New Year - Dec 26th-31st

Dec 26th

I found the perfect spot for my sign! Beware when entering my quilting place!!! 😘

Well I think I've prepped enough bindings for my Quilt Canada donations and time to get back to my quilting. I've four fabrics basically 1.5 metres each for a total of 3,607 inches, but the two stripes are split by shorter and longer pieces cut on the bias, the two brown/green started off cut on the straight of grain but then switched to cut on the bias and the brown just straight of grain. Hopefully they will be matched where needed!

Dec 27th

Well Sylvia did another easy puzzle in a few hours and said to bring one of mine over.  So today I picked her up and we went for quesadillas at Southdale Family Village Restaurant and I took over 3 of my new quilting ones and decided to start on the sewing machine tin one! Gosh they are small pieces but at least odd ball shapes and seems to be good quality pieces to work with. So we started and actually a couple hours in we made a good dent in it!!!

My baby won't stay clean long in this shit!!!

Dec 28th

Up and attem, took Edna shopping, picked up treats and flowers for us before heading over for borscht lunch and pizza/wine supper sleep over! Some sewing too!

Well that's a wrap for my hand pieced tumblers made from donated 1.5" squares into rows (didn't even make a dent in the bagful). Once pressed I'll stitch the rows together and assemble and hand quilt it too! This is 7" x 9.5" so might need another row or two once rows are joined to make a rectangular quilt.

WOW!!! After replacing ONE parka zipper I totally refuse to do anymore. So this is on my feed so I know where to go next time!!!

Dec 29th

I saw this for the first time last year while having supper with Nancy at Cibo's, I was distracted many times but especially on a couple of slips, thankfully harnessed!!!

My picture taken last year.

Dec 31st

To my family and friends wishing you a

Kinda a nice end to 2024 with a visit with Edna and then over to Sylvia's for puzzle setting and Santa Lucia pizza supper while listening to the Jr Hockey game. Too bad Canada lost to USA!!! We finished my Singer sewing one and switched to Sylvia's folksy huge one but forgot to take a picture! We'll be doing that one for awhile!!! Now home and to watch the Jets hockey game. AND caught the fireworks but my pics weren't their best!

But 2025 will be a bit iffy as I have to report to MPI as the person I firmly bumped (no crashing and no major damage to either vehicles) in November put in an accident claim. First letter was sent Dec 2nd which as yet I've not received and a firm reprimanding letter sent Dec 19th was received today! I'll call in Thursday to make an appointment.

Christmas - Dec 23rd - 25th

Dec 23rd

Okay my Christmas cards were sent electronically this year and phone calls made. I'm on the last of my laundry and dishes just about too! In between I've been pressing and cutting 2.5" strips of hopefully appropriate bindings for Quilt Canada donations! Decided enough, time for a holiday dressed break! Thank you Cindy and Angela for the cookies!!! Feet up with Jets recording on!

Dec 24th

A lovely Christmas Eve visiting family and friends delivering cards and picking up a present from Pat. Then stopped at Poke Mono for tomorrow's lunch, Oakwood's frozen borscht and strawberry rhubarb tarts for another day besides a borscht serving for my supper and Ukrainian perishke to join my supper from Michelle! 

Still pretty clean after driving around. 

All was delicious, then opened my presents that I kept for tonight! Thank you all!!! 🎄💞  

So knitted booties, stitched landscape and a mug from Sylvia, Chamois car wash GC and gas money from Edna and from Pat the sign (need a special place for it) and her lovely embroidered and quilted ornament! Thank you everyone!!! 💞💞💞

Dec 25th ☃️🎄🥂

Late breakfast with coffee in my new mug along with more gifted cookies!!!

I really thought I was getting my asked for knitted green booties for Christmas but she fooled me. When Sylvia was getting ready for teaching her landscape art class for ACQ I picked out a kit that I wanted to buy and make my own landscape. She said she'd keep it for me. HA HA!!! Instead she finished it off beautifully as a gift for me. I tried to get the colour right but still not quite, it has some teal green in the blue but I can't capture it - it's in between these two!!!

Now relaxing watching Christmas movies with some of Cindy's gifted wine!  🥰

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Dec 23rd

I love chickadees especially on my frosty walks with my friends too!

☃️🎄🎶🥰🎉

Catchup - Dec 19th-22nd

Dec 19th

Can you believe it, I double booked my Wednesday and totally messed up my massage appointment. So rescheduled for Jan 2nd - UGGGGH!!!! Then someone else messed up and I landed up taking her appointment yesterday - AWESOME!!! 

Then over to Sylvia's for some online fun and puzzle setting! That one was so dang easy, finished maybe in 2 hours. The pieces were like 1.5 inches, a sinch to do!

Dec 20th

Today up early to Urban Garage to get my new tires on! 

All done!!!

WOW!!! Nice ride and at stop lights only ONCE did the skidding light come on instead of nearly each icy corner. In the new year it'll be the back brakes and hopefully that's it for major maintenance for awhile. I totally love the service here!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Pat!!! 🎉🎂💞

After my tires got replaced, I picked up Edna and headed to Joey's on Kenaston to lunch with Pat, Randy, his Mom Edith, Byran, Sylvia and us last to arrive! LLovely lunch and visit but GOSH DARN it was NOISY!!!

And DANG Amanda showed me to select Portraits and that way blurry the background! DUH!!! I forgot to!!!

Dec 21st

I'm again on a tatted dragonfly mission. Basically using Riet's Dragonfly pattern with some of my adaptations. Top left unknown thread, the rest I used blues Parlak Oren Bayan Dantel Ipigi 50, blues/mauve 185 Lizbeth 20, dark greens 167 Lizbeth 20 and botton right greens/brown 179 Lizbeth 20.

So I gifted my car a Christmas present!!! Yeppers since it was warmer I took it to Chamois for a thorough cleaning, in and out, then off to Winnipeg Square heated parkadefor another wipe down, doors open heater and fan full blast for a half hour at least. It's so pretty again!!!

Then back home for another crazy quilted postcard and more tatting embellishments for it, probably finished tomorrow.

Dec 22nd

I did lots of shopping there and remember those slight bumps in the warehouse floors especially!

I've completed the embellishments on my PFA swap postcard. For the embroidery I used gifted Rajmahal Art Silk threads (very slippery), Lizbeth #124 size 20 for my tatting and dismantled a bracelet for the hummingbird charm. 

Now to pick up my fixed laptop today, prep n print off my back and try finish it for mail off in the New Year!!!

After picking up my now working laptop and visiting Angela (was gifted a tray of her cookies - Yummy), I finally set up Angie's gifted tree which does not have lights attached - I'm drained! 

Next year I'll put the tree on a chair, wind lights on, then up onto the table! I'm relaxing now. Figured if I'm home I should put the tree up with a small amount of her decorations and mine that are out and around all year! I should have put my crocheted angel on top, next time. Maybe I'll put them away this year?