Gentle Friends, I thought I'd post the last time this year a little stitching... I'm enjoying the Thin Man Film marathon today on TCM with William Powell and Myrna Loy!! Here's a snap of a return WIP...
Thursday, December 31, 2020
A Little Stitching on the Last Day of the Year
Sunday, December 27, 2020
A Last Christmas Post
Gentle Friends, our Christmas around here was so nice...with Most Holy Redeemer opening up Christmas Eve (20%) occupancy...and even with that there were only about 30 people scattered about the sanctuary, the choir was all 6 feet distancing in the choir loft...it was a lovely service.
Christmas Day dawned bright and sunny and we started getting ready for our Christmas Lunch with our "Bubble" friends only...we started off the afternoon with...a couple of hot hors-d'oeuvres...I made bacon-wrapped dates stuffed with camembert and a baked brie covered in cranberry relish with that we had to have libations so...
...I made a pitcher of Scarlette O'Hara's and Teresa made Blue Hawaii's...
... before we sat down I took this snap of the table... we had prime rib, sauteed string beans with almonds, Gratin Dauphinoise (fancy scalloped potatoes) dinner rolls ... and the Christmas Cake this year was...
Friday, December 25, 2020
A very Merry Christmas!!!
Gentle Friends, as the year winds down we look forward to next year and better times.
Thank you dear friends for always stopping by with a kind word!
Merry Christmas!!!
edgar
Wednesday, December 23, 2020
A Christmas Stitching Finish
Gentle Freinds, I was bound, damned, and determined to get this sucker finished before Christmas... and I achieved my goal!! I finished this up yesterday...
The changes I made as I stitched along were few, I left off the single stitch for the deer's eyes, I added a white cornice to the roofline and crowns to the chimneys, left off the line of white that was on top of the chimneys,... was that supposed to be snow??? I wonder?? I also filled the windows with NPI 998, I liked the dark grey better than more brown as was called for. Other than that it's pretty much as charted. A fun piece to work on, I do love Tanya's charts and the stuff she does!!
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There you go sports fans. Thanks for stopping by do stop again. Stay Safe!
Good Thoughts! Good Words! Good Deeds!
edgar
A Little Nightmare
Gentle Friends, we were at Walgreens yesterday looking for a string of light... I know we're nuts... and of course, there were only the scraps of seasonal things left in the aisle, no lights BTW, and I found this really great thing... a little sign for the Season...
Tuesday, December 22, 2020
Another Little Film....
Gentle Friends here's another one... get the tissue ready...
Monday, December 21, 2020
A Little Winter
Gentle Friends, it's the first day of winter and I had to post some Vivaldi...
Friday, December 18, 2020
A Fun Film
Gentle Friends, last night was a double feature... staring off the evening with...
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I followed up Christmas Vacation with...
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There you go sports fans. So... I'm off for the next two weeks on a little staycation. But, with me working at the dining room table will I really be off.... probably not, as I can't help but answer the voicemails and emails and whatnot. I'll be posting here off and on so stay tuned!! and Stay Safe!!
Good Thoughts! Good Words! Good Deeds!
edgar
Thursday, December 17, 2020
A Little More.....
Gentle Friends, another home run unwrapped...
Wednesday, December 16, 2020
A Little Film
Gentle Friends, this is a really sweet, short film... enjoy...
A Little More Unwrapping...
Gentle Friends, last night after fiddling between two wrapped films... luck had that I got to unwrap...
Tuesday, December 15, 2020
A Little Stitchin'
Gentle Friends, here's a snap of Christmastide...
A Little More Libera
Gentle Friends, one of my favorite carols of the season "In the Bleak Midwinter"
... once again sung by Libera...
Sunday, December 13, 2020
A Little Unwrapping
Gentle Friends, over the past week I've been watching quite a few films, both my "wrapped" films and some on TCM..... let's talk about the unwrapping... First up is a film I saw originally when it released...
Friday, December 11, 2020
A Little Ding Dong
Gentle Friends, a real favorite part of the Christmas season for me has always been the music of Christmas...enjoy this from Libera...
Have a super weekend!! Stay Safe!
edgar
Thursday, December 10, 2020
A Little more Christmas, a Little bit o'framing and a Delicious bit of Fast Food!!
Gentle Freinds, as you may recall, and if you've been reading my blatherings for any amount of time and especially during the Christmas Season... I do love me some German treats...Lebkuchen, Pffernuse, Stollen, vanillekipferl the list goes on... and for the longest time, I've really wanted to try my hand at making what always hits the top of my list... Lebkuchen. I've held off making it as there are 100's and I mean 100's variations of what is basically a gingerbread taken up a notch or two! This year I stumbled on what looked like a recipe I could manage, and turn out a close proximity to what I like and can at Lehrs (a local store that only sells German things and it is totally fabulous at Christmas!!
So I gathered together everything. During the day yesterday, I did some preliminary sifting, grinding of nuts and finely chopping all the dried fruit and candied peel... it really pays off to be working from home!! Then last night I pulled it all together et voila...
Wednesday, December 9, 2020
A Little More Christmas....
Gentle Friends, with the lockdown now in full force here by the Bay and everyone having a much smaller Yuletide than usual I was not surprised to get an email from our friends over on Alamo square that have the "First of the Season" Christmas party every year. This year would have been the 21st year of the party and although it didn't happen we were given a "Save The Date" for next year.... December 3, 2021. Along with the email was a picture of this year's tree. They ordered it back in February ... and decorated it over the Thanksgiving weekend... here's a snap...
Monday, December 7, 2020
A Little Stitchin and a Little Christmas
Thursday, December 3, 2020
A Little Movie, a Little Berry and a Lotta Saddness...
Gentle Friends, last night I pulled the first of the wrapped films for Christmas... what I pulled ...
Tuesday, December 1, 2020
A little Stitchin and a Little Thanks
Gentle friends, our Thanksgiving was very quiet with just the family. Our usually large gathering was greatly reduced as most folks just wanted to hunker down and stay home and safe. But, that doesn't mean I was going to set a nice table and Rico was sure to make a super centerpiece... here's a snap...
Thursday, November 26, 2020
A Happy Thanksgiving
Tuesday, November 24, 2020
A Few Christmas Presents
Gentle Friends, so I saw this on FaceBook...and you know you can only take FB with a grain of salt... but I really liked this idea...
Monday, November 23, 2020
A Little Stitchin'
Gentle Friends, making a little headway on the house in Christmastide, and here's a snaperoo...
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There you go sports fans thanks again for stopping by do stop again. Stay Safe!!
Good Thoughts! Good Words! Good Deeds!
edgar
Monday, November 16, 2020
A Little Stitchin'
Gentle Friends, stitching away on Christmastide here's a snaperoo...
Monday, November 9, 2020
A little Stitchin'
Gentle Friends, making some headway on Christmas Tide... here's an update shot...
Monday, November 2, 2020
A Little Finish and a Little Start
Gentle Friends, I finished up the CtA piece far sooner than I had anticipated and it was a really fun stitch and I wanted to publicly thank Brenda for this super piece and the commemoration of a really important point in American history that repercusses to this day!! Here's a snaperoo of the finished piece...
Thursday, October 29, 2020
A Little Holiday Cheer!!
Gentle Friends, I thought I'd posted a few snaps from the house and the decoration Rico gets up to... but hadn't so here you go...
Monday, October 26, 2020
A very Little Stitchin' Week....
Gentle Friends, this past week I've neglected CtA a bit... so here's a little progress..
Monday, October 19, 2020
A Little Brunchin' a Little Stitchin'
Gentle Friends, so last weekend we headed out with some friends for brunch... the first brunch out for months.... we went to Mission Rock... it's a place we enjoy and last went there with Roberta, Terry there son Jeremy and his husband Michael... such fun and delicious to boot!!
... I couldn't get the lighting right but here are l to r, Rico, Tom and his wife Mindy...
Happy Hallowe'en!!! edgar
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Gentle friends, sorry to be away for so long and I do appreciate all the concerned emails and comments... I am recovering slowly but steadi...
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Gentle Readers and Dear Friends thank you most profusely for all the kind, sweet comments for yesterdays post. I did have a great time over...