Some adult supervision was probably needed on a Slow Sunday...

Hello - well there was very little on my calendar last week ...lots of time to be productive... but in the end what I have to show for myself was more shopping related than crafty... I stayed up waaaaay too late on Tuesday night and as a result wasn't very focused on Wednesday...surfing the web was mindless... and FUN!... and a little costly...LOL... and I 'llshow you what I found and you can understand why some adult supervision was probably needed... remember you can't help getting older but you don't have to grow up!!  

So let me confess my transgressions right up front... first I wandered over to eBay... haven't been there in a while and there is probably a very good reason for that... some how I get in trouble over there as I find older items I wish I had gotten when they were new and I've lucked into some bargains... to begin you know my love for Debbie Mumm.... both her fabrics and her knickknacks... and you know I LOVE snowmen... so Debbie Mumm snowmen are doubly irresistible as evidenced here...

The bigger guy is missing a broom... I'm sure I can find or  make one for him before January... and I've never seen the skiing snowmen salt and pepper shakers... too stinking cute!

And there was this purchase which is crafty related... I didn't work on my Sandy Gervais GIANT Disappearing  9 patch as I determined that I needed to add something besides the teal to the mix... now Sandy also did some lovely purple Fall fabrics, and I've used them in almost every quilt I've made with her stuff... but all I have left is some scraps... nothing large enough to cut a 5 x 10 piece from... so I searched all over Etsy and then checked out eBay and found 2 yards of this print...

Love the leaves, can't get more Fall than that and this is a more dusty subtle purple ... I think it will go well in the quilt... I hope to play with it tomorrow.  And in thinking about the GIANT Disappearing 9 Patch I found that I had made another quilt with it.... you can see it here... as I recall this was just 1 layer cake and  some yardage for the 5" square to make a lap size quilt. 

Oh I was asked about the construction of this pattern... for a double bed sized quilt I use 2 layers cakes and it takes about 3/4 yds of another fabric for the 5" corner.... So you start by selecting your favorite 10" squares that you don't want to cut up ... you need 36... then you cut another 36 10" fabrics into 5" x 10" rectangles and add a 5" square to complete the block... 

Does that make sense?  The first time I tried this I sewed 9 10" squares together... yikes... that "block" was bigger than my cutting table  and I quickly realized I had to cut stuff smaller before I sewed it together. 

And while I had lots of fun on eBay I also moseyed on over to Amazon where an item I've looked at several times kept popping up as it is a seasonal Thanksgiving piece... and since I switched credit cards a couple of months ago from Discover to Amazon Prime I've accumulated a nice stash of "free money".. and well ... it just jumped into my cart and was paid for with the "free money" and is now living at my house... 

Yep a rather large resin turkey... according to the description he's 10"D x 11.5"W x 12.5"H... very handsome... and it is very evident that no adult supervision was involved in this purchase... LOL... I'm very happy with Tom... I was going to put him on the dining room table but the scale was wrong so he's sitting a stack of quilts in the living room... you'll see a bigger picture farther down.

And that certainly should have been enough  online shopping... but it wasn't there was one more item that I've been thinking about for  a while... and I really tried to talk myself out of it... really I did... but I'm weak and there is no adult here to keep me off my laptop AND it was on sale... so I bought it..

A 96" tall chicken dressed up for Christmas!!!  Wait, how tall is 96"???... 96 divided by 12... OMG... she's 8 FEET TALL!! ROFLMAO.... this is gonna be crazy... I'm going to put here in the small section of grass by the garage and patio... the neighbors dogs are gonna freak out... and my older son may suggest a mental health evaluation... he has told me several times that I am crazy, but it isn't the kind of crazy he can commit me for......... yet........ he's waiting for the right time...LOL   OH if you'd like a GIANT chicken in your yard you can find her here at Tractor Supply... you know you want one.... 

As you can see it was definitely a retail oriented week... no sewing was done, a bit of knitting occurred, and a new cross stitch piece was started.  I began what will be my 6th house from Pinker N Punkin...

on the right, this is the Thanksgiving House.... you can find it here... and I think it pairs nicely with Turkey Creek Manor....which you can see here... 

Now I did get my Halloween decor put away and my Thanksgiving stuff out... here's the living room with the Grungy Gourds quilt on the wall... and look closely in the bottom right corner and you'll see Tom...

The quilt is my version of the Pumpkins pattern from Cluck Cluck Sew all done in Moda Grunge fabrics... I modified a couple of the pumpkins to put my spin on it... 

The tier tray has a great turkey piece from Stone Street Stitch Works and tiny turkey pillow from Bent Creek on the top tier....

and below in the bed of the truck is a Pineberry Lane piece... I think the chart is Fruits of our Labor... 

sorry I'm not linking all the cross stitch today... I'm typing this very late on Saturday and I'm tired and want to go to bed and I'm having a hell of a time adding pictures and trying to fix the spacing... please bear with me...

Over on the right side of the TV cabinet I have another small tier tray with more stitched turkeys... the one on top is from Prairie Schooler and as I remember the bottom one was a freebie I found on Pinterest...and I have some cute turkey knickknacks...

On the left side I have my November monthly from Hands on Designs and more Thanksgiving knickknacks... love animals that have clothes on ... LOL

I'll show more decor next week as I have plans for an updated display out on the porch... but first I need to FFO of these...

I'm planning on giving the little shelf unit on the porch a makeover from squirrels to turkeys and these will be included.  I definitely need to be productive this week. So far I'll I've got on my calendar is Elliott on Tuesday, dinner with a friend on Wednesday and a mammogram on Friday... don't know about you but I'm still adjusting to the time change... it isn't as bad as Spring forward but I'm still a bit off... staying up late on Tuesday didn't help the situation. I did see on X where Thomas Massie called for the bill to come to the floor and stop changing the clocks twice a year... that would be soooo good... and maybe he can make it happen... he is one of those characters who gets attention. 

I'll link up with Kathy's Quilts today... and I'll leave you with my personal Macy's Day Parade display... further evidence that there should be more adult supervision in my life...LOL

the turkeys and the Pilgrim boy with the Costco sized pumpkin pie are 6 ft tall and they light up at night!  and yes my neighbors think I'm crazy!!!

hope your week ahead is a good one!!

happy stitching!

carol fun