Blustery Day

We woke up this morning to a blustery, snowy day. DH, my go-to source for weather information, said if I wanted to go out today, I'd better go soon. As we were completely out of paper towels (which we discovered while frying egg rolls - not a good time to run out of paper towels), and milk is a required purchase when snow is coming, I bundled up my daughter and we trudged out to the grocery store.  I went out with just a knit hat on my head, but after unloading groceries, buckling my daughter in the car, and putting up the cart in 28 degrees, I wished I had put on something substantial.  My daughter seemed to be enjoying the weather, but I figured that I'd better step up the priority on her scarf so she has a little extra insulation when we go out to play.  I'd estimate it's halfway finished at this point.  I worked on it before nap and after (I joined in on nap today, but shouldn't have as I woke up with an eye-splitting sinus headache), and then got caught up in other things, like dinner.

Dinner tonight was fried rice using leftover Dijon Pork that we made from Don't Panic - Dinner's in the Freezer: Great-Tasting Meals You Can Make Ahead.  The roast was really good, but it made so much that we had to mix it up.

During dinner, I was reminded - again - that my daughter has totally outgrown all of her bibs.  I need to make her some new ones (project #29). I have all the stuff.  I just have to get started.  After dinner I started to get out the ironing board and attach the iron-on vinyl to the fabric, but then I remembered I stitched the fabric for it with the quilt fabric yesterday and it still needed to get washed.  So now that's in the dryer, and soon I can recover it and get it going.

Speaking of fabric, here's the assortment that's going into my daughter's quilt (project #3):

I wanted something sort of shabby chic, white with tiny pink roses, but couldn't find anything that was quite what I wanted at the store.  Instead, the stripe pattern on the left jumped out at me and I couldn't leave it alone, so I picked fabrics I thought went with it.  Now that I have it out again and I'm looking at it at home, I'm ambivalent about the whites, but I'll try a few blocks and see how it goes.

I also got a phone call from a friend today who's running for office, and wants to come by tomorrow for a photo op.  No problem, except I still haven't cleaned the entry from Christmas madness.  But this is actually a great thing, because now it will get cleaned and DH will be super excited.  In the process of cleaning my desk, I realized a pencil can that used to be in the kitchen was now getting scooted around on the bare wood top.  This IS a problem.  Fortunately I had some felt left over from a previous project.  I cut a piece to fit the bottom and attached it with some trusty Aleene's Tacky Glue.

I have lots of these cans around the house.  Coffee cans, oatmeal canisters, formula cans.  Anything that doesn't have a sharp edge at the top is a good candidate.  I just make sure the inside is clean, and I attach some pretty paper from the scrapbooking aisle with Elmers Craft Bond Paper Craft Glue Gel.

So, when that can is dry, it can go back on the newly cleaned desktop and I won't have to worry about scratches.

What's up next: ironing out bib fabric and putting the vinyl on it, continuing the scarf.