My email from Joann saying my fabric order was ready for pickup came on Friday. I didn't see it until I came home from work, by which time the store was already closed. No worries; I'll go on Saturday. There were instructions in the email to call the store's phone number, give my name, order number, and make and color of car, and wait patiently ( Read more... )

See, and here I was, about to make a post about some of the stuff that has made me happy recently, and LJ has to go and bork my journal for the second time this week. Sigh. But I can move on. (And choose a different icon for this post, too ( Read more... )

Round two of cleaning started a little later today. Mom had bought a tube of cinnamon rolls. I wanted to be sure I was downstairs by 7:30 to make them; she was surprised I was up that early. (Also a surprise: When I heard mom coming downstairs and I said, "Good morning!" And the first voice answering was my dad's from the couch. He'd been ( Read more... )

(With apologies to Veggie Tales, but I kept picturing the cucumber and tomato singing this in my head ( Read more... )

As of May 1st, Illinoisans are required to wear masks when one is likely to be in a place where social distancing is difficult. I.e., we have to wear one if we go outside. Many people already have been, so to have it be a requirement is nice; it makes the outliers comply as well, at least in theory ( Read more... )

I had wanted to print off the templates I'd found, so I could try my hand at making some masks. My printer was not cooperating yesterday. That made me frustrated, and I was already tired, so I gave up. Today, with the computer having been turned off and restarted, and I had an idea of how to try to print the templates, I gave it another shot. ( Read more... )

I've considered making my own face mask(s), and when Laura sent me a picture of her and her munchkin in masks she'd just made--and I liked the style of her masks--I decided to do a little Googling to see what turned up ( Read more... )

( Childhood--Wright College )