marquee is mexican for umbrella

 At our house marquee, is from this moment, a mexican word for umbrella.

There was a taking out of the van and a setting up of a pivotal marquee for a mexican party last weekend.

Ill begin by admitting it was such a well thought out night by the youngins with mexican food aplenty that they had been working on for days leading up to the event. Adelins salsa is an experience no-one should be denied. I really admire well thought out plans especially as its not really a foremost quality of mine.

And so as happenstance has it... in the aftermath someone forgot to put my marquee back in the van for wednesdays market. I was asked about it in the tidy up the next day but I was busy sewing, and then I really forgot.

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Tuesday night, I stayed an hour away from home in Mornington with a close friend down from Sydney who wants to learn how to do markets too. (Someone needs to alert her that I cant teach anyone a thing.) 

Anyhow, we were happily spending the evening finishing a few things, sewing and catching up, and after leaving Esther to her adrenalin fueled machining at 3am I sat bolt upright in bed remembering the forgotten marquee. 

One trip out to the van to confirm and a rough plan to visit Bunnings to buy an umbrella in the morning I finally fell asleep getting a couple of hours.

Subsequently im not having a good day today. Im tired and a bit sunburnt.

I had highlights during the day with Eleesa coming to visit, blessing me with her quilt makings to juice up the stall a bit and indulging me by trying on some new silk scarf tops only to find it difficult to decide on the blue or the red? 

She chose the red. 

 All I can think about right this moment is that I need to get stuck into some serious patchworking to realign my something-or-other when I work out what needs resetting but I simply have no energy. There might be Kentucky Fried Chicken for dinner to wallow.

im trying to get organised today

Today im trying to get organised to sew in a production line. 

Ive been putting everything on hold while I worked on the samples of bags, cushion cover choices,

etsy orders, a bit of research (otherwise known as shopping), market bookings,

opening a facebook page for Little Tree Kids (in the side listing if you want to 'follow me'), as well

as trying to keep up with the housework, which I failed to do.

My washing pile lives on the couch and hasnt been folded for around two weeks and I do between one and three loads a day, taking weekends off hopefully, so that makes roughly 20 loads im staring at. Yay for me.

MrTL came home from work yesterday and started folding it to be nice but 

I had to stop him cos I couldnt handle the guilt. I will do it. Folding washing is simply the

last thing on a very long list.

The first thing ive done today is finally place the cushions I made here in The Textured Leaf on etsy.

Ive discovered this frees up space, they are in the shop now and out of my head.

I hope to add some more before the end of the week for pure feel good factor, but we'll see.

This is a bit of a boring post, not many pictures just me clearing my thoughts, more like a journal entry,

 so apologies. Ive even mentioned washing! The shame.

The first two bags have homes so Ill need to sew the others now before the weekend.

Did I mention yesterday im doing two markets this weekend now?

MonetPaisley and DorothyBills will be there too so make sure you say hi if youre there on the day.

We'd love to meet you.

We'll be at the Mornington Twilight Market on saturday

 and of course the Mulgrave Makers Market sunday.