Indecision

I'm in between projects just now. Can't decide what to make.

I need to make a pink baby quilt and can't find a pattern I like.

I decided to go through my magazines to see if something jumps out at me. 

I found a daisy applique quilt that looked good.

 Until I started cutting out the petals and counting 

exactly how many I would have to cut and applique down. Yikes! Lets rethink this! :)

Quilting the border

I have been working on a quilt top that I made quite awhile ago. I made it with several dusty pink fabrics in a simple square pattern and I embroidered a couple of butterflies on one of the squares. This last week I sandwiched the quilt together and have quilted flowers and leaves in an allover pattern on the quilt. I backed it with a dusty pink kona cotton. I love the kona cotton but it is very hard to needle. My fingers are quite sore, both from needle pricks and from the stress of needling the fabric. Now I have started quilting the border and can see the end of the tunnel. I really can't wait to finish this one. I need to find the tin of Bag Balm I have somewhere! :)

Also tonight I was able to cut out the binding for my blue and yellow star quilt. I had forgotten that I had to finish this up. Thank goodness I was able to find the matching white background fabric. Sometimes I use up the fabric I intended to use to finish a quilt and then am out of luck! Skittles has claimed this spot as his own and seems quite comfortable to supervise my stitching the border on the other quilt.

My Monday

I didn't do too much today. Did a little laundry, did a few dishes, read some blogs, did some shopping, reorganized the linen closet, added to the Goodwill pile, washed a few walls, petted the cat, got my hair cut, made dinner, washed walls, swept and cleaned bedroom, petted the cat, read some blogs, did a few dishes and washed walls.

Not too much for a vacation day.

:)

I had to work on the fourth. 

Yeah, that sucks.

I decided to make hamburgers and pasta salad for dinner that night.

Simple, you say.

Yeah, not for me.

I was so tired and hot after work that I treated myself to an ice cream cone on the way home.

Chocolate, yeah! )

Feeling sorry for yourself does have its rewards.

When I got home hubby was gone to a party and wasn't to be back until 5. 

Well, I never heard him come home.

I was out, sleeping like a log until 6:30. :(

It was too late to cook and hubby had eaten at the party. I wasn't that hungry.

Fast forward to Monday. 

Hubby, lucky man had a 3 day (yeah, 3 day!) weekend, but he was busy doing odd jobs.

I decided to make the pasta salad and hamburgers. 

Plans don't go like we want. 

When I was making the salad I realized I didn't have two ingredients that were important

for the completion of said salad. Since it was 3000 degrees outside and I was still

vaguely anti-social from having to deal with crowds for the holiday, there was NO way

I was going to go out and get the two ingredients. :)

So fast forward to Tuesday.

I had to work the evening shift, so no cooking that night.

So fast forward to tonight.

Wednesday.

Yeah! I finally got to finish making the pasta salad, but wait!

I took one more look at the recipe..............

ugh! I had gotten the wrong cheese!

I threw in the cheese I had and called it a day! 

Hubby and I enjoyed it anyway. 

Smiles.