I would imagine so! I can’t believe how fast you quilt! Love the double wedding ring, by the way. Such cute bright colors!

Tamales are amazing! I think that’sa great idea. In my family we do chili, but it’s not the sort of cooking experience you want, it’s meant to be something easy on the cook that can simmer until everyone gets there.

Adorable!

These are my latest projects. The microwave bowl cozies are 3 of 8 I intend to finish for Christmas gifts. The quilt blocks are for my youngest DS’s quilt, which I really need to get in gear on if I’m going to finish it anywhere near his birthday.

I have done it long ago, but only on a table topper that was just two rings and I can’t remember anything about how it went, sorry. But I’m so excited to hear you are finishing the double wedding ring quilt, that is a bucket list quilt for me!

Not just businesses. Government bodies, where people have a lot less choice. My husband has helped his grandparents with things that were just impossible for them with their level of technological skill, and confusing enough for DH who had no problem with most online things.

Is your 7 year old competent to keep track of time enough that she can just leave at 4:00 or whatever time you set? Or if you don’t have a phone to lend her as mentioned above, could you send her with a small digital kitchen timer in her pocket (or an alarm set on a digital watch, that sounds much more normal) to let her know when it’s time to come home? i sympathize entirely. We had some good friends so things that proved they were not who we had thought they were when a member of their family acted wrongly towards a member of ours. I am over the raw anger, but still very unwilling to see them socially or attempt to make conversation. I just can’t imagine having much to say that is genuine or well-intentioned.

As a young child in the 80s I remember a wedding where the bride was kidnapped and carried away in a wheelbarrow. My memory doesn’t provide what happened after that, and I’ve never seen it since.

When I was in the Peace Corps I didn’t have an oven, as they were not common or affordable in Ecuador at that time, but I had a gas range. In the Peace Corps produced cookbook the volunteers were given, there were instructions for a “campo oven”. You take a large stock pot or Dutch oven and place a brick in the bottom, then heat it on the range, I forget the details of how long/high, until it is about 350 degrees, and place the pan on top of the brick, put b on the lid, and bake. The previous temperature was all guesswork for me but if you have an oven thermometer would be no no problem. I baked bread, cake, and muffins this way often, but never tried cookies. You have to use pans that are small enough to fit down in the stock pot. A round cake pan would probably work, but wouldn’t hold many cookies. i still have the cookbook, I could take pictures of the pages and send to you if you’re interested.

That happens here too. When I got married, they just wrote on the windshield, but when my sister got married they stuffed hay into the suitcases they were taking on the honeymoon, and a bunch of other stuff I can’t remember. I’ve heard of glitter in the car’s vents, which sounds truly awful to me.

Have any of you heard of this/what is it to you? Around here (Texas panhandle) it’s quite common that when a couple gets married, friends and family break into or otherwise gain access to a newlywed couples home and play b pranks on them, to be discovered when they return from their honeymoon or on their wedding night. Things like taking the labels off of calls, hiding things, rearranging furniture, though I heard of one well-planned elaborate prank where a very convincing notice of the water being turned off for failure to pay resulted in a desperate couple trying to pay $400 cash to a confused city employee for water that wasn’t actually turned off. Now usually I honestly don’t hear anyone call this anything; it’s just done. But I’ve heard it called shivaree, though it doesn’t really match the historical shivaree that is described when I Google this. So I’m wondering if this is common in other parts of the country, and what it consists of elsewhere.

What about giving to a charity that is meaningful to them, along with a token food gift?

I feel like the weather forecasters in my area do this too, but with rain chances.

I think I might return two and keep one. Three seems like a whole lot of extra.

My library did something like this, you could check out wrapped surprise books, around Valentine’s Day, I think. No extra goodies, but it was low risk because of you opened it and it wasn’t your thing, it was free and you could just turn it back in.

Is something like this what you want? i think the keyword you need might be “molded cup”, in addition to pull-on. although, eww, molded cup sounds gross.

A couple of years ago I bought one at Duluth trading that fit that description, but unfortunately I can’t find one that matches it now on their website. you might try Amazon, I know when I was looking a few months ago “sewn in cups” was noted as a feature For some bras.

Some funny sewing signs. I would buy them for myself, but my sewing area is my kitchen table, not a dedicated room. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C2NVKHD1/ref=sspa_mw_detail_6?ie=UTF8&psc=1&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9waG9uZV9kZXRhaWw https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08QCRTHH9/?coliid=I2V6PNEOM3K8XP&colid=2V7VYVJQ7U60M&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it

Re: which places offer “massages” and which are legitimate massage therapists, I have found google reviews useful. Not just that some are directly called out as sketchy by people who were looking for actual massage, but also if there are lots of positive reviews from men mentioning how pretty the woman who did their massage was that tells you something.

i really like the lines of elephants marching across!

I’m sorry to hear about your cognitive difficulties. That would make everything harder, for sure. I was surprised at how much fabric costs now, compared to what it was when I last quilted, but really shocked by how high the batting (same thing you call wadding, I think) had gone. You can piece large chunks of it together, if you have leftovers. The Christmas table runner I made recently had pieced batting inside. My sister made a quilt once with no batting but a polar fleece backing, if you see any fleece blankets in good condition in the op shop.

Oh yeah, my SIL does that all the time. It means she doesn’t like the gift. If she likes it she’ll say thank you. When my DD was about 12 she spent a good bit of her limited Christmas present budget on a bath set for SIL and SIL didn’t bother to say thank you or react at all. I’ve not bought her personally a gift since. I’ll buy gifts for the family but not just her.

That’s such a lot of work, I can’t believe Ake doesn’t appreciate it! But I bet MercyA is right, the kids will. My aunt crocheted us afghans, and we loved them. They were aids in make-believe play (build a tent, roll up like a hot dog, wear as a cloak, etc) as well as a way to keep warm. i also have a SIL who is ungrateful about gifts. I give my nephews gifts, and I don’t worry what she thinks about them. It is 100% for the boys, and I have let go of thinking it will matter to her at all. That was a process, though. I just hope she doesn’t throw them out or give them away before they get some good use out of them. I used to make a lot of quilts for children in foster care. I gave them to CASA, which is an organization here that arranges volunteer advocates for children in the system. CASA distributed them to the kids. I also donated a batch to the local emergency services for firefighters, police, and paramedics to carry in their vehicles and give to children in traumatic situations. You might look into local organizations and talk with people to see what they could and would use. Another thought is to focus on more complicated patterns or techniques so that sewing the same size quilt takes longer.

Another thing that doesn’t help is the popularity of buying jeans with holes already in them. I know I sound old and cranky here, but if you buy your jeans half worn out, of course they don’t last, and create more waste.