Howdy Y'all!

Don't I just sound like Paula Deen!? Hehehe! Well I feel like her today, sorta! I am giving you my Peanut Butter Pie recipe which Bill would just die for, one of his most favorites! Anyway it's so good "makes you want to slap your Grandma!" I don't think I have given this one away before, and if I have, I apologize for posting it twice, but honestly it's so good it's worth another post if I did! Hope you all enjoy the pie.

I got Bills Grandma's recipe for Overnight cookies at the reunion last week and came home anxious to try em out, well they turned out good at first and today they are hard as a brick. Don't know what happened. She had teaspoon wrote out for the stuff with teaspoon and for the vanilla, baking soda and cream of tarter she had a capital T which I assumed meant tablespoon. Maybe not, Bill says they taste like his Grandmas but he don't remember them being that hard, so I don't know what happened. I told him to stick a few in the microwave and soften them up before eating them!! I was going to post that recipe this week for everyone, but I better wait until I figure out what went wrong!

Speaking of the family reunion last Sunday.......it was a nice cool day and we had lots to eat....it was so nice that most people didn't come, probably had better things to do on such a nice day I guess. We only had 40 this year, which is down considerably from last year. I was elected to be Secretary and Treasurer again for next year. I don't mind, it's not that big of a deal for me and nobody else wants to do it. Everyone loved the Chicken Casserole and Alaskan Sheet Cake, had to give out the recipe for those of course. One nice thing is, that recipes get exchanged at the reunion and with all the older ones there you don't see so often talking about reunions long ago and how so and so always made this one great dish..........well... I am always ready with a pen and paper to jot any recipe they give down!! Heeehehehe!

Well here in the Buckeye state, it has been the most wonderful, cool, sunny, beautiful, summer week a human being could possibly ask for! Bill says it's going to get hot again...but at least we have had these wonderful days. Wish it could be like this all summer long. Angie and I went fishing a couple of nights. I caught 9 fish, she caught 0! She was so mad! We were even sharing the worm, she took half and I took half. Fishing in the same vicinity and everything. I guess the fishies just like me! I felt sorry for her though. She wanted to catch a fish so bad, and she had lots of bites too. Just don't know what happened!

Well I got my purse finished and it turned out great. It's just not for me though. And I 'm afraid it may be a bit big for a 13 year old girl as well. So Katie won't be getting it for Christmas afterall!  I decided to sell it in my Etsy store, so if you are interested in seeing it, here is the link: Golden Thimbles Etsy Store. It's the Amy Butler Birdie Sling. Boy is that purse lined well. The fabric is fab! I like it, but I think I may be too old for such a youngish bag. Oh well. Such is life!

The Block of the week is another good one. It's called Tulip Basket and I think you will like this one. Looks hard, but it's not really. A beginner could make this up and it looks like it was complicated but wasn't. Just love that kind of block! I hope you enjoy making this block. I recently took notice, that I have a bunch of blocks made up with this block of the week thing and the special request blocks. I am wondering what to do with all these orphan blocks. Have any ideas let me know! I don't think they would make a good quilt. Too many different colors that don't go together!

The site of the week is called Jelly Rolls 2 Go, she has some new patterns, projects and even a historical page to visit for information. I think you all should take a min and go check her site out. I had her listed on the free quilting links pages before, for a yardage calculator only, but she has emailed me and told me that she updated her site recently and has added free patterns and projects, so go and get some of those freebies! She has a great site, you will enjoy it!

Well I guess I better close this out for today, I put a chicken in the oven about an hour and a half ago along with some nice potatoes, and they should be getting done. The potatoes were huge so I figure it's going to take a while for them. After dinner, and after the dishes are cleaned up we are taking a ride over to Bills Aunt Janet's farm and visit with her a spell. She is so nice and a great cook! I am going to see if she has that same cookie recipe for overnight cookies.... and if she does......I am going to check it out with the one the other Aunt wrote down for me and see if there are errors in the recipe! Besides it's a grand sunny wonderful Sunday afternoon going on and I don't want to miss a thing, while it lasts! Rosie is going too and looking forward to it! She loves to visit the farm! Hope you all have a great week, this would be a good time to get your sewing room organized. I am going to be doing that myself this week. Going through some stuff and maybe seeing what the stash has in it. That will definitely take some time! Have a great day! Talk to ya next week!!

                                                                                             From my sewing room to yours,

                                                                                                                 Becky

Grandma's Words of Wisdom! The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up!

 

Recipe of the Week Grandma Becky’s Easy Peanut Butter Pie   1 Keebler Ready Crust Graham, 2 Extra Servings, Pie Crust or a large graham cracker crust 16 ounce Cool Whip thawed and divided 2 cups of powdered sugar 1-8 ounce package of Philadelphia Cream Cheese softened 1 cup of Jiff Peanut Butter (I use the extra Crunchy, but it’s your choice!)     Take  1/3 of the Cool Whip, powdered sugar, softened cream cheese and peanut butter and whip with electric mixer till all is combined and creamy. Spoon into the Graham Cracker Crust and top with the remaining  2/3 container of Cool Whip. Refrigerate overnight.   For a printable version of this recipe click here!

 

Site of the Week Jelly Rolls 2 Go Lots of Free, patterns, projects, etc. along with a yardage chart! Go check it out!!

 

Common Quilting Terms "Self Binding" Using backing fabric as binding, rather than attaching a separate binding strip

 

This weeks Quilting Tip! Curved Safety Pins! If you don't use curved safety pins for basting your quilt, switch to these work-savers immediately. You won't need to stay bent over the quilt for such a long time while you try to find the point of the pin through all the layers of your quilt.