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Friday, July 29, 2005
Quilt Store Fridays
Each Friday between 10:00 A.M. and 2:00 P.M., cleaning ladies move in here to do a bit of domestic archaeology...hunt for the legendary floor. While that happens, we visit one of many quaint local quilt stores. Now, for the uninitiated, a quilt store may or may not sell finished quilts. These do not. They display fabrics and provide inspirational examples of sewing projects...wearable art, pillows, quilts, etc. Lydia and I absolutely love these places. It is a tradition that we slowly crawl through quilt stores on cleaning lady days.
The kids....heh, heh. Each store, knowing that women with kids are their best customers, provides a playing-with-toys area...some very nice ones. So the kids go along and they don't complain too vigorously. That said, let me add that they wish we were doing something else. However, since all the rest of our vacation time is devoted to their fun and education, Lydia and I feel that while we "do" quilt stores, those kids can just suck it up and be little soldiers. Today I bought such beautiful fabrics, I had to keep opening the packages and peeking at my purchases all the way home. YUM!!!! I love beautiful fabric!!!!
The other nice feature of Quilt Store Fridays is that when re get back home and open the door, everything smells lovely, shines, sparkles, is in order...it's all good.
Then we go out to the beach and the kids are happy, too.
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