Merry Christmas

    I know this is a little early but I know that you will forgive me for posting early.  I haven't been working on anything but I did get some new Aida cloth in.  It is 11 count.  I haven't used that size before so we'll see how it goes. 

   I just wanted to say I hope you all have a Merry Christmas .  Thank you all for reading my blog.  It keeps me going and I hope that you might get some small enjoyment from reading it.

Christmas from Dan

 Hello my friends.  

                    Dan just came back from his trip to see his friends and they gave him a lot of food so he split it with me.  It will last me quite a bit.  I was happy to see the Knorr sides because you can use them in a lot of recipes.

He also gave me am amber necklace for my SCA outfit.  He loves amber so I am surprise when he gave it to me.  I think it will look great on my outfit.  This is a sneak peek.

     I managed to put up some of my winter decorations so hello and happy holidays from the reindeers!

  The other cute pix I have is of Shalom.  Shalom drives for Amazon (independent driver) and when he was picking up a car load of deliveries, the counter person said he looked cold.  He said that he lost his winter hat and hasn't been able to replace it yet.  So she gave him a hat to wear.  He rolled his eyes and then said thank you and went on to do his deliveries.  He showed me and grumbled but you know what?  He has been wearing it every day.  I think he secretly likes it.

I hope you all have a wonderful day/night.  Hugs to all.

December 11, 2025

   The year is almost over.  Can yo believe it?  How is everybody doing?

   Hopefully this will post.  My internet connection has been very spotty the last couple of days.  That also shut down my mind.  I have no energy now (ok, perhaps cold weather had something to do with that) and so far I haven't found where my energy went.

   Did I tell you that Dan gave me a dryer for Christmas?  He and Zak took it back because it wasn't working although it worked at the store.  That meant they brought it back.  Shalom had his electrician come out today to look at it.  He says that Shalom needs to replace the fuse which he hopes to get to this week.  It never is  dull moment here.

   I did something that I haven't done in ages.  I bought a gam.  It is called Shut the Box and it came in.  It can be played with one person up to four people.  

   I have been having fun playing it.  That also got me in the mood to play Yahtzee so I have also been playing that in my down time.  By down time I actually mean by time that I didn't feel like anything else. That also has been a lot.  LOL.

  I have also been making egg nog for Dan and Shalom.  It its that time of year where cooking takes over rafting since I give food out for presents.  I am getting close to the time when I will get back to sewing.    First up with probably be the sewing machine table topper/candle mat.  I have decided what I will do for the borders so I can get past that stumbling block.

  

   So that means tomorrow I wall get some stuff set up.  I have to get things reedy for the cold spell that is coming in over the weekend,  Making sure that the battery for my heated vest (thank you Dan) is charged up.  I will make sure that I have the heaters all set up for the evenings to help keep the water pipes from freezing.  Nothing new there.  Stuff that I do every night in the winter time.  

   

   I don't have much else to report except that I have some nice new bookmarks and scissors to go with the new needle minder.  So much to consider and get somewhat organized.  I'll let you know how it goes.

   I hope everybody has a great day/night.  Stay safe out there.

Happy Thanksgiving

    That's it.  I just wanted to wish you all a safe and Happy Thanksgiving.  I am thankful for all of you and wish you a safe and wonderful day.

Am I cleaning or just ignoring...

    That is the true question.  Am I cleaning or am I putting on blinders.  I am tired of a sewing room where I can't easily find stuff.  Soooo, this is my plan.  I am going to just stuff everything smaller than a sewing machine into a plastic bag.  I have plenty of Walmart plastic bags from grocery shopping so I am using them.  NOW, those bags will be stuff with things that were on my table.  Then once a day or at minimum once a week, I will take one bag and thoroughly go through it and put things where they belong.  This will probably be like a year long project (or longer) but slow progress is better than no progress.

   So another thing I worked on today was digging out my Christmas cards and started to address them.  I have addressed around five.  They will be sent out early December.  I have others I will probably send out if I get a card from them.  My card sending has whittled down so I won't have that much more to send out.

  Now I have to work on Christmas presents for my SCA group.  I think I might try to do something as a small medallion or ornament.  I am thinking of a white background and I will stamp a black raven on the front.  I might do a red leather blanket stitch around it to stitch it together.  I might have to get more leather since I only have a minimal amount of red thread. The only problem is I am running out of time.  I need to get around 10 done by December 7th.  Wish me luck.  :)

    

It's decision time...

    The worst part of a project is when you have to make a decision.  For e that is.  Maybe it is not so bad for you.  I finished stitching a center for a small wall hanging that I am working on and that means now I have to come up with material for borders.  The first picture is the actual stitching and the second pix is showing some of the option for a border.  I am leaning towards the flower border but I'm not sure.  I will think on it a bit longer.  What do you think?

   I will have to get used to it.  It is a bit more "rough" than I usually like but for some reason it drew me in.  

   That is all  I have to report on right now.  Tomorrow will be Dan's and my Thanksgiving.  This year we are going to go out to eat.  It will be BBQ this time .  I little different but that is ok.  IT is good sometimes to change things up.  The good part is that II already have my Christmas dinner all planned out too.  Now I just have to have time to get to  do it.

   I hope everybody has a great day.  Hugs to all!

A FINISH!

 This is just a quick note to say that I FINALLY have a FINISH!  Yes the wall hanging is done and hanging up on the wall.  I will have to work on getting the chalk markings removed because they are being stubborn.  It still looks ok.  I love the fabric that I used on the back and wrapped around to the front for the binding.  The binding really blends in but also stands out a bit...if that made sense.  That is all I have to report.  Time to rest the hands and put away groceries.  Have a great day everybody!  Love ya all!

The backing fabric

The finished wall hanging using the backing fabric as the binding.  :)

I'm tired

    I am home now from the SCA event that Dan and I went to.  It was a great day and Dan and I enjoyed it.  I wore my new Viking apron dress and I am happy to report that I approximately 6-10 people said they liked my outfit.  These were people I had never met before so was VERY happy about that.  Another person, who had Dan had approached with a question, gave me some advise on what to do about the straps of my apron dress since they keep falling off my shoulder.  

     Since this was the changing of guard, to put it in non SCA terms, there was a fund raiser.  Dan bought me a etched glass from the fund raiser.   He was in his element.  It had been awhile since he met some of the people and they all remembered him and he needed to hear that.

   This will be a short post.  I need to get back in bed.  As I was getting things set up to work on the new mini wall hanging/candle at, my chair started to move back on me in the middle of me sitting down.  Yep, you guessed it.  I fell and took a tumble.  It took me a bit to get back up.  The thing I love about the way the chair moves now, worked against me.  I went down pretty hard and then, m of course, had trouble getting back up.  The other chairs in the area were:  my rocking chair, and the two chairs that caused the fall.    Finally I thought of the couch and the my desk chair.  That had the same wheels that caused the problem but it was pushed against my chest under the a/c unit so it wasn't going anywhere.  That is how I got back up.  It is 11:19 p.m. and FINALLY don't feel as bad.  I am sure tomorrow will be a bad day.  The bruises are going to start to come out so I'll really see how it is.  Dan said he would call me tomorrow to make sure that I can move around and won't need to go see the doctor.  :)

  That is all for now.  I'll try to go back to bed and see if I can get some sleep before the rain come.

   I hope everybody has  great day!

Catch up Day

    Wow!  I hadn't realized it had been so long since I posted.  Oops.

     So what have I been up to?   Not much but still it seems like a lot.  Most of the time I have been working on SCA outfit.  Dan and I are going to an SCA event next week.  I think I am finally ready for my outfit.  So here are some pix of it.

     The bag is all stitched down but I didn't have a separate pix of how it looks done.  It is pretty easy to see how it will look like.  I also attended an arts and sciences gathering to find out how to do a Viking hood.

  Of course George, my craft guardian dragon was jealous and I had to make him one also.

  Now that I feel confident enough to make an Official one for my SCA outfit.  It will be done in red and black (Ravenshold colors).  The black has flecks of silver in it and the maroon fabric matches my Viking Apron  perfectly.   

  Besides concentrating on the SCA outfit, I have finished my flower wall hanging.

   That is all to report this time.  I hope you have fun and I will catch up you later.

CATCH-UP DAY

    Notice that  said catch up and not ketchup?  Although a ketchup day sounds like it could be fun.  

This will be a short post since my back is still sore.  After posting I will go and lay down again  and take some ibuprofen.  Before that I have some pictures for you to see.  First up are the thee blocks that Deb sent me.  Some of you said you missed when I shared them before so here are the three finished products.  The top one is more of a candle mat or an extra large mug rug for when I have more than one cookie.  :)  

     Next is when I decided to organize my charm packs.  I wanted to do something with them and sorting them was the first step. 

 

    Then, after that, I pulled out my blues and whites.  I was going to make a charm pack wall hanging.  I had enough white blocks which I trimmed to 4 1/2 inches  went up on the wall and then I had to start cutting blues and sewing them together,.  Like in all quilting, we hurry up to cut so we can just sew things back together again.  LOL.  This will give you an idea of what it might look like.  I need to get more straight pins but that won't take me long,

    That's about it.  I hope everybody  takes care and has a wonderful day.

Progress....

    This is just a quick post.  I just wanted to post what I have accomplished today.  Yeah, it's not much in one aspect but it is a lot in another aspect.

   Without further ado, here is what I accomplished so far today ...

- Made 3 ingredient sloppy joes

- Made Salsa dip (just sour cream and salsa mixed  together but I like it as a quick dip for crackers).

- Boiled potatoes (had some that needed to be cooked or thrown out).

- Made applesauce chicken

- Made Hobo soup. The chicken breasts that I had to use came with the bones so I separated the chicken from the bones and then decided to make a soup.  We used to call it Hobo Soup because somehow giving it that name made it an adventure to eat.  Mom was so sneaky.  She would take her left overs and put them into a soup.  It became a guessing game for us.  So today's Hobo Soup had deboned chicken, shredded carrots, a couple of hotdogs (like I said - leftovers), some spices, some rigatoni and some mashed potato flakes to thicken it.

- Later tonight or tomorrow I will make quickie chickie. 

    

- I  even did my dishes.

   Now that I have my cooking mostly done, I can go and pull out the fabric and batting to sandwich my next hexie potholder.  Overall I think today has been a pretty good day.

Update:  - cooking is all done now.  My last dish was Lucky's Quickie Chickie.  I"ll make it again.  I also made some rice so that I can have it with what I cooked.  My frig is now stocked up with food for the week.