Yippee! I stitched!

Well, I managed to stitch a bit on Wednesday while looking after my "feeling poorly" dog who stopped feeling poorly about mid-afternoon and returned to her usual ADHD self.  Yippee skippy!  Here she is with the Purple Puppy that her "Auntie" Gloria gave her.  (Pardon the glowing demon eyes - my photo software will fix the dreaded red eye, but not glowing demon eyes.)

Unfortunately, as I ran errands most of yesterday, I only had a one-day stitching streak.  Oh well.  This afternoon looks good for a bit of stitching.

This weekend, DH and I are heading out with some friends to Houston.  The guys will be attending a gun show, and Georgia and I will be hitting a few quilt shops and 3 Stitches, a cross stitch shop.  As I've said before, I'm not a quilter and have no desire to be one, but I love looking at quilts and fabrics.  I think I'm a closet fabric junky. 

There are a lot of things I enjoy looking at and appreciating the craftsmanship and creativity that went into them, but I don't have to possess them to fully enjoy them.

For instance, I enjoy looking at jewelry, although almost all of what I look at, I'd never wear.  I enjoy looking at "cottage style" interior decorating, although I'd never in a million years decorate my own house like that.  I enjoy seeing elaborate flower gardens, but I'm not a manic gardener, so my own home will never have one.  Quilts, on the other hand, I think I could go nuts with if I had the space and bucks.  I've fantasized about having a different quilt for our bed for every day of the year.  Yeah.  Like that's going to happen. 

I picked up some new adolescent paperback novels at Sam's the other day to read - the Maximum Ride series by James Patterson.  I'd classify them as modern-times science fiction.  They were a fun read - a little heavy on the global warming agenda, but in a palatable way.  The author definitely has a handle on the fourteen-year-old mindset of the main character.  I'm glad I'm not fourteen anymore!

And I'm nearly done with my PC to Mac conversion; I had to order some additional software.  I'll regale y'all with the entire tale at a later date.