Life Goes On... with Crafts!
Mar. 17th, 2020 10:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lydamorehouse At least today I can sit on my front porch in the sunshine.
Yesterday, the first "ahhhhh, we're all working at home!!" day was miserable. When it wasn't grim and dreary, it was either snowing or sleeting. Today, we have bright sunlight and moderate temperatures (for Minnesota, for this time of year: 38 F / 3.3 C).
I also had to go and pick up my taxes from the tax guy and so I made a trip out to Saint Louis Park (a nearby suburb.) I was surprised how much traffic there still was. I was kind of expecting apocalypse conditions, but, apparently,a surprising number of people are still going where they need to go. Today was also "pick all your stuff up from school" day at Mason's high school, and, while he didn't need anything per se, he did need to talk to a counselor about next year's PSEO. (He'd called the University to double-check, but the deadline hasn't changed, despite EVERYTHING CHANGING.) So, we did that and some other drive-through kinds of errands, including picking up some of Shawn's prescriptions. So all and all today has turned into a busy day. I think I was out of the house more today than I have been in three or four days.
Meanwhile, Shawn has taken very seriously the whole 'do all your normal routines,' and so has been getting up at 5-the bleep-thirty am just like normal. I actually yelled at her this morning that if she wants an authentic experience, she should sit in the car for a half-hour. But, whatever. My baby needs her routines.
For myself, I've been quilting. I finished up the big velvet one... well, except the actually finishing part of finishing. I need to still get batting, but we have a backing for it picked out. I don't really want to get the batting online because I want to support any shops that might be open and need the influx of business.
So, in the meantime, I started a new quilt....
Image: quilt squares... kind of a mess, but I'm having fun!
Anxiety quilting for the win! This one is so very, very crooked because I'm doing different size pieces, which is kind of too much of a step up for my abilities? But, I really continue not to really care. Right now, this is all practice and more for fun than anything else.
How are things where you are? What are you doing to pass the time?
Yesterday, the first "ahhhhh, we're all working at home!!" day was miserable. When it wasn't grim and dreary, it was either snowing or sleeting. Today, we have bright sunlight and moderate temperatures (for Minnesota, for this time of year: 38 F / 3.3 C).
I also had to go and pick up my taxes from the tax guy and so I made a trip out to Saint Louis Park (a nearby suburb.) I was surprised how much traffic there still was. I was kind of expecting apocalypse conditions, but, apparently,a surprising number of people are still going where they need to go. Today was also "pick all your stuff up from school" day at Mason's high school, and, while he didn't need anything per se, he did need to talk to a counselor about next year's PSEO. (He'd called the University to double-check, but the deadline hasn't changed, despite EVERYTHING CHANGING.) So, we did that and some other drive-through kinds of errands, including picking up some of Shawn's prescriptions. So all and all today has turned into a busy day. I think I was out of the house more today than I have been in three or four days.
Meanwhile, Shawn has taken very seriously the whole 'do all your normal routines,' and so has been getting up at 5-the bleep-thirty am just like normal. I actually yelled at her this morning that if she wants an authentic experience, she should sit in the car for a half-hour. But, whatever. My baby needs her routines.
For myself, I've been quilting. I finished up the big velvet one... well, except the actually finishing part of finishing. I need to still get batting, but we have a backing for it picked out. I don't really want to get the batting online because I want to support any shops that might be open and need the influx of business.
So, in the meantime, I started a new quilt....
Image: quilt squares... kind of a mess, but I'm having fun!
Anxiety quilting for the win! This one is so very, very crooked because I'm doing different size pieces, which is kind of too much of a step up for my abilities? But, I really continue not to really care. Right now, this is all practice and more for fun than anything else.
How are things where you are? What are you doing to pass the time?
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Date: 2020-03-17 06:37 pm (UTC)So far I'm gardening, cooking, and tidying. I'm soon to embark on a pretty epic tidying task which I'll explain in a post at some point.
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Date: 2020-03-17 10:14 pm (UTC)I've slowed a bit on cooking, though I tried cauliflower steaks today for part of lunch which turned out amazing! (I am normally only a moderate cauliflower fan.)
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Date: 2020-03-17 10:47 pm (UTC)I grew up around fabrics, too, but completely different kinds. My grandmother always had piles of scrap fabric because she worked as a house cleaner and would take discarded clothes, sheets, and other fabrics as a "tip" to take home and turn into rag rugs to sell. (We've since inherited her loom.) My mother was also a thrift shopper, so there were always piles around, but mostly cheap?
I've only ever bought silk secondhand. How cool to have grown up around it and all the other fancy fabrics.
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Date: 2020-03-18 02:43 am (UTC)I haven't had much trouble passing the time. I am trying to do All the Laundry and get my eternally-almost-there book DONE. Also trying not to leave too much of a mess for survivors if the worst happens.
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