Originally, I just wanted to tumble some of the rocks that the kids and I collected on our Michigan adventure this summer.
But then when I found the rock tumbler in the garage, I also found a neat little pile of rocks that I set next to it to tumble in some other, long-ago life.
When did I do such a thing? What distracted me from finishing?
Honestly, it could have been anytime in the past seven years, and anything from a global pandemic down to a cute cat walking up and asking for pets could have distracted me. Literally yesterday, while digging through my fabric bin searching for Halloween prints, I came across the flat sheet I bought to make bedroom curtains as a pandemic project. I had sewed the curtains for the bigger window, and then a squirrel ran by or I got hungry for a snack or something and I completely forgot about sewing the curtain for the smaller window... EVEN THOUGH I ALREADY HAD ALL THE MATERIALS!!!
So after I found the Halloween prints I was looking for, I sat down and finished sewing the sheet to the blackout fabric. It took maybe ten minutes, and that includes setting up the sewing machine and threading a bobbin.
Now that that's done, back to rock tumbling!
Here, then, is the combination of Michigan rocks and previously collected rocks that I added to the tumbler barrel:
And here they are rinsed off:
They look shinier than they are because they're still wet, but still, I'm very pleased with how much nicer they are already:
I had trouble getting all the grit rinsed out of every rocky little nook, so I put them back in the tumbler with a couple of squirts of dishwashing liquid and some more water--