A Day At The Lake

 we never know what kind of weather we'll have ,pleasant,too hot,cold ,even as we speak it's pouring down rain with a lightning show & dynamite sounding thunder lol but we had a beautiful day  Sunday evening so after church & a good ole home cooked meal Grace & me headed to the lake ,this was one of those rare times I let her play in the water ,on a sewing note, I've started a new quilt,not sure why as I'm finishing up  well let's just say a few 😄

Ironing Day

 

sometimes I think ironing is becoming a lost art,most retail clothing are designed not to wrinkle,there's wrinkle guard products you can toss in the dryer,back in the day I had a friend that ironed everything& I mean everything,from sheets on the bed down to her husband's undies🤣 moving right along to the rainbow scrap Challenge lol 

Orange is our color for May,not a color I keep on hand but I manage lol have you started on your orange s yet?

Welcome May

 

A whole new month! What will you do with it, orange is the new color for the Rainbow Scrape Challenge over at So Scrappy,I e been cutting out pieces of orange fabrics so I'll be ready to jump right into making my blocks,I want to get back into my painting,it's been abandoned long enough,here's a few things I've painted through the years of learning from Ginger Cook,Angela Anderson,Cinnamon Cooney as well as a few others through FB & YouTube 

We won't talk about all the UFO 's in the sewing room,🤔maybe it's not so bad,are cutout projects  considered UFO's? LoL!

Wishing you a beautiful May full of new opportunities!

Out With 💜 In With Orange

 finishing up with purples & bringing in oranges for the month of May

I'm not much of an orange person so I always have to buy a few pieces when it comes the month for orange lol

a head start for May with the first orange block this morning

have you got your orange fabrics out?

Goals One At A Time& Ice Cream!!

 yesterday I set out to make pillow covers for the layneigh,grill ,go to the park & throughout the day everything went like clock work

I took advantage of a meat sale at one of my local grocery stores & grilled up pork chops,pork steaks,beef patties,steaks,even seared a roast that's gonna be so good in the crockpot ,it's gonna be good to my meats done & just whip up some veggies

Mason Jar Icecream

have you seen where you mix few ingredients ,shake & freeze for Icecream?the original recipes calls for heavy cream,I always keep on hand pet milk but this time I tried the cream,the difference? the pet milk takes longer to freeze 4-6 hours,the cream around 2 hours you can also hear the difference as with the cream the sloshing stops when you're shaking it ,both are good ,the pet milk gives a choppe texture where as the cream a more soft serve texture

it's not always feasible to go to the store for just one item, never let what you have keep you from trying new things

MASON JAR ICECREAM

placing your jar in the freezer to get cold helps speed up the freezing process

1c. heavy cream

2tbsp.sugar

1tsp.van

add ingredients to a pint mason jar do not stir

apply lid & shake for 5 min.

place jar in freezer

icecream will freeze hard but will soften 

Do You Make To Do List?

 now this is a to do list I can stick to😁but I am still guilty of writing out plans to be marked off only to be transferred over to the UFO project list😂 grilling is on today's list,taking Grace🐕to the park & soooooo..........sew...,in ...,sewing! there I said it! S..E..W🤣

Backyard Happenings

 catching up on sewing here & there,  mostly focusing on my flower beds one at a time,finished planting my last rosebush for one bed,it's a drift rose bush & will produce different colors of roses

caught the woodpecker on the feeder,he usually comes early in the morning or late in the evening

the red bird couple came today,male & female will not feed together unless they are mating

Mr Jay's coming around more & more ,it's hard to tell male & female apart as they're almost identical,research says their crest is different so I  need to look a lot harder lol

almost finished with my tie quilt,some call it tacking,whatever it's called I'm about to call it done!😂