitchen, living room and entry hall are decorated. Normally the entire house is festive, especially the family room but not this year. A lot of the problem is, now I'm working so time is at a minimum and my shoulder is killing me. Sigh....myabe next year.

I was pooped and pretty much useless yesterday (Sunday). I loaded a book on my Kindle, listened to the monsoon winds try and pull the shingles off the roof and watched the backyard rapidly fill up with the few leaves that were left on the trees. Yikes, what a mess!

I have to admit, I'm all rested today. I think a day of lazing around in my big chair reading and occasionally napping did the trick. I made the mistake of turning on the lap blanket to keep warm. That mean a lap full of wiener dogs. Oh well, with their weight, they also add warmth.