It was a real prissy hateful solar daytime yesterday. It was prissy weather-wise, in addition to it was prissy sewing-wise. Oh yes, in addition to dessert...don't forget dessert! I'll say y'all well-nigh that inwards a minute. First...the sewing.
Most of the hateful solar daytime was spent working on the background. I worked on it 1 6 x 6 grid department at a time, interspersing housekeeping chores betwixt each one. To start, I was finishing off the ii sections to the correct of the bird. This is the 5th section.
Then I went to order off the 6th in addition to concluding department for the exceed row. And, well, this was worrisome.
Despite pregnant help, I finished off the commencement vi sections that brand upwards the exceed row.
So here's the thing: fifty-fifty though we're dieting, I've proclaimed a "First Friday" rule. The statement goes thus:
Okay...so the queen (that would live me) has spoken. I was inwards the mood to endeavour out the apple tree pie filling I made from the apples off Erik in addition to Mae's tree. My ain thinking was a straight-up apple tree pie, but so Mike started whining well-nigh apple tree crisp, in addition to so I got the persuasion to brand a Dutch Apple Pie for Two. And this turned out great. We had it amongst H2O ice cream lastly night.
It was super slowly too. I used a Pillsbury Pie Crust for the bottom crust, in addition to so a pint jounce of my ain apple tree pie filling. Then, I used a topping from a recipe I establish online. This is how I did it:
2/3 loving cup flour
1/3 loving cup chocolate-brown sugar
1/3 loving cup quick-cooking oats
1/4 loving cup melted butter
Mix that all together in addition to so sprinkle it over the top. Then bake it inwards a 350°F oven for xl minutes in addition to voila! So yummy. And fifty-fifty if y'all don't convey your ain canned apple tree pie filling, y'all tin give the sack purpose a unmarried tin give the sack from the grocery store. The topping was so prissy in addition to crunchy. I'll definitely do this again. If you're wondering well-nigh that piffling pie plate, it's from Anchor Hocking. Now that I've started making pies for two, I convey 1 inwards the house, 1 inwards the 5th wheel, in addition to 1 inwards the truck camper...in example of dessert emergencies on the road, y'all know. I believe inwards existence prepared.
Okay, so dorsum to work. I started on the side past times side row. By day's end, I'd finished ii sections to the correct of the bird. That's the bird's pecker inwards the upper right-hand corner. That 1 cloth photographs gray, but it's genuinely a real pale blue.
Here's what I convey so far.
Now don't y'all know I'm pretty excited to larn started on it today because the side past times side department volition convey a pregnant part of the bird. These mosaics are so much fun to make, in addition to they almost literally order off me pushing frontward so that I tin give the sack encounter the champaign of written report emerge from the background.
It was a practiced hateful solar daytime inwards ship service too. I was manly someone monarch of excited to win a $25 gift certificate to the Fat Quarter Shop inwards lastly month's OMG Challenge. I've been watching folks on the Facebook groups gratis displace quilting these "Dream Big" panels from Hoffman Fabrics. They come upwards inwards a give away of colors. The panel is 42 x 42 inches, in addition to folks convey been practicing their gratis displace quilting, essentially quilting a whole cloth quilt. So, I've been looking in addition to watching in addition to wishing, but every fourth dimension I went to brand a buy of one, I'd concur back, non wanting to pass the money. Enter the gift certificate, in addition to it was an slowly choice.
For now, it'll but larn added to the quilts-to-be-sandwiched-for-quilting pile, which is growing past times leaps in addition to bounds. Eventually, I'll larn to it, in addition to it'll live practiced practice.
Also inwards yesterday's mail, the #melissapaintmycat icon of Sadie.
It turned out pretty cute, I think. These are painted past times Melissa Averinos. I've decided to trim down both paintings of the kitties downward from 8-1/2 x eleven to an 8 x 10 size so they'll check inwards an 8 x 10 frame. They'll check amend side past times side on the wall that way, in addition to there's enough of room to trim down them downward a piffling bit.
At day's end, I looked out the dining room sliding drinking glass doors to encounter this tree all aglow inwards the Autumn sunshine.
It's definitely looking similar autumn here, in addition to the days convey been sunny, but blustery. The kitties don't similar the wind, in addition to so they've been a piffling reluctant to larn outside. We paused a practiced long fourth dimension at the opened upwards door this morn earlier venturing out. They exclusively remain out well-nigh 5 minutes earlier they're dorsum within again.
Check out that size deviation betwixt the two. Smitty is a bigger than average cat. Sadie is smaller than average. Together, they're quite a pair.
While nosotros were out this morning, I snapped this motion icon of our dwarf Japanese maple tree. Unless I immature lady my guess, it'll live a fiery orangish real soon.
I convey 1 dreaded identify project today which consists of polishing the large ventilation fan over the cooktop. It comes upwards for its plough on my calendar well-nigh every iii months or so, in addition to I've skipped over it the lastly several times. It's belike fourth dimension to seize amongst teeth the bullet in addition to do it. Aside from that, it's an NBS day.