“A pair of shoes can change your life. Just ask Cinderella.”

Spending the morning with a girlfriend who loves you is one of the best soul fillers I can imagine. Toni and I had coffee and bagels at this great little coffee house half way between our houses and we ended up spending four hours on the black leather sofa discussing God, families, yiddish, books, faucets and men. That's my idea of heaven.

 

 

and my little sewing machine arrived today. I am a chapter advisory board member for the American Sewing Guild local chapter... in charge of community outreach and that means if I want to participate in some of the activities I have to haul my machine with me. well my sewing  machines are worth thousands of  dollars, are heavy lunkers, set into custom made furniture and i am not lugging them anywhere. So I spent about 100 for a ten pound Brother machine ( all my accessories will fit it) that I can take on a community service sew.

 

So what's am I talking about? A community service sew could be going to a nursing home and doing alterations. or a hospital and helping sew memory quilts with families of oncology patients, or a women's shelter and teaching them to sew or making toys for kids.  or to a ballet school and teaching the teens how to make tutu's. ( these are all actual projects we have done this year) Many community projects can be done at home and the stuff broght to a meeting. like chemo hats or walker bags or dialysis pillows or anti ouch bags for mastectomy patients. But many are group gigs where we spur each other on, socialize and sew. and now i have a lightweight machine to do that. and i stole a small piece of luggage from the storage closet for a rolling cart to hold my gear. Later I will fill a cosmetic roll with accessories etc and I am all set. One must be organized you know.