Having a schedule!

As much as I make light of being a scheduling flake (and I am!) I have discovered the having ONE thing in the week that is CEMENTED on the calender does a lot for my sanity. And sure, my husband and kids think that making sure to get a blog entry done on a Monday morning isn't really a "real" priority. But I have found that I have gotten more, other things done during the week. And my hubby really likes it when he doesn't have to cook because I forgot about dinner.  So maybe it is a "silly" thing to do, but as long as dinner is in the oven by 5, it's all good. Oh, and everyone likes that fact that I have finished things!  I have to finish things before I can post about finishing them! :)

This week the one and only finished item is......a piano bench cover!

This poor thing sat in a box of school photos (?) for a couple of years.  I have a lot of those kinds of projects to finish.  We have had the piano since we moved into the house, and although it is so out of tune that the piano man said it was a waste to repair it, we still love it.  It is an antique upright that was used in the armory my dad worked at most of my childhood.  The armory had been a firehouse (back when there were stables for the fire horses), and a bar in previous years (like the early 1900's).  My sister and I had tons of fun on the ramp that the bartenders rolled the barrels up and down. (There were no bartenders or barrels by the time Daddy was stationed there)  What a piece of history!  In our rec room!  But we have kids that love to tinkle (and bang) on the piano, and some of them insist on carrying a pocket knife, bottle openers, and/or duct tape in their back pocket.  So I thought this would be some protection for the bench.  I used a 2.5 inch thimble block and just cut a huge pile of them out of scraps and did really big stipple quilting all over.  I added elastic to keep it on the bench.  I think with out that, it would be on the floor as cats and kids messed with the piano.

These are this week's star blocks.  I only wanted to get 4 a week done, but I used these as leaders and enders for the bench cover, so I finished quite a few .  And a huge pile of some started that I hope to finish up this week.  AND there is finally a (small) difference in the scrap bin.  Three, count 'em 3!, 1.5 gallon ziplock backs of fabric are GONE!!!  Well, used anyways.  And I got a "fun thing" for being so diligent and resourceful....a obelisk for the garden!  It will look gorgeous when the beans start coming up and winding around it.  If we ever get planting weather!

I have no idea what I am working on this week.  I have some ideas and some unfinished projects, nothing really pulling at me to finish it.  We'll see....maybe something will come to me as I gear up for spring cleaning!