https://craftwarehouse.com/sew-this-soup-bowl-cozy-free-pattern/
It’s time to think of gifts and here is another idea. Today I selected fabrics for the microwavable bowl cozies,(https://craftwarehouse.com/sew-this-soup-bowl-cozy-free-pattern/ I’ll be making). Of course, I was really getting my act together and had chosen and cut out the fabrics when I realized that a trip to JoAnn’s was in order. Fortunately I had 2 60% off coupons, one for 50% off and a 25% off entire order. Plus I was using a gift card, so my little excursion was inexpensive. If you are making these to put into the microwave, it is imperative that every item you use is 100% cotton to avoid a fire. Many battings have “scrim” on them which helps it to hold together, but it can also catch fire in the microwave. If you are using the cozies only when you take the food out of the microwave, you can get by with that. But since these will be gifts and my DH always heats his soup with the bowl in one of these, I play safe and pay the extra for this batting. (If you click on the red, the website for the cozies should pop up).
These bowl cozies take 2 – 10″ squares of coordinating fabric plus the batting. The pattern is on the website. Enjoy making them. I’d love to see a photo.
Remember the list I wanted to accomplish in November. Now that it is Nov 10, I have finished one of the projects and started 2 more. I’d better get more serious since there are 20 items on the list you saw, but more that weren’t on that list.
These are the two little pea pods made today. As you can see they are not perfectly the same size and that is because there is room for trimming if the edges didn’t exactly meet when folded. Ideas for use: paperclips, USB sticks, half dozen cookies (in plastic wrap), knitting markers, chapstick, small package of tissue. I’m sure you will come up with many more ideas. I will make 10-12 as I like to have them on hand because one never knows when a small gift will be needed. And Christmas is coming. If I have a small gift, this is the perfect wrap.
By the time I returned home, the rain was coming down. That seemed like a great time to start on my gift making. I pulled out the long zippers that I like to buy when a store is having a close out – the same zippers that I rarely have a use for but can’t resist a 50 cent sale. 
So 3 hours and 18 full wheelbarrow loads later, the stall is clean of hay and ready to start over. This photo was of the half way point. Tonight, I’m not sure if the sheep will help us go to the grave earlier or help us live longer. They certainly give me exercise. There was a lot of twisting involved in getting the pitchfork loaded and into the wheelbarrow and then I dumped the contents in mole town which gave me balance exercise. But I do love the sheep.
I made 2 of these mug rugs experimenting with how they are done. The designs are from 
And finally the dozer, the sand, and the contractor are all here and the dozer work begins. The tanks go underground and then will be covered. The propane and water tanks were to be completely buried by the end of August. I will be so happy to get it done. They are now saying by the weekend, they will have it done. I have learned now to believe contractors.
I finished the end of October projects by getting these socks done and
embroidering these guest towels with cute little Hatched in Africa ladybugs. They were a free download several years ago and I needed something quick and easy to gift.
Autumn: These lovely ears of corn are turning into these kernels. I had thought they might be popcorn, but they are not. So they will be ground as needed in recipes. Aren’t they pretty?
We woke up to piles and piles of dead leaves. They are so crunchy as we walk through them.
They quit fighting each other just long enough to do some barn damage. They were inside this stall, and the girls were outside. What is the fastest way to get to the girls? Right through the wall! Ram! Ram! Ram! and he almost made it. I called the neighbor who has an electric cattle prod which did get their attention. They are now across the driveway from the ewes and still contending to see who is the dominant ram. The prod only gives them a bit of shock to get their attention and to keep the person behind it safe. If it really hurt them, they wouldn’t need it several times in the space of a few minutes.
Today we moved sheep. A bucket of grain seems to encourage most of the ewes to follow me, which makes life easier. They will all be together in a smaller pasture for the winter, since we have to feed hay. That allows the pastures to rest and grow as well. These two boys lost their harems as all the ewes are now together. So these two are reunited and deciding who is top ram.
This is John, who grabs a ram by the horns and leads here where we want them to be. He is showing me the new pitchfork he picked up while out getting other items we needed for construction.
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