Good Morning Friends!
We had a gorgeous weekend here. A little on the cool side - especially thanks to some wind, but the sun was strong.
Most leaves are gone from the trees these days, but there are still some holding on and we saw some yesterday during a drive to Southern Chester County to see family. We met up at my nephew's home in Landenberg which is near Chadds Ford and Kennett Square. Ed (my nephew) and his wife Deanna have a little farmette and they have a couple of goats!
Looks a little blurry due to taking the picture through a screen. Iris loved the goats! Colin & Mailing had driven down the night before to see Ed & Deanna and spend the night. On Sunday we drove down for brunch and my brother and sister-in-law from Delaware drove up to join us. A mini family reunion! Unfortunately Deanna couldn't join us - she has an interior design business and owns two shops in Kennett Square...holiday shopping has begun and she needed to be at the shops. In case anyone is interested, the two shops are Marche and Lieu - she carries GORGEOUS things.
Earlier in the weekend I managed to do chores - scrubbing the kitchen floor which desperately needed it, cleaning the bathrooms (ditto on the desperate need), dusting and vacuuming upstairs, etc., etc. And then...more purging! I gathered up my courage and filled a very large garbage bag with fabric to donate. Most of that is upholstery and other heavy fabrics that I had bought with the intention of making a jacket or two. Ha! That didn't happen and the fabrics have been sitting for a decade or more.
There are also some lighter weight (cotton) fabrics that I will be eliminating from my stash. If anyone is interested in any of these, let me know - I will send out happily!
I've always been drawn to fabrics with birds and also pieces with embroidery. I also came across some lace and some trims.
It's hard to let these things go, but if I'm not using them, what's the point of keeping them? I have saved some pieces - a few large ones that I will use to make some new tablecloths and a few smaller pieces that I can't bear to part with yet! Some Liberty of London prints, a piece of embroidered linen my Mom brought me from Europe, etc.
Next I moved on to a mass of letters and other things. Lots and lots of notes and cards from Colin when he was in grade school (one of them signed with love from your little critter! LOL). Letters from old boy friends. Letters from my Dad when I was going through a rough time! A copy of a paper my Dad wrote and presented at a conference in Tel Aviv decades ago! I have no idea how I ended up with two items - a receipt for the dining room furniture my parents bought just before I was born and that I now have in my kitchen and a receipt for a car that they bought in 1951. The prices are enough to make you vomit over our prices today! Anyway, a rabbit hole of sorts and definitely a trip down memory lane.
In between all of that I did find time to knit on my Mardi Gras sock a bit and the shawl and also do some reading. Overall it was a weekend filled to the brim with good things. I hope your weekend was as well.
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