Mending by machine. Have you tried it? It’s just as fun as mending by hand. You’re just going 100 miles an hour instead of two miles an hour 😂 Here’s the hole. Then the mend. Then the mend closer and closer. I love the imperfect, haphazard look I get with this kind of mending. It invites a closer look. (“What the heck is that?” looks are my favorite).
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Actually, this mend reminds me a little bit of my life right now. I have two children in end-of-school hyper-excitement mode and a husband dealing with a classroom full of the same. The boys come home restless; the husband (some of you will remember him as B.C.B. 😜) comes home exhausted. A jumble of energies. I feel like my energy is holding steady, working from home, tending to home. But when everyone converges, zing! Like this soft knit shirt that I love and want to care for and give my attention to, but in a crazy way and with a crazy energy. My end-of-the-school-year mending strategy. Get things done quick; then enjoy the (frenzied) accomplishment.
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Oh, Marcie. What did you do?
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So. I’ve been saving my royalties from my book. I’m not sure what for, just saving. (And for those of you who have purchased Visible Mending, thank you so very much - in December it went into its second printing! Hope y’all are enjoying it.) But there’s one thing I wanted to purchase, just to celebrate a little. I decided to fork out a small chunk of change for what a diehard thrift shopper would drop her jaw at (and that’s me): a new quilt for our bed. NEW. I found one I loved, I treated myself, it came with cute shams and I’ve been enjoying it. And so has puppy-dog Marcie.
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Now, our Marcie is more than a pet to me. Because I work full-time from home, she’s my work buddy. I talk, she listens. When I need a moment away from the screen, I pet her and tell her how smart and pretty she is. And then I go back to work. And my 60-pound Marcie hops back up on the bed to wait out the work day. It would be a lonely work day without her.
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Don’t know how I didn’t see this coming, but yeah - with her daily hopping on and off the bed, she made holes in my new quilt. Three. Sigh. But as it turns out, she actually gave me a gift. With this first mend, I like my new quilt even more. Now that it’s old.
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What a sweet picture!! I love it!!! He is a sweet little guy isn’t he!
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He’s getting so big! The wonder in his eyes says it all 🙂 We enjoyed the snow here today – it’s finally feeling like winter!
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What a doll…I just want to sqeeeeze those checks! I miss the snow of UT. It did rain for about 5 minutes here in Phoenix this morning!
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