Mary Mulari's Visit

I LOVE MY LIFE. There is always something exciting just around the corner...

Take this week for example. Mary Mulari is coming for her usual winter visit...!! Hooray...Although we just spent a week together in Puyallup -- we barely had a conversation. That show was CRAZY BUSY. We had to get up at 6:00 most days, bolt down some coffee, get things organized, yada, yada yada...and didn't see one another until after 9:00 that night...by which time, we were both ready to collapse into an exhausted heap...

So it will be so nice to have a chance for a REAL VISIT.
 
But lots of other people in Iowa look forward to Mary's visit. John, for example. He loves the reversible apron Mary made for him. (it's her job to make the rest of us look bad...)

There are two other very important groups who look forward to Mary's visit. Here's a picture of our visit last year -- the crew from the ORIGINAL Rita's Sew Fun...(before it was a blog -- it was a retail sewing shop).

And, of course, my BOOK CLUBBERS...Even though we should officially change our name from Book Club to Breakfast Club. Sewing is what brings these two groups together. All these women -- who are a big part of my life -- LOVE to sew...and when Mary visits, we have to do our Sew and Tell luncheons or breakfasts.

Mary and I will be planning the NEXT CHAPTER in this interesting sewing life of ours. We are ramping up to do the special evening event at the 30th anniversary of Sewing Weekend . Of course, we often get our inspiration from unique boutique shopping (we did some of that during our visit to Gig Harbor, Washington). But in Iowa -- we mostly get our inspiration from thrift stores...


You NEVER know what you might find.... this jacket didn't quite work out..

Hey -- life is an adventure. You just NEVER know what exciting new thing might be coming up in your life...And this week is going to be SEW MUCH FUN...Thanks, Mary, for being such a big part of my life-as-a-sewing-ride-adventure!!

BE SURE TO MARK YOUR CALENDARS...the 30th Anniversary of Sewing Weekend is going to be AMAZING...

Sewing Weekend will be the perfect way to kick off the NEXT exciting chapter of my sewing life...