Catalicious Block and Life Stuff

First things first. Here's my Catalicious August Brutus BOM. I'm glad it was a small one cause as it is it took me until last night to actually finish it. I'm being like Di this month and haven't even started my Gifts of Grace block. Isn't it nice to have company Di? Or this month did you finish and I didn't?

And yesterday my s-i-l send me a Martha Stewart page that has the neatest State Birds embroidery. Here's the URL if anyone else wants it. I've printed them all out and in it goes in my to do file. 

http://www.marthastewart.com/article/bird-embroidery-projects

It's sooo pretty.

Oh, and I got a photo of my wedding ring quilt that was in the quilt walk. They had it in the Yoga studio where there's lots of room.

It's kind of wrinkly but here's a close up of my hand embroidery. I think I'm doing pretty good for a first time. At least it really does look quilty. 

I've been sewing some for the bazaar bur things just aren't working for me. The microwave mitts didn't work and the tissue cozies ended up all different sizes. I did make a table centre mat and place mats the other day that aren't too bad. Not my style of fabric but maybe someone will like it, especially someone with kids. I'm going to finish them up today and I'll post them tomorrow I hope. 

Another couple of neat things are first of all I was invited by the site Lunch to post my thoughts and opinions on books I've read. The head of the site found my book blog and invited me which I thought was neat. Also on my book blog I found a comment, which I don't often find. It was from the author of the book I'd just read which was quite a surprise. 

Otherwise I'm having a really hard time the last while. We're supposed to go back East the middle of September. The plan was to go to Toronto to see my neice and then drive a rented car up to Ottawa to see my sister stopping to see my 94yo aunt in Coburg on the way. And then I started to think about things I haven't seen since I was a kid that I'd like to stop at - Niagara Falls, Old Fort Henry and Upper Canada Village for sure. So it would be a fun trip. 

I've had an upset stomach for the last week for no apparent reason and the last 4 nights I haven't been able to sleep. So I'd be up playing solitaire trying to get sleepy after lying in bed for 4 hours.  My brain is a freight train, I can't turn it off. And it isn't about the trip so I thought it wasn't related. I thought I was looking forward to it, aside from the airplane and driving on the 401. 

Last night it was about my hair dryer. It's old.. don't know how old but old. So I thought maybe I needed a new one but why buy a new one when the old one works? I only dry my hair a bit anyway, the cut I have just naturally lets my hair fall the way I want it to - no styling. I told myself to stop thinking about it so my brain switched to what fall trimming I need to get done. Then to how to better organize my kitchen cupboards. I was all over the map. I think God forgot to install an off switch when he made me. 

DH says it's all related to the trip. My anxiety and panic is kicking in and I'm trying to hard to ignore the trip that all this other stuff is gushing up that I feel anxious about. I hate being this way. To be honest I could be happy just living in this little town and never going anywhere. This is my comfort zone. Anything outside of it isn't. And it's not because I haven't tried to expand my boundaries. Sometimes it works, others it doesn't so it's never anything I can rely on. 

So, dunno. Guess I just need to take it one day at a time.