Finished or Not Finished Friday

Nothing to show for a finish except we are finished viewing and enjoying  this beautiful mountain.

Mt Shasta CA

We are on our way back to Wyoming ahead of the atmospheric rivers that are expected in CA on Monday. 

We will be home on Sunday early afternoon. 

Maybe next week I’ll have a quilty finish!

Extra prayers and hugs to the people in the Bay Area of California! 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful! 

 

I LIKE Thursday 1-12-23. Calendars

I’m joining LeeAnna today at I Like Thursday! Her prompt for today is calendars. 

For Jan 12 2023
do you use a calendar? Is it digital and do you like it? Is it a wall calendar and who's do you have this year, is it a diary type that sits on your desk next to the computer?

share yours and if you like it, how did you choose that one? Do you have another system to remember things?


I like calendars. I have used printed off the internet, as in “quilting calendar”, unsuccessfully.
I try to use the calendar on my phone, with limited success. It works if I use it and I like that it gives me audible/ visual reminders.
But it all boils down to, I’m an old fashioned lady, heavy on the OLD! So my favorite is a wall calendar hanging in my kitchen where the wall phone used to be.
This is the one I have for 2023.

Fabulous photos of our favorite Mt. Shasta
Photos by Mark Stensas

When I get home, I’ll go through 2022’s calendar and transfer family birthdays and other important events. Like my retirement date, the date we moved into our current home, the date Mr. Busy had his fall that led to his retirement. Then I'll keep current with dental and dr appts,  and other special events. Maybe a movie date!!

I also carry a small purse datebook, but find I am using my phone more often now, so I’m progressing! This will probably be my last year of carrying a purse datebook, I'll switch to a small notebook!

 


And lastly I have a journal in calendar form. This I use for jotting down blogging ideas, keeping track of RSC colors and Table Scraps Challenge prompts, ideas for I LIKE Thursday! And other sort of important things I want to keep track of. 

All that being said, I still feel somewhat disorganized and find myself making notes on my phone, the wall calendar and the journal!  Redundancy at it's finest!

I don't have very many other likes this week. I am anxious to be home, but sad to leave our son. We have so enjoyed our visit. I am "stewing" over when to go. The weather and road conditions are ever changing. 

We are still watching some regular CBS shows that we like. Fire Country, Blue Blues, East New York, the FBIs, and NCIS and Chicago Wednesday dramas. We have to stream most of them.

Tulsa King is done and we have just 2 episodes of Andor left.  Several seasons of SUITS  are left, to carry us through and back to Wyoming. 

I am still baking. Peanut Butter cookies last Saturday, and Gingerbread Cake today.  Both recipes came from Preppy Kitchen. 

We've been eating well. Chicken Enchiladas, grilled burgers, Spaghetti, Kielbasa Potato Bake.  When I get home a counting calories diet is in order. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

TO-DO Tuesday #122

Good Morning! I’m joining Carol at Quilt Schmilt and friends to share my list from last week and my plan for next week!




Last week my to-dos looked like this!


1. Stitch on Autumn Stamps. ✅

One more design to go, the cornucopia!
And add the steam wisps on the pie, then a really good press!







2. Read my book.✅
      But just barely! I keep falling asleep at night! Guess I’ll have to make a reading time during the daytime,


3. Work on January Junk Journal! ✖️
         I started but it’s a messy business and it doesn’t feel right messing up my son’s home. So I will keep collecting paper to make pages.(Junk mail, paper bags and such) I downloaded all the prompts from Here
I’ll get messy when we get home. And I’m keeping an idea list!






Next week!
January 10- Jan 16


1. Keep working on Autumn Stamps,
2. Read Have You Seen Luis Valez?
3. Keep making pages for January Junk Journal!
4. Make Gingerbread
5. Keep taking photos of the beautiful mountain!







Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy 

So Scrappy plan! Jan 7, 2023

My excel spreadsheet plan for January will have to be put on hold! The two UFOs that were assigned “ Blue” in my spreadsheet are in Wyoming and we are still in California! One item to complete was my Christmas hexie mat! 

Do you remember this one from 2021? I’ll keep it in the queue! 

And The Year in the Garden blocks! 

This was the last block I finished, September! So I have October, November and December to do! That’s a big goal!

I’m linking up with Angela at Scrap Happy Saturday. Although I have nothing in “blue” to show!

The weather in this part of California has been wet and cool! Not lots of snow, but there is much snow and wet and wind predicted for the first leg our journey from here to Winnemucca NV. We still haven’t picked a time to go, but probably sometime the week of the 15th - the 21st. We need a 3 day good weather window!   I’m a bad traveler in bad weather! Mr Busy drives, but I’m anxious and a worrier! 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

(We have been watching “1923”, on Paramount+. It’s the prequel to the series “Yellowstone” on the Paramount Network, and the sequel to last season’s  “1883”!  The narrator ended the last episode, saying her family didn’t do hope, they fought for what they wanted. I still have to remain HOPEFUL in this present day. I’m not very courageous, not much of a fighter! )

One Monthly Goal. January 2023.

I will continue to link up monthly goals with Patty and friends at Elm Street Quilts. This motivational link up helps keep me focused! 

This year, January is harder because I am not home. So my goal is small!  I want to finish the stitching on Autumn Stamps!

This is where I was, the end of December!  The scarecrow must be finished, and there are 3 other stamps to complete. Acorns surrounding a leaf, a cornucopia, and a pie. Of course the borders between the stamps, too!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

I LIKE Thursday!

I LIKE THURSDAY JAN 2023

We’ve started watching SUITS!  On Amazon Prime.

I know we are way behind the times. We were never able to watch it when it was on originally. We didn’t have the USA Network in our cable package. It was 2011! I didn’t even think I’d like it!  But we have been searching for series to watch while at our son’s house. He has watched them all, but thought his Dad and I would like the story. He was right!

I'm just getting started in my new book. 

Also received these two. 

I continue to bake cookies for my guys! These were my choice. I’m not near my own recipes, so I used this recipe. https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/soft-molasses-cookies/

Class or work shop

Several years ago I attended Road to California in Ontario CA . It was both fabulous and exhausting. It was at that convention that I came to the conclusion that I don’t have the stamina to sew or quilt or create anything for long periods of time. I took a class from Cindy Brick. A quilter, appraiser and blogger,  among other titles.  She taught a class on making memory quilts. She was a great teacher. I cannot remember if that what she calls them or not. It was a long time ago and I just plain forget. But fabric scraps, bit of lace and trim, beads, paint , glue etc. were involved.  You probably get the idea. 

This is a link to her blog if you are interested. She has changed her blog up some as the years have gone by. I believe she and the Brick (as she calls her DH) are retired, now. 

My limit is 1/2 day classes for maybe 3 days, then I’m done.  I’d do a second session a month or two later, if necessary. 

As for what do I want to learn?   Hand piecing is at the top of my list

Knitting is a close second. That I will learn in 2023.

And then lettering. Not necessarily calligraphy , but fun pretty letters. 

Today, we will be driving south to Mt Shasta to meet friends from Wyoming who are also in Northern California for a bit this winter. We will have lunch and catch up. Should be fun. So I will read all your posts later this evening. Thanks, LeeAnna for making this weekly event easy to access and to read other's posts. 

I will leave you with this glorious sunrise! 

January 2, 2023

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

To-Do Tuesday! #121

Today I will be joining Carol at Quilt Schmilt- for TO-DO Tuesday!.  Join the fun! 

Here is my list from last week:

Dec 27 - January 2

1. Start my new book for 

✅

See my post from January 1st Here and I have just barely begun. Several people have given it good reviews! 

2. Keep stitching on Autumn Stamps.✅

It’s a bit further along than this, but I don’t have a photo! And it’s early here, 6:48am, my project bag is in the bedroom and Mr Busy is still in bed. 

3. Try to start knitting a sock! ❌. The needle and yarn are still in the bag! :(and 

4. Write my plan for 2023 Rainbow Scrap Challenge!✅

  I wrote my plan, made my spreadsheet and posted it HERE!

Next Week

Jan 3 - Jan 9

1. Stitch on Autumn Stamps

2. Read my book

3. Work on January Junk Journal!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!