Menu Monday and Texans Quilt

I know it has been almost 3 weeks since I posted but it is not because I didn’t want to, I had the flu L well, it started with the flu turned into sinus infection, ear infection, eye infection and then a bonus of strep throat.  Seriously, 13 days in bed!  I finally feel human again and ready to get things back on track! 

It is Menu Monday

Here is my general layout for evening meals this week.  It got cold again so will be lots of soup and bread.

Monday Chicken n’ dumplings with some fresh bread and peanut butter pie for dessert

Tuesday Chicken casserole with a salad followed by some cupcakes

     Wednesday Waffles/Pancakes with home fries and eggs no dessert on b’fast nights

     Thursday Marinated sirloin and baked spuds with salad and chocolate pie

     Friday It is my night off and we will eat out J

     Saturday Brown sugar salmon/Burgers for non-fish eaters with rice and veggie.  I am thinking chocolate cake for dessert tonight.

I did manage to get a quilt done while I was sick.  I had an order for a custom Houston Texans quilt.  I am super excited with how it turned out.  

I have some other pretties waiting their turn on the frame so I better head to the longarm room instead hanging out on my blog. 

Quilt On Friends 

My fabric scraps are taking over.  Seriously, I have fabric in every nook and cranny of this house and I need to thin it out.  Yes, this is probably New Year, organized me talking but I am hoping to keep it going which would turn in to a “you’re on a roll”.  My scrap drawers are like an over filled suitcase that you have to sit on to close.

 

This weekend I was cruising Pinterest and saw the Jellyroll Race quilt and BAM it hit me I could make a King size strip quilt from my scraps. I got up and scooted to my fabric room to check my scrap drawers.  Yep, I have plenty and so much so that you can’t really tell I took about ½ yard from each color drawer.

  

I have 2 more 32x89 panels to make then will put them together and add a few borders. 

Not forgetting about Menu Monday

1. Spaghetti and Fettuccine Alfredo

2. White bean soup and sausage

3. French Dips/Philly sannies with fries

4. burritos/quesadillas

5. Grilled Chicken fried potatoes and a veggie

Desserts will be brownies, peanut butter pie, chocolate pie, pumpkin cupcakes and ice cream  

Happy New Year

Wow, it is hard to believe 2014 will draw to a close tonight. As I look thru photos of this past year I realize how blessed I really am. We had more up’s than down’s and I call that a definite win J  There seems to be many things to look forward to in 2015, travel, graduations.  There will be new opportunities and challenges to be faced and conquered.  I look forward to them all.

While I celebrate tonight with my family I hope you can do the same with yours and if not with family then I hope you are in the company of good friends. 

Wishing you all a Happy New Year!!

Menu Monday

I like to have a basic idea of what my family is going to eat during the week. This works for me because if I don’t have a plan for meals we usually eat out.  That gets expensive really fast for my family of 6 adults. I am also a list girl.  I like to see what needs to be done and more importantly I like to cross stuff off with pretty colored markers J  I use to make my menu’s according to days of the week but this got complicated for my OCD brain when I didn’t want to make spaghetti on Wednesday; now I number them J  I also like dessert so most dinners have one but I don’t plan for breakfasts or lunches.  My kids are older teenagers and young adults, I just have to keep enough staples on the shelves to feed them at grazing times.

The weather has turned a wee bit chilly here in Texas which is perfect time to make some soup and bread.  I will also toss in some comfort foods that are perfect for chilly nights.

1.    Sausage and tortellini soup with toast with misc. cookies and ice cream

2.    Fried chicken, mashed spuds, veggie with cream puffs for dessert

3.    Split pea and ham soup with grilled cheese sannys with caramel cupcakes to completely over stuff yourself

4.    Breakfast dinner, French toast, sausage and eggs.  No dessert on breakfast nights

5.    Chicken casserole using up leftovers from the fried chicken and salad with chocolate mousse cups for dessert to make it special

6.    Meatloaf night, ick, but everyone else eats it and hubby cooks it can’t argue with that. Hubby has requested baked spuds and salad to go with this feast. I will make a chocolate pie to round out the night

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7.    MIY night!  Clean out the leftovers or  Make It Yourself

I know it's not New Year's yet but I can no longer put of getting my act together.  I lack organization.  I really need to address this problem and for me it has gotten to the problem stage.  To tackle this I have gotten myself a Life Planner with some snazzy Sharpies.  Normally, I would my Ipad but because I have a first generation Ipad the software isn't compatible with the planner apps you can get.
After HOURS of trying to decide what I wanted out of a planner and what I wanted to do to "bling" it up and make it mine.  I went with The Ultimate Planner from The Nifty Planner  I like that it has a month long view followed by a weekly view with a spot for my notes. I haven't gotten to the menu planner or the task manager yet but I can't see how I would be displeased.  I do want to get a few more colored markers and some sticker to join this party.

I made my list last night when I seem to have my plan for the next day going thru my head so that today I just had to look down and BAM I am telling me what to do.  It will help me stay on task with all things that swirl around in my head including weekly blog postings :-)  

Gemini Quilt top done :-)

I am really trying to get the quilt kits that I bought on shop hop done before Christmas.  Might use a few of them as gifts but really want to get them into my store so someone else might be able to snuggle up under one of my creations.  This is another kit that I got from Stitched With Love, if you are in the McKinney/Dallas area I really, really recommend you go spend some time in this store.  The ladies are wonderful and super helpful plus, there shop is bright and inviting.

This quilt is going together really fast.  I am falling in love with the patterns from Villa Rosa Designs.  They look fantastic and go together without much fuss if any fuss at all.  I hope to have it all put together tomorrow so look for pictures of the done top soon.

Finally Finished

Only thing left to do with this quilt is put the binding and the label on:-)  T-Shirt quilts can be difficult for me because I can spend way to much time on the thought process of how it should be laid out.  In this case my customer wanted the pink shirt to be centered.  I quilted it in a general large meander so to not take away from the shirts.  This will definitely wrap someone in memories :-)