Here and There and Back Again

Each spring, after the worst of pollen season has passed, we celebrate our Annual Bottle Washing Day. 

Typically the bottles remain on the bottle tree year round but last winter they were removed before the ice storm to prevent broken glass from being part of the inevitable tree debris clean up.

Last Saturday I spent the morning washing the bottles and getting them back on the tree - it is so good to see them sparkling in the sunshine once again.

After getting Xanadu's back pieced, pressed, and rolled onto a pool noodle, I spent an hour or so prepping a new journal project.  

I used this wild and crazy duct tape on the front and back covers. 

I used ordinary masking tape as labels in keeping with the "not too precious" nature of this project.

And since I had just finished with the blue index cards, I used the leftovers plus a few more bits and pieces on this "blue" two page spread.  

I didn't use a lot of Keri's prompts and used more of my own to make this evening playtime project truly mine.

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The big goal this week is to pin baste Xanadu (thank you for all the comments) and get it quilted/finished while also keeping up with the usual household activities.  

DH and I also spent a morning cleaning out four overstuffed file cabinet drawers filled with cables, adapters, wires, chargers, and other random tech stuff.  There are now two partially-filled drawers with neatly labeled files and the rest sorted into zipper pouches (like with like). 

Before the now-predicted 10 days of dreary/gray/semi-rainy days, we were scheduled to have part of our driveway torn out/replaced.  Fingers crossed it isn't too wet for the crew to work.  But if it ends up being next week it has already been quite a while since the damage occurred so a few more days won't make that much difference.

Quiltdivajulie

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"It is better to be absolutely ridiculous rather than absolutely boring."

Marilyn Monroe