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.

August already?

    I can't believe it is August already.  Time once again marches on and , once again, I haven't done much.  The temperatures have been running up to 95F and that just doesn't inspire me to do much at all.  Most of my days have been being lazy and staying in front of the fan and/or the air conditioner.  I just wanted to stop by and say I hope everybody is going ok and to show you a new mug rug that I received.  I think it is soooo cute.

I'm sure that I will be using it a lot.

  The other thing I was going to mention was that Dan took me out to eat today and also to Walmart so I could get more salsa.  Since I was thinking of Salsa, we ended up at Kandela's.  They have such yummy food.  This is what I ordered.  

  I would have taken a picture of the appetizer that we had but we ate it too fast.  LOL.  I have enough that I was able to take home so I will eat it tomorrow.  My sugar levels were ok tonight but I'll see how it goes tomorrow.

   The only other thing that I have to report is that my  youngest great nephew, Liam, finished his...ummm.  I forgot what it is called, but you know, the first part of his journey in the Navy.  I still can't believe he is old enough to go into service to our country but am proud of him.  :)

        I hope everybody has a great day and takes it easy.  Love ya all.  I'll see you next time.

I have some ideas...

    I was going through my container of orphan blocks and paired some up for possible future projects.  I am thinking small wall hangings and/or table runners.  Those are the two sizes that I use the most.  Here are the blocks that I think would look ok together.  What do you think?

   I'm not sure if I can find another block to make these pink-ish blacks into a wall hanging but at the very least they might be able to be put together for a table runner.  

   I think these four blocks look ok together.  I might make them into a small wall hanging.

   This is probably the most perplexing since the greens are all different shades.  If I can figure out what to make another green block, I could make it into a wall hanging.  

   Any ideas?

  Now, the last thing I have to report is my mug rug that I made for the August swap.

  The center hexie is one of three that a friend sent me.  Deb was giving it away and I said I could take them.  I received three blocks.  I asked a friend and she thought I ought to make another mug rug from another one of the hexies.  Here is what I am thinking.

 

   That would leave me one more that I could turn into something.  Who knows.  It will be a quick-ish little project and, once again, will use up some of my scrap fabric.

   Is anybody else working on something?  Let me know!

New Fabric

    This will be a quick post.  I just had to take a pix and show you some of my fabric that arrived for the Delft blue BOM from Suzy's Sitcom.  I still have one more blue fabric that should be here soon.  I will wait until after my birthday before I try to cut some of it.  I'm not ready yet to get started but I am sort of ready to stat to get excited about it.

   The other news that I have today is that the little black and white kitten that had shown up awhile ago was seen today.  This time it was walking a lot steadier and even ate out of the cat bowls and drink out of the water bowl.  Some of the other cats were in the yard but they didn't bother it it too badly.  They didn't chase it off, but they were watching it and wouldn't let it eat out of a bowl that was too close.  It's a start.  They did let the kitten lay out in he yard with them and also on the porch which is a good sign, 

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