It has been a year since my last post. I’m returning to my blog to record my crafting experiences.
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Feb17
May1
Home Design Time!
The bot got it right this time, and rendered 2 extra versions!
I know which version I like best! Hint: I’d name it, “The Blue Ridge!”
Apr30
UFO’s
In crafting, a UFO can be an Unfinished Object. Sometimes, they are called WIP’s, or Works In Progress. I brought a box of them home from Charlotte.
My day got consumed with a business meeting, a doctor’s appointment (check-up for meds, routine,) and grocery shopping. I still took a few minutes to peek in the UFO box. It’s mostly quilting projects.
Here’s an art quilt top I like very much and might be motivated to finish when my sewing machine has been serviced:
I found this little paper-pieced beauty:
It might become a pillow top someday.
Then, in the very bottom, I found 2 knitted dish clothes. All they need is the loose ends worked in. I just might finish these, soon!
I could use a couple of new ones!
Apr29
Sorta Successful
I saw this hack online. It’s a glue gun holder. All materials except the silicone potholder are from Dollar Tree.
It’s functional, but I think a larger oven mitt would work better. This is the largest I’ve found, so far.
Maybe I’ll save it for a mini glue gun! (I won’t use it on the bed!)
Apr28
Another Busy Day
but things went right. Kent’s mobility scooter conked out yesterday, so he put it in “free wheeling, we rolled it out to the van, loaded it, took it to a mobility dealer, got it fixed and bought a new one!
I also loaded up some craft supplies to bring home from Charlotte. I brought all my kumihimo supplies, some gel stains, a large box of UFO’s (unfinished objects,) embossing folders and my Sizzix machine.
We also stopped by the Sedgewick Homes model we’ve been thinking about. We looked at possible interior and exterior finishes. We will not be choosing the model colors.
Apr27
Good Reports
From our doctors for both of us! And we will have to carry that with us to overshadow all the things that broke and malfunctioned the rest of the day.
Apr26
Christmas in April?
I’m harvesting Christmas images from magazines and catalogs while I watch tv.
HO! HO! HO!
Apr25
Someday…
I’ll get back to paint, paper, glue and yarn. Today, my brother picked up BBQ chicken for us and helped us measure a lot we hope to buy.
I also spent quite a bit of the early evening working on a house design for that lot with Chatgpt. It’s still not right, but it’s getting closer!
Apr24
Things I should do…
get in the way of things I want to do. Sometimes I don’t do either!
Apr23
I Am So Happy!
Celebration Church, on the former site of Union Elementary School, where I spent 32 years as a student and a teacher, purchased my mom’s previous house next door!
It was warm enough to get some more pictures of flowers:
I don’t remember this variety’s name. It’s never set more than a bud or two until this year. It’s more purple than the Catawba’s. I’ll take more pictures as more of them open.
I also found this case in the bonus room over the garage,
and opened it!
Apr22
Health and Housework Hinder Creativity.
The only creative thing I did today was take the leftovers from this
and added some leftover pork tenderloin bits. It was so good heated over and stirred lightly. This is the Louisiana Style Shrimp Skillet, a new dish from Cracker Barrel. (We know how to celebrate an anniversary! 😋😉)
The dish is not photogenic because they forgot the rice. The original dish was a skillet of shrimp in an oily-looking roux. I added the requested rice and stirred it in before thinking to photograph it. ‘Still not attractive, but very delicious. It was even better with the congealed fat removed and the tenderloin added.
I found a photo of what it’s supposed to look like online.
And, speaking of photos, I took this one of a little pitcher of wildflowers I brought in, intending to gel print with them.
Now, I’m sorting through craft books and magazines. Most of them are keepers, though a few will go to the lending library of the local senior center.
So despite kitchen cleaning and fibromyalgia exhaustion, today has not been a total waste after all!
In the words of grief counselor/artist Karen McKoy, “I showed up.”