The days are getting colder 🥶

 Update on my Temperature plastic canvas for Ottawa Canada and Madrid Spain blanket. 

 The blanket is done in Entrelac crochet and the days are going on the diagonal ↖️↘️ with the white at the start of each month. 

Truth be told I’ve also started a blanket with my Ottawa colours and with the same diagonal pattern

Today I finally tried making 2 ingredient dough bagels with Everything but the Bagel seasoning in and on them  

Not bad for a first attempt. Not sure what I’d do differently to cut the sourness of the yogurt but they’re kind of like a sourdough without the need of a starter  

My husband ate 2 of them so I’ll make them again for sure. Maybe sweetened and with cinnamon 😋

So now I’ve changed the Temperature ranges

 Good thing it’s early in the year so I decided to change my ranges to be only 5 degrees per colour.  I doubt I’ll be using the top or bottom colours because it doesn’t get that hot or that cold here but with the state of the world you never know.

Since I’ve added 4 more colours I had to redo my plastic canvas

*edit, when I saw the picture I had posted yesterday I hated it because of all of the whiteout I used to change the temp ranges so I redid the color swatch and redid the photo*

I was going to start a blanket too but didn’t want to use my home city for it. I’ve decided to pick the city that I was born in. 

I was born in Madrid Spain 🇪🇸 

Their weather has been crazy this last week and they have had so much snow, something that doesn’t happen often. I’ve been recording the temperatures high and lows and now to decide what type of stitch to use for my blanket...once I have all of January numbers recorded I’ll start on it

Progress on my temperature PC

 Day 10 and I’m caught up with the Plastic Canvas. Not much change in the temperature yet but I’m sure the cold -20 isn’t far off 

Today I baked a loaf that on the WW sites is called Grace Bread. My first try turned out pretty good.  It’s an oatmeal bread that could be very bland but I added Everything Bagel seasoning on top and it really added a nice flavour to it. 

The biggest shock of all was that my husband ate it and liked it!!! He added butter on his so understandably it enhanced the flavour. I toasted mine and put light margarine on it. 

Next time I may add garlic in the mix. I follow WW Purple plan and this bread is zero points with the few simple zero point  ingredients

 

 

January 6, 2021

 I’ve started a temperature plastic canvas picture 🧶 

Once I get a few weeks done I’ll decide about whether I’ll start a blanket or not  

I’ve picked the colors and temperature ranges as follows, all in Centigrade 

White - one square per month

Red    26 degrees & over 

Pink     20 - 25 degrees 

Orange    13 - 19 degrees 

Yellow    7 - 12 degrees 

Green     1 - 6 degrees 

Blue    0 -    -5  degrees 

Turquoise    -6  -  -12 degrees 

Purple    -13  -   -18 degrees 

Grey     -19  -   -23 degrees 

Black   -24 degrees & under

It will be a total of 378 squares...365 days + 13 white squares ( 1 to start and 1 after every month)

So far this year every day has been in the blue range of 0 to -5

The forecast is showing the whole next week will also be in the same range...

Hi, once again It’s been a while since my last post

 Hi all 

 So we’ve all had a really bad year. With 2020 behind us I thought I’d pick up my blog once again. A new year, a new start to posting (although I doubt I have any followers) no problem, I’ll do it for myself. A digital calendar of a small part of my life.

All of my good intentions since my last post have not panned out. I never made my temperature scarf even though I still like the idea, I’ll try a temperature blanket this year. Not sure what style or stitch of blanket but I’ve started recording temperatures and will start once I have a few days or weeks ready to go...

I’ve also picked up a bit of Plastic Canvas and am almost finished a 12 Days of Christmas project. It was a bit ambitious on my part since it’s 12 panels that will be sewn together. I got the patterns from Pinterest 

On a personal front I still have 2 dogs, Rocky who came to me in 2012 and Jetta in 2016, both are senior rescues  

Bye for now ✌️ 

Maria😘