Netflix and Quilt

It only took three visits from the cable guys to get my new TiVo to actually work. Its been a few days now and it still is working. I cannot believe the last fix was a simple unplug and plug it back in fix. However and whatever, its working now and I am soooo happy. I spend yesterday binge watching British cop shows. It was heaven. Netflix in the living room. Beyond happy.

Ladybug's finished quilt. Just needs a wash and a plan to get it to her.

Yesterday I tackled these.

These are my quilt scraps stash. There are four of these bins and I decided to sort through them and get rid of the real scrappy bits and any material I knew I would not use. I cannot be trusted. I ended up with a very small kitchen garbage bag of stuff to get rid of. No one would be able to tell that I had purged a thing

See my pathetic little pile?? The bins are as full as ever. I did manage to empty a small basket of excess fabric. It fit into the bins and now I can use the basket as a place to keep material I am using on current projects while working on them. I wish now that I had taken the time to sort the material by colours. Sigh. I will got that another day, because its always smarter to do things twice that just once. Right???


I have two projects I am going to be working on. One is secret and the other is for KitKat. I got going on KitKat's yesterday. First a trip to the fabric store because four bins of material is not enough, must buy more.

Then I had to find the right blue to go with the grey in the middle. I had the blues but not the grey, hense the trip to the store. A text to the Banker to confirm my choice and some time later and things were starting to come together.

This little snowman runner is looking very good. She wants two of them and I have this one ready to quilt. I have the blanket stitching done and the button eyes sewed on. It was a fun way to spend a cold windy Saturday.

I did a little shopping in the house yesterday. I have a collection of the little baby vases that people pick when they sent flowers to new parents. I don't have many but they are in the green spare room, and I thought a shelf like this might be a good place to store them

This shelf is already in that same room. I would have to go and buy something. In the spirit of trying to make use of what I already have, I rooted around the house and  I settled on this.

I bought this little shelf/stool thing thinking it would be good to display stuff at a craft sale. I just really liked it but never found a use for it. It works nicely for my baby vase display. I even have room to add a few more, a pink bootie at the very least. I have seen them in the shape of blocks and I would like a duck but I can\t remember seeing one of those. Maybe a teddy bear?? It will give me something to looks for.  As of now I have the vases displayed, the shelf has a purpose and its off the kitchen floor. Not a bad deal if you ask me.

No yard work this weekend. My lawn did get mowed thanks to my neighbour. Yesterday was too windy and today I'm not up to it. So I am doing laundry and trying to get the kitchen organised. That kitchen is my nemesis. It and I have a constant battle. 

Tomorrow I hope to swap out the head boards and do some cleaning upstairs. I have that little cabinet to empty out. I wish I could find a drawer pull for the new table. I think I have some but I have to find them. I cannot even find the pulls I took off the little cabinet when I bought it. They were around an making me crazy now they have disappeared. Thats the way we roll in this house.

Finally got my eyes tested this last week. Now I have to go and find myself some new glasses at long last. No more squinting at every thing. I hate picking out glasses. Its a hard thing to do when you can't see. The best thing is the Dr told me I have no diabetic damage in my eyes. I was sure that was starting to happen but he says not. I am so grateful for that you have no idea. He says I have nice health eyes for my age. Big worry off my mind.

Well I must go and deal with some laundry. 

Toodles.

Linda

Its Just a Memory Now

Oh happy day and hallelujah the memory quilt is finished. I finally got my act together, my butt in gear and in one day I had it tacked together. Its gone back to its owner and I can now move onto other things. Whoot Whoot. The lady I made it for was VERY happy with it. That makes my heart happy, when someone likes what I have created.

I got that quilt all finished, just in time for Mommy Bug to come to town. We went for supper and a lovely visit. She brought me some material. Several years ago I made a crib set for Ladybug when she was just tiny baby. She loves her quilt but she is now too tall to use it comfortably. Mommybug and I had talked about making her a bigger version. Hence the material delivery.

This was stuff left over and so I used what was there and made her up a bigger quilt. Its lovely and soft and I am happy to say its all done!!. I just need to get it back to Mommybug in time for Ladybug's birthday.

I made my first purchase off of Facebook Marketplace!! I bought a headboard for my spare room. I have not taken a picture of it yet but I will once its in place. The headboard that is in there I inherited when I bought the house. I painted it white but it did nothing to make it look better. This new one is much more suited to the style of the house.

ITs on the bed that I used to take a picture of the memory quilt. There it is in all its 70's glory!! I cannot wait to get the new one put in place. Can't you just see it as it was , all dark brown wood grain:: So trendy when it was new and so dated now. Anyway the money from the giant slippers paid for the headboard. This Facebook Market place is neat. Thanks for the tip Busy!!

I finally got upgraded to TiVo. It makes me beyond happy to be able to watch Netflix in the living room

It has its own special little button on the remote!! Now if they could just get the cable working!!. The cable guy is coming to have another go round with my system tomorrow. Yeesh, it worked so well for the weekend and then its back to no signal and pictures that are so broken you cannot watch or hear them. I have high hopes that this next attempt actually leaves me with cable that I can watch.

I have finally finally finally started to move the tile off the veranda and into the house. Its only sat out there for two winters. Nothing like keeping on top of things. Lordy sometimes I make myself tired with what I can ignore. Its not even like its a lot. Princess Diva shared here stash with me and I have at long last have a container to put it in. This purging thing has yielded up some things that I need. Saves me some money and gets things put into their proper place.

Toodles

Linda

Actually Getting Stuff Done

So for the longest time my cable has been acting up. It would picsilate, freeze, and the sound would skip. This went on for ages and then it just got to the point where you could not watch anything or the majority of the channels would have a blue screen which stated One Moment Please, this channel will be available shortly. It lied, it would say that for days. Ok so for the last few weeks I could not watch tv but I could tape things. I called and made an appointment to have someone look at it.

I came back from Easter and voila I could watch all the channels on the tv. Cancel the cable guy. Then after he was cancelled I found out I could not tape anything. Watch live but not tape. Crap!! then in a couple of days it turns out that yes I can tape but only the preset programs and not if the tv was actually on the channel that was set to tape. Confused? Me too.

Call the cable company and they suggest I bring in my cable box as apparently its a dinosaur its so old. This means moving the wall unit, taking things apart and hauling stuff to the cable office. Today that is what I did. I faced down the man sized dust bunnies, shoved furniture around and got the cable box back to its people.

I am getting upgraded!! I'm getting TiVo. free for 12 months thank to a promo going on at the moment. I will get to watch Netflix in the living room. A guy is going to come and set it all up for me, which makes me happier than I can say. No cable in the living room until late next week but I can deal with that. I have been moaning forever about not being able to watch Netflix on the big TV and now I can shut up about that.

I have the DVD player set up in there and I am currently revisiting Downton Abbey. I like to have noise in the house.

I finally found a place to hang my Maud Lewis print. I think these two compliment each other rather nicely. I will eventually frame the Maud Lewis but at least it finally has a home.

The monster slippers are finished, delivered and paid for. I am so happy!! Tomorrow I am going to get the memory quilt sandwiched and start to quilt that. I washed and rehung the curtains in the downstairs bathroom, I folded a ton of laundry and I washed the bedding on my bed. I also partook of a nap. All in all a good Saturday.

Toodles
Linda