A Quiet Day Of Beading

Today I was up and getting my cinnamon rolls in the oven. I tried a new recipe and it was a big hit. Patrick really liked them. I love Cafedelight recipes! She's got the best recipes. I've been putting them in my Paprika3 app. I love that I can download recipes and not have all those papers. Plus I can find the recipe again! I'm going to try a Honey Mustard Chicken on her website as well.

Once all that was done, I got a load in the wash....which I need to put in the dryer. UGH. I get on one track and forget to get back to the washing. If I don't do the dryer tonight, I'll have to wash the clothes again. UGH

Then I decided to work on my beading.

I ended up taking out 5 rows. I had the trouble of the db1818 beads breaking! It was driving me crazy. One bead broke yesterday and I took a while to work on getting it in the piece. Then 2 more broke, all of the same bead batch. I got frustrated before going to bed last night. Patrick suggested (or asked) if I could replace the beads with another bead in my stash. I told him that was a good idea and I was thinking about it. So, I looked for the right bead. Then I started taking out the rows. In the meantime I was talking on the phone to Cherry and Sharon. Both love to chat on the phone. Since they don't have visitors, they chat, and chat. Once I was off the phone I finished putting the beads back in the piles they were in. Then I got going with the beading. I ended up going back to row 12. I finished at row 16. It was a good afternoon of beading. My polar bear is going to be showing up soon, I'm sure. It might already be coming. The "yellow" is supposed to be white, is the water. I'm getting there.

The news is talking about having to wait another year before being social again. That's going to be interesting. I'm missing my groups. Guess we all will be like Japan and walk around with masks on all the time. Life is interesting!

I do have my cross stitch ready to work on, but I'm going to get a couple days off before getting started. At least I'm still Happy Stitching/Happy Quilting!

Another Monday Gone By And A Broken Bead

This morning I was up and getting ready to work on another cross stitch. I couldn't decide on which one I wanted to do. I was going to do the Mayflower, but I went downstairs and checked the kits. I found the Santa kit that had the enlarged pattern. I then got to work on trying to get the floss lined up so I could get to work on it. THAT WAS A CHORE! It took me an hour or more to figure out what went were.

I had sent a message to my doctor about my arm going numb this morning. She set up an appointment for me to be there at 2:30. So, Patrick and I had to go to the doctors to find out it may be a pinched nerve in my neck. Also had her look at a mark on my cheek. I got a few things to help fix both. We'll see.

Went to Winlock grocery store to find out it wasn't stocked like Phil thought and it cost more then going to Safeway. Well, we shopped anyway.

Came home and had supper. Then I went and worked on my beading.

I worked on the Polar Bear. Just as I was finishing the row where I wanted to stop, a bead broke! It was the row below. I tried to fix that one and I ended up with another bead braking 2 rows down. UGH! They were the same type of bead. I believe it was one of the ones Sharon warned me about. I' debating on taking it all out and redoing it with a different bead. I will think about it. If I can fix that bead I will. Hard to say.

We all know how we really don't care for Mondays, well that's the way I feel about this Monday. Not a lot went the way I wanted. Patrick and I worked on cinnamon rolls and he screwed up the filling. Then he screwed up the cutting. I couldn't win. He was getting mad at me because I wanted it one way and he wanted it another. Oh, crap. I give up. Another Monday is gone and I'm hoping it stays gone! Then I can get back to being Happy Stitching/Happy Quilting!

Happy Easter! - A Finish!

Today started out being slow. We slept in. Then we finally got moving around noon.

I worked on the bookkeeping. I was 2 months behind on our checkbook. I'm 4 months behind on Gunderson, but couldn't get on the website, so will have to call them. I think I keep getting blocked out after 3 months. lol After I was done, I found this in my bed.

Three guesses - yep Sophie. She doesn't do that very often. I just laughed. She was there a while.

After all that, I had to make a cherry pie. Patrick was wanting his cherry pie. I wasn't thrilled to have to keep working on his desserts when he wants them. Can't complain though, he does a lot for me.

I also got some more beads. I got a really good deal on them.

Once all that was done, I got back to my cross stitching.

My Spring Cat is now done. I did fix a spot that was missing outline after taking the photo. This is finally done.

The outlining worked out. I had do look on the photo to make sure I got the right outlining in the upper part.

I really like the way it looks.

This will take the place of the one on the wall - only for a while. Now I will have 2 to switch around. I'll work on the next 2 later. I need to go to the copy center to get more copies made for the next one. I do have one project that I have enlarged the pattern for. That will probably be my next one. I think it's the Mayflower one. I'm okay with that. I was thinking I would put the names of my ancestors around the outside.

I hope you all had a great Easter Sunday. As the saying goes, we come out of the dark to the light. It's a perfect time to believe we will all get through this. I thank everyone who is working hard to rid us of this Virus. I thank all those that are working every day to keep things going. If Patrick was working, he would be one that is out there working hard to keep things moving. We can get through this! We can became better people when it's over. God Bless everyone!

Tomorrow will be beading at this rate. Still in a Stay At Home order. We're good. I'm still Happy Stitching/Happy Quilting!

Getting Closer To Another Finish

This morning I was getting started with laundry but only got one load done. lol

I decided to work on getting my cross stitch done. I worked on it for awhile. Then we went out to eat, by going through "drive-thru." We took a hamburger to mom and dropped off a few things for her. She gave me some Safeway ticket. I was able to make enough points to get a $25 gift card. Patrick was saying we'll send that to Katt.

Came home and watched some more movies and shows. It's been a good day of doing cross stitching.

I've been working on getting the top done. I got all the stitches in. Now I'm working on the outlining now. I was able to get some of it done. I have a ton more to work on, but I'm really close. I am looking forward to getting another project done. I need to think about what I want to do next. I may end up doing the Mayflower piece that I have the cross stitch pattern enlarged.

We're still staying home because we have to. We are getting a little tired of having to stay home. That's life. I'm still Happy Stitching/Happy Quilting!

A FINISH

This morning I got moving on getting my beading done. I wanted to finish it since I only needed to do 6 rows of black. It went quicker because I didn't have to count the colors that I add to the piece. All black and that went fast. I did notice that my work got tighter as I went.

While I was beading, Patrick was outside fixing the steps. He worked outside most of the day.

When I went out to talk to Patrick, I found Sophie waiting on me. She can't stand it that I go outside without her. lol

I finished the Wild Birds while he was outside. It turned out great! I'm really happy with the finished product.

Then I cleaned up the table. I got the table all set with my next project - Polar Bear.

I'm all set to work on it. I will get moving on it tomorrow - maybe. Now I want to finish the cross stitch Spring Cat. I'm so close to getting it done!

I worked on the outlining tonight while watching an old movie. I have a lot more to do, but I was glad to get about an hour in on outlining this!

Things are going great when it comes to my projects. I'm Happy Stitching/Happy Quilting!

A Day Of Beading

Today I got up and enjoyed a few minutes of playing games.

Then when Patrick went outside to work on finishing up his water pressure job, I decided to bead. (And laundry).

I finished the beading of the actually photo. Now I'm just finishing up the border. I was surprised to find I did 9 rows plus 2 rows of black. It's looking really good. Now I can do the beading at my chair without worrying about all my beads getting mixed up.

I then went through all the beads, and marked them down so I know what I have and how much. It felt good to get all my beads accounted for. Some of them were taken off the list for the Polar Bear - which I wanted to get updated. I will be working on that next. It will go faster. I'm just thrilled I was able to get this done! Not quiet done, but the inside is done. I'll finish it up tomorrow. Then I'll work on the hooks later. I need to work on those so when I need to see Sharon, she'll show me how to hook them in.

Happy to be Happy Stitching/Happy Quilting!

Things Are Looking UP

Today the news says they are talking about loosing up the "stay at home" requests. I'm not sure if that's smart, but I can use a break from having to stay home all day. I'm a little worried that if they do, then we may have to do this all over again. Not only that, I think people will just start loosing up before they are given the okay. Now that it's out there, I think people are going to ignore the safety and do what they used to.

This morning I got a row of beading done. When I heard Patrick working on his power washer, I went out to see if I could help him. So, for about an hour and a half, I was outside with him. He did some other stuff while I water pressured the area between the house and the garage. That got me so shaky after it wasn't funny!

Try beading with your hands shaking so bad that you shoot beads around. I got it under cover. I was able to get to row 437. It's coming along nicely. I was happy to get as many rows done as I could.

I baked cookies and then decided to work on some family history. I wanted to get some of our family connected in Findagrave. I also wanted to heck out my new update on FWT (Family World Tree). I was able to load my family back on it. Now I have to do that with Patrick's family. I added more family members to my tree while I was at it. I need to add more. I was checking out the loading to the cloud part of the new update. I opened an account, but the more I read, the less I liked. It states they have all the rights to my information. All the work I did on my tree and put into the cloud under their account becomes there information. I don't like that. I put all my money and time into the tree, why would I give them the rights to it?! So, when it asked if I wanted to load it to the cloud, I clicked it off.

Looking forward to getting back to normal. At least I was Happy Stitching/Happy Quilting!

At Least The Sun Was Out

Today was a quiet day.

Faye texted wanting to know if she could come pick up the backing and batting I cut for her. I asked her to give me an hour and then she could come any time. She came at 11 am. I had that and a few yards of fabric for her. She got the extra fabric from the red bolt. I also gave her some white on white and white on beige fabric. That should keep her busy for awhile. We chatted 6 feet away. I started out with the mask on, but took it off when she stood so far back. It felt good to see her! I've been missing my friends.

Then I decided to work on my beading. I put a row in, ending up taking out 1/3 of the row. It then went good for awhile and then I messed up again. Kept doing a row over twice. Not good. So, after putting 2 rows in, I gave up. I called it quits.

Came to the living room and decided to work on my cross stitch. I almost messed up on that.

I worked on the butterflies. Then I worked on the outlining in some areas. I was taking some out but not as bad as the beading! I am hoping to get this done soon too. I was laughing at Patrick, saying I had 2 things that are really close to being done. Can you believe his comment was, "Guess you need to start 20 more projects then." We both laughed. He knows me well. May do the Mayflower one next. I really do want to do that one. I may even put the family names around the border when it's done. I need to get my floss ready for it.

I couldn't believe I saw an article in the paper about our I-5 Toyota! They are asking the Governor to let them stay open!! Why?!! They are not a business that is necessary! On top of that, they have enough money (Heidi is RICH!) that they can sit it out like all the other businesses! The small business people around here may end up going Bankrupt, and they will still be there. Not right, and should have even be asking the City Council to approve it!! So disappointed with that business right now!

We took a walk and enjoyed the weather. Thank you, sun, for showing up! It felt so good. So, in the end I did have a day of being Happy Quilting/Happy Stitching!

Another Day.....Had To Go Shopping

I slept in later than I have in years. Patrick asked me if I was okay. I was. Just couldn't get up. Not sure if that has to do with depression or just being tired. Patrick said I was snoring a little last night. That means and I agree, that my allergies are acting up. UGH

I set up a list of stuff we needed at the store. I was hoping to get more flour but Patrick said they were out. I sat in the car while he went in. He was gone awhile. I watched people coming and going in the shop. Patrick wore the mask I made for him. I only saw one other person wearing a mask. I was shocked. Guess this area doesn't care. He said the distance was good, but no one had a mask on. I found out 1 person died from Lewis County of the Virus and there are 13 confirmed cases. At this rate, it's going to grow into more! Wonder how long it will take. They had a per-session (sp) for the police officer that was killed. It went from Centralia to Adna. We didn't go, didn't know when it was. Wondered if it was while we were out in town because the town was crowded with people. We went to the post office so I could mail out my kit to a gal in Finland. I had my mask on (the only one there), but they had a shield of plastic between them and me. They wore gloves and kept control of the credit card machine. She worked buy wiping down the computer, cc machine, then got my stuff done. Gave her the credit card, then she did the clicking, wiped off my credit card and gave it back to me. That was the cleanest place I've seen yet! It was awesome to see them taking good care of themselves.

We came back home. I got laundry in the wash. Then Patrick brought in the mail. My beads arrived! I was thrilled! Now I can finish my birds!!

Now I have enough of the beads to finish my birds.

That got me to work on my beading.

The good news is that I got 5 rows in. I am now at 430/446. It's coming along nicely. I can't wait to get this done, so I can clean my table! I have so much going on the table, that I need to clean the table cloth. I'm hoping it will be soon. I'm really wanting to clean the table cloth and get some of the crumbs off it. If I put the beads away, it will take awhile to get them set back up. UGH. I can do this!

Now I'm watching a comedy Western movie. Since Xfinity has free movies till the end of the month.

It felt good to get out. I'm getting tired of being home every day, all day. But I know it's for the best. At least our state has behaved, but I'm worried they will mess that up. If we get out  before all the Virus is cleared up, then we could start all over again with having to stay home. I just hope the East Coast realizes what they are putting us through. We have to wait on them to get rid of the Virus otherwise someone coming or going from WA will bring it back. Not helping us.

In the meantime, I try to keep up on my mood and am happy to stay Happy Stitching/Happy Quilting!

The Sun's Coming Out

This morning I was up early thanks to the sun.

I enjoyed a little time to myself. Then when I got going, laundry was on the list to do. I also wanted to get some dessert going.

I started out with beading on ths Polar Bear peyote beading. While I was starting to bead I thought I could get some dessert going. So while the machine was going I heard a thudded sound. Thought maybe my beater dropped. I kept going and Patrick was working on getting my machine fixed. I washed everything and he worked on my mixer. Come to find out, all these years it wasn't set right. He took care of that. So, now it should be better. Too funny!

I made a oatmeal cake. It turned out pretty good. It's from the website.  If I remember later, I will put the link in here. It's really good.

I worked on my beading the rest of the afternoon.  It's going faster than the birds, but then it's smaller too.

I'm on row 19/220. It's coming along nicely and faster.

As the day goes,  I quit and got back to my crossstitching.

I added some outlinand worked on some flowers.  If we watch a movie tomorrow then I will try to get closer to fi ishing this.

At least today was a good day to be Happy Stitching/Happy Quilting!

Busy Making Masks

Today we were enjoying the morning. Then Patrick suggested we take a walk later today. I agreed. Then I went downstairs to work on a few things.

I ended up cutting backing and batting for QOV quilts - 2 because I was out of red for the 3rd one. Called Sharon and she reminded me that she had a bolt of red that she was holding for me. So, the next time I go up, I'll pick up the red and we'll be back on track. At this rate we will be going through the backing faster than usual. I'm going to have try and get more money from FB again. We are running out. But with the way things are right now, it's not time to ask for money. I don't know what we are going to do.

I got to work on face masks. I wanted to be able to put a "filter" in the mask. So, this one I can, and it's washable.

The big one in the back is Patrick's. I wanted to have a mask that covered him better. I had 2 others and gave them to Sherry today. I gave her the batting to go in the mask for filter.

Once that was done, I did my FlossTube. I showed a lot of my patterns. I still need to figure out what I want to do next.

After all that, I came back up and started working on my beading. I got back to my Polar Bear piece. Luckily I had already done 3 rows. Trouble was, I didn't know I did the 3rd row, so I did it twice. When Patrick asked what row I was on, I realized I was on row 5 but doing row 4. So, took out the 5th and 4th row to get back on track.

I'm on row 6 I think. There are 230 rows, so not as big as the birds. I'm just hoping my beads come in soon. In the meantime I'm working on this one.

Now it's time to call it a day. I'll finish watching the English comedies that Patrick likes and then call it a day.

Stay safe and be Happy Stitching/Happy Quilting!