Well I am, for sure, in a much better mood this week. Still fed up with the pandemic but other than that I am definitely perkier . I am putting it down to actually getting some things done around here that I have been procrastinating over for weeks.
We got the raffle basket delivered to its new owner. The Banker and I went to the ministry, got the name drawn and then got the basket to its new home
We have such fun doing that basket. It raises a nice amount of money for a very worthy cause and its something we enjoy doing. We already have a theme picked for next years basket. I have the runner figured out so its all in hand.
Our scrapbooking weekend garnered me a couple of orders for knitted pumpkins. I was rather happy to get those made.
I actually managed to write myself out a pattern for possible future pumpkins. I really need to get better at writing out a pattern. I often make things with no actual pattern and I fail to write down how I do it. Inevitably, when I do that, someone will ask me to make them one. That sends me back to square one. I really am trying to get smarter in my old age.
The Christmas quilt goes on. Last weeks blocks were very cute and very east to put together.
Four little Christmas ornaments. This weeks blocks are here and ready to put together. Something I hope to get at today. There will be only one more week and the top will be complete. I cannot tell you how much I enjoy these quilt a longs. I cannot wait to see the top all put together.
Speaking of Christmas, I am just about done with my shopping. I have a couple of stocking stuffers to get and that is it I am done. I am so pleased with myself this year. Very smug to be on top of it. How Christmas actually pans out this year is another matter. I am not holding out great hope that I will get home for that holidays but I have a way to get my gifts there. At least that is off my mind. Its good to have friends!
See this rather funny looking little bag:
Its the bag I use to put my medications it when I go somewhere. I call it my medicine bag and it has been lost for two or even three years!! All because I put it someplace safe! Someplace sensible. Well I must have thought it sensible at the time. Long story short a frantic hunt for a piece of blank legal sized paper led to its discovery. I never did find any paper but I am thrilled to bits to have my medicine bag back. I have a whole new place to keep it that is actually where it should have been all along.
Yesterday I actually made it to the basement to deal with the furnace filter and turn off the outside water. Oh my word, you cannot imagine how I have dithered over this and put it off. It was completely ridiculous. I just wish I had easier access to the basement, not the trap door in the floor that is. Whatever, I made it down there and the disposable filter fits in the furnace!! My furnace has a reusable filter. I hate it. It means doing down there, get the filter, bring it upstairs, clean it, take it back, then come back up stairs. Double the trip. The disposable one means just one trip and I am thrilled beyond measure about that. The water is shut off for another year and I can stop obsessing over those tasks.
To top off my day of doing things I have trouble making myself do, I got the dumpsters out for emptying. If I could have I would have danced a jig. Now I am very very very aware that these tasks would be nothing to anyone else but to me they are a battle and one that I do not win each time. This month I am triumphant!!
Sunday was a perfect Linda sort of a day. I had tv to binge watch, I had baskets full of brightly coloured yarn beside me. I had hats to crochet and it was just the thing for me.
I have all the little hats made now and just need to get them lined and then they can go to their new home.
Saturday was also my perfect sort of a day. Teddy Bear came over in the morning for coffee and we had a lovely visit. Then a bonus event, Mommy Bug came for coffee and a visit in the afternoon. It was so nice to see her. We don't get to see each other all that often but it means the world to me that she makes the effort to come and see me when she can.
I have been watching The Crafty Toads pod casts lately and while they are all about all things yarn related, they also cross stitch. Watching them has got me thinking I should take it up again. My last project was that I was making a lovely autumn themed tray cloth but I miscounted while doing it. The error frustrated me to the point where I just put it down and never picked it up again. I am now tempted to see if I still have it and give it another try. It really is a pretty thing. The big thing will be it I can actually see it now I'm of a certain age and my eyes are not what they once were. Time will tell if I give it a go again.
Today they are predicting snow for us. I know it happens every year but I'm not looking foreward to it. The best thing is at least now I do not have to get out and go in it if I do not want to . That is a gift all in itself.
Today I decided I would spend the day in my craft room. Its needed some attention for some time now and while I started to inventory it a while ago, there is still more to be done. Not to mention that just the general usage of the room creates a mad mess all on its own. Combine that with my reluctance to put things back where they belong and you have ciaos.
Yes as you can see it is out of control. Aw well I am going to pick away at it until I get it back into some sort of order. I have Christmas quilt blocks to make, I have a bit of scrapbooking to do. I have hats to line. So many fun things. I am going to do some organizing before I get to the fun things. That's the plan anyway. Time will tell what actually happens.
Toodles, Linda
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