I've got a lot to do today.  Art class is at 1:00.  Haircut at 4:45. Multiple errands to run in between.  I hope today's outing is more successful than yesterday's outing.  

Yesterday morning, I went to the hobby store in search of a few art supplies I needed and a craft project I could do in the car on tomorrow's road trip.  The store was unusually crowded, and part of the crowd was running, screaming, crying children, so I did a cursory tour of the store, got my necessities, and moved on.  Didn't find anything to do in the car.  :-\

Next stop, grocery store to get road-trip snacks and cream for the potato soup I intended to make for dinner.  It, too, was crawling with people, many of whom were pushing baskets filled with CASES of food - peanut butter, jelly, tomato sauce, pasta - evidently a group re-stocking its food pantry in light of the government shut-down.    There wasn't any cream.  I grabbed a ready-to-cook chicken pot pie and got out of there as soon as I could. 

This morning, I've been packing for the road trip.  My art supply bag is bulging with stuff for today's class and things I might need while I kill time at the hotel.  I still have to hunt up all my gadgets - laptop, Kindle, chargers.  I hate lugging all of this stuff, but I would go nuts with nothing to do.  

If I would get busy after my haircut, I could come up with something to do in the car.  You might remember that I started a lavender quilt a few months ago.  The original plan was to make 24 hexagon flower blocks and 24 blocks using a printed fabric panel.

I've finished all of the hexagon flower blocks, and now I'm re-thinking the printed panel blocks.  They bore me a little bit, even though that little panel is the very thing that made me start this quilt.  

I'm also considering using this big embroidered bee:

The bee in the picture fits a 4" x 4" hoop.  I digitized this bee, myself, so it can be as big or as small as I want, and I can add things to it, like flowers or a honeycomb background.  

Maybe I can figure this out on my laptop while we're on the road.  The Husband's fancy new truck has an electrical outlet, so I should not have to worry about my battery going dead.  :-)