Kitchen duty for me today
Oct. 3rd, 2021 07:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wiseheartWell, mostly. We did go to Lidl in the morning, so that Mum could use the still rather nice weather and get a bit of walk-training and some fresh air. But after that, it was first baking for tomorrow, when her friends come - I've put the Mohnfix I got from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
manue7a to good use - and then cooking for today.
In-between I did quite a bit of washing-up. Mum's been insisting to do that herself ever since she'd recovered enough to do so, but the truth is, if I didn't wash 90% of the things I use along the way, we couldn't even breathe in the kitchen, much less do anything useful.
So yeah, I baked and cooked, and then worked a bit on my newest cherry stone pillow. I hadn't planned to make them this year, since I made last year these:
and these:
But a colleague of mine has collected the cherry stones for me all summer long (not that I'd know about it) and I didn't have the heart to throw them out. I still had that very pretty fabric that came with a mask-making kit (I didn't use it because I found the fabric was too pretty, so I used old bedsheat parts instead), so I decided: why not? The pillowcase is half-finished by now, all I need is to go around the edges with blanket stitch, fill it with cherry stones and sew the opening closed.
Which I'll probably make tomorrow to survive the visit of Mum's friends. They are nice ladies, but one of them might bring her husband and he's what the Germans call a Nervensäge. A well-meaning but not very bright man who just frigging loves hearing his own voice and has an opinion just about everything whether he's asked or not. Especially when he isn't asked.
I then talked to Eenie, Monica and Evie on the phone, which was nice. I love my (ex-)colleagues and choir mates to pieces.
manue7a to good use - and then cooking for today. In-between I did quite a bit of washing-up. Mum's been insisting to do that herself ever since she'd recovered enough to do so, but the truth is, if I didn't wash 90% of the things I use along the way, we couldn't even breathe in the kitchen, much less do anything useful.
So yeah, I baked and cooked, and then worked a bit on my newest cherry stone pillow. I hadn't planned to make them this year, since I made last year these:
and these:
But a colleague of mine has collected the cherry stones for me all summer long (not that I'd know about it) and I didn't have the heart to throw them out. I still had that very pretty fabric that came with a mask-making kit (I didn't use it because I found the fabric was too pretty, so I used old bedsheat parts instead), so I decided: why not? The pillowcase is half-finished by now, all I need is to go around the edges with blanket stitch, fill it with cherry stones and sew the opening closed.
Which I'll probably make tomorrow to survive the visit of Mum's friends. They are nice ladies, but one of them might bring her husband and he's what the Germans call a Nervensäge. A well-meaning but not very bright man who just frigging loves hearing his own voice and has an opinion just about everything whether he's asked or not. Especially when he isn't asked.
I then talked to Eenie, Monica and Evie on the phone, which was nice. I love my (ex-)colleagues and choir mates to pieces.
