“Bern”

I’m having ‘sew’ much fun getting to know the newest member of my sewing family!!!  A very reputable Bernina dealer in nearby Penn Yan gave her a good cleaning and tune-up and after a test drive this morning, I know she’s ready to help keep me in stitches! Many thanks to my SIL, Lindy, who made it possible for this treasure from Judy’s estate to come home with me.

Judy’s creative spirit could jitter-bug circles around mine. In time, Bern might teach me to waltz. All I can say is, Lord, strike up the band…

New Family ‘Mender’

There are no cats in our house but something is purring like a kitten today, and here ‘she’ is. I’m feeling nervously excited, getting acquainted with my new/old 1986 New Home Memory Craft 6000 (precursor to Janome brand) sewing machine, which I bought at a local thrift store for $5.99. She looked a little beat up and dirty, but after the shop’s volunteer confirmed that $5.99 was INDEED the price, I told him, “I’ll take a chance on her”.  I had my doubts that day I brought her home, plugged her in, and though she would boot-up, her only reply to me was what sounded like a tired groan when I stepped on her foot pedal. BUT, there are no groans today! After an appointment for cleaning and maintenance at the local Bernina Sewing Center, she is running beautifully. Lots of possibilities with this gal. I think she’s going to open up some new doors with the options she offers, and best of all, kick up the fun factor in my sewing room.  Here we go! 

Memory Maker

Dec 8
In other news…what a three-ringed circus it was making our afternoon coffee yesterday when we discovered that our former Mr. Coffee suddenly went kaput. I pulled out this vintage aluminum dripolator that I had stashed in the back of a kitchen cupboard, and between the three of us (me, Mike, and a YouTube video) we figured out how to use it enough to eek out two cups.
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The struggle with this very simple piece of kitchen memorabilia, made us both feel like a couple of dummies, but after yesterday’s fiasco, we were smart enough to know we had been beaten and needed to buy a new coffee maker. Chances are we will forget the new machine as quickly as we have forgotten all the former ones, but the little bit of a memory made over the little aluminum coffee maker, standing front and center in this photo, will stick with us long after this newly bought machine behind it decides its brewing days are over.