April IHSW

Ummmmm....two months since I posted last?  Oh, dear.  Well, I do have a couple of good excuses....

First, I missed the March IHSW thanks to Scrap Camp.  Twice a year we head out to Okemos (East Lansing, home of the MSU Spartans for those non-Michiganders) to stay in a hotel for the a weekend of scrapbooking.  Great, since this is about the only time I get around to it.  My big acheivement is that I finished the book from our New York City trip.  We won't talk too much about the fact that the trip was in 2008.  I'm still proud of myself, since I am a wretchedly slow scrapbooker.  So, here's some highlights.  Hopefully I'll have better pictures this time too, since I'm using my real camera instead of my phone.  :)

So, after Scrap Camp, we had a good portion of the house painted:  living room, dining room, kitchen, stairway, and upstairs hallway.  It was fabulous to pay someone else to do it.  I vividly remember doing all that myself right after we bought the house (10 years ago, so this was long overdue), and had no desire to paint all the baseboards and trim around 11 (!!!) doorways and 4 windows.  Done in two days, and it looks awesome.  However we had to spend a good deal of time moving all the stuff out of the way for the painters and then putting it back when they were done.

Then a couple of weeks ago Miss Alex got to go to Disney.  For a week.  Wow.  We had a great time, and as usual Alex was a champion traveler.  Not many five-year-olds can make it through a week of walking all day at Disney without a stroller and without a meltdown, especially when it was in the mid-90s the last two days.

Here she is, "all princessed up", as she says.

So, with all that going on, my progress on Twister is not what I would have hoped and not what I would have usually accomplished by now.  But it's looking good.  And I'm glad to have moved on from the blue for a while.



Since Twister is too large for a travel project, I picked up Chatelaine's Mini Mandala 6 to take with us to Florida.  Not much progress there either, but I'll be continuing on with this one until it's finished just so I'm not leaving another WIP lying around.  Got plenty of those.

So my plan was to hermit as much as possible, with some interruptions.  We already had plenty going on over the weekend without the chaos from my work this past week bleeding into my weekend.  So after having Alex's school fair tonight, then coming home and picking up for the cleaning lady who comes tomorrow morning (thank goodness for that!), tomorrow I have a haircut/color appointment, after which I will go to work.  The hubby will take Alex to a friend's birthday party while I'm at work, and I will come home so that he can go play hockey in the evening.  Whew!  Sunday will probably be a laundry marathon, so hopefully I will manage to fit in some hermitting then.  I hope so, anyway.