Good Morning all, today we are staying in (the street in front of our house is a sheet of ice packed down) so I will be making a set of aprons then will be ready to sandwich and quilt my Covid Quilt. After that I am cleaning out the coat closet and gather all coats we don’t wear, hats, gloves, and scarves to pack up for donations.
Like many of you, we treat the first of January as a time to purge and start the year with a clean slate. So today will be a busy day in this house hold.
We woke up to 1/4inch of ice then the snow started. By 9am this is what the back yard looked like
Not bad, then came noon
Now 5 hours later here we are.
We got about 4 inches in our yard and now calling for it to ice up tonight. Glad we don’t have to get out. I did get some quilting done. Had to rebind a quilt for a granddaughter(her pet chewed on it) then finished my Covid 19 quilt top. I started it in May and finely got it ready to quilt. Will probably do that tomorrow.
I hope everyone had a good New Years Eve and wonderful day. Stay safe and healthy in the New Year.
2020 has been such an up and down year, I have decided that no matter what happens I will find the positive and not react. That is my 2021 resolution. Since Christmas we have been very busy. Christmas Day we had the kids and some of the Grandkids over and then on Sunday the kids who had to work on Christmas came over. It was wonderful seeing them all. This was wonderful seeing all the kids and grandkids finally.
Monday night Destiny spent the night and on Tuesday we took her shopping for her Birthday gift. Tuesday she turned 6 and now she is “almost 7 you know”. She got a Barbie and the game Operation, then we went to Barnes and Nobles and “It is so AMMMMAZZZZZZZING to have so many books and not in a Library”. She picked out a few books and left walking on air. We did have her sit in a chair and try reading the books before she bought them. Surprised Grandpa she was past step 1 books. She has a wonderful teacher.
On Wed we spent at Appointments and now I am putting decorations away and finishing a few quilts. I would like to start 2021 with only 1 or 2 UFOs.
2021 will be a better year, or at least I am praying for a better year. I will continue to quilt and watch my friendly critters outside my sewing room.
Here is to everyone having a fun safe New Years(we are to get 5-9 inches of snow starting tonight). Looking forward to seeing all in 2021.
Am so excited that I have finished all 3 quilts. This is the last and this evening I will start the last of cookie baking. Next week will pies and cakes. Then let the hunger ring.
The funny part of this quilt is that I didn’t like the width of the quilt after getting borders on and had 10 extra blocks, but it took 7 blocks for each side. It was past midnight and I said what the heck and sewed blocks together, then cut them down the center and added 1/2 to each side. I kinda like the look of this and is a one of a kind. Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. I hope everyone has a wonderful evening and stay safe and well.
I apologize for the long delay in writing anything. The last few weeks have been one disaster after another. Just seems like one thing gets accomplished and something else pops up. Finally decided it is all beyond me and what I can control is letting the disasters affect me. I am taking the control back.
We have cookies baked, just a few batches, Chocolate chip, Snickerdoodles, Thumbprints, Spritz, Oatmeal, then some peanutbutter fudge, regular fudge, and more in the future.
Packages mostly wrapped and under the tree, 2 quilts finished and the 3rd needing to be sandwiched and quilted. I will do that tomorrow. I still have a few more packages to wrap.
Here is what the living room looks like :
Sorry no pictures of the sewing room. I am too embarrassed for anyone to see it.
Here is to Wishing Everyone a very Blessed and Wonderful Hanukkah and days leading up to Christmas.
Today is going to be a wonderful day. Why you ask? Last night finished 2nd quilt top and started on 3rd one. They will be done and under the tree soon. Today Hubby and I will stake stock on the gifts we have already bought for the family and see what we need to get to finish up. Then on to baking. Also we will be getting snow today. IF the weather people are right we should have an inch to an inch and half today. Just enough to look pretty. This is just enough to get into the Christmas Season.
Well have been up for a while, got laundry started and ready to start sewing on 3rd top.
The start of Christmas baking has begun. Today bread, sausage kolaches, and cinnamon rolls. Just a few cinnamon rolls will make more at a later date.
Now to start sewing in the morning and baking in the evening. This way I can get all of it ready in time. I make cookies, pies, cakes, and candy. Instead of pies and cakes I will make mini pies and mini cakes. This way you can have a little of everything and not have to worry about eating so much. Or at least that will be the intention.
Do you do much baking? What are some of the things you do for the Holiday Season? Will post more with a few recipes as I go.
I hope everyone is having a great Sunday. As it is the Sunday before Thanksgiving our Oldest Granddaughter, Katelin, and Patrick (her boyfriend) who lives about 3 hours away are coming to have an early Thanksgiving with her mom. They will be stopping by here for her and I to do some baking.
We started this about 12-15 years ago. At one point my daughter and her 2 girls moved in with us, and we baked before any holiday. For many years they thought before Thanksgiving we baked cookies for the Police.
Here is the back story….As I was baking with the girls and Mary we had the kitchen curtains open and having fun. Mary went to wash her hands and noticed a naked man in the yard behind us, we tried to talk hubby into going and telling him to go inside. Hubby said no(he thought we’d lost our minds) The kids were watching the birds and squirrels playing in the yard and the only way they didn’t see the man was there was a tree in the yard. We called the police and they came out and while I was explaining and showing one officer Mary had the girls give cookies to the other officer. The officer I was with saw the man enjoying himself outside and called for backup to arrest him. So after that we baked cookies and gave them to the Police Dept every Thanksgiving. This stopped about 4 years ago.
I still get to bake with each of the granddaughters at some point each year. Such fun and great times. I think we will get Patrick in the kitchen also.
Since the grandkids have all grown into adults with lives of their own, we don’t get a lot of times for things we did together when they were small.
Just some fun times of the past. These are our Granddaughters, the one on the top left is coming today. Lots of silliness and laughing today.
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