Friday, January 19, 2018

On My Sewing Table Friday

Another snow day = a little sewing!

I love these little clips that I ordered from Amazon a few weeks ago.  There are a lot in this cute tin, but I only use a few at the time while sewing down the back of a binding on a quilt.  They make the process so much easier.


I don't know if you noticed, but the old red truck with a Christmas tree in the back has been everywhere and in every store during Christmas.  I saw a few things during Christmas of 2016, but this past Christmas, they were on every kind of Christmas decoration you could think of.  I love them, so I made this Mug Rug, or small quilt.  I didn't have time before Christmas to get one made.  I'll put this one away until next year.


The back:






Here's a red truck Christmas decoration I bought before Christmas from Dollar General.  I also bought 2 dish towels with the truck on them, but they are packed away too deep for me to get out for a picture!


My husband loves the 1953 Chevrolet Truck, so I bought him this small model a couple of years ago for a gift.  He would love a real life size one, but oh well,.....


I love sewing Christmas items and I have a large plastic tote full of Christmas fabric.  I already have 3 Christmas Quilts, but I am thinking of making another one.

I would love to make some Christmas items all along all year.  Once November gets here, there's no time for it!

Monday, January 15, 2018

A Quilt Finish

I finished a quilt!  It was too cold outside today to go out there dragging a quilt around, so I just took a bunch of pictures inside.  I don't finish a quilt very often, so when I do, I take a lot of pictures!


I was going for an Americana theme.



There are some pieces of some men's shirts in this quilt.  Also some denim from jeans.















I'm hoping to finish more quits this year than last year.  HaHa, that won't be too hard since I only finished one wall hanging size quilt last year!

Monday, January 1, 2018

In The Kitchen With Debbie - New Year's Eve Baking

Happy New Year!  Yesterday I did some baking. It was the first time I have had time to do a little recreational cooking in a while. Over the Christmas Holiday I made food for several celebrations, but there was no time to try anything new. I was doing good to get my "tried and true" recipes together and on the table.

I am happy to say that these two new recipes will be on my Christmas table next year and at other times as well!  They are low carb and sugar free since they are made with almond flour, coconut flour and stevia sweetener.   I use Pyure sweetener and love it.

This is how my kitchen looks when I am doing what my husband affectionately calls, "computer cooking".  I don't have a printer at home, so I read the laptop screen while I am cooking.



This one is called Low Carb Jam Thumb Print Cookies and the link for the recipe is HERE.


The recipe makes 28 cookies, but I only ended up with 24, so I probably need to make them a little smaller next time.  Also the recipe called for finely shredded sugar free coconut and I didn't have that available to me at the store where I shop.  They were delicious anyway!  I ate way too many.....


The plaid plates are from Walmart.

The cake is called Gluten Free Cranberry Bliss Pound Cake and the link for the recipe is HERE.


I have never used fresh cranberries, having only ever used canned cranberry sauce.  I love cranberry sauce, but it has a lot of sugar in it.  This cake turned out great!!!  Its delicious and has a very "Christmasy", or fall taste to me.  I'll be cooking it more often than that however.  Cranberries are easy to find at the grocery store this time of year and according to the bag, you just put the bag in the freezer for use later.  I bought 2 bags and put what I didn't use in the recipe in the freezer.

A friend of mine made this cake using blueberries and it was delicious as well.  So, this summer when there are soooo many blueberries around my neck of the woods, I'll be trying that option.

I have discovered that my tummy feels much better when I eat gluten free.  Who knew?  I have always, always eaten a lot of bread.  But now when I eat bread my tummy bloats.  I will still eat bread occasionally, but limiting it seems like something I need to do as much as possible.

In 2018 I plan to eat real food as much as possible and focus more on healthy eating than the number on the scale.  I ate anything and everything I wanted for about a week at Christmas and was feeling very bad by the end of that binge!  Now, after about a week of eating right, I feel so much better.

The 2 recipes I made fit well with the Trim Healthy Mama diet plan, as well.

Here are a couple of affiliate Amazon links for products I love:





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