Coffee & a crochet update?

 Good Day HappyHomebuddies!

Beautiful beeswax

I've got a pot of coffee brewing, thought I'd have a sit down & chit chat.

Very much a later fall day we are getting into it, the seasonal changes.

On the crochet front, the filet I was working on, Oh bother. 

The smallest of any I've done so far, has given me some challenges. I got up to row 43 of 73, wrong something was off. Frogged it all the way back to row 14. 

So this is how we will roll with this, 1 row per day. 

I'm not that kind of crocheter but am becoming one. What is the hurry? It's not a gift, nor for someone else. I'm learning to slow my roll it isn't easy and I am re learning some things as I get older and don't work outside in the world anymore. I do not have to go to the beat of that drum. Setting my own pace and learning patience. Haste makes waste my mom use to say, and I was always Helter Skelter. I get it and I'm doing it a more joyful intentional way. 

I did finish another project I was working on for Christmas Decor, I washed it today to freshen it up, and pinned it to stretch it out a bit. I'll press it with the iron soon and perhaps starch or stiffen some

Chicken soup is simmering on the stove, I thought that we may have it tomorrow but it damp and cold and the family will enjoy something warm when the arrive home, in the cold, damp darkness.

The coffee is done and so concludes are chit chat of the most boring kind. 

 the glow of a candle is so welcome on these days.

Be of good cheer!

  

Veterans Day-Thank One remember all the others

 Nothing is Free- It is earned & somebody paid for it.

A thank you doesn't seem good enough. 

Being grateful is a start.  

Happy Homebody Monday #15 Homemaking Binders

Howdy!

HappyHomebuddies!

I suppose most folks have some type of organizational system in place whether it is a list, recipe box, or even a notebook filled with all the goods. I'm sure I'm talking to the choir here.

I think I have all of them. 

The recipe box are contained to just recipes of course, the notebook I keep jotting down recipes I find & try. If they pass muster they get into the recipe box. I have one for crochet patterns and leaflets too.

But what about all the other notes, or things which are not related to food or crochet.? I have found most recently after I cleaned out my seed box, that I could probably use a binder to file away plant information for their care and instructions. 

The beautiful cactus I had last year at this time did not bloom (yet). I pulled the sheet out of the seed box and it would have been nice had I had it prior to that. Hence I am going to make a garden notebook/binder. I'm collecting all the loose instruction sheets, and they will live in a nice, organized manner.

Cactus post

Some Cactus care instructions I posted about off the sheet

I don't know whether I have a Thanksgiving, Easter or Christmas Cactus. They bloom when they bloom and I enjoy them very much, even when I don't follow the "rules". So I am sure this one will bloom when it chooses, and then I'll start what the instructions say.

 

This was how it looked from the greenhouse!

I'm sure more than a few of you have these beauties at your home. 

Do tell!

Be of Good Cheer!