February Report Card ~ March Goals

Can you believe it is March already?  It did not come in like a lion, but I still hope it goes out like a lamb! 

I guess it's time for my February report card!

• go through my mound of paperwork that needs to be filed ~ DONE
• start on my taxes (I always put this off until the last minute) ~ JUST BARELY
• clean the basement (now my idea of a clean basement and your idea may be totally different!) ~ AS GOOD AS IT GETS
• clean the bottom of my closet (how does it end up looking like that?) ~ LOOK!  THERE'S HARDWOOD on the FLOOR!

•  bind and label the little mats that are hooked ~ DONE
• construct the Valentine pin keep (hopefully before Valentine's day . . . lol!) ~ I got lazy and just finished it in to a little mat but it was sent to my friend BEFORE Valentine's Day 

•  hook a little mat for a friend ~ DONE and DELIVERED

• make a birthday gift for a friend~SORRY:( This gift is going to be really late. I have an idea what to make and that's all the further I've gotten.
• have another give-away ~ this is in progress
•  FINISH MY HORSE RUG!!! (at least the hooking part) ~  I DID IT ~ WOO HOO!!!  I finished hooking it last Thursday at That'll Do Farm.   I feel as if a weight has been lifted.  It only took me eleven and a half months!!!  (Peanut wanted to help show it off!)

Now it's time for my March goals.

• make that birthday gift I didn't make last month
• finish my taxes and get them mailed
• bind my horse rug
• make a "wool hookin' tools case" (a pattern by Jenifer Gaston of the Woolen Willow)
• finish hooking this little tulip mat (once again, Peanut insisted in being in the picture!)

• OK.  Now I'm really going out on a limb here.  Hook this Maggie B rug from her book "With These Hands".  The finished size is 24 1/2" x 17" and for me to hook that in a month would be a MAJOR accomplishment MIRACLE!

• purge 4000 (yes, four thousand) emails from my in box.  Why don't I just delete them as they come in???

Last Thursday at the Farm, Andrea also finished her rug - again!  She finished it a number of months ago but was not happy with her needle-felted sheep, so she re-hooked using cria tips, which I believe is the first shearing from a baby alpaca.  The picture does not do justice to the stone chimney!

Last evening I met two local hookers for the first time.  Char is working on only her second rug and Stacy has finished quite a few.  Another local hooker was supposed to come, also, but unfortunately with all the flooding in the county yesterday, she had to attend to a flooded basement.  I didn't even think to get out my camera :(

Thanks to everyone who is spreading the word about my latest give-away. 

Happy Hooking!

Pug hugs :)
Lauren