Sunday Sundry 5-13-12

My dad turns 80 at the end of the month, and we're planning a party for him.  It's not a surprise; in fact, he requested it and picked the date.  He's helpful that way.

So I got together with my sister last weekend to make party plans, and this little table mat idea popped into my head.

Since I was making these string rings anyway—by the way, I think I have all of them done for the quilt now—I thought it would make a fun little mat under flower bouquets on the tables.

I didn't have any bouquets to photograph with it today, so I substituted a Pyrex carafe as a model (but wouldn't that be fun used as a vase?).

And a flower pot thrifted last weekend...

and a scalloped Red Wing dish?  Hee-hee!

I'll be back in a couple days to tell you how I made the table mat.  It's easy peasy, and I'm sure you could probably figure it out yourself, but since I have to make a few more anyway, I may as well show you.

Happy Mom's Day!  Hope you are having a good one.  My daughter gave me some beautiful plants for Mother's Day (and mowed my lawn, and ran errands, and bought me lunch, and her boyfriend did a whole bunch of computer setup work for me—wow!).  One of the plants was a gorgeous hanging fuchsia basket and the other was a beautiful perennial lily, which I planted in my flower bed today. 

I would show you pictures, but my camera battery ran out of juice and had to go on the charger, so that will have to wait, as will pictures of a couple of thrift scores from today. 

But I will report (with mixed emotions) that what I did not buy today at Goodwill was a very good-looking Singer 503 Slant-o-matic, aka Rocketeer.  A sweet vintage sewing machine for $24.99.  It was really hard to pass up, but I stayed strong.  After all, I had just cleaned part of the basement this weekend, muttering the whole while about having too much sh--/stuff in my sewing room.  *Sigh*  Tell me I did the right thing?