I am so happy, I found a fellow to do my shoveling for me. He is $30.00 cheaper than what my last guy was going to charge me for this year. Makes me happy! Not to mention the fact that I do not have to worry about the snow piling up and me not being able to get it cleared. He has been here twice so far. It snows, he comes, that is how I like it to work. Check goes that item off the list of things that I need to do. Happy dance of joy.
I finished the Christmas quilt and got the top all put together. I have not taken a picture of it. The reason for that is I have been dithering about the boarder. Should I have one? Should I leave it small and use it as a wall hanging? Draped over the couch? Well I have made a decision. I am going to add a piano key boarder. I will make it scrappy so I can use up more of my material stash. I see a red boarder on the quilt when I imagine the end product, but I do not have enough red Christmas material to make a proper boarder. I am not buying cloth for the top of the quilt. I will buy backing but I want to use the stash for the top. So a scrappy boarder it is. Others have done it and they look so cute in their pictures on Facebook.
The Banker stopped in on Monday for a visit and very kindly brought my outdoor Christmas decor up from the basement. I have started to get the seasonal stuff changed out. I finally took the Autumn stuff off the veranda and added the poinsettias and the Christmas wreath. I will get the lights, garland and Frosty in place at some point soon. I am only planning to put up two trees this year. They are both up on the main floor and waiting for me to get decorating. I am in the mood so it will happen shortly.
I am going to try giving a try to be minimalist in my decor this year. This little idea is causing much hilarity amongst the No Cooks. For some reason they have no faith in the fact that I will be able to be restrained in the decorating department. GO FIGURE!!
On another topic, I had to laugh at myself because so often this is how I operate. I have been giving some thought to my budget and how I can tighten it up. Think, think, plot, plan and then I promptly turned around and placed three orders to Amazon for things I wanted but did not technically need. I am a danger unto myself!!
I am so excited to get my nose into this book! Its the latest of the Outlander series and I just adore those books. I have been waiting for ages for this to come out. I also bought the fourth book in the Discovery of Witches series. I thought there was only three but there are four. Very excited about that as well.
I have been making memory quilts for a former co-worker. She brought over her husbands shirts and I am making her two quilts for Christmas gifts.
Thankfully, she wanted big squares so the shirts would be very recognizable. That makes it super simple for me. I will be able to get them done, probably this week if nothing goes sideways. I am actually going to go finish the binding on the first one once I am done with this blog post.
I got my winter tires put on yesterday but they ended up on the wrong rims. Its a long silly story so lets just leave it there. I will get them transferred to the correct rims on Friday, then next week I will get the car into the garage to get winterized and get the gas gauge looked at . This will make me as ready as I can be to travel for Christmas. Weather willing and the virus does not run amok, I have plans to actually see my family over the holidays.
Not much else to talk about. I have a couple of things to do before I get a the quilt. Well I really have a million things I could do but I am only doing two before I settle onto my chair and finish binding the quilt.
Toodles, Linda
