Today brought to you by the letter "G"

Goodwill Goodies and Go Giants! making the world series!!!

The hubby and I had quite a rainy day adventure today.

It started off a little rocky as I woke up with a migraine but by the end of a scrumptious breakfast at one of our favorite restaurants I was doing pretty well.

Our next stop was the big, beautiful Goodwill downtown. Most in this city, being this city are way over priced and more like fancy consignment shops than the good deals I'm used to. This one however is awesome,huge, great selection and great prices.

I was there in search of some costume elements for the Christmas musical my church is doing. I'm one of the people who have to come up with an example to show the rest of the choir in a few weeks so they know how to do it themselves. I found 1 (1!) skirt but in the process I came up with a great idea to get the volume I need for the skirts.

I also found some wonderful goodies, including a scarf I'm going to use as a table runner or to drape on top of my hutch (.99 cents, cant go wrong and looks really nice with my new table topper) some really cute handmade place mats ( a set of 4 for a $1.99),a bag of buttons for a dollar! (yay buttons! now I just need to find a bigger button tin), and this really cool table top metal votive holder that I'm seriously considering mounting to the wall and using as a coat rack (my husband thinks I'm crazy) just in case I stick with it's intended use I found some yummy smelling pumpkin spice votive candles at Ross.

We also perused some other stores and ended up going to see Secretariat (really good, just perfect for the day). Overall it was a great rainy day spent with my husband, just the 2 of us with no where to rush to, just what we both needed.

buttons!!

the way it's intended, we'll see if it stays that way

these just made my day, one had some sort of label one them for something called the maryknoll seedling of hope,who knows?

the polka dots are navy, just too cute. I think I've entered some sort of retro kitchy phase, we'll see how long it lasts.

blogger still hates me and it wont publish the font or color the way I tell it to. Does anyone know whats wrong or how to fix it?

Finito!

Done done done done!!! My table topper that is. I just need to wash and dry it so it has it's fluffy quilty goodness, but for all intents and purposes its done! In honor of this I create a new label: Complete projects

The back

The front

On my table :-)

sewing the ric rac on proved a little more difficult that I had thought it would be in my head, but I'm happy with the results so it was worth it.

Tomorrow and Monday are going to be pretty busy for me so I wanted to get this done today and I'm glad I did.

Now it's off to make chocolate oatmeal bars a.k.a crack bars because they're so dang good. I'm going to try something a little different with them this time and see how they turn out. They're for a women's luncheon tomorrow afternoon. I'll post the recipe sometime next week, they're just too good not to share.

I forgot

Its almost September and I forgot about this post. I had such good intentions, and I guess I still have 3 months left. but the holidays will be here before I know it, and I need to start making things for that. I'm already starting to think about planning for Thanksgiving. That fact adding more fuel for my husband thinking i'm crazy.

I'm a planner, what can I say?

But back to the UFO's, other than the table runners and napkins I haven't finished a thing. But boy have I started projects. Last week I got all the fabric cut for a cute little kitschy table topper for everyday use. I got a gift certificate to Britex and found this fabric and I was filled with inspiration. I knew exactly what I was going to make. I tried to sketch it and I got mostly there, I just couldn't quite figure out how to do one part. I'm hoping by the time I get to that part it will just become clear.

oh well, I wasn't as productive as I had hoped but I'm ok with that. they'll get done eventually,right? right.