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