I LIKE Thursday ~. 5-23-24

Prompts for May 23 2024:

Do you have a morning routine?

  I sort of have a routine. I like to be up between 6:00 and 6:30am. The first thing I do is turn on the Keurig. Then I put on fuzzy pj pants ( in the winter, my house is still cold at 6am) and a sweatshirt, wool socks and slippers. Then I make a cup of coffee and ready my morning meds. This is followed by 1 hour of blog reading or writing. 

Other things: 

We celebrated our great granddaughter’s 39th birthday on Sunday. Burgers, brats, potato salad, fruit bowl with homemade dip, veggie tray from the supermarket.soda, ice tea and soda. I didn’t get a single photo!😢 I can share the fruit dip recipe though. It’s from Beth @ thefirstyearblog.com. 

Ingredients

• ▢ 2 cups vanilla yogurt
• ▢ 1 container marshmallow creme, 7 oz
• ▢ 1 cup cool whip
• ▢ Fresh fruit

I tweaked it just a bit. I only had 1 container of FF vanilla yogurt in the fridge, so I used about 3/4 of the marshmallow crème, a cup of Sugar Free cool whip and a drizzle of honey. Using an electric hand mixer, I beat it til smooth and that’s it. Ooh! So good! 

Nobody wanted cake, so I sent 1/2 the angel food cake, 1/2 the strawberries and a container of regular whipped topping home with them. 

We  visited, sang Happy Birthday with her husband( in St Louis for work)and her sister in Vermont on FaceTime.  We also played, Guess Who? 

and several rousing rounds of Right, Left, Center with the Littles. Though I’m soon going to have to quit calling Joe, a little. At nearly 11, he’s almost as tall as me! 

Tuesday night, the 2 First Grades at Miss B’s school had their music program. 

I thought I could share the video her mon took and posted on FB. But she has it locked down to just family.  But here’s the program. Sorry for the crumpled program, it was raining as we walked to the car afterwards. 

And the binding and label are complete on the quilt for my nephew. It goes in the mail today!

I redacted his name and the quilter’s name. Didn’t get permission from them. 

We got groceries yesterday, had takeout for lunch,, returned Mr Busy’s book to the library, and  dropped off three bags at the recycling center!

That’s about all! Sharing at Not Afraid of Color

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

I LIKE Thursday ~ 5-16-24

LeeAnna asks:

What lessons from your childhood have most impacted your worldview?

This is a pretty thought provoking question. I was raised in the Methodist Church. My parents were charter members of the small neighborhood church that we attended. I know that my church family and the Sunday School lessons helped form my view of what the world should be. Love Thy Neighbor  meant just that! It didn’t matter if they were the same as us or different. Wish that was still how my neighbors behaved. 

Some other happenings. 

I cleaned a cupboard and found 3, nearly full containers of Poppy Seeds. I’m not sure how old the red and white tin is, but it says 75 c on the top. Oh, and I disposed of several spices that were very old!

I made a small baby quilt top. It’s not a quilt yet, but progress is progress. I’ve named it, “Eat My Dust!”

The blue novelty fabric has those words and others. 

This is another version of the Back and Forth pattern by Sarah Goer. 

And I’ll be stitching the binding on the quilt for my nephew. I picked it up on Wednesday and almost have it trimmed and ready. Actually Deanna at my LQS attached the binding, so all I have to do is hand stitch it down. 

I used a gingham piece and didn’t quite have enough. My nephew is a Science professor at the University of Minnesota, so I thought the black piece of math formulas would work! I need to make a label, finish the binding and get it in the mail!

Sharing at I Like Thursday at Not Afraid of Color! 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

Slow Sunday Stitching ~ Mother’s Day 2024

Celebrating my 59th Mother’s Day. Today I will, sew, stitch, watch a movie. No plans to cook, though Mr Busy may grill some burgers. Next weekend family will be here, then I will cook, and eat, and hug on my daughter, grandkids and a couple of littles! 

I stitched on my Woven Wreath May design on Thursday stitch group. I’ve got a few more sprigs and the teacup and saucer left.  

 I’ll probably catch up on the temperature cross stitch and maybe, put some stitches in a Lizzie Kate Spring String! 

 The Temperature stitch is done through last Sunday. The Spring String is on some 18 ct Aida I had in my stash. It was ivory, I boiled it in some coffee and a tea that had orange rinds and some kind of reddish flowers in it. It was getting old, so used it up! I didn’t buy new floss. If I had the color indicated on the chart I used it, if I didn’t I chose a close color by looking at the picture .   

Happy Mother’s Day to all mothers everywhere, especially in the US this day! Whether you bore children, or adopted children, or fostered, or helped raise someone else’s child. You are appreciated! If you have fur babies, and nieces or nephews, or classrooms full of other people’s kids, I applaud you. It takes all of us! It takes a village! 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

Finished or Not Friday!

This week has been a total bust in the sewing room. Well, maybe not a total bust, but the only thing that happened is that I ironed 3 shirts and 10 pillowcases and got the pieces for my second Back and Forth child’s quilt on the hallway design wall. They are numbered but this is not exactly how they will end up. Definitely a Not Finished!!    I won this pattern during Project Quilting 15. It’s from Sara Goer and makes good use of kid themed novelty fabric. 

My basement hallway design wall is dark. It’s been a dark, rainy, dreary week. Apologies! 

On the bright side, my granddaughter and her family sent these, yesterday! Don’t they look pretty with my very busy and colorful hourglass runner? 

Siberian Iris and Tulips from T and family! 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

Thursday 5-9-24……..tell us about your birthday!

I’ve been MIA for a couple of Thursdays! It’s just life, you know!

The prompt for this week is about birthdays. Sometimes we had parties, but not every year. But, my momma always baked a cake and served it on this cake stand. 

I’m lucky enough to own it now!

We did not often have friend-attended parties. Sometimes a BFF got to spend the night!

 We were poor, 4 kids, my dad owned a business that was seasonal. My mom didn’t work, until I was in high school. For many years as an adult we did family birthdays. A meal, small homemade kinds of presents, or books,  and a homemade cake or dessert of your choice. But my kids and husband did plan a surprise party for me when I turned 50! Friends and family, food and cake, balloons and decorations, that was very special!

Next weekend we will celebrate my oldest granddaughter daughter’s 39th birthday. It will be just local family, a meal( a cook-out if the weather cooperates) cards, small gifts and angel food cake with strawberries, her choice. It’s all about being together!

I took very few photos this week. It was rainy and dreary. 

I finished this book! I give it ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️! 

One of the best books ever ! 

I have started this one on my Kindle app. Enjoying it , so far.  I’m only 8% in. 

We watched a couple of “chick flicks”, Mr Busy calls them! 

Anyone But You! A Rom/Com that was definitely hilarious and a bit risqué! Starring Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell. 

and

Katie Holmes and Josh Lucas ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ predictable but good!



Both on Netflix.

Joining LeeAnna at I LIKE Thursday  

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

Slow Sunday Stitching. Happy Cinco de Mayo

I’m joining Kathy and friends at Slow Sunday Stitching. 

I got a few more stitches in The Winter SAL from Stitchonomy.  I am enjoying it a great deal. I’ve bout it away for now, it will come out again the week of the 19th to the 25th of May. 

Sorry about the dark photo. We have sunshine today but also our infamous Wyoming Wind! It’s gusting to 32 mph. If I took it outside for a photo it could end up in  southern Montana! LOL!

 I’m anxious to do the May motif for Woven Wreaths. 

Kathy Schmitz released the short video for this SAL, but I haven’t taken time to watch it yet. I hope to do that today! 

I finally broke down and ordered the called for count (36 ct linen) of fabric for The Equality Sampler. 

You may recall I had it all gridded and started stitching on 18 ct Aida fabric. Which should  have worked. Until I came across half stitches for the lettering! No mater how I tried I couldn’t make the 1/2 stitches on Aida consistent enough for my liking. So now I start over! 

I will put away the partial 1st try, to see if I can think of a way to use it without all the need for letters!

And get started on the new piece of fabric. 

Lots of to-dos not any to-dones!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

Rainbow Scrap Challenge…..May = Pink!

I sewed 4 spilt nines blocks earlier in the week. It was before May actually began, but I knew the last part of the week was busy. 

Wednesday a quilting group met! I had an annual checkup at the “lady parts” doctor. Thursday and Friday my stitching group hosted a mini retreat. Two days of sewing at our library. I thought I took parts to make four more split nines and 6 zipper blocks. 

Here is the result. 

Only 3 more split 9s

7 zipper blocks 

Clearly I need to practice my counting! 🤪

This is my bouquet from the 23rd….downsized and mostly pink!

Today we drove to Spearfish SD to have lunch with my brother and SIL! I had hoped to have my nephew’s quilt ready to be delivered. But it’s still at the quilter’s studio.  I took them a Christmas cactus that was gifted to me by my sister years ago. They will take it to my nephew and niece-in-law in Minneapolis next week! I’m trying to down size a little bit at a time. 

Linking up with Angela for Rainbow Scrap Challenge. 

 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!