My nephew, Tony, is in the Air Force, and has been in Anchorage, Alaska, for the past 3 years. Fortunately, my sister, Joyce, lives there so he was able to have someone from his family close by. Tony married Mercatie in June and now he is being moved to South Carolina. So. Long story short, they're driving a U-Haul truck there. All the way from Alaska. Yup...a long trip! They spent a few days in Wausau with his Mom & Dad & friends. Ryan (Tony's best friend since kindergarten) left Wausau with them today to drive to SC. I'm a few hours south of Wausau...they would be going toward Chicago down the interstate that is about 6 miles down the road from me. So, they stopped at the truckstop and I ran (drove) down to visit with them for a short while. I hadn't seen Tony since he left for Alaska...and hadn't yet met Mercatie, so I was happy to see them. And, though I have heard about Ryan forever (remember...best friends since kindergarten) I don't think I had ever met him.
Yeah. This morning at 5:00 (uh-huh, I get up early even on the weekends), I was thinking about meeting Tony, et al., and thinking that I didn't have anything to give him. Joyce made him cookies to take along when he left Alaska, his Gram made him cookies, Jill was going to bake for him...but I didn't have stuff to bake with. Thinking, thinking. Course, not that Tony was expecting anything from me...just thought it would be nice. Then, I happened to remember that I had seen a 14" pillow form in the closet yesterday. A pillow form without a purpose. I know! I could make him a small pillow to match the ones I made and gave them for their wedding. I thought that was a good idea. Go here & here to see the ones I made in June.
But. I thought...with all I have on my list to do, I didn't really need (or want) to add in one more thing.
About 4 hours later, when I was on the phone with Jill (my sister...Tony's mom), I told her about my early morning thoughts. She, of course, thought I should do it. I had plenty of time. Well, she talked me into it. An hour later, this is what I had come up with...
Wow...that pillow form is really fat! {grin} Tony & Mercatie love the small pillow.
Well, that's all I have for today. Except to say that Tag has been walking around with his food bowl for the past hour or so. It is just now time for him to eat. I should feed him, then. Poor thing. ha!
By the way. I added a few patterns & other stuff to my selling blog...The Chocolate Puppy.
Have a good Sunday evening!
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with all thy might. - Ecclesiastes 9:10
