A Big Day of Not Really Anything

Good Evening Internet Friends!

I would like to tell you I accomplished something absolutely AMAZING and over the top today, but alas, I did not.

I slept late.  I played around on the computer for a bit after breakfast.

After lunch I knit a bit but nothing worthwhile to show you.

Then I got the brilliant idea I should cut the Shih tzu's hair.  So, I did and it took almost three hours.  Is it done well???  Easy answer: NO.  I figure since everyone today is an expert in something due to You Tube that I can be an expert at trimming the dog.  My son did point out though that I did not watch a You Tube video on cutting a dog's hair I just do it.  That being said, I think I did better this time compared to last year ☺  

Dog does not like this - I think he knows the other dogs will taunt him ☺

Then I did decide that I should bake some Ukrainian Babka since both Easter celebrations coincide this year. It will be a little odd seeing Babka and the Lindt Gold Bunny on the same table.  Of course there were no raisins in the hous because I personally hate the little things with the exception of in Babka.  I found a bag of trail mix and had my son raid that for 1 cup of raisins.  

I added extra Turmeric so that it would be a really pretty yellow!  So Yummy!

This evening I spent some time working on a Ukrainian Cross Stitch Towel:

It's coming along nicely and I hope to be able to start on another of these projects I have been contemplating now for awhile.

I hope you as well had a wonderful day and as always

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Ready....Set....It's Monday!

Good Evening Internet Friends.

Today was a great day considering it was Monday.  After dinner my son and I went out for an hour bike ride.  We took Ada Blvd most of the way along the river and then returned home via the surrounding neighborhoods

This is one of the things I love about living in an old neighborhood.  We have the river valley close by, our streets are wide  and there are lots of bike and walking trails.

After my son went to bed I decided to work on a tea towel kit that I bought last summer at Prickly Pear Quilts:

TAH DAH!  Makes my kitchen look "Top Drawer" as my son would say! ☺

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

The Day After.....

Good Evening Internet Friends!

Well, the Tree Bird Blog Hop wrapped up yesterday, and I still had some fabric left over.  What to do with it?  I had a pile of flour sack towels sitting in close proximity to the fabric and "sew" this is what I came up with:

I likely have enough bird house fabric to make another of these, but that is for another day!

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Here a chick, there a chick..., Summer Vacation Day 25

Back to work today, and quite tired after the weekend events.  Home late (imagine) from the festivities of K-days.

After dinner, and a quick trip to the park, spent a little time in the craft room.

Decided I would work on one of the projects I picked up at Prickly Pear Quilts.

The kit appeared like it should be a quick project for a night like tonight, but either I am really sleepy or something, because the instructions for assembly made little to NO sense.

Oh, well, I put it together in my own way, and all seams are folded under, top stitched, and that is that!

TAH DAH!  

A quick and easy (once I decided how I would do it) addition to my kitchen!

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Summer Cross Stitch Tea Towel

I finished this Summer Cross Stitch Huck Towel some time ago.  I found it today in the drawer, and decided it was time to bring it out!  Summer may have finally arrived in Alberta (maybe....).

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Too Much Pink!

I did a pre-order of some of the new stuff from the Stampin' Up Mini Catalogue, and it arrived today (took the same amount of time to arrive as usual, except Christmas and Boxing Day were in there - good job UPS).  I got some of this fabric (can't resist fabric), to see what it looks like.  WOW!!  It is pink, and the color of pink in real life looks like canned salmon.  I really hate pink especially this shade of pink, so I will have to get moving on getting rid of this stuff.  I decided I would run it through my Cuttlebug with Wonder Under on the back.  I used the Fun Flowers die cut and my new extended cutting pads (almost was thinking of getting a Big Shot- not necessary now).  The sack cloth towels are a Wal-mart "find".  I can only emphasize the "find" as it is a case of you get what you pay for.  The towels are very cheap, the cotton weave is very loose (no wonder they say lint free - there is no way the fibers could rub against each other to make any lint), the edges are not even, and the sewing on the seams is irregular.  I might have to start making my own sack cloth towels.  The ribbon is from the new catalogue, as is the fabric, and I simply ironed the fabric down and appliqued with my sewing machine.  If you are unfortunate privileged enough to receive one of these towels, please excuse the towel as I only appliqued on it.  Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy