Thursday Mashup

As the Everlasting Queen of UFOs and the Last Minute, I'm finally working on the "lunch bag challenge" that is due for our Guild meeting this month. Of course it didn't dawn on me until this week that the meeting is a week early for our annual Christmas party. Ackckckckck. I have to have something to show by next Tuesday. And this couldn't come at a busier time... tonight is Historical Society pot luck, tomorrow night is Hexie Club cookie exchange, Saturday night is Holiday Lights, Sunday is Town Clerk party at my house and I still need to decorate, Tuesday is fire meeting and the Guild party, Wednesday is Board Meeting that I need to bake something for. I won't even mention cookie and candy days next weekend - ok so I mentioned them. Can I collapse in a heap now? Or do I need to wait?

Each lunchbag was supposed to have 3 to 5 FQs and we could add anything else to it. Mine came with 3 but I need to get another WOW FQ so I can make the red blocks. I have 2 choices at this point - finish what I have (12 blocks) and make a table runner or get another set of RWB to make 12 more blocks for more of a topper or picnic quilt. Heck, 24 blocks would even match my RWB bed quilt as a bed runner and would be smaller/easier to wash off the cat hair than the full quilt. LOL. Of course it might cover the half-nekked firemen and that would be a tragedy.

I've made a bit more progress on my Celtic Solstice mystery blocks, using them as leader/enders this week. Of course, this morning I just wanted to get all the right sides done since another clue will be posted tomorrow so I just sewed and sewed until I ran out of blue. Uh, hello? I guess I can't count. I'll do the left sides and see how far off that side is before I cut more...

So remember yesterday when I showed you my tower of audiobooks waiting to be listened to? Well today I have a question! Several years ago I challenged myself to read books that the titles and the authors followed the alphabet. Not in order mind you, just A thru Z by the end of the year. I'm thinking I would like to do another challenge next year and I am looking for suggestions.

I already read lots of series and yes I am OCD enough to track them in a binder and with Shelfari. I also use Shelfari to track how many books I read a year. The site has you set an annual reading goal and this year it was to read 71 books which is how many I read last year - I've finished the 70th book this morning so I am pretty confident I can meet that goal. I would like to find something challenging yet possible given the number of audiobooks I go thru a year. TIA for all your suggestions.

PS - it's already 63F today! The snow is mostly melted already and everything is a sopping mess. Don't worry, another cold front is coming this weekend...you know, in time for the party at my house...