One crockpot chicken. Three different meals....

Crockpot Chicken

1 whole hormone free chicken

1/2 large onion chopped

4-5 cloves of garlic

a handful of baby carrots (some that I needed to use up)

one celery heart chopped

1 c water

sea salt

cracked pepper

garlic powder ( I love garlic)

paprika

Put all of the veggies(I try to get organic veggies most of the time) along with the innards in the bottom of the crockpot.  Add the water.  Rinse the chicken after you take out the innards.  I didn't measure the seasonings out.  I normally don't, unless, I am following a recipe.  Anyhow, sprinkle the seasonings on both sides of the chicken.  Add this to the mix in the crockpot.  I put this on low for the 8 hr. setting.  It was falling off the bone in 6 hours.  I let it cook a little longer due to a much needed nap.

No picture this time.  I didn't get a picture of the chicken before I started to pick it clean....

Posts of the three different meals will follow.....

ETA-Well that didn't work out like I wanted it to.  I never got around to writing up the 3 recipes.  =(

22 Years Later....

I'm finally getting ready to quilt this baby quilt.  It originally was going to be for my son, but now I am going to finish it for his daughter, my granddaughter.  I didn't know anything about quilting back then.  I know a wee bit more now. 

I finished loading this in my quilting machine yesterday before I went to work.  Today, I am going to get get the machine tweaked so that I can get this quilted.  I miss our little buddy, Diablo, but I won't have to worry about him thinking that the quilt is his bed.  He liked to lay up on the last quilt that I had loaded in the machine.  That was around four years ago.  Plus or minus.....

Have a great day!

Like I Need More.....

Okay, so I couldn't resist.  I started another project.  It is a rug for my granddaughter's room.  It is going to be in black and hot pink to go with everything in her room.  Such a princess she is.  =)

For my grandson, it will be either black and blue or black and red.  I'm leaning toward black and red.  He really loves the cartoon "Cars" and wishes that I had "Cars 2".  One of these days.....

I can take these projects to work with me and work on them during my lunch hour.  At home other projects will take precedence.

Speaking of undertaking more projects....I got this crazy idea to reconstruct all of my flowerbeds while I was cleaning out the upper three beds.  Some textured blocks, some landscape fabric, some organic compost mixed with top soil a little hard work and viola!  Some new flower beds!

Note to self*  get the old man to make me a small sifter to shake the dirt from the compost pile.  Ha!

A Little Progress....

Okay, so there's not much to see.  Actually, there is, but the pics are on my cell phone.   I tried following the pattern.  That didn't work.  =(    It's been years since I've knitted and my hands just can't get the hang of knitting and purling with three strands of yarn.   Soooooo, I changed the pattern to just knitting.  =)  Much better!!!

I am almost totally right handed.  There are muscles in my left hand that don't get used that much.  Found that out when I started working on this rug.  Each day gets a little bit easier, but I think that I will save the k n p for just one strand of yarn. 

The blanket you see in the background is one that dad bought for me when I was 9 years old.  The binding has long been gone.  I decided one day to add a crocheted edge to the blanket on both ends.  Right now it is a work in progress.  It also has a hole that someone's dog chewed in it years ago. 

I could throw the blanket out and make some different, but, crazy as it seems, there is sentimental value in the blanket. My late sis and I both got one just after mom passed away.  I'm the only one who still had mine after all these years. 

It's soft and warm to a point.....

Learning to Knit Again

Ok, so I'm starting to knit again.  Like I really needed to start another project!  LOL!!! 

The pattern is by Lily Sugar'n Cream.  It's called "Simple Stripe Rug".  I found it at FavCrafts.com.  This rug is going to be for our kitchen. 

Casting on was hard to do.  The pattern calls for 3 strands of yarn.  This wasn't your simple casting on stitch.  The reason being is because I am trying to keep it from getting all wonky from use.

I'm not going to be including the stripes in this one.  It is just going to be the variegated yarn that you see.  Not sure if I want to add the fringe either.  Fringes collect hair and other junk in the wash.  Yuck!

I'll keep you posted as I work on the rug.  Now I'm off to working on other things.

Have a great day!

I Found a New Use For an Old TV Tray....

I bought two of these Ninja Turtle trays back when the turtles came out.  One for each of the kids.  This one was my daughter's.  My son thought his was something to sit on.  It ended up in the trash....

I got this crazy idea yesterday evening to get the tray out from the drawer on the stove and put it to use.  It's been over a year since I sat down and worked on this batik quilt.  The petals that you see here are for a Dresden Plate.  It is part of a UFO that I needed to work on and get off my list. LOL!!!

I'm using reverse applique for the curved part of the the petal out of recycled dryer sheets.  They work great!  It saves me from having to buy any stablilizer. 

Now for a little bit of playing on the internet and a little bit of handpiecing before I hit the sack.

Future Projects

These are things that I'm either going to do or learn sometime in the future when I get more time.

1. hobo handbag
2. t-shirt for Larry
3. quilt or wall hanging for Sharon
4. learn to tat
5. try my hand at knitting again   
6. matching quilts for mom &  DD one purple, one blue
7. Bear Paw quilt for pops
8. big quilt for JD and Nay
9. big quilt for Brit
10. big boy quilt for Abel
11. Worry Doll quilt for Hazel
12. quilt for Annette-purple, pink, blue
13. try my hand at beading
14. learn to needle tat
15. learn to how to do hairpin lace
16. Black quilt for Ray