February recap

Hello,  thank you to all who left sweet welcome back comments.  

February went by in a blur.  That crazy cold I got in January continued to hang around for a good portion of the February.

Grandchildren were sick at different times with Flu A, strep, ear infections. 

My dad fell on an icy sidewalk and gave us all a very big scare but thankfully his injuries were not too bad. 

My wisdom teeth are gone and that was actually one of the easier medical things - afterward I had zero pain, bleeding and swelling.  I’m still amazed it was so easy.  

I have lots of crafts supplies, including a storage tub of plastic canvas yarn.  I pulled out a gallon bag of yarn scraps from that tub and started making coasters.  I loosely followed some online patterns and have really had fun making them,  it’s just a relaxing sewing with not too much concentration required.  I plan to make more as I still have so much yarn.  

Fabric sewing in February was mostly doll clothes.  

I made wrap skirts and t shirts for 3 American Girl type dolls.  

The 3 dollies also got nightgowns,  

I used free printable patterns found on Pinterest for all the clothes.  

For the 3 shirts,  I used 1 pair of girls white leggings bought on clearance for $1.  

And I made potholders with some 1970s looking fabric.  

Our bargain of the month was at a big grocery store in Oklahoma City called Crest.  

We like to have sausage and eggs for breakfast.  Good breakfast sausage is normally close to $4 a roll.  

This sale was so good,  we bought 30 rolls and they will stay in our upright freezer as we use them over the next 6 months or so.  

After a several month break,  I’ve started coupon shopping at CVS again.  I’ll post the new deals as I do them.  

This was at Andie’s birthday party last night. 

The restaurant serves chocolate piñatas and it was a very fun experience, especially for the 9 children attending.  

On the publishing app I’m using, I’m not sure the video is going to show up when I push publish.  If it doesn’t include,  I’ll try to figure out a plan B.  

The piñata was quite fun.  I was disappointed the chocolate part seemed to be a very low quality Chocolate.  My daughter likes to make fancy desserts and she is planning to make a version at home for a future party.  

But regardless of what I thought of that chocolate,  there was no dessert left after 9 children and 9 adults all ate.  So it tasted AOK to the rest of the guests. 

Hope you all have a good rest of your weekend 

❤️ 

And thank you for visiting today 

March 1

I’m sorry I haven’t blogged much this winter- I want to get back to it. 

This is kind of a test post as my previous post had tiny pictures instead of the full size ones I prefer.  

If this works right,  I’ll be back tomorrow. 

Happy March 1 everyone.  Today is our granddaughter Andie’s 7th birthday 🎂 

2 great recipes, Quillows and me whining

 

My daughter tried a new recipe this week for Paula Deen Cheeseburger Meatloaf 

It was a big hit with her family as you can see from the texts between her and her husband.  

The changes she made to the recipe were omitting the bell pepper, using gluten free products and “not measuring”. 

We had 5 grandchildren and my parents here for 1 meal this week.  My husband smoked a spiral ham and I made this macaroni and cheese 

9 of us were eating and we all thought this was macaroni and cheese was especially good.  My changes- I used 3 cups of medium size shells instead of 2 cups of macaroni pasta.  I made it ahead but didn’t bake it.  I put it in a casserole dish and at serving time, I heated it, covered, in the microwave until bubbly.  

I plan to keep this recipe and make it again, especially when we have guests or a big family meal.

I didn’t get much at all done last week as that cold or flu from the previous week was still keeping me down.  

I did get 3 pair of dress pants hemmed for a son and I turned 5 fleece blankets into Quillows.  

We all like using these soft fleece blankets and I have a bunch of them.  But they take up a lot of room and never seem to look neatly stacked. 

In my crazy fabric stash, I have quite a few printed fabric panels.  So I picked out some that would coordinate with our blankets.  

I sewed up double sided pockets and then sewed a pocket at the center bottom of each blanket. 

Then the blankets get folded and tucked into the pocket.  

I’m really happy with them.  I think the prints add some fun to the toy room and I am thrilled with how neat the pillows look, rather than a pile of haphazardly folded blankets.  

If you need more info on quillows, look on Pinterest as there are some really good tutorials there.  

My cold really is better and my coughing is 99% gone. 

But this coming week won’t be very productive either as I’m getting my wisdom teeth extracted.  

So,  I’ll do what I feel up too but I think I’ll mostly be laying around using ice packs and eating soup, jello and ice cream.  

Have a good week everyone ❤️