Mmmmm…Pumpkin Empanadas

December 29, 2014 Wild Rose Quilter2 Comments

So, I’m taking some vacation time til after the first. Efren, aka “mi Papi”😊, is also taking a few days off , and we are enjoying a week long visit with his 15 yr old son, Christian. He lives roughly ten hours away with his mom, so visits are precious time. I caught an upper respiratory thing from Efren had last week and have felt pretty blah the last two days.

I played it up for all it was worth, though (JK😂) and let this crew do all the cooking last night.
My son Derek, Efren and Christian. Derek’s family was still at his inlaws, so it was just me and the boys.

Once I started feeling better this afternoon, I decided to try out a pumpkin empanada recipe I found on the web. I love a good pumpkin empanada. I love pumpkins, in general. One of my favorite things for some reason. They are just so darn cute. Anyway, this recipe was easy and I’m quite pleased with how they turned out. I expected more difficulty, because ya know….that whole dough making part. These were truly a piece of cake to put together.

I can’t make a thing without making a huge mess along with, it seems.

You make these cute little dough balls and roll them out. Then you put this yummy, as in so good I wanted to get a big spoon and sit down and eat it right out of the bowl just like it was kind of yummy, filling in the center of your flattened dough ball.

Then moisten the edge, seal them up, and bake!

Pretty dang good!

You can find the recipe here.

I guess that was just too much success for one day, because immediately after that I broke the only really nice crystal vase I owned. Oopsie.

But, that’s a small loss in the grand scheme. Totally inconsequential, actually. Replaceable. My biggest concern was keeping Miss Bella out of it with her big paws and nosy nose while I was cleaning it up.

I missed Christmas blogging, so tonight I will leave you with a cute pic of her under the tree before the holiday season is long gone and the decorations packed away for another year. Would have been nice if she hadn’t rearranged the tree skirt before striking an accidental pose that I couldn’t resist snapping a pic of right fast. Oh well! Just adds to the charm, right?! 😄

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What’s Your Homepage?

February 1, 2008 Wild Rose Quilter6 Comments

A little “just for fun” post this Friday morning, as I sit drinking my coffee and getting geared up to get myself out the door to work. When you first log on to the internet, what is on your homepage? At work, mine is on msn.com. But here at home, every morning, I am greeted by a new face from www.dogoftheday.com. I love this website. It’s been my homepage for a few years now. Today’s pic and story are a perfect example of why I enjoy it so much. I love happy endings.

My friend’s (who is also my coworker) husband got put in the hospital yesterday. He tested positive for “the flu” and has fluid in one side of his chest. I have been feeling like I’m coming down with some upper respiratory something or another for the last couple days. So I am hitting the Mucinex to see if I can fend it off. Yuk! My hubby was coughing a lot this morning, too. And he is wanting to leave Sunday for another week long fishing trip. I told him he can’t go if he’s getting the same crap our friend Brad has. Brad, by the way, is not only my friend’s husband, he is my husband’s friend. He also works at our shop on his days off from his regular job, for some extra $$. And my son is friend’s with their oldest son. So we all spend a lot of time together, in one way or another. And now I’ve digressed from my original “homepage” topic, lol. Gotta go anyway! TGIF!!!

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Playing Around Wild Onion Style

January 27, 2008 Wild Rose Quilter3 Comments

I was really itchin’ to do some stitchin’ yesterday, so I picked out some fabric, got my Wild Onion pattern out, and started playing. I don’t know how successful my design ideas will be in the end, but I’m having fun. I’m scattering some organic looking designs allover, in random spaces, with Autumn Rainbows, then I will go back and fill in all the unquilted area with some type of quilting. I am going to use a solid thread that blends well with the fabric for that. Since my blog seems to have been running low on actual quilting content lately, I’ll throw in a few teaser pics. 🙂

I had trouble getting the colors to come through accurately. This first pic shows the true fabric color the best, but it still isn’t quite right.

This is another pic I took just trying to get the color right.

What I haven’t decided, is what type of filler to use. I was going to just keep going with similar quilting designs, echoing around and swirling, throw in a shape, etc., but now I’m thinking that maybe just a regular old stipple meander around the designs, might be best. What do you think? Any suggestions? Or maybe mostly stippling with a random shape here & there….?? And I’m thinking fairly small on the stippling, not micro small, but small.

I think I’m going to go do some more piecing on my EB 9p’s & stripes right now, though. I will be back later with my Sunday Stash Report and weigh in results. Stay tuned!

How about a little dose of cuteness before you go? Big sis & little sis, all cozy on Daddy’s lap.

daily life · dogs · longarm quilting · Lulu · NASCAR · quilt top · quilting · quilts

Thank You, Gina!

October 21, 2007October 21, 2007 Wild Rose Quilter7 Comments

Yesterday, my mailman brought a sweet surprise. My prize from Gina, for winning her birthday drawing on her blog. She had all kinds of goodies packed into this adorable coffee cup, including fabric & chocolate. There is also some yummy Apple Cinnamon Chardonnay jelly. I need a little smilie face licking it’s lips to insert here. (WordPress really needs to improve the smilies and ease of use. How hard could that be?) Anyway, I digress…Thank you Gina!

Thank you for the “feel better” wishes. After taking muscle relaxers for a couple of days, I’m still sore, but better. I’ve taken Jan’s advice, and ordered an inversion table. My chiro had mentioned a couple visits ago, that he might start me on traction, so hopefully the inversion table will do the trick. I have had xrays done, which show I have significant straightening of my cervical spine, and I have a bulging disc. My chiro has helped, it just doesn’t last very long. I had an MRI on my shoulder, but not my cervical spine. That might not be a bad idea. I’ve taken it pretty easy all weekend, but I did manage to complete my cousing’s quilt top, and prepare the backing. I also loaded a throw size customer on the machine, and have a couple panto rows done. Of course, I’m watching NASCAR today. 🙂

Lulu still seems to be doing better, but I think I will call the vet to see if it’s too soon for her to have another allergy shot this week, and maybe just have him look in her ears again to make sure the antibiotics did all the good in there.

We watched The Illusionist last night. I give it two thumbs up! One of the better movies I’ve seen lately.

Hope you are having a great weekend!

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Starry Log Cabin and Stuff

October 16, 2007October 16, 2007 Wild Rose Quilter9 Comments

I’ve already reported how I spent most of Saturday. Sunday, I had planned to get the outer border added to my cousin’s quilt, along with getting some more work done in the entryway. Well, I forgot that I still needed to cut the yardage needed and prewash & iron it. So, I managed to get it washed Sunday, but that’s as far as I got with that. I also threw in the fabrics I pulled for the fall wallhanging, that needed washing. Saturday night, I completed that last of the Starry Log Cabin blocks. I pressed them, and began assembling it. This is what I have so far.

It’s really going together much better than I anticipated. This is NOT my finest piecing effort, and I was afraid the stars were going to be way wonky. Not too bad, though…

I think I will really love this quilt when it’s done. It is going to have that old fashioned quilt feeling to it, very comforting. I am pressing the seams open to eliminate some of the bulkiness in the stars. Hopefully that will help with the quilting, which will probably be an allover of some sort.

Tonight, after work, I got the border fabric pressed and ready to start cutting borders for my cousin’s quilt, and I hope to have them sewn on and that quilt top completed no later than the end of this coming weekend. I know I won’t get anymore work done on it tonight. I am tired. I am waiting on the pizza to get here 🙂 I really need to get this quilt finished, though. My cousin and her husband are sooooo excited about it. I hope that it lives up to their expectations. I can’t wait to get the finished product to them. She is about 13 years younger than I am, and I helped my aunt with her some when she was a baby. I am very fond of her. I just wish I got to see them more often.

Here is my poor little Lulu, who I think, I hope, may be starting to feel a little better.

Mmmm…she got to take her antibiotic in a bite of pizza tonight.

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Lulu

October 16, 2007 Wild Rose Quilter3 Comments

Well, even though I had an extremely busy day at work, my vet was able to work Lulu in for me. I took her and dropped her off, and was able to leave work for a few minutes to pick her up and run her back home when he was done with her. She still isn’t back to her normal self, but we have some new medicines. She does have some ear infection, and some bacterial infection in her skin, but it is all coming from her allergies. I don’t like it when my little dog Lulu isn’t happy 😦

daily life · dogs · home improvement · longarm quilting · Lulu · NASCAR · quilting · remodeling

Busy Saturday

October 13, 2007October 13, 2007 Wild Rose Quilter4 Comments

Today started off like normal, with coffee 🙂 , only not as early as most days. Then I had to do emergency grooming on Lulu. She is having a horrible time with allergies this year. I have already taken her for shots, but she keeps itching. Yesterday, while we were at work, she apparently scratched under her chin til she made a large hot spot. I didn’t notice it til yesterday evening. DH made a quick trip to the grocery store to see what we could get, came home with medicated shampoo, and a couple bottles of stuff that is supposed to help. We cleaned up the area last night, as best as we could, and put medicine on it, and little socks on her back feet to try to minimize her scratching. This morning, I got the clippers out, and cut all her hair as short as I could, bathed her with the medicated shampoo, doctored her up, and have spoiled & pampered her as much as possible today. I will call the vet Monday and get her back in for more shots. Poor baby.

Also, I worked on our entryway hallway some more. I am almost done with the texturing…one more coat on one side and it will be ready for paint as soon as it’s all dried out. I finished Kilz-ing the paneling on the bottom half of the walls, and got one side painted. The new color looks really nice, I think.

Also, I went to the shop with DH, and we pulled out a retail gondola shelf that he had disassembled and stored in the back. We cleaned it up and put it together, and filled it up with my packages of Quilter’s Dream batting. Now to get the word out to the local quilters that we have it available in the shop.

I am excited to report that I have found a group of longarmers that meets once a month, and I have been invited to go to their meetings. It’s a two hour drive for me, but I am really looking forward to going and meeting them. This month’s meeting was today, and I was hoping to get to go, but with Lulu like she was, I wasn’t about to leave her. Hopefully, I will get to go next month. I found them through one of our local deputies. Since I work in the adult probation office, we visit often, and he knows about my quilting. His mom is a longarmer, and the meetings are in her shop. He talked to his mom and got me invited.

Oh! I had a wonderful surprise this morning while drinking my coffee and surfing the blogs I like to keep up with. Gina had a contest on her blog, on her birthday. I won the drawing! How fun! I need to think of a contest for my blog. Maybe a celebration contest when I hit 10,000 views. This is the 2nd blog contest I have won. Earlier this year I won some of Gayle’s gorgeous hand dyed fabrics. Hmmm…maybe I need to be buying more lottery tickets 🙂 !

The NASCAR race is on, so I must get back to watching! My favorite driver is Bobby Labonte. He is driving with lots of pink on his car tonight for breast cancer awareness. I am calling it the Boobie Cure Car! Go Bobby in the Boobie Cure Car!

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My Mimosa Tree

July 13, 2007 Wild Rose Quilter4 Comments

Today, I will treat you to some pics of my Mimosa tree. I was so happy to discover that one of the the young trees growing in the front yard of our house, when we bought it ten years ago, was a Mimosa. I love these trees.

I have a couple of chairs sitting underneath the Mimosa and the Locust trees. The little dog, Lulu, and I enjoyed some nice time spent there this afternoon. We did not get the bad storms yesterday, just some rain last night, and today the high was only in the 70’s. It was so relaxing to sit underneath that beautiful canopy of leaves and pink, fluffy blossoms, while I finished handstitching the binding on the blue & yellow log cabin quilt.

And yes, I did get the binding finished! Yea! I only had to work at my day job til about 10:30 this a.m. So that gave me some good time to work on quilting projects. I got started on the customer panto around 3:00. I got three rows done, and have about 2.5 left to go. I could have finished it today, but instead I chose to go out to dinner with my two favorite men 🙂 . We went out to a local Mexican restaurant. When we came home, I got it all lined up and ready to go for the next row, but decided that could wait til tomorrow.

TTFN

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