My awesome crafty day!!!

Yesterday was awesome!!! My birthday was last Sunday, and several family members gave me gift cards. One of which was an amazon gift card, and I hurried online to my wishlist to decide which items I needed this time. I've been anticipating the release of Ellen Gormley's  (http://gocrochet.blogspot.com/) new book, so that was #1 in my cart! I also bought myself a new sewing book to hopefully use up some of my extra fabric pieces. I placed my order on Thursday night, and with 2 day shipping, expected my items to arrive today. So what a surprise it was to see the Fed Ex truck pull up in front of my house yesterday, and that very kind FedEx man handed me a package with BOTH of my new books! The kids and I ventured outside to enjoy the sun that finally chose to shine, and while little man played, and little miss enjoyed the sun, I read Ellen's book cover to cover, and can't wait to get some yarn and pull out the hooks to start on one of the projects!

Then last night, my kind, loving husband volunteered to be on his own with the kids (we refuse to call it babysitting...they are his kids too!) so that I could go shopping and get a few other things. A few weeks ago I stopped into a small Sears store that is close to our house in search of replacement needles for my sewing machine. It appeared they were actually cleaning out their sewing area, as all of their display machines were marked for sale, and discounted. They had a serger 1/2 price, but I couldn't necessarily justify the cost. Well, for the last few weeks, I've debated whether I should have passed up the deal, and figured someone else snatched it since then, but we decided that if it was still there, I could have it. I stopped in last night expecting to find nothing...but lo and behold, the serger was still there! I looked it over, since it was the display model, but it appeared everything was there and ready to come home with me...so it did! Now I get to figure out how to use it, but I'm so excited! I know once I figure it out, it will make my sewing life so much easier!

I've still been working away at various other projects, and have more pictures taken that just need to escape the camera into a blog post! And I promise, I actually have something crocheted to post about!