Its been a few weeks
Jan. 4th, 2021 09:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ianukI had 3 weeks off and would have preferred another and I could have taken it but....yeah. It took me a full 2 weeks to "shut off" and come down and relax into things. The lead up to Christmas was easy minus a bit of weird with pie crust. Mel decided to make homemade and I couldn't get it to work. I ran to the store on Christmas eve to get things we missed and pie crust. While I was out he redid the crust and it just needed more moisture since we live in a desert. It was just fine with rehydration. Lesson Learned. My pies turned out great. We had peach, cherry and rhubarb.
We had a socially distance visit with Shanda for Christmas. She got in about when we got up. I made the french toast casserole from Binging with Babish and it was perfect. Seriously good. Will be doing it again. It did not hurt that mel made cranberry swirl bread for it and that was perfect. It was good to see her for a few hours...damned Covid.
I had big plans for over the vacation and then my back decided it didn't like the fact I spent a weekend reading and refused to work. Its my stoopid hip muscles being assholes and I've been trying to stretch etc but I only got like 2 walks in the whole time and no gym time. But I did read a lot of fic since it was the finale for a Stucky collab and there were a lot of 100k+ word fics. Seriously Good stories. So I lost time to that. Mel played lots of video games and I knit a 2020 Dumpster fire ornament and cast on a new shawl with yarn mel got me.
My CC project took a detour after I finished up all of the seams and tried it on and realized I inset the sleeves too high...6 hours of taking things apart later and I was back to sewing it all again. But now its almost done. I need to finish the sleeve ends and bind the hem. But its rather pretty.
Usually I look at my old journal entries to see what my goals were and the beginning of last year was....not great...so I didn't make any. This year I hope I get my love for a few things back (read SCA clothes) and I've been itching to work on a few wayward projects. I have two commissions I need to do/finish. I need to just sit and do them but that will be after the CCC is done on January 31st. I have to make at least the over dress and maybe the coat...we shall see.
I managed to make 1 huge blanket, 1 stuffy, 1 hat, 1 cowl, a 2020 dumpster fire ornament, 1 shawl and I painted 6-7 scrolls painted. compared to 2019 I only did 5 knitting/crochet projects so I compelted one more and I don't know how many scrolls I did in 2019. I could look I guess but I just know last year was a shit show but I did manage to read 45 books a millions of words of fanfic So I did something.
We had a socially distance visit with Shanda for Christmas. She got in about when we got up. I made the french toast casserole from Binging with Babish and it was perfect. Seriously good. Will be doing it again. It did not hurt that mel made cranberry swirl bread for it and that was perfect. It was good to see her for a few hours...damned Covid.
I had big plans for over the vacation and then my back decided it didn't like the fact I spent a weekend reading and refused to work. Its my stoopid hip muscles being assholes and I've been trying to stretch etc but I only got like 2 walks in the whole time and no gym time. But I did read a lot of fic since it was the finale for a Stucky collab and there were a lot of 100k+ word fics. Seriously Good stories. So I lost time to that. Mel played lots of video games and I knit a 2020 Dumpster fire ornament and cast on a new shawl with yarn mel got me.
My CC project took a detour after I finished up all of the seams and tried it on and realized I inset the sleeves too high...6 hours of taking things apart later and I was back to sewing it all again. But now its almost done. I need to finish the sleeve ends and bind the hem. But its rather pretty.
Usually I look at my old journal entries to see what my goals were and the beginning of last year was....not great...so I didn't make any. This year I hope I get my love for a few things back (read SCA clothes) and I've been itching to work on a few wayward projects. I have two commissions I need to do/finish. I need to just sit and do them but that will be after the CCC is done on January 31st. I have to make at least the over dress and maybe the coat...we shall see.
I managed to make 1 huge blanket, 1 stuffy, 1 hat, 1 cowl, a 2020 dumpster fire ornament, 1 shawl and I painted 6-7 scrolls painted. compared to 2019 I only did 5 knitting/crochet projects so I compelted one more and I don't know how many scrolls I did in 2019. I could look I guess but I just know last year was a shit show but I did manage to read 45 books a millions of words of fanfic So I did something.
