Wednesday, May 06, 2026

...5.6...W.I.P. Wednesday...

...in case you were wondering about the ballerina birthday present...it was very well received...
...and since it's now May...it's time to get a little "May" package off to the girls in Alaska...they need a little pressie from Grandmommy just about once a month...haha...

...and after their Shamrock headbands in March...they wanted "pink and peach rainbow flower headbands"...and I'm happy to oblige...

...this yarn is some 'baby' variegated yarn from stash...and it's so fine that I wanted it to be double thickness...so I plied it by matching up the variegation on two strands...definitely NOT as easy as it sounds...haha...
...I actually had to buy the peach coloured yarn as I didn't have any in stash...but I just chained two strands with the rainbow and two with the solid colours for each headband and attached it to a bit of elastic for a comfortable fit and then single crocheted over the band...
...the rainbow variegated yarn turned out quite pretty with a nice separation of colours...
...so then I made 6 little 5-petal flowers...two for each headband in the rainbow and one of each colour...with yellow centers...
...and arranged them on top of each headband...
...and attached them just slightly off-center...

...I'll get those in the mail this week...

...what's in your workbasket?

~Have a lovely day!

Monday, May 04, 2026

...5.4....Over the Weekend...

...for breakfast we had a besan based omelette (which I apparently did not photograph)...and some Griddler-ed hashbrowns...
...and we had a little bit of fruit on the side...
...the weekly shopping was done...
...and with our inability to find the green labeled organic Silk soymilk...we've switched to the WestSoy shelf stable variety...I actually like it better as it only has the two ingredients...water and soy...but the Man does not...
...and it's stawberry season here...the tent for the local strawberry producer is up on the highway near our house...so of course I stopped and got a bunch...unlike the grocery store variety - there's not a single bad or mushy one in the pack...
...but the BIG project for the weekend was refinishing the corian countertops...they'd gotten rather scuffed up with all of the painting and renovations...we don't cut directly on the countertops of course...but we do do things like open packages and paint cans that we probably shouldn't have done...so the Man gathered all his equipment...
...the first step, of course, was cleaning the countertops really well...
...we taped the edges where the sander might touch the tilework...and put down drop cloths...
...and the Man started sanding with 240...and a shop vacuum attached to the sander...I was surprised by how little dust there was...
...and then 400 grit sandpaper to take out all of the scratches...you can see the sanded and unsanded countertop here...
...so it's a project with a lot of steps...after the sanding there's a silver polish pad...and then the buffer and compound and finally a carnauba wax...
...so in one day he managed to get this side of the kitchen done...it was already dark when he finished...
...and it is so perfectly smooth...we'll have to be more careful with it from now on...
...I know the strawberries were technically 'food prep'...but here's a little bit more...we finally pulled up all of the greens from the winter garden...so this is a mix of the last of the collards and the mustard greens there...
...added some Green's Seasoning to the water...
...and got those cooking in the outdoor kitchen...
...some of the mustard greens had already flowered...it's been so hot and dry...and the yellow flowers are quite pretty so I popped them into a tiny vase in the windowsill...and we FINALLY got some rain...
...I cooked an instant pot full of kidney beans in the outdoor kitchen...
...and I cooked a block of tofu in the Griddler...just basting it with Not Chick'n broth...
...and one final little tiny project...I wanted a 'bumper' for the deck in the garage...so that I could pull the car all the way forward and actually touch it...giving me enough room at the back of the garage to get to my bicycle and all the tools and gardening 'stuff' without opening the door...and this pool noodle from Stuff-Mart works perfectly...

~Wishing you a lovely start to your week!

Saturday, May 02, 2026

......5.2...Dinner and a Movie...

...we had vegan reuben sammies with air fried potatoes...but this is the only photo I took...mid-assembly...it was delicious though...

...and since I just finished reading Far from the Madding Crowd...of course I chose that movie...it's the 1998 version...I was actually pretty surprised that I had not already seen this period drama on Masterpiece Theatre as it's exactly the type of film that I love...haha...it was good and pretty true to the book...

...currently re-reading Wuthering Heights...so that may be next weeks movie...haha...

...what have you been watching lately?...

~Have a lovely day!

Friday, May 01, 2026

...5.1...Friday Update...

--Subtitle--What's growing and what's blooming...
...the pretty little everblooming pink rose...
...and the star jasmine is perfuming the air...
...the salvia and the white yarrow are both blooming in the white garden...
...one of the crazy amarylis has 12 blooms...
...and two of the others are blooming as well...
...the Stella D'oro is always the first of the lillies to bloom...
...and the most prolific as well...
...the beans are sprouting...
...I love seeing them poking through the dirt...
...several of them have emerged...
...and in no time they're upstanding little plants...
...only one little eggplant so far...

...but hopefully more to come...

~Have a lovely day!

Thursday, April 30, 2026

...4.30...Thrifty Thursday...

...I love it when the thrift store has exactly what I went in looking for...
...the Man wanted one of these pizza pans with holes in it...just for when we have frozen pizza...
...and while I was there in the 'kitchen' section...I spied this little silicone thing-y...not sure exactly what it is...but it will be perfect for freezing little bits of leftovers...like this chipotle/enchilada sauce...and also it will be perfect for the little 'cubes' of cilantro that I'm always putting into the freezer...

...have you had any thrifting finds lately?...

~Have a lovely day!

Wednesday, April 29, 2026

...4.29...W.I.P. Wednesday...

...I needed a new watchband for this 25+ year old watch...
...I had gotten in when I was pregrant with Our Airman...and it was starting to fray...and just generally fall apart...imagine that...haha...
...so I thought...since it is a woven band...that I'd just weave a new one...
...using some rainbow yarn from stash...I set up the loom...
...and just started weaving...
...I started out with 10 warp threads...but cut it down to 8 year as I thought the band was a tiny bit too wide...and I'll just pull the cut thread out at the end...
...after I'd woven enough inches...I cut it off the loom and wove in the warp threads...
...and the new band was done...I was kind of bummed that the rainbow yarn had no purple in it though...
...and it's just the tiniest bit 'wonky'...but I still think it will be fine...
...so I threaded it under the posts...and stitched the little fastener back on...
...and there it is...a new (very colourful) watchband...

...what's in your workbasket this week?...

~Have a lovely day!