Fast trip to town

I’ve was hoping that the prints that I need for Saturday would have came in today, but I called Kyle at noon and he said that they didn’t come. So I was kind of bummed! I knew that it was going to be close to get them done in time and I wanted to work on them tonight. So without the pictures to work on, once I got home from work I settled in on the couch eating warm chocolate chip cookies that Kyle made this afternoon. But then when Daryl came home he said that the carrier put the pictures that I was waiting for in our basement. For some reason it must be against the law to put anything in a farm house anymore! OK, probably not a law… and I’m sure that there probably is some type of policy that they can’t go into houses, but then for goodness sake put them in the front door not the cellar door! Who looks in the cellar for mail? Well, obviously not me. So now that I had my pictures in hand I needed to head to town to get the mats for them. I wanted to go to a hobby shop that was about an hour from our house and now the clock was ticking. Daryl said he also needed shoes for work, so he hurried up and took the mill to town to have it looked at and then we were off. We stopped first to get his shoes and I made a comment that I’m sure that the hobby shop would be open until 9 right? Well by the time we got to the hobby store it was just 8 o’clock and they were literally locking the doors. Oh NO!! I asked them if I could just please run in and get what I needed. They said OK and off I went. But then when I stood in front of the mats of course none of them were on sale. And I needed a total of 9.  It was going to be a donation to our upcoming supper at our town and I didn’t want to take out a loan for them either. But I finally found some that wasn’t too bad of a price and started to walk up to the front to buy them. Well all of a sudden out of the corner of my eye I saw some of the sizes of mats that I needed and they were on sale. Score! So I kind of slid the ones that I was carrying onto the sale rack and even though they didn’t fit too well, they stayed on and at this point that’s all that I needed.  So now I’m grabbing 8 more of the sale ones and a sales clerk came around the corner and looked at me and asked if I was OK and gave me a look like why I was still in the store. I told her that I was doing good (or at least I tried to convince her of that!) and now with my arms full I really did make my way up to the front of the store to check out. All the workers were waiting there for me along with the manager. But he was pretty cool about it and even gave me some grief. By the time I left he also gave me some additional sale prices on what I bought. Once I got home it was time to get the borders painted. It didn’t take too long and now they are drying not only in my scrapbook room, but also in the hallway

My projects drying in the upstairs hallway

and our bedroom.

and more are drying in our bedroom

But what a good job done tonight and I plan on finishing up the ones for church on Wednesday night. I’ve got one that I’m working on for Kyle and hope to get that done tomorrow after two town meetings that I have to go to. OK, maybe I’ll have to work on his Wednesday night also.

And today’s picture of the day is this.

This Superman pillow has seen a good part of the world already

With Kyle packing up his stuff and getting ready to leave this week for Korea, he grabbed his pillow that has been literally around the world. Yup, it’s the Superman pillow! This pillow case has been to China a couple of times, Korea multiple times, and even to the United Arab Emirates. It’s been to Pella Iowa, Canada and New York. And now it’s back in Kyle’s suitcase to head to Korea again. We laughed because when the kids were little there was a project that everyone does in grade school that’s called Flat Stanley. What you have to do is to send this cut out of a person .. aka Flat Stanley to people from all over the world and they take their picture in that state or country and write about it’s adventure. We thought that Kyle should have done the same thing with this pillow and wrote about all the different places that it’s been in. I think when some people look at it, it looks like just a pillow case. But I think it’s a lot more than that. I think it might be a small piece of home away from home.