Green Fair at Work

Yesterday was the 2nd Annual Green Fair at my work place.  We have lots of events at my office, but the Green Fair is one of my favorite.  My work promotes Green living throughout the 14 floors of office space.  We recycle paper, plastic, and compost left over food in our cafeteria.  Our cleaning crew uses green cleaning products.  We have a green team to identify and develop additional green options throughout our building.  Recently we had a Farmers Market in our cafeteria during the afternoon break hour.

Greenability Magazine was at last years Green Fair.  After learning about Greenability and previewing a couple of issues, I started to subscribe to this fabulous magazine!   I always look forward to the next issue.  The stories inside are about individuals and businesses sharing their green lifestyles.  It is a great resource for green products, how to become more green and events throughout Kansas City.  Today I had a wonderful visited with Mary Lynn Coulson and Janie Chen with Greenability.

I told Mary Lynn about my green projects I have posted on this blog.  I repurpose T-shirts for my grandson as in 4th of July T and although I didn't mention in the Dinosaur blog, I repurposed an old T-shirt to make the shirt of this dinosaur T.  In this blog I have lots of grandson pictures but I also display a Tennis T-shirt that was repurposed.  I have made toys from left over scraps of fabric and have also made napkins out of older button down Abercrombie shirts.  It has been fun to finally find a purpose for  clothing I felt was too good to give away.  I am constantly on the look out for additional ideas.  My best ideas come from my daughter-in-law.  

Our Green Fair

We had window vendors, home auditors, car dealers, foam insulation specialist, solar products, and Ripple Glass, plus many other Green businesses.   

After visiting the Green Fair, I decided I needed to add Green Links on my blog.  So will start with a couple but will continue to add more.

Sunday Morning Bliss

I sit here this morning being inspired by blogs, fashion, daily photos and crafters.  I wish I had more time or maybe it is more organized to accomplish everything it seems these bloggers accomplish.  How do they do it?

I work full time in an automation support environment.  I am involved with projects that will eventually downsize my position.  I hope once this next year and a half is completed, that I will still have a job.  The work pace is fast, I mean extremely fast.  I learn, write scripts, do test plans, am a tester, lead teams, take training, get certifications, attend meetings, develop and provide training and then all too quickly get involved into the next project.  My last project went into production yesterday morning.  Even though the last two days were my days off, I have worked from home.  I can't say that 100% of my time was working but my mind was on work 100% of the time.  I ran testing scripts (using QTP) and ran errands, went to dog training and attended conference calls.  Today is the first morning in over a month that I have not had many things about work on my mind.  I was going to go to National Tire and Battery for tires first thing this morning (to minimize the wait)  But I cannot think or make any decision this morning.

I took a 2 mile walk and started the laundry, but I am relaxing in a state of peacefulness with a cup of coffee.  As much as I hate sitting and waiting at a car repair shop, I am putting it off one more week and maybe another morning I will try to beat the wait.  I am exhausted.

I did the thing I love to do, browse blogs and am adding to my bookmarks and will update my blog list.

Regina

Liberty Memorial - Kansas City, MO

My drive to work each morning takes me right by the Liberty Memorial.  The National World War I Museum is housed at the base of the Memorial.  I am fortunate to work right next to the Memorial inside Penn Valley Park  There is a 1/2 mile drive up to the Memorial and trails all throughout the Park.  (Also a very popular dog park.)  During spring and fall I enjoy these walks during my lunch hour.  Summers are just too hot...  Speaking of heat, I will spend this weekend running around in the heat, but will try to beat it indoors.

Regina

Grandsons visit

Little E and his parents visited last weekend.  E has grown and matured so much since I last saw him over Memorial weekend.  He is such a happy go lucky fellow.  His eyes never stop looking at all the different objects.  He absorbs them all and quickly identifies which he wants to touch and feel.  He was a joy to have in my home.  He would walk between the tables, sofa, floor lamps and patio windows with such ease but always made sure he was holding on to something.  I would hold and lean the floor lamp so he could use as support (although little did he realize it moved with him)

These were my parents aluminum coasters, one of their wedding gifts from 1951.  They are dented and not used but I like having them around.  E loved the sound they made, they quickly became his favorite toy for the weekend.  

I love, love, love this little boy.  Just want to smother him with hugs and kisses.

Regina

Happy 4th of July

Today is rainy in Kansas City but the barbecues and fireworks will still liven up the day.  What a great day when our countries celebrates it's birthday.  For weeks the celebration has been under way.  All the communities around KC have their own festivals and celebrations.  We live in a great nation!

For my grandson, I repurposed a T shirt that was a bit baggy and sloppy on me.

 Using an Octobre pattern, I cut the flag out of the original T shirt, I reused the sleeves and ribbing also. I have fabric left over for another T.    I should have gone to the store and bought a lighter shade of grey thread.  I have been trying to use up thread I already have.  But the zigzag around the ribbing stands out more than I had hoped.

Regina