Saturday, May 11, 2013

I had great plans for the day, even though I knew showers were expected. The Fine Arts Club were having a Spring sale. There are always line-ups for their Christmas sale so I wanted to get there early – not so early I’d have to wait outside, but soon after the doors opened. When I arrived I thought perhaps I had the day wrong because there were only a few people wandering around who clearly were members. The room that is normally full of pottery had about a quarter of the amount I expected to see. The knitting, weaving and quilting was all stuck in one small room that usually holds only the quilting. The larger back area wasn’t even opened up today.

Not to be deterred I headed off to the Home Expo being held at the Rec Center. We have gone before and it was sort of like the PNE building that houses all the neat and new gadgets. There were lots of vendors around and the majority of them were local – and many were home improvement oriented. I wasn’t really looking for anything, but I would have liked to have been interested in something they were showing.

On the way out I bought a box of Girl Guide cookies. When I see the cookies being sold I always remember selling homemade cookies around Wartime to raise money for Guides and Brownies. Added to that memory now is Peggy Elliott’s story of how much trouble the leaders got into for not selling the “official” version of the cookie!

I didn’t make it to my quilting until after lunch. It is slow going, but it is going!