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Christmas was spent with our girls...who can ask for more than getting to spend time with family in the times we live in.
My one and only actual puzzle finish this winter.
What is bad is even with it setting over there to work, I still wanted to work jigsaw puzzles on line. What is your favorite place to work puzzles on line. Right now mine is Jigsaw Planet. The positive thing about it is that I can choose the number of pieces. The negative thing that dislike about it is I cannot set just a plain white background. Or a plain background of any kind...they are textured, no matter what color is chosen.
I have also tried Jigidy and I like it...and there is another I used to use, but cannot remember the name of it. So, if you have tried a site and really like it, leave a comment.
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I took the Christmas tree down the day after Christmas. Soon as we came home, I unpacked our bags, and started on the tree. I left out my Christmas stocking...and my nativity set and a little Santa Claus. I did put up the stocking and the Santa but still have the nativity set out. I usually leave it out for about a month afterward but not sure I will this year.
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I finally got some tatting needles. I have not played with it since we came home from the girls. This was a result of the second time playing with it. I just got the needles a few days before Christmas and played with it every night for a few minutes. I got a book to teach how, and forgot and left it over there. I am not sure it would be any help or not...the little bit I have learned how to do so far has been from watching videos. I like the idea of it because It does not take up much space to take with me.
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I have only did one little sewing job since being home...Lorelei had received a hoodie for Christmas. She does not like the cuffs or the bands around the bottom so she wanted me to take them off. I did do that in a day or two after getting home, and I used my rotary cutter and ruler to cut the edges even. Yesterday I finally bit the bullet and hemmed the edges. I am always a bit anxious when doing something to someone else's clothes. I always experiment with stitches when sewing anything new, specially knits. All I had to experiment on was a tiny, tiny scrap from straightening the edges from taking the band off the bottom. But I sure was glad I had that.
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I think/hope we have dodged a bullet. We were supposed to get snow and ice. We had a thin coating of ice at 4:30 a.m. but the rain started later rather than snow. It is wet, wet, wet...but the ice is gone. I am thankful for that. I have to take the Rav4 to get shocks in the morning. I don't have far to go to take it in...but still I am very cautious about ice and snow.
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I just feel like I don't have a thing to say. But it had been so long since I posted, I thought I should post something.
...and I'm glad you posted to update us. It's awesome that you celebrated Christmas with family. And you've kept busy. I too took our tree down the day after. Tatting! My mother used to tat lace all the time...to edge pillowcases. It's pretty work. But oh the size of the needles & thread is hard on eyes.
ReplyDeleteHAPPY New Year Rose. And..ps: those birds in my header are roseate spoonbills.
Happy New Year my dear blogland friend :)
ReplyDeleteI hope 2021 will be filled with lots of lovely moments for you to enjoy and remember.
Stay safe, Mxx
Happy New Year! I like to do puzzles online also...I like the Shockwave daily puzzles, although I've been doing them for a long time and they are starting to repeat pictures. You can set the size and back ground. This link is one of the daily puzzles. I think they have 5 or 6 different ones.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.shockwave.com/gamelanding/jigsawpuzzles.jsp
Have fun! Hope I'm not being too much of an enabler (hehehe)
Happy New Year.
ReplyDeleteI had no idea you could do puzzles online. That is cool. The real one is awful pretty.
Glad you got to be with the girls. I have seen bits and pieces of family of the days. We are all being cautious.
There was a bunch of ice here till about 11AM - then it turned to rain.
Have a great weekend.
It was great to get time with your girls. Just a perfect way to spend the holidays.
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Happy New Year, Rose! I haven’t gotten into puzzles online. I would much rather learn to tat! ;-) Your Christmas with family sounds wonderful. We were missing only one family this year, but they were here a few days earlier.
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year! I'm so happy you were able to be with your girls for Christmas. I love the puzzle you worked. I like working them online but prefer the real thing. I hope your new year is a great one for you and your family!
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like you had a good Christmas with your girls. Now you're home and ready for the New Year...or not. I do hope it's a good year filled with health and happy moments.
ReplyDeleteI also enjoy doing jigsaw puzzles on the computer. i have an app called 'jigsaw Puzzle Epic'
ReplyDeleteEnjoy the tatting. i have tried my hand at it many years ago, but didn’t really enjoy it.
I'm glad you could visit with your family...thank you so much for writing. Take care and best wishes for the coming year. 💕
ReplyDeleteGlad that you had a wonderful time with your girls and family. Sometimes I do puzzles online too but I get bored after a while. I think the real ones are more challenging. I haven't done tatting for a long, long time. I still have the needles and thread, maybe I should get them out to work on something. Wishing you and yours all the best for the New Year.
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ReplyDeleteIt is wonderful you were able to spend Christmas with your family. I love the puzzle picture, very pretty. I would take up knitting if my hands did not hurt so much. I wish you and yours all the best in 2020, a happy and healthy New Year!
I don't do puzzles, but have done a few on line here, https://www.jigsawplanet.com/yammacca Yam is a good blog friend that lives in Scotland... hers are fun.
ReplyDeletei wish you were near, i have a few things that need to be sewn. you are so talented, i love the new tatting thingy and wish i could do that. i am the opposite, the first things that get put away after christmeas is all the santa and everything but the tree, it stays sometimes unitl Feb.. glad you dodged that bullet, it went to visit my son in TN
Your last line!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteSeeeee!!! You did have things to day!!!!!!!! -smile-
And they were just like you were sitting across the kitchen table, from each of us!!!!
My idea!!! Of blogging!!! We do not, not, not have to have a super-wonderful-idea for a topic!!!
Just chat!
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Warm Winter Wishes
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That's a great puzzle and looks hard with all the white. We will be started yet another puzzle later this evening.
ReplyDeleteI do online puzzles at Jigidi and like it. You can pick how many pieces and I like making puzzles out of my own pictures.
I've never done tatting before!
You had lots of interesting things to say! I had never heard of online puzzles before. The best to you in 2021!
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year to you - so great you could spend time with your family at Christmas and that Lorelei would trust you fix her new hoodie. It's sure a weird time this, however you look at it.
ReplyDeleteI used to do online jigsaw puzzles a lot but with a change of computer and my hands getting much worse at shifting the pieces around, I gave up - a few months, ago I had another try - you guessed it, "no can do". But I do play other games online that I can do...
I haven't done a jigsaw puzzle online, except for the one they have on The Quilt Show now and then. It does sound wonderful though - you don't have to keep track of the pieces and use up valuable horizontal space. I will have to try the ones you mentioned.
ReplyDeleteThat puzzle looks good.
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year Wishes.
All the best Jan