Tooth fairy pillow

My DIL sent me this link to a Martha Stewart web page with directions for a cute tooth fairy pillow.  http://www.marthastewart.com/270949/tooth-fairy-pillow-craft?czone=crafts/sewing-cnt/sewing-projects&center=326405&gallery=274690&slide=270949

I’m going to make one or two for their two boys, but I may try making a few more, too.  I have some odds and ends of flannel that need to be used, and I’m thinking about trying one using denim jeans pockets for the pillow part.  I found another idea that I want to try with jeans pockets, too.  But first I want to finish the courthouse steps table runner I’ve been working on, and the St. Patrick’s Day table runner that I’ve had laid out for quite a while.

I finished the last of the courthouse steps blocks tonight.  I really like the way they turned out.  Now all I have to do is get the blocks stitched together and add a border.  Since I’m doing to in rag quilt style, the quilting is already finished, although I do have some basting stitches to remove.

I finished it while I watched Downton Abby, and the behind the scenes story.  That was interesting, too.  It helped me understand what was going on since this was only the third episode that I had watched.

After all my hopes that I had my computer fixed, it was doing to same thing again this afternoon, so a broke down and downloaded FireFox.  So far, so good.  I was able to do a lot of work this afternoon that I had been putting off.  I was able to print shipping labels from PayPal without a hitch for the first time since I got the dish.

I wanted French Fries for dinner tonight, so I found this recipe for oven fresh seasoned potato wedges.  Of coarse, I didn’t follow the recipe!  I cut three medium potatoes into eighths, put the pieces in a bowl and coated them with 1 Tbsp of olive oil.  Then I combined 1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese, 1/2 teaspoon garlic salt, 1/2 teaspoon seasoned salt, 1/2 teaspoon parsley flakes, and 1/4 teaspoon coarse grind black pepper and stirred that mixture with the potatoes.  I spread them on a baking sheet and baked them at 425 for 25 minutes, turning once.  They were better than French Fries.  I think the cheese was the difference.  It gave them a nice little crust.

I made some progress on my paperwork today, but there is still a stack of stuff that I need to go through.  Perhaps I will try to do a little bit each day.  I found some embroidery floss yesterday, too.  I want to try adding some flowers or just some decorative stitches to some of my linen things.  I know I have a set directions for simple embroidery stitches somewhere, but I can’t find it.  Does anyone have a web site with just a set of stitches and a few directions?  Everything I have found so far goes into too much detail.

I didn’t go out and walk today. It was sunny but windy.   And the 60 Minutes story about antidepressants was depressing.  I have a hard time getting out of bed with my Celexa.  I can’t imagine living without it.   I’m trying to walk everyday to get my blood pressure under control.  I thought it would be better once I stopped working, but it isn’t working out that way.  Oh, well!  Tomorrow’s another day.