Do you have a "Bucket List"?

This may seem like it’s coming out of left field but as I drove to work this morning I was listening to a CD and I started thinking about things I would like to learn how to do. I would like to be able to sing just one song really well. (you have to know that when I was in the choir at church as a youth they told me to stand in the back and hum). I have little confidence that I will be able to accomplish the singing thing. I would like to learn how to play the guitar. We do a lot of camping and playing the guitar around the campfire is something that I would like to be able to do.

Last week I went out looking for new curtains for my kitchen. I really just need valences for one window and a sliding glass door. I found just what I was looking for at Country Curtains they were perfect for my décor. Golden colored with a rooster print in brick red. I loved them. I needed to buy 5 valances, when I got to the store I found out that the valances were $22 each. I just couldn’t do it. I couldn’t justify spending over $100 on valances. I decided to check out a fabric store in the next town that I had driven by several times. I went in and asked the owner if she had any fabric with roosters on it and she pointed me in the direction of the Waverly Fabrics along the wall. I found almost the identical fabric for $11 a yard. I have not sewed anything in several years and I do not own a sewing machine. The owner of the fabric store helped me figure out how much fabric I would need and she helped me pick out the thread. I told her I was going home to attempt to sew these curtains by hand. She told me about walk in sewing classes on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evening from 6 to 8 that she runs and how she would help me make the valences. The cost of the class is $10. I was so excited to get started. I went Tuesday night on my way home from work and did all the cutting and some of the sewing. Last night (Wednesday) I went back and did more of the sewing and I am almost done. I may have been done already if I had been doing them on my own but Laurel, the owner of the fabric store, is a bit of a perfectionist and I had lots of opportunities to get acquainted with my seem ripper. If the seem wasn’t just so I had to take it out and do it again. My valances are going to be beautiful when they are done. This is a picture of the material

I’ve met some nice people at the Fabric store in the classes and many of them are working on quilts. That is what I want to do next. So I will add learn how to quilt to my bucket list too.

I want chickens. I imagine that may sound strange to some people but I want to have a few chickens in my backyard. My husband thinks I have gone round the bend and he wants me to explain why I want chickens. I just think it would be cool and the kids will think it’s neat too. I want to get them for Easter weekend as a surprise for the kids. I have been reading as much as I can find on the internet about raising chickens and I have some good ideas about building a small chicken coop. I will be ready by Easter for the chickens to arrive. Now I just have to figure out where to buy them. That’s all for now.

It’s time for me to put my dreams and wishes away and do the work that needs to be done. I am dealing with a difficult situation with my son and he takes up a lot of my energy right now. Be well everyone.