Rose Prairie Quilts and Farm

In my absence of writing, "the girls" have been one of the categories or subjects that I have not written about. I want to give you some updates on "the girls". It has been a long cold winter here in the United States. A majority of us have gone through some below freezing temperatures for long length of time, and Oklahoma has been hit with it also. Not as bad as those in the North and East have had.  Poor girls they were just not happy with this weather. When it snows and such like that, they won't even leave the house, they hate the snow. I do not have a covered run for them because they spend most of their day running free around the farm. True free-ranged chicken  So I wanted to give you some update on my girls. I do not have a light or heater out in the hen house and I was so worried about how they were going to fare with the temps in the single digits and below zero we had had this winner. Well I like to tell you that they did well. I ha

Well this is what I have up on my design wall, and has been at there for quite a while.  A couple weeks ago I posted that my what's up was to cleanup my sewing room. Which I did.  This is a lot neater believe or not And since then, I have not done a bit as stitching, at least in the sewing room. I have done some handwork and some knitting but that's about it so far. Mainly what's going on right now is getting the garden ready and planting the spring vegetables. But my word for the year is focus , so what I'm going to try to do is focus a little bit each day on my sewing. That's as time allows when not away from the home with appointments, etc. So I'm going to try to devote at least 15 to 30 minutes a day in there doing a little bit of sewing. In the past that's not how I do my sewing. I'm one that likes to go in there and work for hours. I enjoy sewing and so once I get into it it's hard for me to stop. And

I have been watching the first season of House of Cards, knitting and playing around with this new app I put on my i-phone. I first saw it at  aunt polly's porch  blog.  Seeing how we are having another blast of cold with snow flurries I have been inside the house.  The other day I was checking out some blogs I like and over at Polly's she had also been playing around with this app and posted her pics. The app is called "waterlogue" and I found it on itunes, so I only have it on my phone. What it does is it takes a photo and changes it a watercolor picture.  Here are some of the pictures I have taken and change over to watercolor pics. Pretty cool, I believe I will be having some fun and using these from time to time.

It's getting to be that time of year when I have just a few sweet potatoes left from last years harvest. I was trying to get creative and make something different that I haven't done with the sweet potatoes already. When surfing the Internet, I came across a recipe for an impossible mini pumpkin pies. I thought to myself why not use sweet potatoes, I've done it before for pumpkin pie recipes. So I thought okay I'm going to make little mini impossible sweet potato pies.  They turned out yummy.  So here is the recipe from Betty Crocker website I used with my adaptation, to make it a sweet potato pies. Mini Impossible Sweet Potato Pies 1 1/4 cup mash sweet potato 1/2  cup Original Bisquick®  or baking mix 1/2  cup sugar 3/4  cup evaporated milk (I used milk) 1 1/2  tsp pumpkin pie spice 1 tsp vanilla 2  eggs 1  cup frozen (thawed) whipped topping, if desired Top with brown sugar and chopped pecans Heat oven to 375°F. Spray 12 re

 Cheri Gregory Have you noticed the past few years others talking about what their word is for the year or maybe you are doing a word for the year. I had seen others pick and talk about their word last year and thought that was a cool thing and something I wanted to try. But the days got passed me and I didn't pick a word and to be honest I really didn't fully understand the purpose behind it, so it just went by the wayside last year So I thought this year with my new year goals (birthday) I was going to pick a word for myself to work on. I decided I needed to do more focusing,  so focus it is my word. In the process of thinking about what would be my word for this year, I did some research on the Internet to understand more about the purpose behind this one word. When I came across this book called "My One Word".  My One Word I thought okay I'll read this and see if it can give me a little insight to what it's all about. I'

I can finally say "what's up". I've looked it up and it was almost 3 months ago since the last time I shared what I've been up to. Beside that I have to admit that I am very rusty at writing. I'm not a born writer and it has been a journey for me. It has taken me on the last two posts, over two hours just to write those short post. I would love to have the talent of writing and speed on the keyboard like so many other bloggers have. So bare with me as I get up on this bicycle again.  Today is a very cold day (5 degrees) with a wind chill in the minus degree and a winter wonderland. The only green to be seen is in my morning green drink Part of my new year focus is to be more delegate at getting healthier and to lose this weight that I have gained. For my birthday "the man of the place" gave me a vitamix mixer. My little mixer couldn't handle making smoothies and I have fallen in love with drinking my raw veggies. For me the be

Hopefully this will be the last bout of arctic cold front, the high today was 17 with a wind chill of -3 and  in the morning the wind chill will be around -12.    I did as little as possible outside, tended to the girls. What I ended up doing was working on our taxes and we were able to get them completed and ready to be sent off. And it was a perfect day also for a pot beans and ham, with of course a batch of corn bread. Now that is what I call comfort food. So now it's some TV time, hot chocolate and knitting. I figure I'm undecided and will work on two projects this evening. I have a scarf I started for a friend and do not have much more left. Then the sweaters for the "little dudes" are also close to be being done but doubt if I'll get them completed tonight. The first one is almost completed I need to lengthen the sleeves and sew it up, as you can see I had just pinned it together so I could try it on the boys. Isn'

It's my birthday today and as the years have added on, I look at my birthday more as the beginning of a new year then just a day to celebrate my birthday. So as I sit and write this I can only think back over my last year and what direction I hope to see myself in a year from now.  The start of a new year makes me excited about what I can accomplish and the experiences that will happen.  And here in the United States the majority of us have been dealing with a cold long winter, myself included.  Boy am I ready for spring and starting this years growing season. One of my excitements for this new year is to expand my garden space. I want to start my kitchen garden / potager. I just love that word, potager .   Potager Garden  Definition :   (pronunciation: puh ta zhay) a  garden that combines both edible and ornamental plants; a vegetable garden that is utilitarian in nature but designed with beauty in mind; much like an English kitchen garden, but often formal and symmet