ok, so today is sunday, my only day off this week, and i have to really start tidying up my house.....cayle's birthday is wednesday, and her birth mother will be here....i really aught to finish these window treatments for the back room and get them up...as the frames we took down from the cafe at the restaurant were cut down to fit my windows AND they are sitting around on the floor...in the way......my mother managed to break her own sewing machine as well as mine while making the new drapes for the restaurant....the velvet valance really bogged up the works.....so that neither of us had a working machine to make my own 'awning-like' window treatments......they shouldn't take long...if i am lucky we will get it done this evening.......i read in yesterday's paper that sewing is seeing a comeback, which i find curious......i have sewn all of my remembered life........and i know that a successful project requires fabric (which i have in abundance), a machine (check), the right mood (oh my....) time (ditto) and the need to get the project done (there's the rub) these days i seem to lack mood, time and the pressing need to finish projects...so i have several projects sitting unfinished in my sewing cabinet......such as a quilt top that i started at least 7 years ago......it is several shades of blue....and i no longer have a blue-themed house.....so i kind of lost interest in it.....i thought about finishing it for acw as a graduation gift, but lacked the time and so it languishes unfinished on a shelf....maybe if i get it out and do a little everyday., i might finish before scw graduates.......the fabric thing is kind of funny.....i actually cleaned out my fabric closet not too long ago, and gave several garbage bags full to the goodwill.....and i still have too much.......pieces that i think maybe i could use to make something for cayle........if only i had the time or she had the need or i was in the mood.......