Catchup - Dec 27th-31st

Dec 27th

Nice morning - no post Christmas shopping!  A nice gathering at Mary's with some of the Lace ladies.  Then picked up Edna and met Sylvia at the Oakwood Cafe, this time NO borscht for me as I've had two bowls this week at home.  

Beautiful day outside, chasing these two a bit!

So the puzzle is undone but pieces sorted out ready for Taunya's turn!!!

Dec 28th

I'm watching hockey relaxing with these restless pugs!!! They switched time with the chewie!

Rest time!!!

Dec 29th

Well another foggy start to the day but today by 7:30 it was lifting as usual, revealing the frostiness! So beautiful!!!

The rest of the pictures were taken 9ish. I wasn't sure I'd get a good shot of the sun but I like it!

Dang I took these when out with the dogs, about 11ish, so impressed with the ice crystals!

Dec 29th

Goofballs!!! Begging for supper from 3:30 - no way!!! Or ganging up cause I dared to go out a few hours???

Oh oh he's definitely not happy with my sticking to my time not his for supper!!! Poor baby!

Mid evening nap! So sweet, except for the two types of out of sync snoring!!!

Dec 30th

It looks pretty good this way too!  Probably lots faster than my settinf methods!!!!

Late afternoon I drove over to Sylvia's and enjoyed her family Christmas celebration.  Nice seeing everyone but I felt tired so left after some chatting after the potluck supper.

Dec 31st

Those are words I'm thinking too for family and friends!

Nothing much on my agenda today except picking up Edna and Santa Lucia pizza for supper at Sylvia's, visiting and maybe some puzzle setting. But for sure an early night!

Dec 25th-26th

Dec 25th

Some of my favourites today! Oakwood Cafe borscht, garlic sausage, my apple Crown Royal cocktail and a couple of white chocolate cookies. Yummy!!!  

Later on I'll snack on shrimp and cocktail sauce! CHEERS!!!

Bubba loves to cuddle and Dahli has to join in even if I'm covered in dog hair!!!

Yeah the puzzle is finished! Before I leave I'll undo it to close to when I started so Taunya can enjoy the setting like I did!

Dec 26th

So today I ventured out to Sylvia's for a bit of baking for a family gathering. In between while trays baked we took apart the eagle puzzle and started sorting pieces for another puzzle.  

So she had prepped the dough earlier and when I arrived we started making the Scuffles - what I've always known as Chrustyky in Ukrainian, cinnamon rollups. This is my sister Elsie's recipe contribution to a local fundraiser cookbook from back home. Scrumptious!

Kneeding before rolling out.

About a 9" circle before cutting pie wedges.

She got me doing thee rollups.

The first pans ready for the oven.

And now cooling off.

The lot we made up.

Sylvia's new wall hanging, cross stitched and quilted.

Then home and dropping off Edna's treats too!

My apartment door's hangers!!!

Dec 23rd-24th

Dec 23rd

Right on!!!

Lovely!!!

I really wanted to share this picture but still wanted to give credit where credit is due!  

Thank you Margreet for posting this lovely display! Nifty use of carefully skinned Mandarin oranges for creativity!!!

I'm really really really grateful for my "artsy" sister! AND very proud of her many talents!

See some time ago (this was originally blogged Sept 18, 2008) she made a couple Eagle wall hangings that she had cut up from a horizontal panel and made it vertical and used a smaller eagle from a pillow square - just lovely. WELL the next one she used the same panel with it's large eagle, again changing to a vertical and added in more water, trees, clouds and another smaller eagle.

I was crying scared 😱 witless that it was going to be ruined!!!  She totally flabbergasted me with the end result!

Now WHAT!!!

And the two hangers, the second on the right with a different eagle! 

This is Sylvia's hanger with a medium sized eagle and the corner accessories!!!

So last week she pulled out a gifted puzzle and started on it, this time I only got over for two short setting sessions before she finished it off! Then she realized it was by the same artist that made the eagle panels and pillow covers she had used. Well I just had to show both of these off!

A gifted puzzle just completed. 

Look they are both by the same artist!!!!!

Dec 24th - Christmas Eve

I've always loved this message so sending it again!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all my family and friends!!!

I'm staying put, relaxing with the pets and setting Taunya's puzzle. I should have taken pictures of her progress before working on it a bit. This way I'll know what to dismantle so she can work on it again! I even sorted the various pieces into groups. But it would be easier with a white tablecloth, even though I'd hate to cover such a lovely table!!!

My different Christmas Eve dinner! Yummy!