Yesterday I started a new Sunday Stitches project - Cranberry Christmas. I'm working my way towards the red house. Can't wait to start stitching that but I probably have another Sunday of stitching before I can start the house. This chart had me dumpster diving last week. I got the chart out early last week to choose the linen and make sure my floss would work with the linen. When I ...
The Second Ebay Mixer
The second Ebay mixer arrived Friday just as I was leaving to go get Addie. I hopped out of the car and went to watch as Vince opened it. We both noticed that it wasn't packed nearly as well as the first one had been - a bit of bubble wrap and crumpled paper were in the box. Those mixers are heavy! The first had solid (vs. peanuts) pieces of styrofoam all around it - bottom, top sides; plus bubble ...
The Crazy Cook
In the kitchen this morning, I had to giggle. I told Vince . . anyone watching me cook would think I'm crazy. He said "Anyone watching you do anything would think you're crazy!" He was joking . . don't get mad at Vince. I had a thick sliced top round roast that was defrosted. I had the butcher slice a huge top round roast into about 3/4" thick slices, divided it up into several packages and I ...
My Hamburger Steak
Here's how I make hamburger steak. Our local meat market sells 80/20 (which we use for grilling burgers) and 90/10 which I use for everything else so this was 90/10. I used 2 pounds of ground beef. I don't measure so this is just a guess but probably close. Here's what I added to the meat: 2 eggs1/2 cup bread crumbs (storebought)salt, pepper, a bit of garlic powderLawry's seasoned saltCajun ...
More Storage
The kitchen in this house is way bigger than my kitchen in Texas but I had storage on the second floor of the shop. Here, the same as when we lived in MO before, I have several shelving units in the garage. I know I have too much stuff but since I have it, and I use most of it, I'm not getting rid of it and I need a place to put it. The bigger issue for me is that in the kitchen, there's upper ...
New Year Sampler Progress
There wasn't a lot of stitching time yesterday but I made a bit of progress: I think those bottom left things may be bags - bags of gold?? But why is there green stuff in between them? I still have to stitch two more bags and that will be the first page of the nine page chart done. Part of that top package (the left one of the three) is on page one. Everything else is on page 2. On the bags ...