Catchup - Dec 27th-31st

Dec 27th

I'm relaxing with the 'crew' for a few days and watching junior hockey till the NHL this evening.  Cheers, especially to Cindy stuck in Cuba wanting to come home!!!

Here's my sister’s reduced size for herself the Diamond Log Cabin table topper, original design by Freida Harrod/Eleanor Burns.

Love it!  ❤

Finished top before finishing.

And here's another UFO Sylvia Stadnyk changed to her liking then recycled the pattern years ago and just did the appropriate snowball and border quilting today.

Okay my big baby, Wheeler, may have tweeked his paw and is limping, Mom knows, and now he's trying to soak up some up close sympathy, just about nose to nose!  He's never been this close to me unless all are horsing around and vying for head rubs!  I feel for him but if I let him onto my lap the others will too and I'd be a gonner!!!  Look at that face!!!

Here's the latest!  And the others are whining off and on too!  SHEESH!!!

Dec 29th

OOOOHHHHHH!!!  I totally ❤️❤️❤️❤️ this even with the missing "P" in SELF-EXPRESSION , at least I think that was the word!

I think I need to print this on fabric for sewing room sign!  🤔 ❤️👍

OOOHHHH MYYYYY!!!  Lots on this street order online for delivery!  I've seen in the last hour Amazon, Purolator (even a car full of packages delivering) and a FedEx go past.  I'm waiting for an UPS to stop here today too.  Hmmm wonder how many more will go by and those stopping nearby get the dogs a barking madly!  How dare people use their street!!!  😃😃😃

OMGG!!!!  I think this is the WORST ever of Christmas travel horror stories I've ever heard!  Okay I totally understand the weather is putting major damper on people's plans which honestly cant be helped, but in some cases airline staffing and communication issues are just not NICE at all.  Guess I'm very happy I didn't step up to last minute Christmas travel or I'd be still stuck in Cuba and GOD knows what Angie would have done!  

Hmmmm this is kind of worrying me for future trips I'm planning!  But definitely I will avoid major holidays for travel as there's always some kind of labour dispute etc planned by someone at this time.  And I know I've no patience for such nonsense!!!

Dec 30th

Ohhhh the snow bank is still hanging on but outwards more than upright! 

See more shrunken but from the outside up it's close to a foot overhanging.  How it's still there I don't know! 

It's  letting go from the window too!

Well I got back home 11:30pm yesterday and had to get my sister's car out of the overnight parking spot lent to me by 7:30am.  So decided I may as well get ready and pick Sylvia up for an early yummy breakfast, picked up my laptop and while out took us shopping!  We stopped at The Thrift Store where I bought two 50% off Christmas items and Sylvia found an awesome floor lamp for $13 (just needs a nicer shade), then London Drugs - zippo and finished off at Walmart where Sylvia found a smaller crock pot at a good price and two lamp shades she liked - I got a ceramic heater for my sewing room and both of us quilt marking pens for $2.97 - WOW!!!  

Snowman headlight and the sled for one of my bears, sign from before.

First time using manual cropping too!  Love it!

Then finished off with lunch at the new WOK BOX on Dakota before heading for Sylvia's to unload and me the bus back home!  An awesome day that's for sure!!!  But I'm pooped!!!!

Dec 31st

Let's hope 2023 will be healthier, happier and maybe even wealthier for all of us!  Be as kind as you can to all!  

I'm hoping to get in some sewing before heading over to Sylvia's to play games, finger food treats and watch the earlier time zone New Year's Eve celebrations!

Earlier today I was in the sewing room and needed more light so opened the curtains and this frosty view greeted me!

Outside my sewing room window, smaller snowbank on the ledge.

Then on my way to Sylvia's the frostiness was everywhere!

I just love this shot!

Sylvia, Kristen and I had a lovely visit, played Rummikub and enjoyed potluck finger food.  Lovely evening but we sure missed Edna who was visited with sniffles, not fun bussing it, trying to enjoy company when not 100%.

Got home in time for the 10 pm Legislative Bldg fireworks!

Notice the church steeple on left, it changes colours!

Oh oh!!!!  I'm not happy that my Blogger is screwing with my adding a new post!  My phone had a recent update and DAMN I hate when it messes some routine functions afterwards!  I've googled and cleared my cache etc and still it's not behaving.  Scanned and no threats.  What gives!  Even restarted my phone too!  Guess I'll try my laptop tomorrow and see if that works!  GRRRRR!!!!  

Well my tablet is working properly for this post!!!!

New Year's Eve 2020

WOW!!! I wonder if I even remember the carols, never mind can sing them? But I'll try!

https://fb.me/e/K8pIxpBr

GOOD BYE 2020!!!!!! 

 May 2021 bring you new dreams, new hopes, new experiences and new joys; I'm wishing my family and friends a very HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Well yesterday while watching/listening to the three games of Junior hockey I tatted a new but very simple pattern, the tree garland posted by Rita Dybdahl Cline! Hmmm, that's what I thought, but dang it, I had at least three rippits, redos, more careful scrutiny before closing next rings, before I finally completed a bookmark. I kinda doubt I'll get as ambitious and make a tatted garland for my tree as Rita did. 

 Pattern was Better Homes and Gardens Christmas Ornaments 1992 by Mary McCarty.

Well wasn't sure how this year would end after my painfil start! See I decided to change my big board ironing cover, which was a good decision! The bad was putting the hot iron on the mat on the floor so I could arrange all and pressed my outer calf against it! SINGE!!!!!! Ice, polysporin and bandaids to the rescue so I could go out! 

 Finally a visit with Sylvia as we walked in her area past the Niakawa Country Club and back! Next time we'll try the walking path along Fermor. It was nice winter weather and the road not slippery so we both enjoyed it and hope to do so again, but would rather visit, sew together or just enjoy a puzzle etc! It will happen!

Happy New Years to All!!! 🥂 

 A lovely end to the "cough" 2020 with this lovely snowball from Kirsten W.H. of Denmark in the Fringe Tatters FB group! I just 💖💖💖💖 this beauty! Thank you very much! I so love these exchanges! 

 It's hanging off my Pepsi can airplane in front of my micro lights tree on my window.

And while out for a drive this evening I even caught the 7 pm fireworks from the Forks! I wasn't close enough for clear pictures! WOW! I didn't think they'd have them! 

 Now I'm relaxing with coffee n Baileys watching today's games of the IIHF World Junior Championships.

I 🙏🙏🙏🙏 that 2021 will be loads better so we can all enjoy the awesomeness of life together once again, safe from this pandemic!

January 2020 Catch Up

New Year's Eve

Ahhhh just heard the early fireworks and rushed to my window for pictures.  So sad that this new highrise condo building sprang up on the left this year, as it totally blocked my view of the Forks fireworks!  Will see if I feel like venturing out for the late ones!

Well maybe the wind direction changed as I was able to see half of most of the show! Awesome!  Happy New Year and onto new adventures in 2020!

Jan 1st

A quiet day for me again but I did tat another angel this time with seed beads on the chain picots and also stitched up block 51 for my Canada quilt.

One more week and the 52 blocks will be finished, but they are giving two bonus blocks the 14th, so guess you'll have to wait a couple more weeks to see them all together!  I'm so excited!  This is the first time I've kept mostly up to date - now how long will it take me to assemble the quilt tops!  I also did a mock up of a commissioned quilt on the computer from the blocks posted earlier.

And finished off the night with another beaded angel that has three seed beads on each picot. This baby ate up more thread and I ran out on the last row so had to join, but it worked out!

Jan 2nd

After attending Ann Eckford's, an MPQ quilter, unexpected and so sad her celebration of life, I treated myself to a much needed car wash and new beads to work on my angels.  I'm going to play now with these and wait patiently for my friends passing on their beads too!

Jan 3rd

WOW just had like a half hour of super huge stuck together snowflakes falling (enlarge the first pic to see them)!  It was unreal and just as it started it's now stopped!  Check out the second pic with the blurry white blob bottom center - right out my window.

Hey it's back again!

Jan 4th

OMGG I just received my gift from Sylvia and Len and was I ever spoiled!  I TOTALLY fell in LOVE with this dragonfly and have double hooked it ony stitching lamp.  She got it from a craft sale and probably the same artist who did the lovely chimes I bought a couple years ago! 

Along with that is a gift certificate from Dryden's The Quilting Trunk, which has way too much of my kind of fabrics within!!!  And here is the newer version of my Irridescent metallic angel. ❤❤❤ 

Now back to my coffee and then figuring out yardage for the RCMP quilt I've been asked to stitch up. 🤗