Ignoring the i housekeeping task on yesterday's to-do listing made yesterday's comings in addition to goings pretty darned nice. The past times several weeks stimulate got felt pressured in addition to hurried, what alongside Thanksgiving in addition to finishing upward Semper Fi. It was squeamish to accept a lilliputian breather. I did some slow-stitching inward the morning, in addition to and therefore moved into the sewing room. I made the side past times side block for the Tiny Tree project. This i is a tiny bow necktie block.
After that, I cutting out in addition to fused the applique pieces to the background stuff for the side past times side Dancing Chickens in addition to Flying Pigs block. After that, I traced inward the embroidery lines. Anni Downs is an Australian designer, in addition to therefore "favorite" was spelled the British way, alongside a "u." I went dorsum in addition to forth virtually whether to Americanize it, in addition to decided to become ahead. My tracing deleted the "u." This modify is offered upward alongside my sincere apologies to those of yous who prefer the old spelling. Hopefully, this modify won't start whatever novel wars.
It was fourth dimension for lunch, therefore Smitty joined me inward the kitchen for that. He'd already wolfed downward his treats past times the fourth dimension I was laid upward to sit down downward alongside my sandwich.
If you're wondering virtually my sandwich, it's i of my favorite discoveries from the Cooking Light Diet. It's supposed to live served open-faced, but I similar the minute piece of breadstuff for ease of handling. It's one-quarter of an apple, sliced thin, alongside a piece of Swiss cheese in addition to 2 slices of prosciutto. Also, i side of the breadstuff is spread alongside peanut butter. (The Cooking Light diet ordinarily substitutes almond butter for peanut butter, but the calorie departure is negligible. I prefer peanut butter.) Anyway...it's such a tasty sandwich in addition to I swallow the same luncheon almost every day. Oh yes, in addition to I cutting the ease of the apple tree into slices in addition to swallow that too. It's a tasty, filling, in addition to refreshing lunch.
Speaking of the diet, Mike in addition to I re-started it inward earnest a span of weeks ago. There stimulate got been some things to role up, in addition to therefore we've solely been next for breakfast in addition to lunch. As of this coming Friday, we'll live doing it for dinners too. With Christmas approaching, nosotros won't live completely faithful for a few days coming up. Nevertheless, it's the commencement of my twenty inward 2020. I don't know what Mike's goal is, but mine is to lose twenty pounds past times the destination of 2020. We've had practiced results alongside this diet inward the past, in addition to we've been able to maintain our old weight loss, fifty-fifty if nosotros never reached our master copy goals. It's been virtually 2 years since our lastly go-round, in addition to therefore perhaps we'll hitting our goal weights this time.
With luncheon behind me, I got dorsum to top-stitching the applique pieces, in addition to straight off this block is laid upward for mitt embroidery.
I'll start on it every bit presently every bit the snowmen are finished. The minute of the iii is nearly finished, in addition to therefore it shouldn't live besides long.
Sadie was my faithful companion during this whole sewing session. She loves the quilts-to-be-quilted pile for her napping pleasure.
As I was tidying things up, Smitty joined her. Looks similar it's getting approximately dinner time.
For dinner lastly night, I tried something new. This recipe for Turkey Wild Rice Soup is a practiced agency to role leftover turkey. I neglected to accept a movie of mine, in addition to therefore I'm offering upward the movie from the recipe online.
It calls for 2 cups of "cooked" wild rice. I wasn't certain how that translated into "uncooked," in addition to therefore I inquired of my friend The Google. It informed me that wild rice cooks upward to 3 times its master copy volume, in addition to therefore I used 3/4 loving cup of dry out wild rice cooked inward 2-1/4 cups of H2O to live added to the ease of the ingredients. It ended upward a lilliputian to a greater extent than than 2 cups of cooked rice, but if yous enquire me, yous tin never acquire besides much wild rice. And this soup was actually tasty in addition to filling. I'd similar to endeavour it again, cutting the fatty past times using whole milk instead of one-half in addition to half. Also, I intend the amount of butter could live cutting past times at to the lowest degree half. And, yeah, the recipe every bit written isn't diet food. My thank yous become i time once again to my friend Wendy who sent me a furnish of wild rice from Minnesota a land back.
This morning time I was dorsum to run hand-sewing Semper Fi. Now I've turned the tertiary corner, in addition to I'm good along the agency to the 4th in addition to lastly corner. It volition live practiced to stimulate got this i inward the finished pile.
As for today, I demand to brand upward a grocery listing in addition to produce the some housework, but in that place volition live enough of fourth dimension for sewing too. I believe I mentioned several weeks agone that I wanted to grab upward on the Garden Sunshine blocks,
in addition to therefore that volition live today's goal. There stimulate got been iii released since the lastly fourth dimension I worked on it. I believe in that place is but i installment left, in addition to and therefore I'll stimulate got all the blocks for sewing it into a finished flimsy.