Football this Weekend

Well, we are having quite a football weekend here.  Tonight Byrd High School will play Carencro in Lafayette Parish for a chance to play in the state championship.  Byrd hasn't been in the semi-finals since 1964.  They haven't been state champions since 1949.  Thursday night's pep rally  http://www.ktbs.com/video/29903872/index.html


LSU will play Georgia tomorrow for the SEC championship.


Sunday the New Orleans Saints will play the Detroit Lions.


I didn't drive to Lafayette, but I will be watching LSU and the Saints games on TV.  The last 2 years I have been watching them from my sewing machine, because I was busy making leather purses.  I thought of this idea in 2010 when the Saints were 11-0 and I just knew they would win the Super Bowl.  I have made a purple and gold LSU purse, but I forgot to take a picture. Looks like the New Orleans Saints, LSU Tigers and the Byrd Yellow Jackets may all be champions this year.  I'm sure that has never happened.  Could this be the year? Maybe I should get busy sewing.  People like to buy purses of winning teams.

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I've made a Dallas Cowboy purse and a Boston Red Sox purse on request; but I don't root for them.

A Whole Week Off and What Have I Done?

Ta DA--No weeds and new mulch.

Counting tomorrow, I will have been completely off for a week; that means not babysitting,  but still doing the household chores of clothes, dishes and cooking etc--.  You understand.

Also, I've met with the deputy tax assessor, met with a concerned citizen about a school board issue, gone to the grocery store twice, walked over and played with the grandkids just about everyday, cleaned out a messy flowerbed and added mulch, worked on Ancestry.com, and played with the goats.

The new one is for Carson

   Actually, all of these things I did to avoid making a cowboy burp cloth that I got an order for last Tuesday on my Etsy site from a lady in Tennessee. Also, with all this time off, I need to mend a pair of my husband's scrubs that have been on the machine for 3 months and Jackie's Boston Red Sox purse I made.  I have a lot of hobbies and I do them in a rather cyclical manner.  I sew and sew until I get rather burned out and then 6 months are more will pass before I sit in front of the machine.  But I have to put the burp cloth in the mail Tuesday.  So far, I have repaired my husband's scrubs.  I am working on the embroidery design, when I'm not checking my e-mail, facebook, or googling for a blue-eye Nigerian Dwarf goat buckling for my 2 little does. So actually, I'm doing everything but completing my recent sewing order.  Maybe the word order is slowing me down.  My mother actually took in sewing when I was growing up. I remember my 4th grade teacher, Mrs. Guice, coming to our house for Mother to alter her clothes.  I didn't like her because she called me Grandma and I was only 10.  But I know, I bossed everyone around.

 Mother warned me that if I started taking orders for my purses, baby items and etc, that it would not be fun anymore. I really think my problem is that I only like to do something twice.  The first time, I am so excited to see if I can do it and the the second time to clean-up the mistakes.  After that I am bored.  I've also made about a dozen New Orleans Saints leather purses, one Cowboys purse, and a couple LSU .  I did change from gold with black to black gator print with gold fleur-de-lis on the Saints purses.

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I haven't been blogging, because I should be sewing.  But now that I have started the project, I can blog during break time.

Hope everyone has a happy and safe 4th of July.