Out With the Old and In With the New

Let me see...it has been busy, busy, busy around here.  I think I've seen my friends more in the past couple months than I saw them all last year!  It's been nice, but boy has the house work been piling up!  Last weekend Mom and I went to Indy for Jess' shower.  It was nice and relaxing.  We just chatted, ate lots of appetizers and drank some tasty wine.  In addition to seeing my friends, it was nice to spend a few hours with Mom.  We topped off the day with a little shopping.

We have been in the final stages of the selling of our Carbondale house.  It's embarrassing to say, but we still had so much stuff there to get out before we close.  Really, since we didn't miss it for over a year it should all just be sent to the Goodwill, but much of it is stuff that will be nice to have when we buy a house.  Better to hoard it away now that have to go buy it again I suppose.... So Kyle and I drove down last Sunday to try to cram our car as full as we could.  Even with a stop at the Goodwill we had to leave some things behind that just would not fit in the car.  Mostly things like my flower pots and my trash can.  I know that doesn't sound like much, but I loved my flower pots, and man, what a great trash can.  Maybe Kyle can swing by and pick some of it up before he goes to the closing.
It was bittersweet to say goodbye to the old homestead.  I took a big walk down memory lane before I left the place for the last time.  So many memories in that tiny little house on Carter Street...Kyle carrying me over the threshold in late May, 2007,  the endless trips to and from SIU for school,  walking my doggies around the neighborhood,  cuddling with little Rocky as he basked in the sunny spots,  hosting pot-luck dinners with our amazing friends,  turning a whole garden bed at 7 months pregnant, bringing my baby home from the hospital, playing in the yard with my toddler, introducing our visiting friends and family to the weirdness that is Carbondale.  I will really miss our beautiful Japanese Maple in the front of our home that was nearly obliterated when one of our front trees fell inches from our house.  We got so much enjoyment from it's pink buds in the springtime, red leaves in the summer and fall and all the Downy Woodpeckers and Chickadee's that ate from our bird feeder.  I will also miss the 4:00 sunlight that poured into the house every afternoon.  We had wonderful neighbors too.  Our neighbors were like our family in that town....Yes, saying goodbye was bittersweet, but Kyle and I decided that when Carbondale is done with you, it is done with you.  We were done with it too.  We sure do love our life in Marshall.

I don't know if it's the warmer weather, the thought that I only have 17 more school days before summer vacation, or if it's just one of my kicks, but my mind has been racing from one crafty idea to the next.  A week or so ago we were at Dad's house and I raided his linen closet for old sheets.  I was thinking of all the yardage in one pair of sheets and all the things I could make from them.  Besides, there is nothing quite like a good old pair of worn sheets.

There was something about the smell of sheets fresh out of Dad's linen closet that reminded me of my childhood, so of course I had to snuggle with them on the couch a couple of nights before I started cutting into them. 

Aren't the pretty!  They just don't make 'em like they used to.

 

Here is a picture of a few of the things I've made so far...matching pajama pants for me and my bug. My mom said that these were some of the sheets my parents received for their wedding.  I was happy to be able to breath new life into these dandies!