Snowy day in Maine.................

It's doing this outside today.........................

 

 

So I put a pork butt in the crock pot, meanwhile in a saucepan I put a bottle of hard cider (didn't have any regular apple cider), ketchup, beer, brown sugar and a few other goodies to simmer. 

 

 

Later today I will "shred" the pork and pour the sauce over it and viola pulled pork sandwiches!

 

Also melted up some peanut butter, chocolate chips, margarine, and vanilla......................





Poured over this, tossed,

then coated with confectioners sugar and tossed some more to make these yummy munchies for the afternoon......... 

While working with this....................

..........or maybe looking through the stack of magazines I have acquired over the years and deciding which ones to keep and which ones to share with friends.

 

I'd Like to Place a Order .........

Midnight waiting for the order window to open..........

 

 

Placing his order for two "treats", one for him and one for his brother Hunter........ 

Order up...............

All the snow we had over the weekend makes the ordering and pick up so much easier!

I did some "reverse" sewing on the table topper and re-quilted it using the red thread, I think it looks much better.

Off to work on the next UFO!

Thanks for sharing...........

Yesterday Terry at Terry's Treasures shared a table topper she made with some of her scraps.....I loved it so much I decided to use some of my Primitive Gatherings Old Glory fabrics to make one of my own, here is what mine looks like (you can see Terry's by clicking on her blog name).

I haven't finished stitching the binding, but I am still contemplating ripping out the quilting stitches and replacing them with the red thread shown in the photos, what do you think?  The size of this topper is 19" x 19" other than copying it from Terry's photo I am not sure if I need to credit anyone else,  I will check with Terry and if so I will update this post. 

 

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This morning I took my 4 year old Newfie, Midnight, to the groomers for the first time, I hated spending the money, but I think it will be worth every penny.  When he came home and went out and played with our German Shepherd, Hunter, the snow DID NOT ball up on his feet and underside!  Think I'm going to consider adding an occasional grooming to the budget, even if it means one (or two) less trips to the quilt shop! 

 

He was not really wanting a photo taken, I think he is wondering what I did with his bed.........it should be out of the dryer soon, didn't want him sleeping on a smelly bed!



Sewin' and Sitchin'

Just finished up this little penny mat by Buttermilk Basin........

I am getting ready to make some half square triangles for my scrappy stars.  I started making them along with Terry and I planned on making 3 per month for a year, enough for several quilts.  I have gotten a little behind, I should have 21 done to be up to date, my goal for this week is to get caught up!

The pile of squares ready for the sewing machine.

Some of the finished blocks and some almost finished..........



 

So that's what took you so long.......

When I finally got to the chicken coop this morning to get them fresh water and food, I think they were wondering what took so long, until I opened the door to their coops and they were confronted with the "white stuff" in their yard.  Keep in mind their yard has a roof and all the sides except for the top half of the doors are completely covered with plastic for the winter, of course their are many little "openings".............. and with the 30 plus inches inches of blowing snow that we got last night it found a way into their yard!  Here they are just coming out of the coop for the day......

It took them a few moments to decided to venture out into their yard. 

 

 

 

 

This is the front of their yard, the snow is halfway up the side of the chicken yards.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hope the rest of my New England blogging friends are safe and sound during this storm.  I am very thankful that we had time to prepare, have the tools necessary to move all this white stuff, and that I have three sons that help, and of course my husband, he is out "playing in the yard" with his tractor while I sit here with a cup of coffee blogging!  The wind has subsided around my house so I am almost sure we should be set in regards to a power outage, but we have a generator if that happens! 

 



First Post of 2013

Finally getting back to posting, hoping to be better in the coming year!

Settling into my new sewing corner, it is comfortable and has lots of natural light.

All of my fabric is in totes and on shelves in various places in my bedroom along with most of my other sewing/quilting supplies.  While it's not as convenient as having everything in one room, I am happy that I have a place that I CAN sew!  This sewing cabinet is the Koala Sew Mate II, it folds up and looks like a sideboard when I am not using it, which is almost never!  I was able to find a used one on CraigsList, so happy that I was able to get this at a fraction of what a new one costs and it was in mint condition!

Here are the projects I have been working on...............

This is the first of the small Civil War Journals quilts, the second one is almost a flimsy, photo coming soon!

 

 

This is the flimsy Christmas Wishes by Gail Pan.

 

 

This stichery I made up myself, not sure who wrote the saying, but I stitched it up and put it in a frame I found a few years ago at a yardsale, it was a Christmas gift for my husband.

 

I had the opportunity to meet Grace fellow blogger yesterday, we visited a few quilt shops and enjoyed nice lunch.