Going to See Abigail

Early tomorrow morning, Laura is driving up from Richmond. We'll be making our annual outing up to the Woodlawn Needlework Exhibition in Alexandria. My Abigail's Sampler to John is on exhibit and I'm looking forward to seeing her again. She didn't win a ribbon, and that's ok with me. I'm thrilled that I'm a part of it and hope that I'll be able to enter many more pieces in the future. Next weekend I get to go pick her up and I'm really looking forward to that, too. I can't wait to get her up and hanging on the wall. I'm really looking forward to our day tomorrow!

Yesterday, I had to stop by Borders to pick up a gift card for one of Cassie's friends for her birthday. When you first walk in they usually have displays of bargain books. Right away I noticed and illustrated encyclopedia of the Presidents of America. It's a very large hardcover book and at $7.99, I had to snap it up. When I was a child, my dad bought a book about all of the presidents for my brother and I to share. I looked through it often and this book reminds me of that one. I've really enjoyed looking through it and hope that Cassie and Joshua like it as much as I liked mine when I was young. In my quest to make myself read, I bought myself a book. It's not that I don't like reading, when I was little a read often. It's that nothing seems to interest me. The only thing I'm the least bit interested in reading are books about history, in particular books about women in history. I didn't realise just how many of those would interest me until the minutes were ticking away in Border's while I looked through tons of them. I could have easily bought 50 books but only let myself get 1. Once it's finished, I'll get another. The one I bought is called Founding Mothers by Cokie Roberts. It's about the women who raised our nation. I'm really looking forward to reading it. I had a hard time deciding between 4 books. The one I bought, Ladies of Liberty, Mrs. Lincoln, and Mr. Jefferson's Women. I REALLY want the Mrs. Lincoln book but think the next one I get will be Mr. Jefferson's Women. It's much smaller and the title intrigues me...lol.

I had a little finishing project someone asked me to do for them that I delivered today. I don't know the name of the piece, but it's an Easter piece from the Sweetheart Tree. I believe this was a kit. She asked me to make it in to a flat fold for her. She loved it but decided she didn't want the one bow in the middle. I thought she might not so I just pinned it down. We pulled it off and made 2 smaller bows for the corners. It looked much cuter with the 2 bows. I took this pic before I left so it has the first bow.



After we deliver Cassie to a friends house, the rest of us are heading out to dinner. Our John Adams disc 3 has arrived from Netflix and I'm REALLY looking forward to finishing up the series. It's a really great series and I've thoroughly enjoyed watching every second of it. I think I'm going to get something about either Lincoln or Jefferson next.