Opening Day

Baseball started a few weeks ago. The hockey pools are picked & the long road to the Stanley Cup has started. But a new season started officially today. Yup Garage Sale season is here. The game starts when the local paper arrives Friday night. Game play is set-with marker in hand, map & the classified ads.
Saturday morning- up early- earlier than if I was going to work- something is definitely wrong here. But a XL DD from Tim's fixed that at least temporarily. One garage sale down the street-nothing-consider it a warm-up. Ooops have to stop by the local community centre because the town is giving away free compost. 20 cars are there already at 8 am .everyone watching like little kids as a huge truck dumps the steaming load of compost. three recycle boxes full of compost.
We are back on track-smelling down LEGO!! Hubby was very successful- got 1 box of assorted bits & 2 popular sets in the boxes almost complete with instructions. I wasn't as successful but did get some tiny little ziploc bags & have condensed the bead/button collection into a tidy little pile.
Home by 10am.

painting lace

At a booth at the quilt show in Chicago I tried painting lace. It was easy & fun. I decided not to buy anything from Sara's Bloom Embellishments. I have Setacolor paints tucked away with fabric & Mickey Lawler's book Skydyes.
Last week I bought this gorgeous piece of white lace for $1. It is 11 " wide and 6 feet long- plenty of lace to paint!! Off to paint!!