Shirley Anne’s Heart

Posted By drsao on November 20, 2010

I am so excited – the performance of ANNIE GET YOUR GUN the last two nights was SOOOOOOO much fun.  It is amazing that there are so many talented high school folks here in VA!  I LOVED IT. 

AND…..my grandangel Leanna just HAPPENS to be in the ensemble!  I am going to the last performance tonight too.  (I guess that makes me a GROUPIE?)  My friend Ginger made the skirt Leanna is wearing (she used to square dance in it!)  THANKS GINGER!

Thanks to my friend Sallie for taking some of these pictures!

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Posted By drsao on November 17, 2010

Catherine to be featured at ARTWORKS

After you enjoy a wonderful Thanksgiving with your family, friends, pets, neighbors or all of the above…….plan to do some memorable shopping at ARTWORKS on the day after Thanksgiving if you are near Richmond, VA!

CATHERINE ETTER has been chosen – selected – given the honor of being ONE OF TEN artisans who will be featured in an art extravaganza show the day after Thanksgiving.  COME SEE CATHERINE and her one of a kind beautiful pieces of art jewelry from 10 am until 10 pm on BLACK FRIDAY – otherwise known as the day after Thanksgiving!  (I will be there helping and will look forward to seeing you!)

ART WORKS

320 Hull Street

Richmond, VA 23224

Here she is wearing some of her works of art!

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Posted By drsao on November 17, 2010

Almost a whole year ago I started making THREE small quilts using one jelly roll of fabric (MODA) and this week I finally finished the top for one of those quilts!  I usually don’t use  bright  colors – but I like Mary Engelbreit designs (and believe it or not we had a kitchen in CA that was painted red – and we had a yellow wall too – my son, Rob,  said he always felt like he was going to a circus when he walked into that room!) 

 This will become one of my annual donation quilts for ICU Babies.  I got motivated to finish since 2010 is almost finished……THIS IS HARD TO BELIEVE.  I need to think of a better name for this quilt  other than just Eleanor Burns Quilt #1 (BUT THAT IS ALL I HAVE FOR NOW.  🙂  I am open for suggestions……:)

Eleanor Burns Quilt #1

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Posted By drsao on November 17, 2010

My grandangel, Sarah, and I made my annual turkey sausage this week.  I CANNOT BELIEVE this tradition has been going on since 1964.  THIS GOT STARTED A VERY LONG TIME AGO.  It started out to be a Dinah Shore recipe that I heard on TV, but she used ground beef.  (Has anyone ever heard of Dinah Shore?)

I have modified the recipe and have added spices to it over the years.  It is such a thrill to be able to pass this tradition on to yet another generation.  Sarah LOVES to cook.  We will make deviled eggs together later.  She always wants us to PRACTICE a few days early – more deviled eggs for her! 

Sarah is mixing the turkey and spices with her hands!!!

Here is my recipe and it is HOT and SPICY…..if you decide to make it and are not into HOT STUFF then cut down on the crushed red pepper, tabasco, and mustard seed!

Sao’s Turkey Sausage (made since 1964)

5 lbs turkey sausage (do not use white meat)

1 T dried crushed red pepper

1 T parsley

1 T cilantro

1 T curry powder

1 T chili powder

1 T garlic powder

1 T garlic salt

1 T Boston jerk

1 T mustard seed

1 T oregano

1 T tarragon

1 T rosemary

1 T white pepper

1 T celery salt

1 T 21 season salute

10 drops Tabasco

2 T liquid smoke

2 T teriyaki

2 T soy

2 T worchestershire

2 T Italian dressing

2 T barbecue sauce

Roll into about 1/4 pound rolls

250 degree oven

Turn and drain every 30 minutes

Takes about 3 hours

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Posted By drsao on November 13, 2010

Did you ever have a day when things just WORKED?  Well I had one of those days.

The weather was PERFECT (cold and sunny)……

My SIL and my neighbors all had GREAT TIMES in the Richmond Suntrust/McDonald’s 8k, half marathon and marathon……

and  TA DA

I finally got my KNITTING TWO SOCKS AT A TIME on two circular needles figured out…..REALLY I DID!

LOOK…..

Knitting Two Socks at Once

And now that I have it figured out I am not sure that I can say that I enjoyed it.  There were so many strings and cables and everything stayed pretty much twisted and tangled……I stayed with it…… 

I might even try this again later….. MUCH LATER.  At least I have conquered the technique.  I won’t be finishing these two socks because they would be too big to fit anyone and I am not inclined to spend lots of time knitting socks for the hippos at the zoo! Even though these BEGINNINGS OF SOCKS will be ripped out just like all of the others, I do feel good that I got it figured out….FINALLY!

All was not lost though – I did get inspired to try the method of  using four needles to knit socks – and after the  struggle with the double cables I LOVED working with four little straight needles.

This I will finish.   I enjoyed it –  yes, I even loved doing it.  I AM HAPPY.  For now I am going to stick with this method and just knit one sock at a time.  I DO NOT KNOW WHAT POSSESSED ME TO THINK THAT I COULD KNIT TWO SOCKS AT ONCE ANYWAY (to borrow a phrase from Judy C of NC!)

Knitting Socks with 4 needles

 AND THAT IS NOT ALL – I did some quilt piecing too!

I got the top of CONNECT THE DOTS completed.  I didn’t make  the borders  exactly like Judy L designed them but it is close and I am happy! I love the pieced border!

Connect the Dots - a Judy L. Design

Thanks to Judy L of Patchworktimes.com for this design.  I really enjoyed making this quilt!

Close Up of Borders

 And now I am going to pull scraps from my stash to get ready for the Bonnie K. Hunter QUILTVILLE ROLL ROLL COTTON BOLL MYSTERY QUILT that will start November 19th! 

I hope you all had a GOOD DAY TOO!

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