Monday, August 3, 2020

Making it and Digging Deep

Rarely do I have the urge to spend more than a few minutes a day on the housekeeping and organization aspects of life, life being to short and all of that. I may have shared that before. So you'll be happy to know that on Sunday I went out to the 120 degree garge with a couple bins, and  dragged literally everything out of my chest freezer, counted it, organized it in shopping bags and put it back in the freezer.. After writing down every little thing inside.  I now know that I have between two and three weeks of meals in the freezer.  I also know that I've done my organizational task for the month. Or maybe for two months. Or three? Not including the packing equation of course.


I need a smaller brush pen (or maybe even a rubber stamp or two), and that bird on the far left is supposed to be hunched over but needs some work.
After puttering round for a day or a half, and watching a Utube video or two, I also managed to create a few cards to add to my Meals on Wheels donation pile. I am living proof that things can be fun to do even though you may not necessarily be good at doing them. I may be a damned good quilter and a pretty good knitter these days, but when it comes to the so called "arts" I dabble my friends, dabble. Sometimes they come out, sometimes they don't. But since I use things like greeting cards thats okay, because the people who love me are happy to get them, I hope. and perhaps they'll cheer up other people once in awhile. Oh and the card that was on Friday's post, that was a sample of the stuff I am trying to learn to do. Not something made by me. On the other hand, the two cards above are my attempts.  I also may also have made a couple others that I am not sharing here. Now for the writing little notes thing in each card.

Sorry, all pictures taken in the morning sun while relaxing at the pergola table. But you get the idea hopefully. Yes, these are Tula fabrics.
Also over the past few days, I have started on the newest quilt. After a day or two of indecision as to which size of block (the biggest one)  and whether to be monochoromatic or contrasting, color wise (mono). Now for the sewing and designing the quilting. I also have a modern art quilt in the works, but since right now that's slashes of fabric I throw on as I go, I should probably go a little further.

In some good news/bad news, I've been good on the exercise thing, and did forty minutes of weights (me and my two pounders) today.  I also had, you guessed it, the red can of coke this morning. Maybe I can alternate mornings?

Tonight in order to avoid waste and have something frugal to chat about, we have a modge podge of leftovers. Steak tenderloins, lemon garlic chicken tenders, a throw together chili made with things on hand (my sister tends to be living proof that creativity does not only equate craftiness, but applies to food as well) and brown sugar pork chops. After two leftover lunch days and dinner, I think we're on to real food again tomorrow. Only since I never took any of that inventory out of said freezer, I believe we'll be doing the deli chicken and biscuits thing.

I leave you with a picture of my newest mask and my temporary buzz cut, along with some obligatory dog pictures, in my bed and on the ever loving dying yard.


The flowers, trees, and plants, they are blooming. The grass is going the other way in this drought.

With only the nightstand light, on top of not one, but two of his own blankies/quilts whie he awaits fo his master to return from work. Leaving him will be traumatic. For both of us.

24 comments:

  1. Love your mask and greeting cards. I think you did well on the cards.

    Are you quilting with a machine? You're so prolific with making them I'm guessing you do.

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    1. Yes, all on machine. My sister has bern known top occasionally hand quilt a top.

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  2. We have leftovers several times a week . . . so does our dog!

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    1. We love leftivers. Unfortunately my dog's stomach hates them.

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  3. I am glad to meet (virtually) a fellow dabbler who also thinks there are better uses of time than cleaning and organizing!

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    1. lol. I try, I do. But im generally one of those i care about stuff being picked up more than i do about clean (aside from bathrooms and food related stuff).

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  4. Creativity does not only equate to craftiness. I mistakenly thought of creativity as artistic, i.e. the visual arts. I've come to realize that creativity is translated into gardening, cooking, home decorating. The chest freezer is often defrosted in the winter months when the contents can be kept frozen outside during the process. I've come to put dates on packages. I'm sometimes surprised at how long something has been in the freezer. The latest additions to the frozen food supply has been rhubarb and saskatoons. Last night's dinner included grilled pork chops and pineapple with cinnamon pear balsamic vinegar.

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    1. I tend to think that any time you are solving a problem or coming up with a solution you are creative.

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    1. Me too. There was another one that was white with large donkeys but the kid kept that one.

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  6. You are such a creative whirlwind and a lady after my heart with an organized freezer. Oh, and I vote for the mask.

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    1. Only organized cause im trying not to spend grocery money. Although I did have heavy cloth shppping bags holding different categories like meat, fish and frozen veggies.

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  7. You did a great job on your cards! I always miss my dogs when I need to be away from home so I know you'll miss your son's dog when you move.

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    1. thanks. It will be an adjustment for both of us.

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  8. I have a teeny top of the refrigerator freezer, but I must admit in the past I've not been careful of what I have. That has all changed in the last six months. I keep up with what I have and have been eating dinner from the freezer regularly. I applaud the amount of work it must have taken to make order. Love our mask!

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    1. yes. My goal is to not spend money on food or as little as possible for the next couple of months so it had to be done. We do have a bunch of beef, so no one said meals would be balanced out .

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  9. I have a clean out the fridge night at least once a week, and Harvey enjoys any leftovers that I have not earmarked for another meal for his lunches.

    Love the fabric choices for your newest quilt.

    God bless.

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    1. food for you. We tend to just cook every other night and eat leftovers in between. Im a sandwich girl but everyone else eats them for lunch.

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  10. Love, love, LOVE that mask! Well done. :)

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  11. Nice mask! I suppose the yard/grass doesn't do well without lots of watering...which would likely cost a fortune.

    I've arrived from my daughter's and I haven't looked in the fridge so supper will be a surprise. Or likely a sandwich.

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    1. We do have sprinklers going. But with no natural rain at all its kind of a lost cause for the grass and she handwaters all the plants. Sandwiches are always good.

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  12. You certainly are busy. But, it's so important to have something to do, even if it's just mundane! I, for one, can not sit without something to do. Have a great day. Hugs.

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    1. Today I am spending the morning reading a book!

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