Hokey Pokey Day

Good Evening Internet Friends!

I literally feel like I'm doing the Hokey Pokey today!  It's my turn around day to be back on day shift tomorrow.  Not the wisest decisions are made on days like today and doing anything seems to take forever.  Still have not napped, so hopefully will be off to slumber land shortly.

Managed to pick up a few groceries today for lunches for the next couple of days til we leave, did laundry that had to be done, took the car for a wash (it looked terrible) so now I can see my Roughrider plate surround and my Anne of Green Gables vanity plate up front!

Before I picked my son up from school I did manage to work on and finish 8 pinwheel blocks for a project I am currently working on:

TAH DAH!

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Sew What? It's a Snow Day!

Good Evening Internet Friends!

Woke up to more snow this morning.  The remote start on my Highlander somehow got scrambled and so the alarms and auto start functions refused to work properly.  Had to sweep the mountain (literally) of snow off the Focus as it seemed like a better idea than trying to get the Super Duty started in the cold.  Plus, I did not want to get my hands cold locking the hubs.  Got my son to school only 15 minutes late.

 Thankfully my neighbor got his quad runner with snow plow out this morning and cleaned my side walk by the time I got back home ☺  Tried hopelessly for the next hour to reprogram my car starter with no luck (sad face).

Off to lunch at Duchess Bakery with my friend.  Lovely lunch and visit as usual.  Then I decided I should see if I could get a hair cut with Mallory at Crazy beautiful Hair and of course they were awesome as usual and fitted me in ☺

Stopped at Chapters on the way to pick up my son and was able to finally get my copy of Primitive Quilts, but still cannot locate the Cross Stitch Collection February 2015 issue which I MUST have (it has a black lab puppy on the front).  

While dinner was cooking I managed to do a bit of quilting:

 I made Block 3 of my Churndash Challenge that I am participating in with A Needle Pulling Thread Quilt Shop (I am actually supposed to have 5 of these blocks made...maybe tonight).

Here are all three that I have made so far.  I am using up scrap yardage for these.

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Snow Day

Good Evening Internet Friends!

Woke up this morning to nothing spectacular outside.  So much for the weather advisory of "Snow Fall Warning".  Got my son ready for school, it was early dismissal today.  By the time I dropped him off at school it was starting to snow.

Picked him up just after 1200 hours and the wind was really picking up.  We went to The Dish Bistro for lunch then over to Cookie Love.  A quick stop at the book store for a magazine I am still looking for (no luck) and then a quick stop at the fabric store (last resort- not a fan of this store as it does not offer any incentive to shop local) to see if they had a couple fat quarters I was looking for.  They did, now I can start my quilt.

By the time we left St. Albert the snow and wind had really picked up.  My son was taking pictures of traffic on St. Albert Trail:

By the time we got home this was the view of the neighborhood:

And of course my Juniper shrub:

Worked on one of my quilting projects this evening and got some of the pinwheel building blocks done:

TAH DAH!

Have to get my grove on tomorrow as did not get half of what I wanted to do done today....

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Work In Progress Wednesday!

Good Evening Internet Friends!

Shhhhhh, now, don't let the cat out of the bag (especially the staffing office) but I have TWO consecutive days off now without work!  I don't even plan to work any overtime!   

The city of Edmonton is currently under a snow fall warning and since I am off for two whole days and have lots of housework and quilting planned I decided to stop and pick up a few groceries on the way home this evening.  Was super proud of myself because I went to Superstore and even remembered to take my re-usable shopping bags.  As I finished emptying the bag, this is what I discovered.  Fresh cat?

This evening I decided to do a little more quilting and link up with Work In Progress Wednesday over at The Needle and Thread Network since I have not done that in a while.  Check out the link as there are some really talented people over there.

I am still working away on my Raise the Roof quilt and managed to get another three of these blocks completed this evening:

TAH DAH!

No idea how many more I have to make, will just keep making them until I run out of half square center pieces ☺

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Elegant Dinner?

Good Evening Internet Friends.

Worked today and of course battled especially bad traffic on the way home tonight.  Only kid and I home for dinner so we had our favorite meal on these nights; scrambled eggs, whole grain toast with marmalade and a glass of milk!  Quite "Elegant" as my son comments.

The marmalade is of course form my fall preserves and the whole grain bread from my baking on the weekend.  I LOVE making whole grain bread, it smells so yummy fresh out of the oven, and even the next couple of days smells so wonderful when I slice into it.

 Almost ready to shape into loaves.

Two of the four loaves I made.  Gave two away, froze one and left one out for toast and sandwiches this week.  

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Cross Stitch Collection Stitch Along

Good Early Morning Internet Friends!  

It is just after midnight here in Western Canada, and I am going to bed soon, have to work tomorrow.....but I am also participating in the Cross Stitch Collection Stitch Along with a +8 hour time difference.  If I post now, then all of my new Internet Friends across the pond won't miss anything.  ☺

Okay, not that it's that spectacular, but the fact that I have managed to do as much as I have on this Stitch Along is pretty amazing even for me!

I started this project on January 01, 2014, then realized a couple of days later I had counted wrong (don't cross stitch late at night), and had to take all the stitches out and re-start.  As of check in date here is what I have completed:

Not sure how "far behind" I am, but will keep at this.  Might take me longer than a year to do...., but I'm having fun doing it! ☺

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

It's Super Sunday!

Good Evening Internet Friends!

Today was a Super Great Day!

After flax seed whole wheat pancakes and poached eggs for breakfast my son and I headed off to Rundle Park to go ice skating.  However, the warm weather seems to have played havoc with the river/ponds over there and outdoor skating was closed.  So, we walked around the park.  The temperature was -13 Celsius (9 Fahrenheit) so not too cold for us.

The park was very pretty with the newly fallen snow and not too busy today so we took our time:

Breakfast

Where we would have skated.

Marching into the Ranger Station

Some bird brain was out making tracks in the snow...

Another bird brain making tracks!  I wore my Sorel Campus Tall Boots because we were going skating.  I take these boots with me when I know I am going to have to be out of my boots because if these get stolen I know that who ever stole them must need them more than I do, unlike my Brooks Tall UGG Boots.  Notice the polar bear in the tread shows up kinda cute in the snow. ☺

Checking out the park through the lens...

Trying to climb the rock structure, not too easy with winter boots and woolen mittens ☺

That was our outing to the park.  Came home and made bread,  and then pizza for dinner, since it is Super Bowl Sunday:

Hope you all had a Super Sunday and,

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy