Pumpkins

The other night Anthony and I each carved a pumpkin. You will notice that there aren't any photos of the final results...lets just say I followed the rules of not interfering in children's art and Anthony suggested we paint them next year:) But the process was fun regardless of the outcome and I love love love roasted pumpkin seeds so it was a winning situation for this lady. 

 

 

 And in no relation to the pumpkins we carved, the next night I made 

pumpkin and ricotta stuffed pasta. It was yummy.

Happy Halloween!

hot and cold

A dress and hot water bottle, a little contradictory but also kind of fitting as it lines up nicely with the theme of my body.  In usual Lindsay fashion, I've been freezing my tush off as of late (I know it's only October but its COLD). Hello -8 with flurries. But the hot flashes I've started to have the joy of experiencing are not quite the kind of heat I want. Too bad for me cause that's all I'm getting until June, and even in Calgary that's a bit of a gamble!

I made this pillowcase dress because they looked so easy and I want to start making some clothes (for me, mostly) but I thought I would ease my way in. Boy it was easing alright. So simple that I'm afraid the two little girls I know might have a pillowcase revolt if I let myself go too crazy. I've already been stalking pillowcases on ebay for a near future pcd marathon:)  (the dresses may or may not come with sock monkey's since I may or may not have just watched a super easy tutorial on them...I think I may start pulling for a girl in this adoption gig!)

 And what says winter better than oscar the grouch superduper soft and furry material wrapped around a hot water bottle? I'll tell ya - nothing. Even makes the cat smile, sort of.

Chaos

Don't get me wrong, I love a little chaos in my life. I seem to get more things done when there is more to do...but some times, just sometimes, I would prefer for the drama, er, I mean chaos to be spread out a little. You know, so it oozes more slowly through the weeks to fill in those 

spaces of more quiet, kinda dull and boring times.

 

 

 

 oh kitties, how cute you are and fill in those down times

But maybe it's not so much chaos and drama as it just everyday life and it just happens that the past couple of weeks have been full of life. To sum up, we've got the news I can't have kids, we've met people to explore adoption and have the application of life change sitting waiting to be droped off.

 

 4 pieces of paper that will change our lives....

I've had 4 staff loose their jobs at work, Gord got into school for his Masters, we booked a trip to Vegas and the one of the cats got into Anthony's school and he had to capture her and bring 

her home in a box. Hello life, can we ease up a tad?!

In between all the chaos, life, whatever you choose to call it. I managed to get  a bit more sewing done. I also ordered a shawach of fabric and am waiting it's arrival to make a quilt for our bed (the ugly quilt will not be spoken of again). I also have plans of making some pillow case dresses and hot water bottle cozies this weekend while I wait for my new fabric:)

 

 
And, last night Gord and I went to a couples cooking class. It was a wedding present from people he works with and although it was full of people that were friendly enough but not our type (cough, douche bags) we had fun and came away with a few good recipes. 

 Our job for the meal was to make the tartlets...they turned out yummy:)

 

 

Oh,and this is me eating prosciutto wrapped asparagus (before my main course of beef). I don't think I'm a vegetarian anymore....add that to the list of 'life' this week too!

dinner

 Nothing like an eggplant and tomato tower with mozza cheese and balsamic vinegar reduction dresing on a Tuesday night! (maybe, just maybe I perhaps maybe, watched too much Food Network over Thanksgiving...maybe)

 That's right...it's just another Tuesday. Nothing special. Just whipped it up. Whatever, no big deal.

Sewing Therapy

 The last two days I stayed home. It was for muy needed for my mental health and for those around me! I just needed a break. And along with some strong contemplation of life, here's what my hands were doing while my brain was thinking.

A custom baby quilt for a girl at work

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 I finally finished this one! I only started it in FEBRUARY!

 

Even Calypso liked it

I love new day timer time. It's great. I get excited. It's a little, how do you say...lame?! I get all nostalgic flipping through the old one for dates to put in the new one and seeing all that we did in a year (highlights included my surprise trip to Cuba, my family visiting, getting married and Peru - not a bad year I'd say!) This year after my glorious purchase and careful inputting of important dates and highlighting I made it a special cover too!

 

 

 

 And I made a new iron board cover. It's not pretty (I had no fabric that was long enough or that I wanted to use on such a dinky little project) and it's a little short on the sides (you can't see it in the photo, I'm strategic like that) but it's better than the one we had. Plus it doesn't smell like McDonald's french fries when you iron on it, which is also a pleasant bonus.

 

Here lays my next challenge: I've had this fabric for almost 2 years and today I cut it up into bricks to start a large quilt for our bed. I have a vision in my head let me tell you of how this quilt is going to go down. I knew it was missing something but when I laid it all out I realized it's just down right UGLY and this was not even close to the vision in this little brain. What does one do; give up and find random projects for 120 piece of fabric or ....well, I don't know the or just yet.

YUCK, the longer I stare at it the Uglier it gets. How terrible! Until my next days off I will not look at it again!

Turkey and Fabric

 Well well well, here I am; sun is shining, house is clean, everyone is happy and I'm not at work. That's right, I'm playing hooky. Actually it's a needed mental health day that I have planned to be mostly full of sewing and moving more slowly. And apparently blogging. Both are being accomplished very well given that's it's 10 and I haven't showered yet.

This weekend Gord and I headed to the Mhat, or Medicine Hat if you so please. I baked some chocolate chip zucchini bread for the occasion and return was stuffed full of turkey (yep I ate it) and other yummy treats from the in-laws:) We lazed around and watched television for hours on end which is what my brain needed, however, I did manage to finish binding my quilt through endless episodes of horders and foodnetwork shows, so it wasn't all a bust.

 To alleviate some of our guilt for sitting around so much, we took a wee jaunt down in Police Point Park. Sigh...I like fall when it's warm and sunny and like this:

Last week I bought this book. It's a little ridiculous buying cooking books since you can get so much free on line, but the shiny pictures and cheap price tag make me a sucker. Every time I promise I won't get any more until I bake everything in the book. So far that hasn't happened and I spend my spare time flipping though the pages and dreaming....

 I also finished my baby colour book. It was fun to make and turned out all right. I don't know how durable the binding is but at the very least somebody could have some colourful hot pads at the end of the day.

 

 

Off to sew my troubles away. Happy post turkey week:)