Practical Joke, Hate Crime, or Strange Coincidence?

Last evening after returning from CVS to buy medicine for Matt (yes he's sick Again!), I found the above pictured 1/2 sock on my front lawn. This sock is not my sock, and not a sock owned by Rachel's Thread, and I'd never seen it before in my life. It was only the top (ankle) part of the sock, and the other half looks like it was cut off with scissors... as if someone was preparing this top to be used in a sock scarf. I have no idea where it came from... or what it means ... or what to do with it. It is currently sitting on a chair on our front porch. Once it is thoroughly rain-washed, I plan to bring it inside and wash it in HOT water. Then what? No idea. This is the strangest thing that has ever happened to Rachel's Thread.

Spring Cleaning

Wow. It's been almost a month since my last blog post... Sorry about that :\

Tonight I'm cleaning out my closet. Really just reorganizing, since it's hard for me to part with most things, like the dress I wore to my high school graduation, and things like that. I was able to put aside about 20 things for goodwill, and about 4 or 5 for Up-cycling, and the rest is now being squeezed back into my side of the closet. Our closet is a semi walk-in closet. Matt and I share the closet equally, and we share all the dresser drawers equally. I suppose that is fair, since although I own alot MORE clothes than him, each item takes up about 1/2 the space.

Matt went to the dr today and he has bronchitis! Poor guy. I made him some grilled cheese and now he's sleeping on the couch. I'm trying to wash my hands more than usual. I would rather not catch it, and alot of times I don't get sick when he's sick, which is a nice little immunity I've developed. Still I'll inevitably be around his germs since we sleep in the same bed, so we'll see what happens.

So back to the closet. I found a dollar in a pair of pants. Yay! But I'm pretty sad because even after all this cleaning, my favorite pink Steel Train shirt is missing. I always wear that shirt when we go to the beach, so my only hope is maybe it's in our beach bag. Basically the last thing to put away is all kinds of exercise clothes, which I never wear. I will reluctantly keep them under the assumption that someday I will become one of those people who goes to the gym. (I never will).

Did I mention I should be working on scarves? We're planning a scarf party in Michigan with our friends Bill and Rebecca who we will be visiting this weekend. I truly do work BEST at the last minute. At least I did have a productive procrastination night.

Back to work.

ps. here is something else I do when I am procrastinating:

Nothing But Monday

It occurred to me yesterday that I have been taking an unplanned, unintentional and unannounced break from Rachel's Thread. If you placed an order in the last few weeks (besides Xmas orders), or emailed me about something, please FORGIVE me :) I should be back on track this week!

In other news, the next Punk Rock Scarf Party is set for February 8th at Underground in Smithville, NJ. Who is coming??? Last time everyone who came out was entered to win a free scarf, and anyone who didn't win got an awesome consolation prize, which in many cases was a cool pair of socks! I'll probably do the same thing again, but I'm not exactly sure, so there may be some surprises.

Completely un-related, but my hubby Matt is getting ready to start up his resume writing business, 5 Star Resumes. He has years of experience working for the department of labor, and he can write a pretty great resume. If anyone out there is looking for that, here is his email matchorno@comcast.net . I suppose once he gets things up and running he will get something @ 5starrsumes.com, but anyway.

On the subject of websites, I've been working on a new website, and though it's still under construction, I thought it would be ok to give everyone a preview: coachlewis.org

OK. That is all for now.
Have a great Monday <3 Rachel

First things first...

I'm getting ready to design some sock scarves, so I thought I'd ask everyone a sock-related question.

What do you put on first, your pants or your socks?

This should be an easy one.... Just curious.

Pictures!

Here are pictures (finally) of some of the things I have been working on this month:

27!

My good friend Leigh is offering 27% off in her Etsy store today only (12/30/08) in honor of her 27th b-day! Why not get yourself a gift that promises a year full of surprises showing up at your doorstep every month: A Year Subscription to Leigh's ACEO's.

EXCITING!

hmmm?

Wondering where I have been? Well, aside from eating every chocolate and snack in sight, I've been filling lots of CUSTOM orders! I don't want to ruin any surprises so I'll wait til the weekend to post some pics :) There are alot of cool things, and even some exciting non-scarves. To date I have 6 scarves left to sew, and 1 non-scarf creation. For 10pm on 12/23, that doesn't seem too bad.