Lemons

Helllooooo!

Lisa makes an excellent point - as penance, I'm going to write a blog entry every day for a week.




SO. Tomorrow is catching-up-on-blogs day. Well, to make it a reasonable goal, let's say catching-up-on-the-last-few-weeks-and-looking-further-back-if-I'm-still-confused day. I would've done this today, except I had to go grocery shopping (super-fun) and my Mom came up to teach me how to SEW.

SEW.

That's right kids, I have joined a Fundamentalist Mormon cult.

Or not.

Call it trying something new, try it getting in touch with my inner-housewife, call it way too many episodes of Project Runway - but in fall I got it stuck in my head that I needed to learn how to make clothes. And for my birthday, my Mom remembered. Mom's always remember.

So I was delighted when she gave me a sewing machine for my birthday... So delighted that in the worst week of storms I have ever seen in California, I found my way to a little-old-lady fabric store ( it was the closest one) and bought a pattern for PJ's and some fabric ( FYI - fabric is expensive! I've made nothing yet, but I'm hoping that this is logical and that making yourself PJ's is still cheaper than buying them).

So after a little pixie dust, I managed to convince my husband - Mr. can-figure-out-how-to-put-together-or-take-apart-anything - to help me set up the thing, and after an hour of staring at the directions, staring at the machine, then staring at the directions again without making any progress, I called in the big guns.

So today, I sewed my first.. thing. Maybe it's a teeny tiny pillow case, or a teeny tiny hat for a rectangular-headed baby, but I suspect it's a weopriunjdsgoi. A beautiful one, made from a scrap of cloth my Grandma sent over, and sewn together 17 times with black thread.

Not quite couture, but one step closer.





SO, (sew), I will be doing my catch up reading tomorrow, writing some further explanations for my current goals ( obsessions), and celebrating my fashion victory tonight.





Before I bid you adieu -

This is my lemon tree:



Lemon tree, bloggers. Bloggers, lemon tree.

This picture was taken back in November I think... Now, there are probably three times as many lemons (and believe me, I've given them away and used a few) and I think they're probably a few weeks away from all dropping down, depressed, unused, unenjoyed.

So does anyone have any fabulous ideas for what to do with a metric ton of lemons?