New Adventures

A couple of new additions to my life this week:

• I started a volunteer job working at a thrift shop one day a week.
• and I finally broke down and bought a Kindle.

The thrift shop is sponsored by the church I occasionally attend and is run by an all volunteer group.  Except for the rent they pay and a few small expenses, all the money they make go to local charities.  I love thrift shops!  At least half of the clothes in my closet came from a thrift shop, so I expected I'd come home with some new treasures.  Not true.  It was so busy, I didn't have time to shop.  So I spent a grand total of $1.25; 3 paperback books and a jumper for my grand daughter.  Maybe next week.

In a moment of weakness, I ordered a Kindle.  I read a lot.  Besides library books I buy paperbacks at thrift shops and trade them with my daughter who also loves mysteries.  But on my last trip, I ran out of things to read.  I didn't take any books on the cruise with me, finished the one I checked out of the ship's library, and knew I didn't have time to read another whole book before the end of the cruise.  I started thinking about getting a Kindle.  

I have resisted this electronic reading thing for a while, but now I have committed to it.  I haven't read a book on it yet, but I downloaded one.   So today I decided to make a holder for the Kindle.   I thought I might do a tutorial on the holder, but I'm not happy with the results.  It looks a little sloppy, so I'll try again at a later date and maybe do the tutorial then.

Here is the outside.

This is the inside, before I sewed on the velcro closure.

This is a ceramic button I bought on my first trip to Budapest.  It's been sitting in my button box since I got it and I had no idea what to do with it.  When I was looking for a large button to cover the stitching from the velcro, I found it and decided it would look cute.  After all, my name is Kitty.