To the Emergency!!!

Good Evening Internet Friends!

Kiddo and I spent most of today at the Stollery.  As a previous PICU RN and trained Pediatric Nurse I am always so grateful that we live in a place where children have their own hospital.  Kiddo has been having cough cold symptoms for a week now.  Of course the RN mom in me says - "Go to school and wash your hands".  This morning however I knew that this had gone on too long.  His pediatrician is closed on the weekends and if I were to take him to a walk in clinic he would get antibiotics which he likely does not need.  So.....off to Stollery.  

As usual they took EXCELLENT care of him and he always likes that everyone knows who is mom is so that helps too!!

This evening after a soup dinner, and an Easter goodie bag drop off to a friend I finished this Basic Tote Bag that I started almost a week ago:

This is my modified version of the Basic Tote Bag#1.  This was a free pattern that I picked up years ago at a Quilt Shop and then increased the size of to make it the size I wanted.  

This is the first of these bags that I have made in a while as I got very frustrated sewing these bags on demand for other people "sew" I just QUIT.  Now I will only be making them again as gifts or for myself which is how it was supposed to be!

Hope this inspires your own creativity and wishing you the BEST Day Easter Sunday EVER!!!🎉

Kathy

THE Weekend!!!

Good Evening Internet Friends!

For some reason I am super excited about this weekend.  It is a long weekend and I am really hoping to get caught up on some rest as I am super tired right now.😴

Arriving home my son and I decided to bake cookies.  Not gonna lie....these were eaten before, and after dinner:

SOOOOOO Yum.

After loading the dishwasher, tidying up the kitchen and walking the dog I took a bit of time to myself in my craft room.  I am currently on a self appointed mission to try and finish things up rather than starting something new.  This tote bag has been sitting in various stages of completion on my craft desk for a bit now.  "Sew" this evening I decided that I would finish it tonight:

TAH DAH!!!

Hope this inspires your own creativity and wishing everyone 

BEST Day EVER Saturday.  🎉

Kathy

Baggin' It!!!

Good Late Evening Internet Friends!

Super busy the past couple of days with work and all the things I manage to get myself into.

Did assemble one of these tote bags:

TAH DAH!!!!  It's done.

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

A Doggie Bag

Good Evening Internet Friends!

No, we did not go out for dinner this evening, but I do have a Doggie Bag to show you:

The result......a Doggie Bag!

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

It's All in the Bag....

Good Evening Internet Friends!

Many people start the new year with a goal of some kind that they want to accomplish in the their life.  I am the type of person that if I believe something should be changed I will do it.  In Health Care and especially Chronic Disease Management the "Buzz" word is about Motivational Interviewing and the Readiness Ruler.  In my world if I acknowledge that something should change I just do it, if I have to think about it then that the task is low on my priority and not likely to happen therefore I don't even try to do it ☺

Now, what does that have to do with my crafting???  Easy, there is about 1500 cubic feet of space (LxWxH) of space in the basement occupied by the most fabulous crafting projects.  I have come to the realization that I have a STABLE (Stash Amassed Beyond Life Expectancy - not sure where I saw this- but thought it was awesome and appropriate) down there and there are some AWESOME finds there.  

"Sew" this year I am working on cleaning up the STABLE.  Will I get it all caught up (roll curly haired head back and laugh now)?  Not even close, but, at least I can enjoy some of these treasures.

Took me most of the day today while my son was having naps (he has not been feeling well for the past couple of days) as the pattern was somehow not that easy for me to follow, but I present you:

This is the Friendly Tote that I purchased as a kit from Connecting Threads some time ago.

It turned out pretty good in the end.....not as perfect as I would have wanted, but it will work to tote library books and groceries etc. just fine! ☺

Now it's time to find my knitting and think about getting some sleep.

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Bag On!!!!

Good Late Evening Internet Friends!!!

Today has been a long day for me and I think I will actually be puttering off to bed shortly.

If you read my blog at all you will likely know that I never (seriously) am in bed and asleep before mid night.  Then by 0300 hours I am up to check my blood sugar as I have done since childhood (nearly 4 decades of that now - but I'm not complaining).  This morning I simply could not fall back to sleep even for a couple of hours.  I did some reading, knitting and even tried meditation.  Nothing worked.  At 0630 I decided to get up and make my son pancakes on a school morning!!!

Yummy Oatmeal Multi Grain pancakes with strawberries to start the day! ☺

Then it was off to work and school both of which were busy days.

Home for dinner then get to Boy Scouts.

After getting back home and getting kiddo tucked in I finished working on the latest Grocery Tote bag that my neighbor dumped off for me to sew for her....might have to teach her to sew one of these days.

Yes, cover your eyes the fabric really is that bright!!!

Now off to bed to see if I can get some sleep as quite tired at present.

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

I'm Just Bagged...

Good Evening Internet Friends!

I thought the title for my post today was really rather clever, but I wanted to make sure that my readers would understand the context.  Well, I learned something and apparently it's a good thing I looked into this because apparently only here in Canada do we use the term bagged to mean exhausted.  Must have something to do with us sleeping in sleeping bags in our Igloos!  Bad joke, we don't really sleep in sleeping bags in igloos in case this blog ends up as a reference source somewhere some day ☺

Today I spent doing a whole lot of nothings.  Some dusting, vacuuming and general house cleaning.  Lunch and dinner were refrigerator left overs.

The only one thing that I completed was:

Another tote bag for Sharon's craft fair next weekend!

Now off to get into some random messes I have created before bed ☺

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

It's Friday!!!!

Good Evening Internet Friends!!!

I got up extra early this morning as I was scheduled to work a vacation relief shift in another clinic.  That meant an 0800 hours start time which is a half hour earlier than I usually start work.  It also meant that I needed to drop my son off at school as his bus does not arrive until after 0800 hours.  

I was super proud of myself.  Got my son to school and got to work on time, only to find out the manager had somehow got the schedule confused (she's known to do that) and booked another casual for the shift (who really wanted the shift), so I decided that I could leave and have a bonus day.

Seemed weird coming home when my mindset was to go to work however, I made the best of it.

I did a bit of knitting on one of my socks.

I made another tote bag for the craft sale my friend is participating in next weekend:

Top Stitching not done yet as I put my pediatric nursing text in it to weigh down the corners first.  Will top stitch the lining to outer fabric tomorrow!

Picked up a few groceries and ran errands this afternoon so that tomorrow and Sunday I can just stay around home ☺

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

TOTEally Awesome Day

Good Very Late Evening Internet Friends!

Today I am calling my TOTEally awesome day because it just was!

I was up early to have my son out to the Save On Foods to sell popcorn with this Boy Scout patrol.  He loves doing that.

Then it was off to pick up my friend Sharon and head to the Drayton Valley Quilt Show.

Of course we did some shopping and got a few really awesome items that you will likely see referenced here at some point.

After getting home this evening I went to my craft room and sewed a Tote Bag.  Sharon is doing a craft sale in the next few weeks and would like a few of these grocery/whatever totes for her sale.  Here is the one I made this evening:

Now it's time to do a bit of knitting and then I should probably head off to bed cause it has been a long day, but TOTEally awesome.

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

"Sew" Much FUN!!!!!

Good Evening Internet Friends!

I hope that everyone had a peaceful Remembrance Day today.

 After lunch I spent some time in my craft room getting re-acquainted with the wonderful treasures I have stashed in there.  I actually accomplished a few things as well! ☺

One of the projects that I managed to complete today was:

This is a tote bag kit that I picked up at the Creative Stitches Craft Show this fall from The Quilt Patch.  

The tote turned out lovely I think, and it was a nice feeling to accomplish something in one day! ☺

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy