Wednesday I was at the quilt shop in Morris, IL for a meeting and picked up a couple bargains. There is enough of the one on the left for a backing, and yes, that is a Kaffe dot, both on sale for $4 a yard. I got all 2.75 yards of the dot.
A friend called yesterday and gave me the name of the sticky traps for spiders and crickets. I hope it will trap centipedes too. There are 4 in the package so one went under the steps coming down to the basement and the other 3 went under shelf units. As large as my basement is, I think I'll go back and get one more package.
I invested in one of the new rulers with diamond dust on one edge. It is supposed to sharpen your blade as you cut. I got the big one, 6.5" x 24.5". It has a gritty sound when you are cutting but not as bad as I had heard it described by some others. I'm anxious to do some cutting now after several days of reorganizing.
The first buds on the Christmas cactus are almost ready to open. This photo shows 2 plants and I think they may be 2 different shades of pink. A third one that has buds looks like it might be white. I have 4 out of 8 plants getting ready to bloom.