I finished the pink Christmas stocking
and also another in red and white.
What color should I use next?
I have working a little on my sewing area. I will lose my design wall when the farm table gets moved to this corner of the room.
It was an office cubicle wall in a previous life. When the printing business my husband worked for many years ago closed the employees were able to take some of the items they no longer wanted. He brought home two of these and two with a shelf and light. Those are all being used upstairs. I am not sure where I will be able to move this one to so I can use it. Anyway, the corner where I moved my sewing machine to has a little bit of empty wall space so I changed it.
I used some foam board from the dollar store,
and taped it together.
Since I had to piece it together to get the size I wanted I had to trim some of it off.
I covered it with cotton batting using a spray adhesive to attach it.
I used Command Picture Hangers to attach it to the wall.
I used Command Picture Hangers to attach it to the wall.
It will be easily removed if I need to take it down. It's not as big, but I think it will work just fine.
And, a few tiny gripes I have are people standing in doorways to have conversations. Why!? And, people who are always late. I am suppose to be working with students at 12:35. As my schedule shows recess is over at 12:30. We have the students lined up in the gym for the teachers by then. You can see by my watch that it is well past 12:30 by the time I am relieved of that duty.
That makes me late to get the students I should be working with at that time. By the time I go to their classrooms to get them I have lost at least 5 of the 20 minutes scheduled for RtI time. The next group after them starts at 12:55. There are two students in that second group who are suppose to be with the ESL teacher until 1:00, but they aren't released from him until 1:10 most days. That gives them 5 minutes with me. It bothers me that people are not respectful of the schedules of other people.
Myself and the other aide are outside 2 times a day, weather permitting. When the weather got cooler I placed a hook by the door that leads outside so I wouldn't have to go back to my work space to get my coat. That worked great for about two weeks. Here is a coat hanging on that hook.
The problem is, that isn't my coat. I went to hang my coat up one day and ... that's not my coat. That coat belongs to the other aide. I guess I had a great idea. So great she decided to use it.
My son recently moved into a cute little house with a nice yard. It is just the right size for him and GF and the dog loves the yard. The problem there are steps going into the house. We had ordered ramps last year for the apartment they were living in (that was an ordeal that took weeks because the ramps got lost, both times), but those ramps don't work for this house. So we ordered a new ramp system for him. The order confirmation said the system would be delivered by Fed Ex Ground and we would get an email when they shipped. Ok. Except we never got an email so I called to find out the status. The vendor said the ramps were being delivered by freight and the freight company would call that day. Two minutes later I received an email stating the ramps were being shipped with Fed Ex except when I clicked on the tracking number I got a message saying it didn't exist. Hmm. The freight company didn't call that day, which was a Thursday. They called Saturday night to say the ramps would be delivered Monday during 10:30 and 2:30. That meant Husband had to hang around to accept delivery. He has things to do that are off the farm, but he stayed around. Only part of the ramp system wasn't on the truck. He immediately called the vendor and they said they would ship it right away. We didn't hear anything for two day so Husband called and, "Oh, that hasn't shipped yet. I will check on it and call you back." No call back. The next day I called and was told it had been picked up by the freight company and would deliver the next day. Again, we got a call from a different freight company saying the would deliver between a four hour time span. They came late yesterday afternoon.
So now the ramps are assembled as much as they can be and loaded in the livestock trailer along with some other things we will be delivering to my son. Hopefully tomorrow we can make the trip and get the ramp system installed.
And, a few tiny gripes I have are people standing in doorways to have conversations. Why!? And, people who are always late. I am suppose to be working with students at 12:35. As my schedule shows recess is over at 12:30. We have the students lined up in the gym for the teachers by then. You can see by my watch that it is well past 12:30 by the time I am relieved of that duty.
That makes me late to get the students I should be working with at that time. By the time I go to their classrooms to get them I have lost at least 5 of the 20 minutes scheduled for RtI time. The next group after them starts at 12:55. There are two students in that second group who are suppose to be with the ESL teacher until 1:00, but they aren't released from him until 1:10 most days. That gives them 5 minutes with me. It bothers me that people are not respectful of the schedules of other people.
Myself and the other aide are outside 2 times a day, weather permitting. When the weather got cooler I placed a hook by the door that leads outside so I wouldn't have to go back to my work space to get my coat. That worked great for about two weeks. Here is a coat hanging on that hook.
The problem is, that isn't my coat. I went to hang my coat up one day and ... that's not my coat. That coat belongs to the other aide. I guess I had a great idea. So great she decided to use it.
My son recently moved into a cute little house with a nice yard. It is just the right size for him and GF and the dog loves the yard. The problem there are steps going into the house. We had ordered ramps last year for the apartment they were living in (that was an ordeal that took weeks because the ramps got lost, both times), but those ramps don't work for this house. So we ordered a new ramp system for him. The order confirmation said the system would be delivered by Fed Ex Ground and we would get an email when they shipped. Ok. Except we never got an email so I called to find out the status. The vendor said the ramps were being delivered by freight and the freight company would call that day. Two minutes later I received an email stating the ramps were being shipped with Fed Ex except when I clicked on the tracking number I got a message saying it didn't exist. Hmm. The freight company didn't call that day, which was a Thursday. They called Saturday night to say the ramps would be delivered Monday during 10:30 and 2:30. That meant Husband had to hang around to accept delivery. He has things to do that are off the farm, but he stayed around. Only part of the ramp system wasn't on the truck. He immediately called the vendor and they said they would ship it right away. We didn't hear anything for two day so Husband called and, "Oh, that hasn't shipped yet. I will check on it and call you back." No call back. The next day I called and was told it had been picked up by the freight company and would deliver the next day. Again, we got a call from a different freight company saying the would deliver between a four hour time span. They came late yesterday afternoon.
So now the ramps are assembled as much as they can be and loaded in the livestock trailer along with some other things we will be delivering to my son. Hopefully tomorrow we can make the trip and get the ramp system installed.
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