Finish It Friday

Yes, I know today is Monday. But on Friday someone posted a "Finish It Friday" thing. Don't start any new projects until you finish ones you already started. I thought "Oh no... I have a lot of those." The Easter Egg Potholder has been sitting in a bag by the computer. I just had a couple more ends to weave in, and crochet it all together. So, I got it out and just started on it.  Ta-Da, I finished it. 

And then I thought "I have that purple hotpad upstairs, too." Which, incidentally. Or is it coincidentally. Was two rows away from being done. LoL. It's Mielke's Double Thick Diagonally Crocheted Hotpad. I don't know if I ever posted the one I found going through all of my uncle's things when I was cleaning all the cupboards out here. I said "No way, I've crocheted a bunch of those..."

It was dirty and stained. I washed it. It's still stained. But I thought I would keep it. I wonder who crocheted it. My uncle has dementia I don't know if I want to even go there by asking him...  He gets confused easily. 

My husband did a couple more things to the house over the weekend. Put a new wax ring on another toilet (accessed through the bedroom). It smells sooooo much better in there now. No more how much I cleaned or candles I burned...   Then, he took the cupboard out and installed a dishwasher in the kitchen.

This is the floor underneath the cupboard. 😦 Look how white the grout is...  

 Ughhhh... It is so nice not having to wash all the dishes by hand. Then if you drink something or use a spoon or anything, you can't just put it in the dishwasher..  I hate dishes just sitting in the sink. 

The dishwasher. 😁My husband can fix anything.

Then on Sunday, our youngest son came over for breakfast and we were planning on going to an antique mall here. But, it doesn't open until noon on Sunday. So, we ended up going and getting a latte. Then, going to a real outdoor mall. Then we went to the gas station and got snacks. Then sat in the parking lot until they opened. By the time they opened, there was a bunch of people. When we came out, the parking lot was FULL. Sheesh.  It is a huge antique mall. I'm not even sure I saw everything. I kept getting turned around and lost. I saw a few Shelley tea cups. (I saw a few tea cups, but they weren't Shelley tea cups..) I saw one just like the one I already have. And another one that was also pink flowers but it was pretty plain. And a green one. Which I didn't like. But I kind of liked this one. And it's kind of purple....   And it was only $15. So I walked back to try and find it again. (Ughhhh... it was impossible.) Someone that worked there must have saw me walk by a couple times or something, and she asked if I needed any help... I told her I saw a Shelley tea cup I liked but I can't remember where it was I saw it, I keep getting all turned around in here. :P  I said I have a picture of it.... Well thank goodness I did. She looked at the tag, and said it's back here somewhere, and showed me the numbers on the floor in front of each "booth". Oooooohhhh... 😀Well, it wasn't in section 175. Ughhhhh.... I was about to give up and I saw it!! It was in section 125. I don't know if someone was carrying it around and just put it on a random shelf. or what. But I was glad I found it again.  Now I have two Shelley tea cups. I have two or three other little tea cups. One is a regular size one, and two are miniature ones I got in Central City.  

Well, that's all for now. I have laundry to do. 

~Until Next Time~

 

Happy Birthday Cosmo and Happy First Day of Spring

 You don't even know....  I hate winter SO. MUCH. Whyyyyyyy we moved back here....  Well we will have a few months of no winter now. 

And today is Cosmo's 10th birthday!! I can't believe it. I will have to look at his papers. Because one paper said he was the same age as Bagheera (it would have been Bagheera's birthday today, too. 😭) And another paper said he was a year older. Okay I looked at his papers and I do have the right date... 

Eri says "Leave me alone I'm taking a nap"...  Spoiled kitty.

I think I mentioned that I frogged the shawl and started a vest. I am farther along than this, I'm at the neck now. I haven't worked on it in a while.  

I made a pot pie a couple night ago. My "Pot Pie" (or soup) tub was full (7th picture down explanation of pot pie tub), and I had three pieces of leftover chicken. This pie pan was my uncle's. I think it's my new favorite pan, it's a deep dish pan. Mine are more regular, shallow pie pans. 

This was before I put the egg wash on, and baked it. I had a picture of it after I took it out of the oven but I am so tired of trying to upload pictures.  My husband said "This is good." And he ate two and a half pieces. So I guess it was good. (I thought it was, too.)  Now that it's just us, I can make things that the kids didn't like, but we like... 😉 

Last Day Of Winter

I took this picture (actually, my husband took this picture- I saw something purple from the living room window upstairs and we went downstairs to go out and look. I didn't have my phone with me. So.) It's a crocus! I should go outside and see if I can find some more flowers. 

I had blogged about burgundy and hunter green... I was thinking the other day "Don't I have some squares I started that have burgundy and green in them?" Oh yeah....  

I think I started these to make a lapghan for Pine Ridge. But, I was thinking, "There's a whole house full of seniors where my uncle lives..." Maybe I could make it for one of them 🙅 Then I wouldn't have to send a box/pay for shipping. But, I was also thinking, my afghan has a hole in it... And it *kinda* goes with my burgundy bedspread... I don't know.

Here is one burgundy and green thing I had from the early 2000's. That little boy is now 29! And I noticed Mert is on the bed..   That's what he called her. He couldn't say Mercedes. I miss her. She did not like other cats. Or, maybe she just didn't like the other cat I got. (He was dumb...)

 

Destiny Cove

Yesterday, my husband asked me if I wanted to go to some thrift stores. "What?" (He hates going to thrift stores usually.) I naturally said yes. I wanted to look for some things for the basement bathroom. I saw this basket. I walked past it a few times. I picked it up (I had been looking at baskets like this at Meijer and Walmart, and they were just plain and like over $10...)  I thought "That blue ribbon would totally go in the bathroom. But not the orange flower." I looked closer and saw the flower was just clipped on. I put it in the cart. I said "Maybe I can find a shell or some nautical thing to glue on there." 

We drove around looking for more thrift stores, but we didn't see any. Then we did a big loop and my husband said "Do you think Hobby Lobby has any shells?" I said "Maybe, I could look"...   I was walking around and I saw this display. 😱 I said "What? Blue... nautical theme" I must be with it, I just wanted to match something to the shower curtain...  And somehow I am with a popular decorating trend. I didn't even know.  

I really liked this picture. I didn't actually get anything from this display, though. I did find something on an end of a row farther down.

This was my thrift store haul. 

This is my Hobby Lobby Haul. The cashier said "I really like that paper". I said "Me too. I was trying to think how I could use it in my bathroom. Maybe just stick it in a frame." LoL  I got the little starfishes to glue on the basket. 

Ta Da.  Not bad for $4.99, plus maybe $1.66 (it was $4.99 for a pack of three starfish). 

My bathroom so far. I have all these ideas on Pinterest for this epic nautical bathroom. I was so excited to find these things but it doesn't look so epic. It does look more "decorated" than it was though. I got the dial soap because it has seashells on it.. (It smells good, too.)

I mentioned before about the vanity and how bad it is. I took a picture of it yesterday. This is what I was talking about. My husband and I were talking. Since he does remodels.. I said "I wonder if you could sand all the warped parts off, and paint it? Maybe take the handles off and put some new ones on?" 🙅 We were talking about vanities and he said "Have you ever seen one of those clamshell sinks? That would look cool in there." I said "Yeah, I would hate to clean that though..."

When we were downstairs, my husband said "Look, a clamshell".  😱 I was thinking a little later, "I could name the bathroom "Destiny Cove". LoL  Because it was destiny that I decorate it in a nautical theme, the clamshell counter top. And cove, because it's a nautical theme...  I told my husband and I said "I'm going to Destiny Cove sounds better than I'm going pee in the basement bathroom"....   

I've lost my mind, naming my bathroom. LoL.  

Oh, yeah. And I decided to decorate the downstairs kitchen in dark blue and light blue, nautical theme, too.  And I crocheted a dishcloth yesterday.

Starfish Dishcloth

Maybe I should have used ecru for the outside border. But I still like it.

Breaking News

I frogged the shawl. I was so irritated that I had that mistake and I ripped out 2/3 of the work I had done. And it was just sitting there. And I didn't want to crochet it any more. Sorry shawl. Now I'm using the yarn to make a vest. I wanted to make it in the colors she was doing it in, but I decided to do just all purple. This is the video tutorial. She speaks Spanish (?) but there is an English interpreter. (It would just be easier if you could put subtitles on, but...)  Well, last night we went shopping at Walmart and I started to look at yarn....  And, I bought the colors to make one just like hers, too. I kept looking at the yarn in my cart and I thought, "That reminds me of my bathroom colors when I first got married." 😄 Burgundy and Hunter Green. Those colors are making a come back. (My husband is not happy, lol.) I like burgundy. 

And, more epic news... I baked some cookies yesterday. First time making cookies in our "new" house. Alert the Press. They're snickerdoodles. I didn't have any butter or any chocolate chips or special ingredients. So...  They came out good. The recipe said to bake 8-10 minutes. But I baked them for 13 minutes and they came out perfect. The first time I baked (the only other time, actually) I burned the muffins.  I feel like you have to get to know your new oven...  LoL. It's a gas oven (our other one in the last house we lived in was, too but it's different..) I wasn't used to cooking with gas, I had only cooked with electric ovens before. I always chill the dough for at least an hour before I roll these and put them in the cinnamon-sugar.

In other Breaking News, I have an idea for a card for St. Patrick's Day. Stay tuned for that.. I got a new storage bin/drawer (what is it even called?) last night. (Something exactly like this but mine is white.) So I can better organize all my card making loose papers, and they aren't just in the big cart my husband got me. I hope it's big enough. I was thinking I could put all my actual paper packs in the cart, and the loose papers in the drawers.  What is wrong with me? I want to organize and decorate my house lately.... 👀 Next thing you know I'll be wanting to go to the nail salon... LoL (Not...)

More Bathroom Pictures

Here's a picture of the shower curtain I mentioned in my last post. With the towels...  (Epic isn't it...😜) 

I need to get a little hand towel bar for the wall. My husband does remodels. So we might eventually get a new vanity too. (The cupboards are about falling apart...) And there's cigarette stains in three places on the counter top.  But, it's all clean for now.

A close-up of the Q-tip holder. I posted the link in my last post for the pattern. But here it is again: Free Crochet Spa Container. 

 

New Recipes and Ripping Out Mistakes...

I have been trying some new recipes lately. I get tired of the same old thing. I was watching a You Tube video about "forgotten meals of the 70's"..  This one is Hamburger Potato Casserole. I don't remember what recipe I used. It might have been in the video. It was good. I don't remember if I actually used this recipe, this was in my favorites bar. (I went back and looked..) Old Fashioned Oven-Baked Beef and Potatoes.  Okay, I went back and found the video. The directions how to make it are not in the video (Beef and Potato Casserole is at approximately the 35:50 mark.)  Don't ask me why I watch random YouTube videos like that. Lol

Then I made this last week. It smelled amazing and it tasted good, too. (Even though it looked nothing like the picture in the recipe.) That one I do have the recipe for.

Recipe

I had been working on my Evening Shawl... And I noticed I did something really wrong... I don't know where my brain was. So I ripped it out. Then I was looking at it and noticed I did the same thing another few rows back. So I ripped it out even more. I was so irritated, and I didn't want to roll all the yarn back up (I did this morning, though).  Ughhh...  It was in my memories the other day, a navy blue one I did. And I was looking at the picture and I noticed I did the same mistake in that one! (Second picture, if you look you can see it...) But I didn't realize it until it was all done. (I still have that shawl, and I was wearing it the morning I decided to start this one...)

I bought a few new towels for the basement bathroom. We don't use it. But, if any of our kids ever come to visit us and stay here. We'll have towels for them to use at least. I want to get more stuff but it's a start. The shower curtain is (about the same color) blue and off white stripes. And I was thinking about doing a nautical/sea them...  And (of course!!) I was thinking I wonder if I have any yarn that color.... What could I even crochet for it... Duh.... Q-tip holder! I have crocheted at least three of these by now (well, four now since I finished this one, too). I realized I never posted the pattern for this.

It's in this book. Although it's not really a book.... But guess what? It's also a free pattern online. Free Crochet Spa Container. You're supposed to use a D hook and cotton yarn. But I used an F hook and acrylic. I don't care.    My husband is working on the toilet in that bathroom right now. He thought the wax ring seal was broken. But, he took the toilet off the floor. There isn't even a seal on the toilet at all. And the flange is broken.  I cleaned that bathroom for four hours one day. (I will spare you the drama and details...) But, it still smells down there. Hopefully after today it will be better down there. Ever since we moved here it's been one thing after another.