Rose Prairie Quilts and Farm

Well after writing down my tasks of things to do today and prioritizing them, which I put sewing as one of the top three, as you hopefully can see there. I am loving this daily spread. I have it down to a page a day and I can change the color to fit my mood or liking.  I am going to work on at least the blocks in month 8 of the Farmer's wife 30 samplers quilt BOM from Sager Creeks Quilt Shop.  But up on the design wall I have some more of my Quilty 365 circles. Which were from a fabric that had Thomas the train and friends images on them.  The boys are big fans of trains and Thomas. And the last two corner blocks been appliqué down for the Words to Live By quilt I'm working on. All I have left to appliqué now is the center block Later today I need to prep the Pea Ridge Lily quilt top that is getting sent off to a group of hand quilters to be worked on for me. There are so many quilts that I would preferred to have h

Brrr!  Its cold outside. My Sunday is trifold. It started out in the morning getting in a little bit of quilting in and just relaxing with a good cuppa coffee. I am on the last of the pieced part of the quilt blocks  after I am done with this one row of flying geese it's onto the border.  Maybe this evening while watching Downton Abbey I'll be able to get in a good start of the border done. Here in a bit we will go to Tulsa to visit my mother who has been in the hospital since Thursday. Which after  "the man of the place" and I will have a "date afternoon" and to go see a movie. We plan going see Leo DiCaprio's new movie Reverent. "The Man of The Place" will probably love it and I hope to also like it. It has gotten great reviews so far. Also seeing how January is national soup month. I have been searching for new soup recipes. I came across this one on the whole 30 website the other day. Pars

I have been working on setting up my journal. Besides that I have been thinking about how and what I thought about showing. This method I learn about and now hooked on, is called Bullet Journal. There are at least 5 things I am so amorous about this. First is the simplicity of it. It can as minimalist as the way the original creator design. To see how he set his up, go here to  his Blog.  Now I have taken the basics from him but added some lists (collections) I need and added a few other layouts I thought were useful.  Second thing is the flexibility I have. I have already change my mind on a couple thing since I started. I was tracking my food on my dailies  but now I've given a hold spread to my weekly tracking and incorporating my menu planning. So if I feel that one thing I'm doing is not working I have the flexibility to change and try something new. Third is how creative you can be if you wish. I've added different colo

I have been meaning to write this and show my circles for December but my mind and time has not been in sewing. This past week I have only been in the sewing room for an hour or so.  Wanted to get caught up on the few circles I was lacking but decided this wouldn't happen before Audrey's link up closed. \And I wanted to share "the little dude" Christmas themed circles. This is one set of what I have for December so far.    As you can count I'm 10 short and will make them up. I have them cut out just need to them sewn.  Hope you go check what others have posted of their circles. at Audrey's Quilty Folk

I have kept lists of things to do, things to remember, just lists and more lists for a very long time. I would keep my first lists just on scraps of paper. Then when I started college it was on note pads. Then when I started teaching  that notepad got clipped onto a clipboard. I did that for years probably at least 15 years.   I bought a padded folding clipboard portfolio  And then would carry that around on occasion but mainly kept it at work or at home. I found it kind of big and cumbersome to haul around with me all the time. I would keep my sheets of lists for a while but then after sometime I would have the pile of tattered pages, what a mess. So I would just throw them away. I also during this time had a journal. I started keeping one when I was a teenager and continue this. I would do really well on keeping up with entries in my journal but of course there would be times I wouldn't have anything written. And that would be normal. But when I star

I thought I would show some of the farm chores I do on a daily basis. I tend to the chickens first thing in the morning to let the girls out, give a little scratch and check the nesting boxes.  Woo hoo another egg this morning.  This is the girl right there, in front.  She is the only one out of the eight that is laying eggs right now. She deserves extra scratch if I can figure out how to keep the others out of it.  Then I'll walk down to the barn to feed the heifers.  We have 10 young heifers separated, which I feed 4 buckets of cattle cubes to every day.  We have also 12 heifers who are going to give birth within the next couple of months in the pasture right next to the barn. That is also where the container that holds the cattle cubes is located.  And as you can see I have a group waiting for me to start dishing out the cubes. I have to fill 4 buckets up, but I can only carry two at a time into the barn. 

Three more days till Christmas.  Yesterday I needed to get more of that flannel fabric to finish the PJs and I had bought that fabric in Tulsa. Which meant I needed to go back to Tulsa. I can never just go to Tulsa and come right back home, it seems to always be an all day affair. So basically all I got done yesterday was a little cleaning and running errands I also went by whole foods to pick up some nitrate free salt pork. But they didn't have any at the time. So the butcher suggested just buy some pork belly and use that. Which salt pork is, just salt cured pork belly. But I thought I would try making my own. They were so nice at Whole Foods, for not having what I wanted they gave me a pound of pork belly for free. Went home and looked it up on Google.  Very simple as can be, has only 2 ingredients  You mix the non iodine salt and some brown sugar together and coated the pork liberally.  Then place it in a glass dish, cover with plastic wrap  and