My goodness the daylight hours are incredibly short right now. It’s dark by 5 p.m., which means I’m spending a good amount of time in my favorite chair next to the woodstove and a good lamp crafting.
I did take some time to craft a few things for us, too, this past weekend. In the early spring (before the start of the craft de-stash), I bought a box of fabric at a church rummage sale for $1. It was a big box and has provided me with enough fabric to make curtains for our bedroom, 8 placemats, and lots of bits and pieces for various quilts. Also, in that box was a bit of holiday fabric that I wanted to use for placemats for the Christmas season. We decorated the house on Saturday and when I pulled out the runner I made last winter, the inspiration to make those holiday placemats finally hit me.
I think they turned out well and the table just looks so very festive. We don’t do much decorating, but I do enjoy the little bits that we do.
Independence Days Update – Week 30
Plant something: Nada, we are now getting snow on a regular basis (its melting on a regular basis, too, but it’s here for the winter now)
Harvest something: Nothing
Preserve something: I canned up 13 pints of pinto beans – this is more for convenience than preservation sake. I made Turkey stock from our Thanksgiving turkey carcass. We used some to make soup and froze about a quart.
Waste Not: Composting, using the turkey bones for soup and then burning them for additional heat in the wood stove, repaired a sweatshirt of Jeff’s with items from our sewing stash
Want Not: I bartered a canning class tuition for repair to a crocheted afghan my grandmother had made long ago.
Eat the food: Local turkey, stuffing made from bits & pieces of homemade bread that I’d saved in the freezer, apple pie made from our apples, soup from our veggies, we eat canned or dried fruit almost every day with lunch.
Build community food systems: I’ve scheduled another canning class for the spring semester.
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I’m inspired! Because we were gone all Thanksgiving week and just returned after dark last night, I did nothing at Willow’s Cottage. I did however make many many memories with my children!
Way to keep moving and keep motivated. I mostly finished on a project x’s 3 that just need some hand sewing in my chair at night, so instead of finishing them, I decided to try my hand at the cute retro apron pattern I bought and it takes more bias tape than I bought, so I’m on hold a bit with that, but I managed to pull out a whole bunch of Christmas material from years past and thought I’d just sew around and make some napkins, but it all sits here in a messy pile..and I bought some quilted material to make a bag, but then I found the pattern and it takes more than I bought and do I want to fully follow the pattern, or make it up??? and it sits here laughing at me!!
GOOD LUCK!! Keep plugging away!!