Back to Normal ~

The house is about 99% put back together.  I LOVE my Christmas decorations, but it is always good to get back to my "normal".  I've made countless trips to the attic. In the past week I climbed 387 floors!  

I had a dye day on Friday.  Of course, my usual Emma Lou's putty (old) . . . 

. . . plus toned down some wool with seal brown.  (I use Cushing dyes.)  I should have taken before pictures.  The blue wool (top two) was very garish and not something I would ever use!  It's much prettier in person.

I tried dyeing red for the first time ever.  Used a recipe in a dye book by Nancy Raybould.  I added the required amount of dye and wasn't getting great results so added another half dose.  After I had glugged with vinegar and set the color, it still wasn't what I was hoping for.  I started over with another full dose and here are the results. It is a little more pink in color than red, but I think it's a color I can use at some point.

Christmas is all put away except for the tinsel tree.  I think I am going to try to make it a Valentine tree.  I will keep you posted. 

There is so much I put away to make room for the Christmas decorations.  Inevitably, there are things I cannot find.  I knew I was missing a bowl of stone fruit.  I searched and searched and it was nowhere to be found.  Finally I decided to look under the spare bed.  Guess what?  Not one, but two bowls of stone fruit.  Isn't that where you stash yours?  

I put all my feather edge in the same cupboard, so how can I be missing one piece?  It's a gravy boat from a child's dish set.  I am tired of looking for it and I suppose (and hope) that some day it will turn up.

We have had a frigid week, but not nearly as cold as some of you.  Thankfully we are having a heat wave this week and Thursday's high is predicted to be 50*.  I'm sure there will be some crazies running around in shorts and flip flops :)

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Pug hugs :)
Lauren