Yesterday, I planned to clean the studio because it looks like this:

This is my cutting/fusing table.

This is my sewing table (there is a Bernina hiding there), but I have moved on to this area because the other area has no room left!

I started making piles, but decided I needed to buy some more containers to hold my piles so I headed out to K-Mart (I wanted to celebrate Martha’s homecoming). After a trip to Trader Joe’s, Safeway and the video store, I made it home just in time to make dinner and watch a movie, surrounded by the piles.

Today is my son’s birthday. On Thursday night, we talked and made plans for him to come up today for a special mom-cooked meal. I made a chocolate cake that has 4 ingredients – lots of chocolate, butter, eggs and sugar. I planned surf and turf (his fave) salmon and tri-tip, baked potatoes and Caesar salad. At 3 pm, he still wasn’t here, so I called. He says he has no memory of making the plans to come up here. He hurt his back and was on pain meds and has been crawling around his house on all fours for 3 days. He was feeling sorry for himself because we had not checked in with him. He remembers that I called and that is about it. I know he told me that he had hurt his back, but didn’t realize he was zonked on pain meds. He had back surgery last year and he often has a problem, as a landscape designer/builder, when he over does it in the field.

Anyway, I put the cake in the freezer (after having a taste – it was delish). We cooked the salmon tonight and I will cook the tri-tip tomorrow. I’m feeling really sad that I didn’t know how inured he was because we would have driven to the city to spend time with him there. Oh, well….

Here are the postcards I made today.

This is for Mark because he is a landscape designer who is very partial to grasses.

This is for my BIL and SIL who sent me a gorgeous lily plant with lots of buds that has started blooming.

Tomorrow I am going to get this place cleaned up so that when I can get back to creating I will have a nice, neat place that I can mess up again.