Sean brought home the counter top today! It`s not attached yet, but set in place, and I used it to make Butterscotch Treats and Poppycock. I imagine it`s a very happy counter top, getting a new family for Christmas, and being welcomed with such yummy love. It`s a dark grey, so it blends nicely with the black and stainless appliances.
I`ve made the Christmas food list, and tomorrow I`ll be making the potatoes for Christmas day at Carla`s, Christmas afternoon I`ll put together the marshmallow salad for Boxing Day at the Wards, and before church on Sunday I`ll make the apple crisp. Not too bad. I already made a batch of poppycock this week to take as gifts for my co-workers - today`s batch is for us.
After Christmas I`ll post photos of some of the stuff I`ve made as gifts. Don`t want to spoil any surprises just yet! One more to make, but it`s to go to Winnipeg, so I`ve got an extra day or two for that.
I will say, though, that I love vinyl! A friend saw the parent / child aprons I made last year and asked me to make some for her and her two daughters. No problem - I whipped those up last weekend for her. She also has a little boy who needed a holster for his gun... so she brought me some brown vinyl when she came with the apron fabric she had picked out. I impressed myself with my pattern design skills (must have got that from Mom), and I loved working with the vinyl - it`s smooth like butter. I`m going to have to get me some of that to play around with. Watch out - next Christmas just may all be decked out in vinyl.
These three are all the same - reversible with pockets on both sides. M is my always willing model.
Oh, I do have to tell you that I rocked the serger today. And by rocked I mean that it had a broken thread which I successfully re-threaded, and then when that bobbin promptly ran out of thread, threaded it again. And, when another thread broke, I re-threaded that one. And the end one, when it ran out of thread. And finally the fourth one, when it wasn`t connecting the way it should. It didn`t even feel like the machine was my enemy, either - we were strange cohorts, in a joint effort to boost my confidence in my serger rocking abilities. Hooray for me, and thanks, Singer!
3 comments:
Wow - you keep busy! I wanted to make some poppycock too but ran out of time. Now I am dealing with running out of fridge space - oh well, we'll eat it all in the coming week and problem solved. By the way, do you know what poppycock means?
Um... Nonsense?
Google poppycock meaning and enjoy. Merry Christmas! See you soon.
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