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!

June 2025 - Update

    It has been awhile since I have done an update.  That is for a couple of reasons.  First is that I don't have a lot to report on.  The other reason is that my eyes have been bothering me so I haven't worked on a lot of things.  I haven't done blackwork for quite awhile because it was straining my eyes.  I did manage to finish a couple of things.  The first  was a mug rug for my friend Susan.  She has received it now so I can share a picture with you.

   The other thing I finished was a gift for my friend Deb.  Deb loves flamingoes and I saw this pattern and had to make it for her.  It isn't hat large.  The inside section is 12 inches and I think I put a three inch border on it.  I can't remember.  I can now show a picture of it since Deb has received it.

   The back is wavy lines in various shades of blue which remind me of water.  They both said they liked t which, of course, made my day.

   That's actually the only thing I have managed to get done.  It is so hot that I do not seem to find the energy to do anything.

   I hope you all stay safe and keep cool.  I'll check in again in a couple of weeks.  Hugs to all.

End of the month update

      I didn't get as much done as I wanted to this month.  My eyes are giving me problems and not wanting to stay focused when *I* want them too.  Part, if not all, of it can probably be blamed to allergies.  Our rain hasn't helped.  I can't believe we have had so much rain.  Everything is so damp.  Even my medicine was stuck to other pills in my weekly pill dispenser.  It will get better and I'm not in danger so it isn't as bad.  It is what it is and life goes on.  :)

   So what have I finished this month?  I'm actually not sure.  I haven't done my blackwork for  a couple of weeks since my eyes were bothering me.   I am crocheting hot pads in various sizes to use up whatever leftover yarn I find.  As mom would say, keep the fingers working while you can.  So if my eyes don't want me to stitch on Blackwork, then I can crochet pot holders.  

   I am working on a block to send to a friend.  That is hard on the hands sometimes since there are places where I have to go through 3 layers of fabric.  Still I am making great progress on it.  It will end up being a very small wall hanging or a smallish candle mat or larger mug rug or....yeah, I don't have an idea what the final product will be.  I am almost ready to sandwich together another UFO.  I will probably stitch it by hand since I don't want to stitch over the applique.  That will be my goal for June.  

     My list of what I want to accomplish in June has been paired back.  I think I wan to accomplish the following in June.

   Keep doing potholders or hot pads to whittle down the left over yarn supply.

   Catch up on Blackwork.

  Do one UFO.

  Learn to use a new camera that has the worst instructions I have ever seen.  LOL.

   Anything else will be up for grabs. 

   In addition to that, I will continue to work on my pantry and get it set up how I want it.  There are a couple of SCA events that I need to prepare for so there will also be that.  

   Have you seen the pix of my new kittens yet?  Here they are.  They are now starting to learn to eat solid cat food.

 

 So that is where I stand at the end of the month.  How has everybody  been?  Anybody working on anything?

   One last piece of advice before I sign off....

There be kittens!

      Yes that is right.  Since I can't remember if I told you that I have new kittens so here are pictures of them.  They are still skittish so I can't get too close to them.  They still have blue eyes so that means they are probably younger than 8 weeks.  At first I thought I only had two orange fluffs but then today I saw a 3rd fluff and this time it was a darker fluff.

     So without further ago.  Here are the new fluffs.  Hopefully they will make it and be around for a bit.  Enjoy!

Rain rain and more rain

    Yeah, that about explains it all.  I am currently in between showers and thunderstorms but it should return this afternoon.  That means, in case you didn't catch it, I haven't done much of anything except take naps, watch for leaks (which I don't have any), and repeat.

   Nothing exciting.  The pollen count is high, even with rain, and my allergies are gong haywire.  So I am resting my eyes since they don't want to focus on anything.  I am also cooking some things and rearranging my pantry and semi rearranging the sewing room.  Dan and Zak spent Mother's Day at my place putting together the new shelving in the pantry and a couple of other little things.  Zak said I got to adopt him for the day.  Dan didn't seem to mind.  LOL.

   Then this morning, while I was washing dishes, I dopped the dish soap BEHIND the stove.  Sigh.  I can see that I am going to have to put the soap on the other side of the sink top so when it drops it can't go anywhere.  It seemed that I would NEVER get it out from behind the stove.  Of course I dropped it with the lid open so I didn't have a choice but to retrieve it before it al leaked out.  The worst art of that was I had to get on my knees and get a yard stick to try and get it to where I could reach it.  Sigh.  Eventually I got it out and even tough it seemed to take a LONG time, it really didn't.  It took longer figuring out how to get back up off the floor then it did to get the soap bottle.  That means that it is now time to put some ointment on my hands and knee s and relax a bit.  I hope you all have a great day.

Hello everybody!

  Sorry to have been silent for a bit but life has been busy.  Between not feeling good for a bit, allergies going into overdrive, and the holiday, I was wiped out.  Now I'm slowly getting back into my groove.   I have to try and get back on schedule with the diet and such.  My sugar levels are ok but the blood pressure is higher than it should be.  I will get it back down.  Just have to get back on track. 

   Easter was good.  Dan and I enjoyed the meal and it was fun watching him put pepper on everything since I was using the battery operated salt and pepper shaker/mill.  He left with leftovers and candy.  I even sent a little bag  of candy for his handyman Zak, but Dan kept most of it for him but made sure to let me know Zak did get a couple of pieces.  I know that he did because I was on the phone with Dan when Dan gave Zak the candy.  LOL.

  I have been crocheted pot holders.  It is good to have extra on hand, especially since I have worn out the other one I had.  I am using leftover yarn that I found.  It is a good way to use up leftover yarn.

  Today I finished my hummingbird wall hanging.  It is a little one but I like how it turned out.

   I found this chart online and thought I would share it  It is handy to have the various sizes.  It appears that I mostly make baby size quilts.  That's ok.

   That is about it for me to report this time. I know there was something else that I was going to report on but I guess I will have to add that next time.  LOL.  I hope everybody has a great night. 

The Day After!

 As you can see, or read from this post, I survived the storms.  After our SCA meeting, Shalom took me to JoAnne's and on the way home he drove past the different streets to see how they had gone down from yesterday.  Then he sent me some pix that he had taken so I thought I'd share.

     Now for the fun part,.  Here is what I bought.  

     I got four yards of most everything just to make it easier.  LOL.  The red fleece will probably be for me to cuddle up in on chilly days.  The black fleece I might try to make a cloak for the SCA.  The discounts were between 30 - 70%.  I was surprised how much fabric they still had.  It was fun to go through things  :)  

     That's it for this trip.  I haven't eaten anything since 10 a.m. so it is time to make a chef salad.  I hope you all have a great night.  Stay safe!