Slow Sunday Stitching

It's been another busy week.  Not as quite as busy as I thought it was going to be.  Daughter Katie and I were supposed to go to the monthly Begonia Meeting, but she had had a cold,  so we ditched going to the meeting.   Wednesday was the Guild meeting and it was nice to see everyone.  

This week I participated in the Tickled Pink Blog Hop.  My post was here.  I made the mug rug in my header and this cushion.

Thursday I had lunch with my new friend, Jandra, Kyleigh's boyfriend's grandmother.  We went to lunch at the country club she belongs to, and I saw her amazing home.  She literally has a display in every room of her house.  She loves Wizard of Oz, Princess Diana, Marilyn Monroe, and there are displays everywhere.  As well as pictures of her 3 grandsons.   When they were little she would give them driftwood and then would burn designs and their names in the wood with a wood-burning tool.  They had a Black Pearl boat playhouse in the back yard by the pool with a full sized pirate.  I don't think she takes her decorations down as I saw a skeleton sitting in the sitting room with a cup beside him like he was having some tea.  The laundry room was the I love Lucy room.  I have such a good time whenever I am with her. While I was at Jandra's house, daughter Kristen called and invited me to dinner at our favorite Mexican restaurant.  No cooking for me that day!

Jandra is coming over on Monday for lunch and to look through my crazy quilt fabrics and trims and I am going to make her a Boho bag.  She saw one of the ones that I had made, and I volunteered to make her one.  This is the one I am going to enter in the quilt show.  She wants red and black and I am not sure how much of those colors I have but we will see.  

Friday daughter Katie had the day off, so we went to High Hand Nursery, a nursery in this area that has a cafe that is pretty hard to get into, but as it had just opened, we were able to get in without a reservation.  We also picked up some nice plants while we were there. 

Katie helped me take some pictures of my other quilt entries too.  The quilt show is in April.  I'm entering my Dear Jane and Summer Sails that I had made for John.  She always takes a selfie when we are together.

As I had promised several members of my family I would make some tamales, I decided I better live up to my promises.  I went out Saturday morning and got supplies, and spent about 5 hours making red chili pork tamales.  I spent all afternoon working on them.  I cooked the first batch and filled the cooker to steam the last back, about 26 in all.  I decided to have one for dinner and it tasted off.  I decided the lard was rancid.  I haven't made tamales since the year before John died, so I should have started with new lard.  I tossed all those out and will try again later this week.  I am a little discouraged tonight needless to say.  

What I will be working on this week for Slow Sunday Stitching is still the Kathy Schmitz's the Gathered Blessings stitch along.  I didn't get too much done last week, but hope to relax this Sunday and work on it.  

I'll be linking up with Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching.  Head on over and see what everyone is working on.

Thanks for stopping by!