Birds, Berries and Crowns

     As is usual with the Labor Day weekend, there seems to be a lot of labor going on but this year it didn't seem to involve the manual type like working on the house or yard or anything like that.  

     Friday was a day off for the kids at school and we had another rip-rousing day of meetings. Little preparation from the leaders that be as usual but a whole list of extra stuff that we were/are expected to determine and create that day and in the days to come. It is going to be a very interesting year I am sure and we are only three weeks in. 

     Saturday was a day to catch up and get things done around the house on the inside.  Most exciting things like pay bills, clean the desk, do the laundry and the like. 

     Sunday we slept in later than planned and the day seemed very short.  Before we knew it the afternoon had zipped by and we were running around getting ready for Coronation.  Sadly, while it was good to see friends and a former student received a scholarship, this years event was not in our opinion up to the caliber of events in the past and our choice for Empress did not win in the balloting.  We ended up leaving early due to being tired, we had been at the event for four hours already and their was still one act to go.  I must be getting old since I can't stay out that late anymore. 

  We picked more raspberries this week so after a week with a raspberry pie I made a raspberry crumble for dessert for tonight's supper.  Really scrumptious.  The strawberries are long gone and it doesn't look our apples will do anything this year again. 

     Through the whole weekend though I have managed to insert some sewing here and there.  I had converted a photo into a stitching program for my embroidery machine but it just really didn't turn out.  It wasn't the most optimum photo to begin with so I am not totally disappointed, but I will have to work the program more to get better results in the future.  I've also continued to work on finishing up the nine blocks in the baltimore album quilt.  The designs are a bit more stylized but I really like Susan McKelvey's type of work and plan on making more of the patterns in her book.  I actually started these last summer while traveling and continued this summer while traveling.  I'm just about ready to stitch them all together into one.  Only small hand embroidery details left on the last five.  Hope you enjoy looking at these four.

     Well, off to other tasks at hand as the new work week beckons.