Monday... Need I Say More?

Had a good weekend, spent some time with my friends which is always nice. Got out for a movie, for coffee and of course to the hospital for a dressing change. Some days I think my leg is never gonna heal. I will not go down that road because it makes me all sorry for myself and that is just useless.

I got another quilt started; I don't know the name of this one. I found the pattern on Pinterest. I have it about half quilted now. Really good stash buster of a scrap quilt.

Desi is thrilled that I am working on another quilt. He has taken up his usual spot under the table. Snoozing and purring as I work away. Lucy prefers to watch from the topside. I may not be doing it right and Madam does like to keep an eye on these things.

I am STILL working on the kitchen.  I seriously think I may just give up and live with the fact my kitchen is going to be a pig sty for the rest of my life. On the plus side,  I have managed to cross a few things off my small jobs list.The small jobs list is all those things that only take a few minutes to do but for some reason we do not do them. I made a list ( cause that is what I do, Dude) and am working on getting some of them done.

 I also recovered a couple of cushions for Teddy Bear.

She bought new grey drapes for her living room and as the furniture is grey and blue she is adding orange as an accent colour. Eventually she is going to paint the room a pale, pale grey. Its going to look very smart. I am going to go a few more cushions for her once she finds some pillow forms.

I am off to quilt. Then do some more on the kitchen, then quilt....lather rinse repeat.

Toodles,
Linda

The Agony and the Extasy

The post title may be a bit over the top but I can be dramatic over the littlest things when I want to. I am a girl after all and we do that sometimes.

Finally,finally, finally I have a pot of soup simmering on the stove. Since we got a dumping of last of the season snow, I have been in the mood for homemade soup. At last today I took the few minutes it takes and threw together a pot of chicken soup. In about half an hour I will be chowing down on it with great glee.

The great purge of 2015 continues and I have another car load of stuff to take to the Banker's garage. I am beginning to feel like I can breath in here again. I still have more to do but I pick away at it each day and I am pleased with how its going. no one else will notice that anything is gone but I know it. I am leaving the sewing room until last. There may not be a lot of purge stuff in it but man oh man it needs an organizing and a cleaning.

The Agony of the post is that currently I am going through one of those phases where things just break down, run out or need replacing. My fridge is on its last legs and will need to be replaced. Crap. My favourite flannelette sheets are toast. I put my foot through the bottom sheet the other night because it had worn so thin. Crap. The biggest, most intense cause of the agony in my house is this.

This is my all time favourite stain treater. You could rub it on a stain and then wash the article of clothing days later. It was fabulous and they do not make it anymore. At least I cannot find it. I had two sticks and this one is the last one. I used them sparingly and now they are gone, done finished and I may never recover. Its a sad sad day in my world.

I need to lay down.

Toodles,
Linda

OMG Its Sunday Again

I have the best of intentions to blog more but time slips away and it the weekend again and I have not done all the things I had hoped to do. I think I will blame it on growing new tissue in my leg. The nurses poked around in the hole that remains in my leg and declared that they thought it looked like new tissue growing. I had no idea that that sentence could make me so ridiculously happy but it did. So now I have decided that all the energy I have is going to ward tissue growth and cannot possibly be used for other things like housework and crafting, blogging and purging. I think that is my story and I am sticking to it.

Not to mention its hard to find things to blog about, my days are pretty quiet and samey. Trying to concur the clutter, resting, crafting and running to the hospital. Not the exciting stuff of steamy newsy blog posts.

I have been crafting though. I got one of the quilts done:

the colours are darker and richer than they appear in the picture but this is it.Some day I will get it right and take a beautiful picture for the blog.  Vintage prints, scrap quilt. Made from squares of gorgeous cotton material. This quilt will just get softer and more cuddly as time goes on.  I will now move on at get quilting the next one. I have a total of five that I need to get done. One down and four to go. Promises to be kept.

I had a lovely surprise today, a friend dropped these off at my house. She knows the way to my heart.

I have made up my mind that I need to go through my craft book bookcase and purge out some of the books that I know I will not ever use to make room for these. I am trying to make room not add to the stuff. I have my third load of stuff ready to go to The Banker's garage. There is more to be purged but hey Man I have tissue to grow!! back off!!

Yesterday I was out and about a bit. Groceries needed to be bought, dressings needed to be changed and then Teddy Bear and I went out for a cheap Wendy's supper. Today was a lovely quiet day. Late brunch, crocheting puppets and binge watching Vikings. Quick trip to the hospital for a dressing change, tea with the Banker and then back home to crochet some more. I have 10 penguins and 7 turtles made. The puppet stock is growing.( I did not make all those puppets today, Three is pushing it in a day, I am fast but not that fast.)

Tomorrow I see the Surgeon again so he can look at my leg. I am interested to see what he is going to say. Good things I hope, Thinks like you don't have to come every day for dressing changes.

Other than that no much happening here. Tissue growing, some housework, some crafting, and not much else. Its a pretty good life.

Toodles,
Linda

Sunday Musings

So the leg is still healing, I am still off work and things are progressing super slow but progressing I suppose. I have to admit I am a little worried about how slow things are going but I am focusing on the fact that its healing and not getting worse. A slim thread but I am hanging onto it with all my might.

So instead of dwelling on that I will move onto other things. I have new roommates, the Arnez's have moved in. They arrived at the end of February and are settling in nicely. Meet Lucy:

She is ebony black, with the loveliest green eyes. She is shiny and sleek and loves attention. In the picture she is pawing at my leg, to remind me to get off the computer and pay attention to her pretty self.

Here's Desi:

He is the biggest cat I have ever seen. Not fat he is a big boned guy. He's a Maine Coon and is a lovely big guy. Purrs like a tractor and at the drop of a hat. He settled in much faster than Lucy but they are both at home now

Together these two have made my house feel right again. Not having a feline in residence just did not feel right. there was a definate empty space. Now it does and I am happy about that.

All this time off has given me some serious crafting time. I have finished the crocheted button flowers for my co-worker's scrapbooking event. She wanted them for the gift bags and I was happy to provide. They are fun to make and a little addictive. Now I have these done I am going to make some for myself. I see endless possibilities with these little babies, scrapbboking, cardmaking etc.

I have been puppet making. I have started to build stock for the craft sale in October. Sitting on my butt on the couch is a great excuse to work on the little critters.

Its not near what I will need but its a start. The penguins are a new puppet I decided to take to the sale. I am going to take away a couple of the others that did not sell well last time and add in a couple of new critters to see how they do. I am also changing the colour of one of the puppets to see if that boosts sales.

I have also started to work on the quilts that I promised to have done after Christmas. The people I had promised them to have been very understanding and generously have allowed me time to make good on my promises.

This is one, I have another top finished so now I need to get at the quilting. I think that will happen today, once I get off the computer.

So that is my life, cats, quilts and crafts. All normal except for the stupid leg.

Toodles,
Linda

PS I did start a quilt after I got off the computer. I spent most of the day, happily doing this:

Crankypants

I woke up this morning at 10:00 am because I cannot seem to drag my lazy arse out of bed any earlier than that these days. I woke up cranky, fed up and just generally all round grumpy. I have been trying to shake it off but its not budging. I hate when I get like this. I annoy myself to no end.

I am tired of feeling tired. I am tired of the house being a mess and yet I cannot seem to get it organized. I have things I want to do and have no energy to do them. In my mind there is so many fun things to do and yet the days slide by, nothing done and I just want to be my old self again.

So what am I doing? Am I cleaning the kitchen, working on the quilts I said I would make, making puppets, purging the house?? No I am on the computer whining because I am not feeling like I usually feel. ARGH I need a boot in the bum.

I think I will go and work on the curtains for Teddy Bear's grandkids room. Maybe if I accomplish something I will perk up. Lets hope because being like this is not making me one little bit happy.

Toodles,
Linda

On the Road Again

Drove my car for the first time in months (literally) today and man it felt weird. Wonderful. but weird. The battery had died and between The Banker and I, we got a battery charger on it and finally got it to start. Now I can run errands for myself and give my poor overworked friends a break. They have ferried me hither and thither with nary a complaint but its time I got back to being independent. I do not want to wear them out.

In other news, the cats have settled in and have decided that this is home. Right at this moment Lucy is patting my leg frantically trying to get me to leave the computer alone and give her the attention she feels she deserves. Desi is talking away in the background reminding me that he need attention too. I am happy to have them in the house. The house was empty without cats.

No new news on the leg front, still draining, still daily trips for the dressing changes but the drainage in decreasing slowly. I am still feeling a little better every day. Still tire easily and still sleep until 10 each morning. Ah well, this too shall pass. I need to start yanking my butt out of bed earlier or my system will short circuit when I go back to work.

I have finished a quilt top and now need to make a run to the fabric store for batt and backing so I can start quilting. I will be doing that on pay day. Today I am going to spend time working on some puppets for the October sale. I have to get going on them or I will have nothing to sell. EEK.

Toodles, 

Linda