The Sewing Mom

I feel so bad. We’ve been talking with some friends of ours who relocated themselves from California to Texas about a year ago. Neither one of them had ever been through a major household move and were somewhat naive about how it works. They wound up hiring some company that I think they picked from out of the phone book and they themselves were not even present when the movers loaded the truck. Here we are, a year later, and they are still dumbfounded that they are missing a rather large portion of the household goods.

I wish they had just asked us for help. I’ve relocated enough in my lifetime that I could be considered an expert! The one thing I would love to have been able to tell them was to use MovingOrbit.com, they’re not just any old cheap truck rentals company. They’ll actually help you to get multiple estimates for moving, whether it’s local or interstate. Then you can choose which company you want to use based on the prices AND the protection they offer. Remember, it’s true what they say, you do get what you pay for.

I guess for our friends, it’s live and learn. This was one very difficult, and expensive, lesson to learn though.

I am very excited, I stopped in at the Viking Sewing center today and found out that they’re having a great class coming up in August.  They have a guest instructor coming (I can’t recall her name) and it’s a full day class.  I signed up!

For $40 I get a full day of sewing, all supplies included.  I also get to use one of the stores high end embroidery machines to make my project.  Lunch is also included.  The project will be to create a small lap quilt that includes machine embroidery and the binding.  I’m really looking forward to it.

I’m a beginning quilter, so this class will be fun for me.  I just hope I can keep up!