It's been a fairly enjoyable Labor Day, for me anyway - Bill is still coughing his lungs out but that is actually good at this point. He was already planning on staying home and working on pachinko machines and that is what he did, so he had a good day. He just is getting tired of the coughing. He mowed the front yard yesterday morning and the back this morning. He was careful not to exert himself and I kept bringing him water and making his stop for frequent rest breaks.
I felt much better yesterday although I still had a few moments of feeling tired. I feel much better today, I think I'm pretty much over the Wave/flu shot reaction. Saturday, I was kind of thinking it might be a long, drawn-out reaction like I sometimes have but it turned out not to be. Just Saturday mostly, I felt cruddy most of the day but I woke up feeling fine and have felt good all day. I saw Otter for a few minutes yesterday when I took some stuff to her, I met her at her store just before her shift started and she had a couple of minutes to talk. She had a headache off and on but that was it, her arm wasn't even as sore as it sometimes is.
I went to two thrift stores today, I found several doilies at the first one and nothing at the 2nd one but it was still fun. Although it was apparently "screaming, unwatched child day" at the second thrift! I bought sheer curtain yesterday and a sheer valance that is decorated with crochet-ish edging on the bottom. The curtain just reaches to the bottom of the window frame in the Guest/Front/Craft/YARN room and I'm going to attach the doilies to it to make my doily curtain. I tried pinning a few doilies together and they would have worked that way, but I wanted them to be more secure. The sheer curtains will work very well, they are a very pale off-white color and won't really show much with the doilies. The valance may show a little, but the edging will work very well. The valance doesn't actually match the curtains, it's a different brand and very slightly different in color but it will still work. I hadn't planned on a valance but the large doily/tablecloth will need a little more support as well. I think I'm going to pin the doilies on to the curtain at first, because I may move them around until I get them how I like them. But I am probably going to get out needle and thread and sew them on once I'm happy with their placement. I have a boatload of doilies, but I'm not sure if I have enough or not. When I was laying them out on the floor to get a general idea, it did not look like I have enough to make it as full as I want. But once I start placing them on the curtains, I may have more than enough. I'll figure that out as I go along.
Pictures will be posted on the craft blog at some point.
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