Finally Friday

I am so glad it is Friday. Okay, I know, I didn't work but 2 days this week. I can't help it. This week of the year is such a hard week to get back in the swing of things. Since I have gotten 4 new pieces of Pyrex by gifts and by trade in December, it has really given me Pyrex fever. I just can't decide what pattern I want to collect next. I went through the internet to find a few I liked. Well, let's just say that narrowing down the list is going to take awhile. I narrowed it down to these patterns that I like. Now I have to narrow it down even further to decide what I would actually collect. 

I also spent some time looking at the new Thirty-One spring catalog trying to decide what I want to order when we can start ordering from it. I know I want the Inside Out Bag, which I am hoping to earn for free in January. 

I also love the Easy Breezy Tote. This will be a great piece to have for summer fun when you pack to go to the pool or beach or even on a picnic. 

And I am loving the Coupon Clutch. The new patterns and products for spring are awesome. I can't wait till we can start shopping from the spring catalog.

I have started looking for ideas for Sunday School crafts. Our kids love glitter so I thought it would be cute to make a refrigerator magnets for notes. They would be so easy and the kids would love them. We could even glue a little red heart on them for Valentine's Day.

I would also like to see us make the old fashioned shoe box mailbox for collecting Valentine's. These bring back so many memories of doing this in elementary school.

I am going to cut out a new box pattern to get started on in my plastic canvas. I finished my nieces coasters and my sisters box. Time to make something for myself. I really fell in love with this box.I don't know that I will do this exact pattern. I just love the size of the box and the way the lid extends down longer than most on the sides. All though these colors do look good together. 

I like to do patterns using variegated yarn sometimes because you never know how it will look and it is always neat. Plus you don't have to change yarns so much. I'll have to decide later what I will use. But I do have a lot of variegated yarns.

As I was looking for yarn, I remembered some I had in a Donna Sharp Utility Tote. When I got it out of the closet I had to laugh. It is the same pattern as the purse and make up case I am currently carrying. Apparently I like that pattern.

I've been cleaning out 2012 files and boxing them up. Since I moved the wooden file cabinet in my office, I have downsized things and no longer need the tacky metal one. The guy who gave it to me is going to come and pick it up today. I want it out of my way so I can have room for a craft shelf in that corner of the room. Two of the four drawers were just being used to store CD's and miscellaneous stuff that I found other places to put. That's the problem with junk drawers...too much junk accumulates.