My buttons have been PUSHED!!!!!!!

Want a dose of me 'Keeping it Real'?   If you do, read on.

What pushes your buttons?  I have to admit that lots of things can irritate me, but one of the biggest is losing something.  I really try to keep track of my things.  You won't find me running around looking for car keys or my cell phone  well, occasionally I have to call my cell to find it.  Anyway,  I get really irritated when I have to search all over for something.  This past week I lost a folding step stool somewhere in the house.  That's right, you heard me.  I have looked  EH VA REE WHERE!  How could I lose something that big?  Seriously,  I can't figure it out.  I just got it a month or so ago when the new super duper Walmart opened near us.  AND, I remember trying to put it in the broom closet but it wouldn't fit so I put it somewhere else. For days now, every time I walk into a room I spend a few minutes eyeing all the places I may have stashed the step.  There are

 two closets upstairs  that are pretty crowded and I have opened their doors and peaked in all the corners without success.  I know I didn't stuff the step stool in the back of one of those closets but honestly it is no where else. I may have to empty them out......ugh! Every day when I get home from work, I ask my husband if he has found it.  He hasn't and I don't think he's looking any more either.  Meanwhile, I am so irritated about it that I can't STOP looking, even to the point of a couple tears last weekend which made me even more irritated. 

And there's more.  I finally quilted my daughters quilt (the SSP, the Wordplay quilt with her funny list).  I used all straight line quilting in a geometric design (I'll get a good picture this weekend and post it).  First, I used blue painter's tape to mark it.  That was time consuming and a pain because the quilt is big and the tape kept coming loose when I bunched the quilt.  So then I drew chalk lines.  That worked fine but was still time consuming.  If you remember, I'm lazy so I really wanted a simpler way.  Oh yeah!  How about using my seam guide?  The one that came with my walking foot.   Soooooooo, where was it?   Again I started looking all over.  I could picture the Bernina box it came in.  After searching for quite some time, all I found was the seam guide for my Brother sewing machine.  Check out these pictures of how I 'jerry rigged' it onto my Bernina.  Masking tape was involved.

 Can you see how high the seam guide is?  Ridiculous!   Why didn't I just use the Brother sewing machine?  I don't know, I really don't.  I was bugged that I couldn't find the right guide,  so I decided to go looking again, and I poked around in one of those 'crowded' closets. 

                          Ta-dah!!  I found it.  In the box I could 'see' in my head the whole time. 

With all the parts all neat and tidy inside.

See what I mean about having to organize my sewing room?  Since my daughter moved out, I have now put stuff into her closet and I am more unorganized than ever.  More is not necessarily better.  Such as more space.  I have proven my theory that we just 'expand' to fit our space.  Move to a bigger house and you accumulate more stuff/junk.  And then you can't find things, like a bleeping step stool!

Check out this little mess.

 I was reading Marlene's blog and she needed scraps of bright fabrics.  I offered her some and I went poking around my scraps.  Eeks!  I need to get rid of these!  Anybody want some?  I have another priority mailer that I can stuff full for somebody.  I am so sorry but it has to be in the US for the postage to be reasonable.  I did find some pre-cuts that I had put into baggies that I think I will use up to make a quick quilt.

Leave a comment if you want some scraps.  A lot of them are strips so let me know if you do or don't like strip scraps.  I will pick a random number and stuff the envelope for someone on Monday.

Now,  I gotta go look for a step stool.  Do you think a burglar would steal something like that and leave everything else?