Miss Kitty

Just wanted to share a few pictures of my crazy old nut cat. :)

Knitting

My latest knitting project - a bath mitt from a free pattern on the Bernat website. The pattern says the size fits the average lady, but it also fits my husband. :) I just got some new light blue cotton yarn and I plan to make a few more of these, they are easy and fun to make.

WIP Wednesday

I worked on my two baby quilts today. The top of the pink one is almost finished, the next step requires a trip to Staples because I need to blow up an appliqué pattern (pink and brown are the colors the mother chose for the nursery). I machine appliquéd the bears onto the background squares, now I get to amuse myself with pulling out the paper templates, gives my hands something to do while listening to tonight's hockey game on the internet. :)

Tuesday

I swear my cat can puke on command. Whenever something does not go the way she wants it, she throws up. Today there is no sunshine - that was reason enough, her highness demands there be sunshine every day. And although I very much prefer sunshine over that drab and dreary weather we are having, cleaning up cat puke was not on my agenda today. She managed to leave some under the bed which required quite a bit of furniture moving and an unplanned laundry run. I hope she is done for today, I got a lot of other things I'd rather be doing.

First thing this morning I sneaked out in my - purple penguins - jammies to put some cat food in the bowl for our feline guests. A bit later I was able to take a picture of one of them, that was the first time I have seen that cat in our car port. I will try and take photos of all of them, they will be a bit blurry because I have to take them through the bedroom window. Our guests are a bit shy and high tail it out of here when they see me coming.


I finished the shawl last night and it is ready to be mailed. I also wrapped Del's Valentine's gift and a birthday gift which also needs mailing. I like that I am able to print the shipping labels at home and all Del has to do tomorrow is drop the packages off at the post office.


Then I cleaned the bathroom (according to my cleaning schedule) and the cat box (vet's orders, once a week complete with bleach and new sand to avoid further bladder infections). I used baking soda and white vinegar for cleaning, it works just as well as the commercial cleaners, costs less and is easier on the environment.

Today's morning teas was Raspberry Zinger from Celestial Seasonings, homemade cookies and an apple. Yesterday's sugar cookies taste pretty good. :) For lunch I have leftover casserole from last night's dinner.


Today is movie night. We will have pizza with canadian bacon and pineapple (Del's choice), the movie is "The Diamond of Jeru" (a good old fashioned adventure movie with another one of my favorite actors).

Monday

Monday is usually my day for "messin' in the kitchen". Today I prepared radish and alfalfa seeds for sprouting, baked two loaves of bread, made a batch of granola (this time with pecans, raisins and flax seed), made ginger beer from a plant I started last weekend and baked cookies (lemon scented sugar cookies) for Valentine's day.

While the bread was rising and the cookie dough was chilling I watched a French movie (Tous les matins du monde - All the Mornings of the World), had my morning tea (green tea with mango) with dried fruits, nuts and a banana


and worked on a comfort shawl for a friend who is going through a rough time at the moment. I started the shawl on Saturday and hope to finish it tonight.

I ended my day with washing dishes, wiping down the counter and the window sills in the kitchen and fixing a pasta and tuna casserole with homemade garlic bread for dinner.


After dinner I am going to watch CSI and finish the shawl.

Thrift Store Finds

The thrift store we like to go to always has some really nice big pieces of upholstery fabrics for very reasonable prices. I plan to use the green and the yellow one for new covers for the sofa cushions and the checkered one for placemats and maybe chair cushions for the dining room.

Whodunnit?

That's what I found in the garden when we came home from grocery shopping yesterday:

My guess is that the large bird of prey that was circling above our house recently might have gotten himself some lunch. I hope he does not make a habit of this my bird feeder is not a hawk buffet. ;)

Garden Dreams

WIP Wednesday

I am currently working on two baby quilts for my "project churchbabies" which came to a halt due to moving and getting settled in the house. One is from a Debbie Mumm book the other one is my own idea. Stay tuned for the progress on both.

Tea Cozy

I joined Rhonda's tea cozy swap and this is what I came up with. I hope my partner will like it.

Rainy Friday

It was raining buckets most of the day and it was rather cold and dreary. We had to get up one hour early because Del had to work in a different town today and it takes about one hour to get there. So "my day" started early too. I decided to try to do a photographic record of the things I did today. Here it goes:

Rainy view from my bedroom window.

Tea dyed a small quilt top made from leftover blocks from another quilt. (Not sure if I am happy with the result, it looks more dark pink than aged.)


Re-stocked my reading basket.


Started a gardening journal.


Changed the calendar quilt from January to February.


Put out the table topper for February (until after Valentine's Day).


Added a touch of pink to the decoration on the mantel.


Finally figured out how to hang the fireplace quilt, stitched on the little plastic rings and hung it.


Ironed what needed ironing in this week's laundry, folded yesterday's laundry.


Made the starter for a new bread I want to try tomorrow.


Started a new ginger beer plant.


Had the last of the potato goulash and some homemade bread for lunch.


Updated my blog, read my emails and my favorite blogs, played a few games.


Washed dishes.


Finished shopping list for tomorrow.


Sliced a cucumber for dinner (fried veggie rice with cucumber salad).


Heated some milk for making yogurt.


Prepared mung beans for sprouting.

Well, my day was not bad at all, I got a lot of stuff done and it makes me feel good. In the meantime it stopped raining and the sun came out. The weekend is supposed to get warmer and sunny. We plan to check prices for topsoil and mulch at a nursery and buy a lawn mower and maybe the wood for the raised beds and I will be looking for seeds. We will also get our weekly grocery shopping done, go to church and watch the game on Sunday. Oh, and I need to bake bread tomorrow - again. :)

In about one hour Del will come home and that will end "my day" and start "our weekend".