TWO FUN SATURDAYS

This is the Outfit I modeled for the Fashion Show

Museum on Fox Island

Donna and I had signed up to model clothes at C.J. Banks in Silverdale. We went to Silverdale on Saturday, April 11th to pick out the clothes we were going to model for the Fashion Show on April 18th.  It did not take us long to pick out clothes so Donna decided we would spend some time driving around. Somehow we got to talking about Fox Island.  Fox Island is a small Island across the water from Tacoma. When Donna and Laif were younger they had started to build a house there with "House My People", I think it was.
     I told Donna that I had been to Fox Island in 1950 when I was pregnant with her brother, David, my first child. We went there because Horace and Sue, my brother-in-law and his wife were trying to buy a run-down Resort that had a few cabins. Donna decided we should drive there and look around just for the fun of it.  I said we are going to have to take the ferry, aren't we?  Donna said no, there is a bridge.  I did not remember a bridge and it confused me because I was sure we took a ferry.  I looked on my phone and found that the bridge was not built until 1954. That made me feel better.  That was why I could not remember the bridge. Actually, on the internet, it said the bridge is now in need of repairs.
      So we took off to go to Fox Island and crossed the bridge to Fox Island. It is a very pretty Island.  There are trees everywhere. There are some very gorgeous homes. Donna found the houses that were where she and Laif had been building. The Resort that Horace and Sue had was right on the water. When we were driving around, we spotted the roof of what looked like the Lodge building that they had. You could tell it was a really old building.  We could not go down to the water.  All the driveways are private now.
      Then we went to the Museum on Fox Island.  It is really a nice little museum. We looked at the map they had there and it showed where the Ferry used to dock. There were a lot of interesting things to look at.  I enjoyed that little trip a lot.

Then, Saturday, April 18th, we left the house about 9AM to drive to Silverdale.  The Fashion Show was 11am but we were supposed to be there an hour early.  I wasn't even going to buy the outfit I modeled because I am not sure where I would wear it. After I went through the line, several ladies came up to me and said how nice I looked in it and that I just had to buy it. So I gave into peer pressure and bought it.  I do like that pants. They are a silky feeling material and they feel so good and fit so nice. I did buy some other clothes too.  As usual, I spent too much.  At first I hesitated about signing up for the show, but I did really enjoy it.  There were two more shows on Saturday but we wanted the early one.  I know they will have shows in the Fall. I could not believe how many people came besides the "models".  I stood in line a long time to pay for my clothes.

LABOR OF LOVE

"Born to Shop, forced to Work"

"If it wasn't for the Last Minute Nothing Would be Done"

I finally got my two small counted Cross stitch pictures finished.  Donna and I are going to use them as part of the gifts we will be bringing for our Secret person for our Quilting Retreat in May. I did all the cross stitch so now Donna has to do her part and make them into little pillows or something like that with maybe lace around the sides.  Next year I am going to think of something that is not as much work.  We will be bringing other items for our daily gifts for the Retreat.  We are each supposed to bring one handmade gift.  Donna and I got that started last year. Everyone thought it was nice to bring a homemade gift so now we are supposed to each bring something homemade.

 I am going to give myself a little rest from counted cross stitch and then I will work on the Wolf picture.  I just opened it today and got the threads ready. I have really been looking forward to doing this picture.  I am not particularly interested in wolves but this picture just caught my eye.