It was a slow week here at the lake house. It's feeling more and more like home, allot of the stress with Hubs health is ending-although we are still having a few concerns, I know he is feeling better though-he even threw a line in the water on Sunday.
Sunday was just glorious here. We were fogged in for several morning hours, but when it lifted we had a beautiful autumn day. Warmed up to the mid 60's f fisherman to watch, and lots of birds flying over the lake. I have not been able to capture the sea gulls yet. This is the first I have seen them, I don't know if they fly in here now or if it is do to less boats on the water. Hubs spotted a king fisher sitting on the dock roof-but flew off as I was looking for my camera. I will enjoy seeing him again. The eagle pair still sits in that tree that I can see from my kitchen window-I recognize their call now. They show up a couple times a week.
Geese are flying by too, and we are seeing ducks again. I did capture this little video Sunday with the little birds waking up in their bird house. I hadn't thought of them using it to stay warm. I had planned on trying to clean it before winter.
I finally got all the pieces for the two bench seats cut out. I needed to cut out a couple more pieces as I hadn't noticed bad spots in the fabric when I was cutting it out. I make ties for the 4 corners so that was 16 pieces to cut and press-that is all done. I also decided to embroider fish on the two long sides that show. So I searched online for fish, did a copy and made stencils. I may just add a fish on the two short ends as well.
This was kinda cool-to me anyway-lol
Most of my craft room supplies come from garage sale finds. Larry picked up a vintage box years ago of tailor's chalk. So I used a piece for this project--One piece I needed to change the markings-and when I tried to rub it off or wash it-would not come out at all. Figured I wouldn't worry about it as most would be hidden in the seams.
When I ironed all the pieces-magic the hot iron takes off the markings-you can see on the first photo below. (no chalk lines on the right) I haven't used chalk like this since I sewed clothes growing up at home-so don't remember this happening. Larry says this is more of a wax than a chalk. Did not build up on my iron though-thought it was cool how the lines disappeared.
All the ties folded and pressed and other pieces
I just have the outline of one fish done-will fill it in as well
When I was checking out my garden shed at the woods home I found some of my halloween items that I always loved. I found a nice spot for them-we can view them when we open the front door. I even found this pumpkin bag for filling up with leaves-totally forgot about it.
I can't get over my lavender plant is still blooming. I had potted it up from the woods house to bring here and have not put it in the ground as of yet. I may just leave it in this pot
I also haven't had the chance to dig out most of what is there on that ledge-I want it all out and will replace with my madder roots which I haven't gotten dug up-that will be a spring project I am thinking. (madder is a dye plant)
For my beverage share I made us homemade hot chocolate tonight.
I usually mix up a healthy version of a dry mix and then mix with a milk and heat-but I found this recipe online for making it fresh-and it turned out soooo delicious that I don't think I will make up the mix this year.
I used this recipe Simple and really so rich and delicious. I used half 2% organic milk and 1/2 milked almond milk (from nuts.com) Hershey's special dark cocoa, splenda. vanilla extract.
I added two gluten free, natural (no chemicals) marshmallows to each cup. This was so rich and delicious you would think it was full of cream and sugar and it was not.
I guess I am way behind the times but I have just discovered those flickering led tea lights-I never knew about these before. I have also found some online that are wax candles but have led lights in them-so cool and much safer.
I also have two ceramic sack pumpkin faces that I always had used candles in. These pieces are really old probably 20 years at least. I had stopped doing that being in the woods for fear of fires.
I also love putting out sacks with sand on the bottom with lighted candles for Christmas eve and Christmas night-no more worries about candles with those either. I just ordered the tea lights and the bags-so am very excited with my discovery ha ha.
I didn't get a real good photo of these as it isn't totally dark quite yet. You can see the led tea lights in couple of them. For now these are sitting on the wood stove-my little night lights for the living room
and I found this cast iron piece too
Happy T wishes everyone.
