Not Much Happening Today.

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Today has been a pretty quiet day.

I did not attempt any sandwich cooking today so ends my blogging about sandwiches trend.

For Lunch we just had our good old beans and rice. I thought to take a picture of one of the plates but beans and rice do (or is it does?) not photograph well. I do have to say I did leave the lunch with my cooking trademark...I burned the rice. I usually seem to burn the rice! I even added 4 extra cups of water but I let the rice boil a little too long while I was off doing a momish thing. Are you curious as to how much rice fills up my 14 children along with their beans? I usually boil 16 cups of water (but today I boiled 20 cups) and then add 8 cups of slow cooking rice. Most every bit of rice is eaten.


Jeff took most all the children to Morristown Dam days Parade this evening. The had a lot of fun. I forgot to send the camera with! I heard there were a lot of fun things to see and those Bagpipes were awesome!!!!


Here are three more cute baby blankets I finished up this evening while Jeff was putting kids to bed. The top two have a silky off white backing and the bottom one has white minky type fabric for the backing. They turned out very cute in my opinion.

An Afternoon Delight

This afternoon found us traveling to Joanne Fabrics in Mankato to get my monthly fix of fabric!

I am going to try a very daring thing with my new love for making drawstring skirts...I found this beautiful off-white satin type fabric and lengths of two different beautiful overlay lace. What if I was able to use this to make two very unique drawstring skirts for young girls? Can you envision it? Now, I might come across an unforeseen snag in my design plan. If you see it now don't spoil it by telling me. Part of the fun of creating are those "oops, I should have thought of that before" moments. But until then I am dreaming...



Debbie Mumm fabric was on sale. She really is one of my favorites. These will be four different receiving baby blankets. I decided to use white Soft and Comfy for the backing on all four. When I start on these in a few weeks I will be sure to share how I make them. They are SO easy and pretty inexpensive to make if you get all the fabric on sale.