femkes_follies | Castles in the Sky and other Randomness (Reply)

I live inside my head a good deal of the time. This is probably as well, since reality would drive me stark, raving mad. Heck, check in with me about 9 PM and I'll likely be on my hands and knees, washing my kitchen floor. I wiped up some butter John dropped at 2 AM and left a clean spot. There's nothing for it now but to do it properly. *sigh*

We're thinking again about a cow share, so I'm surfing E-bay prices for what a pasteurizer will run us. The question is starting to be how many shares/gallons? Rori by herself is good for nearly 2 gallons a week. So do I get 3? Or 2 and supplement from the grocery store. *ponder*

The new chicken coop book is going to be a while coming. Dagnabit. John is just not the handy sort. Watching him "build" something is painful for me. But the Coop needs finishing. Post haste.

In the meantime, I daydream about the house we mean to build when we can one day afford it. In my head, I have now endowed it with a chicken coop, cider/brew house, orchard, and wood-fired oven. ;-) Very French Country.

Anneliese has her 2nd night of dance tonight. Hopefully it will go better. I sent along our check and form for the booster club. ;-) Believe it or not. Apparently they help defray the cost of the little school dresses and such. We will also apparently be selling cookie dough a little later. Local peeps, you are hereby warned. There is also a hayride in a couple of weeks. Don't know if it will be worth going. I suspect its the sort of thing she'll enjoy more when she develops enough to make little friends and want to hang out with them and pretend we aren't there. We shall see. Might go anyway, just for the opportunity to meet folks and get a little more plugged in to the school. Of course, this weekend is the dance competition in Muskegon. So we'll hit that, watch the dancing, maybe pick up a CD of dance music. Depends on what's available. This year it's at a school, rather than the LC Walker Arena. Hopefully that doesn't mean that the event has suffered attendance because of the poor economy.

I'm contemplating opening an Etsy store selling little embroidered nursery and home dec type tidbits. In part, as a means to help finance the dance classes. ;-) There are lots of nice vintage-look prints out right now. And I don't have much trouble translating old drawings and such into simple line embroidery. So maybe diaper stackers, napkins, table linens, glasses cases with a vintage flair. Pin-up girls, old fashioned children's illustrations. Chickens. I like Tula Pink's stuff. The new collection will be out in Oct. Would be cute with embroidered chickens, I think. Amy Butler's new L.O.V.E. collection isn't bad either. So now I need to design a logo and shop. And stop off in Hastings for flour sack cloth to embroider on. I love Tula's stuff, and her design process. Heck, I'd love to do fabric design myself. But I lack the time to even get started right now.

John's arthritis has moved back into an active phase as of this past weekend. Dammit. *sigh* Well, maybe he will redouble his efforts toward job-->insurance-->Enbrel. Lord knows I can't get out and push.

SO many things I'd like to do. So little time. Time to go work on a scroll or two before appointments start again. Then unpick the last section I just knitted and find the boo-boo. Or at least work out a corrective measure. Grrr.