December 12, 2003
Chaos in the Parlor
The Seventh Soiree is to be held in the Parlor tomorrow!! Some new folks are due to appear, as well as the dear ones who are "regulars", I hope-- please come if you are in the area!
Yesterday Papa Glitchbane's goal was to put up the Christmas tree. In order to do that, he had to:
1. clean out the closet under the stairs, strewing all kinds of things around the Parlor, which led to
2. taking all the canned stuff we'll never use (brought here by dd long ago) to the food bank and
3. taking other stuff to Goodwill and
4. leaving all kinds of stuff still strewn around the Parlor
After the closet was cleaned he had to
4. drag all the Christmas boxes out from storage and
5. array them in chaotic fashion around and on the piano and organ upstairs, after which he
6. found some ugly moving blanket and put it in front of the sliding glass doors in the Parlor. ugh.
Then Madame suggested they go again and look for drapes, and so they did and brought them home, where Papa G
7. put up curtain rod number 1 across the patio door and
8. hung the drapes and
9. realized we need a different rod for the other windows and two more panels so
10. went out and got them, coming back home to
11. put up the rods and curtains, after which he did the ONE thing Madame asked that he do this week, which was
12. Hang the pictures in the Parlor, and while he was at it
13. Hung the speakers on the walls, after which he
14. Decided the Christmas tree could wait until Sunday.
Does this sound like your husband? :-)
I must admit, I did my part towards chaos, rearranging books, putting things into storage bins and all. I could swear I saw Melvin Teaprattle furtively glancing around doors and into windows with smug satisfaction. I've got my work cut out for me today to get everying looking Practically Perfect in Every Way by tomorrow, as my dear great great aunt Mary used to say.
After we fell into our accustomed positions for watching the big screen, I continued working on my swatch. It still needs tweaking. I have ripped out the pink section at least three times, but not in frustration-- more in experimentation.
The pink motif is working on being the second one down from the right hand page in the photo. Still needs work!
I'll see some of you tomorrow, and to the rest I say "Have a great weekend!"
Love the swatch....I liked the photo of the skeins, but I could get lost in that swatch. Tiny suggestion: a bit of an old gold, maybe a few stitches on one row per repeat just may make that swatch jump up and start dancing...just a thought.
Have a great time at the soiree. Maybe someday I'll be able to join you. After the master's degree, perhaps...
Zeila
Posted by: Zeila on December 12, 2003 10:06 AMStill not sure if I can make it to the Soiree but what time does it start?
Posted by: Ryan on December 12, 2003 10:25 AMZeila, that's a good suggestion, I'll try it! The soiree starts at Noon O'Clock, but as usual you can show up anytime then or after!
Posted by: Sheila on December 12, 2003 10:28 AMI can't wait!
See you tomorrow!
Give my best to all Soiree attendees Madame.
Posted by: Angela on December 12, 2003 11:16 AMWish I could be with you all. Love the swatch.
Posted by: Prudence on December 12, 2003 01:43 PMGreat swatch! My DH decided we couldn't put Christmas up until he painted the living room. So now we are on the last and final coat today and maybe Christmas can start tonight. Of course nothing will get hung on the walls until the paint has plenty of time to dry. I also am waiting for a kitchen back splash, but he says we have to rip out the tile floor and redo it before that happens. Huh?
Posted by: Chris on December 13, 2003 05:40 AMno sheila, it does not remind me of my bahumbug dh. dd and i have to do all the decorating. which is probly a good thing, cause if he saw the stash i'll have to drag out before i can get to the ornaments, all hell would break loose ;-) have fun at the soiree, she says wistfully...
Posted by: vanessa on December 13, 2003 08:53 AMNo, it doesn't sound like my husband. He simply doesn't do household chores unless something is falling down. We have been talking about putting the curtains up for 3 years, but neither of us really cares enough to do it.
We don't do Christmas. Part of it is being wiccan, part of it is being Jewish/wiccan (me) and part of it is that our ex-wife made Christmas a suicidal memory. This year we are doing a Yule dinner, but due to the money problems we are having there will be no presents. Luckily, morgen is a very mature teenager and understands the no-present problem.
Sheila, the swatch is beatiful. I love the pattern and the way the colors work together. I have such a hard time getting a good balance between the values. You did a wonderful job. Which colors did you use? I hope we'll see the design translated into a sweater. I'd love to make it.
Posted by: judy on December 14, 2003 12:27 PMSounds more like *me* than DH! Maybe that's why I never get much done... even when trying to plan knitting (quilting, cross stitch...) projects, one thing inevitably leads to something else, until I can barely remember what I started out to do...
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