A Little Bit of This, a Little Bit of That

Sorry, still no photos of my fabulous creations, not even the rockin' skirt I made from a small piece of watercolor stretch sateen (I guess) from G Street's THE WALL using a pretraced Burda pattern that garnered me more compliments than everything else I've made put together (hmmmm?) and caused me to blow my promise of no more run on sentances right out the window.  Whoof!
Over on SG there was a discussion by a relative new comer over whether she needed a serger or not.  Now I refrained from just screaming out "YES! of course you need a new sewing **insert any item here**" and just read along.  She was finally convinced even without my obviously logical direction and ordered a Brother 1034D from Amazon for $198 - I get free shipping with my Prime membership.  It arrived on Friday - just in time for my DH to witness my "yet another piece of stuff to pile up in the sewing room" but when he saw the price realized, I guess, that he cared even less about it than before - and that was pretty dang little.  Anywho - it's a sweet little machine.  Came threaded straight out of the box, but of course I managed to unthread it pretty much immediately, but it threads really easily and I can now do it in about 2 minutes start to finish - faster than tying off old threads.  It has 2 videos, couple of extra feet, the trim trap and a (really smelly plastic) cover.  My plan is to set up the Bernina to coverstich - the Brother is strictly a SERGER (does to rolled hems, though).  First attempt at threading the Bernina to do this is a fail.  MUST KEEP TRYING.
The front yard is now all mulched, weed and feeded, and mowed.  The back is almost done - needs a few more bags of mulch and annuals planted in the newly dug out and dirt replaced area.  We used the dug up clay to fill in under the back steps.  The deck has been washed down, the storage shed straightend up and half a bottle of Advil downed.  I maybe glad to be back at work to rest a bit.  No, I take that back.  I'm not.
We made an amazing Indian chicken dish for dinner on Saturday night, I've only attempted a curry once and it was dissapointing.  This wasn't a curry but it was lick the plate good and it was a blast to cook in our new kitchen together.  WHAT?!?  I forgot to tell you we remodeled the kitchen?  Bad Bad BeeBee.  Let me see if I can cobble together some photos of the before and after for you, later - my browser on this computer doesn't really play well with Blogger.
And the dog is clean, my car repaired (long, boring, maintence story that I will spare you), my sewing room straighten up to better showcase my new serger, new yogurt in the fridge and the grocery shopping done.  I feel so accomplished.