Thrifty or Splurging

Here's my thrifty breakfast that feels like splurging.

Pancakes

1 1/2 cups flour

2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

6 tbsp oil

1 1/2 cups milk

2 eggs

Butter Syrup

1/2 cup butter

1/2 cup cream

1 cup sugar

1 tsp vanilla

Sometimes basic is truly best.

Have a blessed day! 

IFF - reward

tears blur as

sunlight sparkles,

rainbows form

in the corner of

her eyes

a reward

a silver lining

for almost

everything

A Random Survey

1. What's your favorite company breakfast?

2. What does your local seamstress charge per dress?

3. Do you love or hate playing games? 

4. If you love playing games which would you be most likely to play?

5. What kind of fabric and pattern are you planning on or most likely to sew next?

6. What's your favorite hobby?

7. What do you do with your children when they fight?

8. Should I resurrect Mrs. Brown??

9. Are you a time-planner or list writer or just wing it type of person?

My Soul Is Fed With Needle And Thread

Sew...

My lovely new sewing machine was at the doctor for six months. I finally called in in November and asked about it. Oh, they said, the parts aren't in yet. Then a few days later they called me and told me it was fixed. Go figure.

Anyway, I took my old machine to sewing yesterday again and I've enjoyed my new machine again and hopefully, soon... I will sew fun projects again.

Projects finished in 2018:

• Wyatt's train quilt - much like this one above
• My star scrap lap quilt using this pattern 
  
• My blue and white star quilt that I started when I was seventeen years old. It's huge, a large queen size and I machine quilted it. I hand wrote our marriage ribbon verse around the edge and our wedding date and it feels verily personalized and unique. And each of the twenty blocks is comprised of 140 pieces, with lots of triangles that needed squaring. This is such a large accomplishment for me.
• Revamped Nicole's 'practice' wedding dress to fit her.
• An extra large Dresden table topper in black and red and white.
• Backed and bound and quilted a quilt top from Grandma Esau's things.
• Random Baby Quilts
• A mini quilt with itty-bitty tiny pieces.
• Numerous dresses but only one bridesmaid dress. It was a bit of a challenge because the bridesmaid had never worn a tight weave polyester and only had patterns for stretch fabric. But it turned out and she informed me on the day of the wedding how much she loved it. :)

Projects to finish in 2019

• First off I have about six dresses to sew for my dear MIL
• Hem a pair of pants for Grandpa Esau

Sewing Dreams

•  I've wanted to do a Lori Holt quilt like this for a long time too.

• I have the most giant collection of stretch fabric scraps that I've saved to make braided rugs. Do you think I could manage this project in 2019??
• I have wanted to do a quilt along project for a long time... which one should I try?
• Also I have oodles of 2" patches from my Grandma Eidse. This is what I'm dreaming of making