I Like Thanksgiving Thursday.

 

Good grief I started to write a Slow Stitching Sunday post,then remembered it was Thursday. My days run together. 

Leeann’s conversation starter for today was:

would you rather go to someone's house for Thanksgiving (even a relative?) or host them in yours?

This year the answer is two-fold and complicated . We are not hosting Thanksgiving at our house.  Mr. Busy and I tried out the buffet at Perkins, this year. It was good. Lots of variety and even pumpkin pie to finish.   The family who can,  will gather together on Saturday.  No turkey, lasagna. Cranberry Salad and pie and cheesecake. 

Love this up I bought for myself. It says CHOOSE LOVE.

Last week Mr Busy 7 I went to the Festival of Trees. Here are just a few. All the trees are auctioned off to raise money for the county healthcare system. 

This large tree brought a total of $60,000. ⤵️

This is like a doll house ⤴️

Just lights and red balls hanging in a tree shape.

This one titled “The Christmas Messenger”.

I’ve started 2 new books. 

My book club read

And a gift from my daughter!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Thankful. 

Slow Sunday Stitching

 

 

 I’ll be stitching this morning on the final backstitching of the octopuses on my Biscornu. My friends keep asking how it coming, “am I done,yet?”  I do need to finish, so I can go on to something else. 

It took me 1.5 hours to get this far on the upper left octopus. But it really does help define it. 

Today also , we will wander through the Festival of Trees. It’s a fundraiser for various health agencies in our city. 

It’s not slow stitching but it’s a favorite activity of mine. 

Linking to KathysQuilts:Slow Sunday Stitching

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

ScrapHappy Saturday - 11-22-25

 

 I’m joining Angela and others as we wind down Rainbow Scrap Challenge  for 2025. Still December to go, but it’s a busy time.  I’m working on piecing a backing for my Fall String Quilt. I have so much in my stash it seemed to me. But it’s taking me forever. Not quite wide enough using just the three beige and brown columns.  It needs to be 70x70 for y long armer. She’ll be back from their timeshare in Arizona, after the first of the year. 

So I decided to add some multi-scrap coin-like columns. They take a lot of time and I’m using up 1/2 full bobbins . You can use orange, gray, navy, or green when you have so many colors/ 

The columns are approximately 8” wide. So using them should get my back to the needed dimensions. 

Happy Thanksgiving to all my friends in the US and Happy Weekend to you all in other parts of the world. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

I LIKE Thursday. 11-20-25

 

To be totally transparent, mine looks like a craft store sneezed. It’s not just fabrics that are in disarray.

We stitched in a new place this week. It’s the VFW meeting place, in the center of town with busy highways all around. Easy to get to, centrally located and a great room. 

And as I left yesterday afternoon at 2pm, I drove out of the area and this herd of antelope were grazing in what used to be grass. 

I always get a kick out of seeing our wildlife up close. They are not afraid at all of a car driving past. A couple noticed me but most ignored me. 

Our state got new license plates this year. Mine didn’t expire until November, but I purchased them at the beginning of November because it easier to put the new ones on when the weather is mild. 

I redacted some of the identifying info, but you can see our famous cowboy on a bucking bronco, the  state seal, and the America Buffalo that is also on our state flag.

This morning I made another batch of a family favorite, Bran Muffins

This is recipe that was in the hometown newspaper where I grew up in western South Dakota. I made a copy from my mom’s recipe book and taped it in book that was a bridal shower gift. After 61 years I need to put it my computer and print out a new one. Hope you can read this. I made 1/2 a batch this time and we will get 3 dozen  at least. We like raisins added or homemade jam dropped onto each one before baking. 

If you need clarification, please sent me a email. 

LeeAnna put this question out there?

Do you remember making construction paper turkeys in elementary school? using your own hand? coloring them in or pasting on cut out colored feathers? taking them home and having a parent put them up in the house?  

 I don’t!  I do remember being the recipient of hand turkeys from grandchildren and great grandchildren . Colored with crayon, sometimes outside the lines.😍

This is all, for the day late post. Please check over at No Afraid of Color, where LeeAnna had put together a list of links of others who LIKE THURSDAY. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful,

Slow Sunday Stitching

 

I’m popping in to share a bit of progress on two current projects and a possible new start.  Go check the other Slow Stitching posts at Kathy’s Quilts

First, the octopus biscornu is getting really close to the back stitching stage. 

The piece with the orange coral will be the underneath piece

And Gingerbread Saltbox is coming along nicely too. 

The snowman potholder thread keeper was a gift years ago from a friend . There are sandwich sized ziplock bags sewn into the spine. Room for lots of thread, needles, threaders, tiny scissors, whatever you need! Handy for sure. 

I received a prize during Christmas in July from Linda at Texas Quilt Gal. Some beautiful gold sparkly cross stitch fabric complete with shiny Christmas-y threads. 

I was gifted this beautiful chart.   I think there is another project on the horizon. 

I LIKE Thursday 11-13-25

 

LeeAnna suggested this conversation starter:

Nov 13 2025

Do you decorate at all for Thanksgiving? Special dishware? Wall hangings? pumpkins lining your  walkway? whatever!

I do. Some examples. 

A Turkey Banner from Patchabilities. It is not new, but a favorite.

This is a  wall hanging I made last year!  Oh, look!  The electricity is back on! 

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And a shot of my small buffet. Full of some old favorites and a couple of new stitches. 

I want to see the aurora borealis so badly. We tried last night. But saw nothing. Maybe too many clouds.  We drove 20 miles out of town and got only a really dark sky!  POUT!

When I was at my stitchers group, we lost electricity. Luckily there are lots of windows, we opened the door and the sun was shining. The whole town was without power for several hours. That’s unheard of. Now we know that a huge problem at a power plant near the Utah border was at fault. I was wondering how I was going to fix supper, but it’s back on at this writing, 4:29 pm MST. So no excuses in the kitchen tonight! 😆

Thanks LeeAnna for keeping this going!

Check out The list of participants at I LIKE THURSDAY over at Not Afraid of Color. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

Slow Sunday Stitching.

 

Sharing this morning with Kathy for Slow Sunday Stitching. I’m so grateful for this group of stitchers and this place to celebrate the art of hand stitching with needle and thread. Lately, it’s been hard to get down to my sewing room . It feels too far away from Mr. Busy. 

My Thursday Stitchers group provides me with much needed emotional support. Last week I worked on the last octopus on the biscornu. Five more legs and an orange starfish and the main stitching will be done. I’ve decided to work on it at home. I talk too much at stitching group, I keep loosing my place!LOL

At home I’ve been working on the Gingerbread Saltbox from Melisa at Pinker n Punkin Quilting.  I really like to stitch in the season, so I’ll continue working toward the finish on this Christmas house. 

I have a few other Christmas ones to work on too..  I maybe should have done a Christmas in July marathon stitch. 😀

No Bronco game to watch today  so we will rooting for a couple other teams. The Vikings, the 49ers, and the Bills. Better gather my supplies and get busy. 

Happy Stitching!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2025

 

Is coming to an end. I laid out my potato chip blocks . First like this:

Then like this with the dark neutral blocks in the 3rd column . The blue row has an extra blue one as a place holder. I’m building a few more dark neutral blocks.  I’m still unsure and not really pleased. Nancy from Grace &Peace Quilting, suggested more random. I wonder if my OCD will allow me to do that! LOL

Here is the latest. 

I’m also building a pieced backing for the string quilt. It’s a puzzle!!

Not in anyway a final layout. Just up on the design wall so I remember what is what. 

That all for now!

Linking up with ScrapHappy Saturday.

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful. 

I LIKE Thursday

This week was pretty ordinary. The weather has cooled off , it’s been more windy, but no snow yet. In my opinion that’s a good thing. 

My Holiday Cactus had bloomed. 

Of course last Friday was Halloween. We had only 15 Trick or Treaters.  Did not run out of candy. These are my great grands.

Top to bottom  Rumi from KPop Demon Hunters, Lex Luther from the new Superman movie, and Wednesday Addams and an inflatable chess piece, a King.   I love my Boo Crew. 

I layer some stitches on The Gingerbread Saltbox. A chart from Melisa at Pinker n Punkin Quilts. It’s a December chart  so scroll almost to the bottom. 

Tonight, Thursday, we are watching Thursday Night Football. Raiders at the Broncos. Start of 2nd qtr it is Raiders 7 - Broncos 0.  I’m not happy. 

 Nov 6 2025

Do you enjoy podcasts? can you direct us to some you like?

I have listened to one. It’s called “ mobituaries”. It’s Mo Rocco telling stories about famous or important people who have died. I enjoy it . It’s reminds me of Paul Harvey’s “The Rest of the Story”. 

This from his timeline, it’s also a book. 

Go check out “ I LIKE Thursday “ at Not Afraid of Color. Thanks LeeAnna for keeping this meme going. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful.