Sunday, December 22, 2024

Brrrr It's Been Cold & Football

   It has been very very cold here with the wind added in. Next couple of days a bit of a warm up coming in, which will be nice. The other morning early at dawn I couldn't believe there was a fishing boat on the lake-it was in the low 20's F brrrr The fisherman must have had some sort of heated clothing I am thinking.

  With the strong winds that gives white caps on the lake-I know crazy right?-it has been much fun watching the sea gulls fishing. Still a few pelicans around as well.

  I made  a couple batches of the chocolate popcorn this morning that we love-glad this freezes so well so I can hide most all of it for later-smiles. (note I should have the recipe for this on a past post-search tool at end of blog page, or I posted it on my Instagram page just now as well.)


Over the years I have made couch blankets for my favorite sports teams. Do you have those if you are a sports fan?? 
   This was a great football weekend for me-Notre Dame college game was awesome-there in South Bend Indiana near my hometown of Mishawaka It was very cold with lots of snow there.  They had it all cleared out for the big game-Notre Dame won this playoff game, so they will be in a bowl game New Year's day. 
    This blanket I made probably 30 years ago at least. I had found this Notre Dame Fleece panel but it was printed edge to edge on the fabric. So I bought the yellow fabric and stitched the panel onto  it and cut the fringe.  This gave it more body too and very warm and cozy as well.
   My Green Bay Packer blanket finally wore out a few years ago, I may need to make another one. I had made that one back in the -80's.  I did splurge and had bought a huge KC Chiefs blanket a few years ago.  I don't usually like polyester but they are lite weight, and make into very warm and cozy blankets


   In the front of this photo is a vintage rocking chair with a pillow I made for a seat cushion. This was nautical fabric that my blog friend in Greece sent me several years ago-thanks Mia. I had enough fabric to make a couple of pillows.

  I need to run some errands tomorrow so glad it will be warming up for a few days. Around us will be getting lots of rain but I think here at the lake we may get missed.

 Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, and Happy Holidays. 

         and Happy Winter Solstice 

  


8 comments:

  1. It's time to hibernate and wrap in a warm fleecy blanket. We have been watching a bit of football in the evenings. I could use an extra hand in the kitchen - wish you were here! Merry Christmas, dear friend!

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  2. Nice blanket. Warming up tomorrow for us too -Christine cmlk79.blogspot.com

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  3. Your blankets sound fun and useful Kathy. We don't have any sports blankets, but we have lots of college hockey shirts for our favorite team. :) Have a wonderful Christmas holiday Kathy. I know your husband doesn't celebrate, but will you do anything special for the holiday? hugs-Erika

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    1. Thank you I have some very very old Green Bay Packers sweatshirts still back in the fall of 1967 I started college up in north in Wisconsin at Stout State U that's how I found out about pro football.
      No, when we were younger I used to make huge christmas dinners for our friends that had no families either, sometimes a few soldiers would show up as well. I make us a few christmas goodies and make us a nice dinner with homemade tamales christmas eve. other than that, especially now after Larry's bad fall we are pretty much stuck at home these days. I don't mind though after years of working soooo many long hours I like just staying home these days hugs

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  4. Good Morning Kathy!!! Sitting here eating my oatmeal... I've had a couple lovely slow mornings where i can linger over coffee and breakfast... peruse the internet... maybe sketch a little , so nice... i've needed it.. even had a couple whole afternoons in the craftroom... Now i have some things to do ... and one last trip to the grocery store.. Some baking.. I've waited until the last minute.. hate it when i do that but the slow days have been welcome.. Fishing in the 20F's!!! no way! Thats some diehard fishermen... I may have a few posts up on the blog you haven't seen and probably another one sometime today....Stay warm... We are in the 70's today and i saw and 80F for next week! Hugs! deb

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  5. Good afternoon, sounds like a good week-nice to have slow one with our crafts-hugs.
    wow you have warm weather coming in. we are in the 50's today which feels like a heat wave haha no wind and no sunshine.
    enjoy the rest of your baking hugs

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