My personal elf, Graham, stopped by to assemble my new sewing chair! I asked if he remembered telling me one time that he would always put things together for me...took him up on it. I mentioned to Nathan that Graham might do it...and Nathan ran with that suggestion. As Graham said, his dad would resort to reading directions only if he failed to get it together on his own...whereas, Graham wants to use the written directions. He had no problems getting it together. I am very pleased with it. I bought a tall drafting chair because I need to be up higher to be able to see to sew...and, this chair works perfectly. My problems...I have many! But as for being able to see to sew...first I am very short waisted with long legs...so most of me folds under me and doesn't make me very tall from the waist up. And, now my back is curving...so I am even shorter. I have been having to place many pillows on my chair (picture The Princess and the Pea) and I was still having to reach up with my arms to above my shoulders...quite a comical picture, I'm sure...luckily, I am usually the only one around when I am sewing. Anyway, this chair should get me level with the bed of my sewing machine. My machine should be able to be lowered so it is down in the cabinet and then I could sew "flat bedded," but my machine has a problem with the plug and I can't easily remove it so I can lower the machine...many problems...like I said! But the chair being able to rise higher than my regular office chair, that broke, could, should help immensely I'm anxious to do some sewing, but I am still on the handwork part of putting together what I am making...the cross stitching is finished...but I still have to attach what I stitched to some background fabric...which the way I am doing it, it has to be done by hand...and when doing it nine times...it takes a while...hopefully by Sunday when our family Christmas is, I will have them finished. I also have to stop this evening in a while and start working on ingredients that I need to have ready to make a salad with tomorrow. It is a layered salad that is supposed to be refrigerated for 24 hours prior to eating it. I am making it for a meal that will be after a funeral on Saturday. So I need to get it in the refrigerator tomorrow by noon...so I think it best if I chop, slice, dice, boil eggs, cook bacon, etc. prior to putting it together tomorrow morning. Whether my plans come to fruition or not...we'll see! Lately whatever I plan to do seems to take much longer than the same task used to take! Guess I am slowing down as I age! I guess that is okay as long as I plan for longer times to complete tasks! Sometimes that is hard to recalculate since I have done the same task so many times over the years...and my brain tells me that it should "only" take so long! Nathan and Kathy stopped by just as Graham was finishing his Grammy-put-together project. Just as they were leaving, I started to show them something that I had finished today for Abigail and Payton...BUT...when I went to show them it had disappeared from where it had been. We hunted around for a bit, but they left before it was found. I told them that I would let them know when I found it. They hadn't been gone long enough to get back home and I remembered that I had put it on the tree to take a picture of it! (rolling eyes)...but at least I remembered before I tore up things looking for it!!!!! Honestly!!!! (another roll of the eyes!) 'Tis the season! To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!
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