Taxes

Everybody has to pay them. Taxes. Bleh! Jim and I ran and signed our prepared taxes last night before heading to Midland to get some groceries and do errands. The only reason we're getting some money back this year is because of my business. I guess after your kids leave and you no longer have that deduction, opening a business is the next best thing?

Received some bad news as we were shopping last night. The long armer west of me towards Harrison passed away in her sleep the previous night. Totally unexpected and a shocker to say the least. You'd think I'd be happy about this, but she was keeping my numbers at a relatively stable level. I didn't know her. Never met her. Never been to her business. I just know she's a fellow long armer and it makes me sad.

On a brighter note, I've decided to get on the quilted jacket bandwagon. I like them. They're super cute and finding orphan quilts is never a problem. Since Joann's is going out of business, we stopped by the Midland store to take advantage of their liquidation sale and picked up these two patterns...

Hoping one of them works

I suck at "real" sewing. I can make a quilt until you're blue in the face, but then sewing garments is always a different story with me. I've tried over the years with horrible results. These patterns claim to be "easy" but I'll see about that over the weekend when I peruse the directions. 

I also picked up a little yarn to finish my daisy blocks I'm crocheting for a bag I'm making. 

And...Ginny's Steam Punk quilt still isn't finished. Today maybe? All that starting and stopping in the birdcage and around the birdies is taking soooooo long. And I have six thread changes with each pass as well, which also takes some time. Leaving work at "normal" time didn't help either to take care of the tax thing. Well...

Happy Friday.