Did You Watch?

We aren't really sports fans, but we usually watch the Super Bowl with family or friends each year. This is the first in as long as I can remember that we stayed home, and only turned the TV on once in awhile to see what the score was. Why I felt the need to check, I don't really know, since I didn't really care. Habit, I guess. We did catch the final few minutes, while eating our dinner.

I spent the day, sitting at my kitchen bar, folding umpteen-bazillion charts to send to Nashville, while watching a few episodes of Cranford on my portable DVD player. Have I ever told you that there is conjecture amongst historians that some of the characters in Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford books were inspired by a few of my ancestral Aunties? Interesting story... interesting thought... and of course, makes the viewing of this historically-set mini-series quite meaningful to me.

Speaking of folding umpteen-bazillion charts... want to see one of the designs that I'll be releasing at Market? It is a reproduction of this antique sampler that I bought last Summer at the same show where I found Unna von Bergen (but not nearly so cheap!)...

Since there is no name or date (I guess I'm drawn to the orphans!), I am calling this one "Matchless Grace". I'll be releasing it at the TNNA show and in my etsy shop simultaneously on February 18th, along with my Adam & Eve design (which I'll be showing you early next week).

And while I was busy in the house avoiding the Super Bowl, my Smoking-Hot-Husband was working on the kennel. He got the play yard fence finished on Saturday,

and put in a back window and the base of the sleeping boxes Sunday.

Aren't we the industrious pair?