With the fall weather every year I start wanting to bake or make something different,

I end up spending hours going through cook books and scouring on line sites for something that sounds good. Now I have a ton of recipes, they are every where.

In boxes, folders, stuffed inside other cook books.

Some 30 plus years ago one of my sister in  laws gave me a nice cook book that you were supposed to hand wright the recipes in. Well every fall I dig it all out and look at it all maybe right in one or two.. then give up and put it all back in hidden spots.

I can't stand clutter so I have things put mostly out of my site

Any way..This year I dug out all the saved (hidden) recipes and I thought Why do I have all this stuff and why do I keep doing this every year.

 I decided that I really wanted the recipes even if I never use most of them.

But I did not want to hand right them in that dang book. So I got out my scotch tape and some paper scissors and just taped them in that book.

A couple of hours later I was happy with it, it is mine and I am happy to have all that stuff in a place where I can find what I want when I want it.

  I usually mess with it until Christmas and just give up.. but I am DONE!!!

 

I took the rest of the day and pieced a small wall hanging for a Christmas gift.

A early start for me but one is pieced. No photos because they might see and know it was theirs.

 

The quilt in the photo. Well I was setting it together last year when I moved my studio.

It has been in a box all this time. So I got it out and at least put all the pieces on the wall, and I still have all the pieces so now I just have to find some time to finish setting it together.

 

I took one day for me stuff and I feel better that I got some things done.

Now I am back to client quilts.