What made you happy today?

I had a lovely conversation with an older gentleman at the bus stop today.
He was moaning about the bus being 2 minutes late, and saying it would never make up the time.
He was tutting and sighing, and I was nodding right along with him as he tapped his watch and kept looking up the street.

I smiled about it, because it is a good day indeed when the biggest problem in your life is the bus being 2 minutes late :D
 
I'm getting shrieked at from the other room but after them being so quiet all day and it being so cold all night, the fact they're shrieking at me is a good weight off my mind.

And that rug is gorgeous @Betsy 😍
 
Really think I've mastered the slow cooker :) after many weeks of watery sauces I've learned to chop the root veg smaller (1cm cubes) so it packs in better, then thicken the sauce by adding a couple of handfuls of lentils for the last hour of cooking time.
Et voila! Super spicy thick potato and sweet potato chilli with sun dried tomatoes! 6 portions of food for £2 of ingredients and 36p of electricity :)
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Next week I'm going to try slow cooker pasta bake, I've been researching this online and the advice seems to be 2 hours cooking time on high for most slow cooker pasta meals...
 
PigglePuggle said:
Really think I've mastered the slow cooker :) after many weeks of watery sauces I've learned to chop the root veg smaller (1cm cubes) so it packs in better, then thicken the sauce by adding a couple of handfuls of lentils for the last hour of cooking time.
Et voila! Super spicy thick potato and sweet potato chilli with sun dried tomatoes! 6 portions of food for £2 of ingredients and 36p of electricity :)
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Next week I'm going to try slow cooker pasta bake, I've been researching this online and the advice seems to be 2 hours cooking time on high for most slow cooker pasta meals...
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Wow, that's economy for you 👍👏👏
 
I'm currently sewing together my first quilt block. It really is a practice run because I used scraps, so I don't have the fabric to repeat it with, but I figured I'd give it a go right? So aside from sewing the wrong edge on one piece (unpicked and fixed) I don't think I'm doing too badly...but my mum's the quilter in the family so I took a photo of the front and back of one piece saying "How would you press the seams?" She said pressing towards the dark fabric but then replied to my second image directly saying "that works too."

Yeah I didn't press those seams lol, that's just how it went together. So now I'm giggling to myself (because the fireworks have shut up and the drunk people wandered away before my neighbour went ahead with her threats to shut them up) waiting for mum's confirmation of an accidental job well done. It's not a bad evening. Sitting on my bed. Sewing machine on a table in front of me.
 
Lorcan said:
I'm currently sewing together my first quilt block. It really is a practice run because I used scraps, so I don't have the fabric to repeat it with, but I figured I'd give it a go right? So aside from sewing the wrong edge on one piece (unpicked and fixed) I don't think I'm doing too badly...but my mum's the quilter in the family so I took a photo of the front and back of one piece saying "How would you press the seams?" She said pressing towards the dark fabric but then replied to my second image directly saying "that works too."

Yeah I didn't press those seams lol, that's just how it went together. So now I'm giggling to myself (because the fireworks have shut up and the drunk people wandered away before my neighbour went ahead with her threats to shut them up) waiting for mum's confirmation of an accidental job well done. It's not a bad evening. Sitting on my bed. Sewing machine on a table in front of me.
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Sounds like a perfect evening to me.
I have stopped sewing for tonight, but plan to finally finish both my current wip quilts this weekend.

Good on you @Lorcan for just embracing a new craft so enthusiastically.
 
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