The Simple Woman's Daybook

 

 

FOR TODAY, October 17, 2017

Outside my window ...

It's still quite dark, but the winds of yesterday have all died down.  It was really windy last evening.  Once the sun comes up we can see what damage has been done. Fingers crossed, not much.

I am thinking ...

Some days are diamonds, some days are dust.  I wonder what today will be.  Hopefully a diamond. I think largely the choice is mine to make.  Today I choose to be a diamond day!

In the kitchen ...

 

 

Smoked Sausage and Cabbage Skillet Supper.  Scrumptious! 

 

On my "To Cook" list ...

 

 

SM's Skinny White Chicken Enchiladas.  These look mighty tasty.  I love Tex Mex food!  

 

Good to know ...

 

 

Have done this. You can also set a saucepan of water on top and bring it to the boil for hot water.

 

I am creating ...

 

 

Snap Guide, how to create an Expanding Mini Album by  Joanne Bain. The finished album is really pretty.

Lulu Loves,  Crochet Granny Shawl. A complete tutorial.

 

The Green Dragonfly, a very pretty crochet lace edging.  I love this. There is also a video, complete tutorial.

 

A Little Gray.  Double Trouble Pot Holder Tutorial.  

 

Craft Elf, curly snowman ornament.  Crochet.  

I am Reading ...

 

FAITHFUL, by Alice Hoffman  

Growing up on Long Island, Shelby Richmond is an ordinary girl until one night an extraordinary tragedy changes her fate. Her best friend’s future is destroyed in an accident, while Shelby walks away with the burden of guilt.

What happens when a life is turned inside out? When love is something so distant it may as well be a star in the sky? Faithful is the story of a survivor, filled with emotion, from dark suffering to true happiness, a moving portrait of a young woman finding her way in the modern world. A fan of Chinese food, dogs, bookstores, and men she should stay away from, Shelby has to fight her way back to her own future. In New York City she finds a circle of lost and found souls, including an angel who’s been watching over her ever since that fateful icy night.

Here is a character you will fall in love with, so believable and real and endearing, that she captures both the ache of loneliness and the joy of finding yourself at last. For anyone who’s ever been a hurt teenager, for every mother of a daughter who has lost her way, Faithful is a roadmap.

I have just started this book, so its early days, but so far so good.

I am looking forward to ... 

 

 

Watching the last episode every of George Gently.  They say it will be broadcast on October 30th.  Sad to see the series ending. It has been Ace. I suppose the actors want to move onto other projects.

Dreaming about ... 

 

A different type of white picket fence  . . . 

 

Pretty laundry rooms  . . .

 

A table for two and that old wooden floor  . . .   

 

A kitchen large enough to swing a cat . . . 

 

Laura Ashley . . .  yes please  . . . 

Something to watch ...

 

 

The Shack, we watched this last evening and both thoroughly enjoyed it.

A quote for the day ...

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Courage is the first of human qualities,

because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.

                ~Winston Churchill ღ¸.✻´´¯`✻.¸¸.Ƹ̴Ӂ̴Ʒ.. 

Makes me smile ...

 

Corners of my Kingdom ...

   

Lancaster Castle in Lancashire  . . . founded in the 11th century . . . 

And that's my daybook for this week!


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⋯ ◯ ⋯ Take time to enjoy the small *´¯`.¸¸.☆
  ⋰ ⋮ ⋱ blessings in life.*´¯`.¸¸.☆


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Wherever you go and whatever you do, I hope there's a great day ahead of you! Don't forget!


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And I do too!!