Arizona, Mesa - Sunday, January 18, 2015 - Val Vista Villages RV Resort

Thursday morning was filled with meetings.  First was the resort info meeting with coffee and donuts.  Then at noon we attended a meeting about Sky Med insurance.  We are already members but we just wanted to see if there were any changes to the program and to make sure we knew how our membership renewed in the future.  They also had a free pulled pork sandwich lunch.  We’ve never had to use this service but we have heard all kinds of stories from people who have used it and were very satisfied.  The main point of the program is that it “gets you home” in case of accident or illness even if it means you need to go by air ambulance.  It will also get your RV home if someone (me) can’t drive it.

Thursday evening we went up to the courtyard (this is where we work) to watch the entertainment for the evening – The Amazing Pianos.  There was quite a crowd.  They have musical entertainment of some type every day from 3-5.

 

 

On Friday I wanted to go to JoAnn Fabric to use a 50% off coupon that expired on Saturday.  The bad news is that everything I wanted was on sale so the coupon wouldn’t work on them, the good news is that they were 50% off on sale.  I mentioned to Greg that I wanted to look over their upholstery material because in the future I wanted to redo the valances that go around all of our windows.  We didn’t see anything that we liked but we did meet a lady who recommended we look at Mesa Sales.  She said from the outside it looked like a carpet store but inside they had a lot of upholstery material – boy, was she right.

We found something that appealed to both of us on the first aisle so we decided to take a yard of both of our choices home to see how they looked in the light there.  That led to taking down one of the valances – just to see how the material looked kind of draped around it.  From there we got really involved.

Greg found out that there were hundreds of staples in the original valances.

 

We set up a work station on the bed with our folding table across it so the material wouldn’t fall on the floor as we were working with it.  I used the old material as a pattern.  We found my old (40 yrs. or so) electric scissors in my sewing tote in the basement.  After Greg cleaned out the dust they worked just fine and made the cutting so much faster since we don’t seem to have a good pair of scissors in the house.

 

 

 I’ve never been able to figure out why they chose red and gold for the original valances.  We don’t have anything else red or gold in the coach except at Christmas time when we have our decorations up.  They didn’t look bad with the beige, brown and black in the other things that we have so we’ve put up with them.  Things changed when we did the tile wall behind the TV, it is made up of beige, grey and brown tones.  Our counters also have some grey in them so I wanted to find some way to use greys and browns in the valances.

 

This shows one of the new valances next to an old one.  We are really pleased with them.  The colors don’t’ show up distinctly in the picture, the stripes are two shades of beige and two shades of grey with some small black and white stripes.  We ended up doing two valances this weekend, only ten more to go.