Company's Coming

I love it when one of my sewing groups come to my house! My small group (Nimble Thimbles) has 8 ladies in it counting me and we take turns being the hostess. Sometimes we serve lunch and sometimes we go out for lunch and have dessert at home while we're sewing. Wednesday is the day I get to have it here and I can hardly wait. We're going out for lunch this time and thank goodness my weigh in time at Weight Watchers is before I eat lunch and dessert! I have no idea what dessert I'm going to serve but if I had a really good Weight Watchers recipe I'd use that - anyone have any good diet dessert recipes? That's probably an oxymoron but a girl can try. :) These women are special to me - special friends who are almost sisters. They hold my heart if you know what I mean. So I like to do a few special things before they come - things I don't do in my daily or weekly cleaning. Not that they care! But because they are special I like to do a few little things to get ready for them. I straighten up my "nest." Yes, this really is straightened up so you can imagine what it looks like normally! My stitching stuff is here, there, and everywhere. On the far side of my chair you can see a basket with ziplock bags in it - each bag has a ready-to-stitch hand project. There's also a basket on the floor that has embroidery floss and books, clips to hold binding in place, tissues, etc. Stuff I need when I'm going to be stitching for a while just seems to collect there. The plastic container on the ottoman holds all my Valdani threads; well, except for the duplicate colors that are favorites that I don't ever want to run out of. They're in the basket on the floor. I'm a little paranoid about my thread I guess. And there are quilt magazines and books and a thread catcher and a good Ott light and a clock and....

In the kitchen I windexed the jars that hold my flour, sugar, rice, tea, etc.

And I washed the red colander that adds a splash of color on the cabinet.

And this little area under the ice and water spouts...cleaned it with q tips! I hate this thing in case any of you manufacturers are reading this. It isn't removable like my last one was and it's the devil to clean.

I even windexed these pan lids! Of course if I cooked often enough they'd be washed and wouldn't collect dust but as much as I love my friends I'm not cooking more even for them. :)

What do you do when company's coming?