I love watching you because of your sarcasm, wit and humor. It’s relaxing 😊. I have a t-shirt that my hubby bought me it says “sarcastic remark loading, please wait”. Yep, sarcasm is my jam 😁. Thank you for sharing! Your friend Diane ❤
It never occurred to me to have projects bags until recently. If you only do one project at a time it probably isn't necessary. I alternate between projects depending on the weather, my health, or ambition. I mostly sew, crochet, or draw. The drawing is the only one that doesn't get a project bag. Oh, and I dabble in other crafts.
Project bags definitely help me keep things together. And I also make little zippered bags that wind up holding pencils and drawing implements of destruction when I can't find a fun tin or jar 😉
I use clear plastic boxes that stack, I got the "Home Edit" boxes from WalMart for my kitchen and just keep shoving yarn and watercolor paper in them instead lol
I love your videos. You and I have the same vibes and interests, so watching these is like hanging out with a friend. We'd be great knitting buddies, lol.
I’m here for your wit and sarcasm. The cats are a plus. I don’t do horror cause my imagination doesn’t need any help! My dad still says that his sister hasn’t showered since the the Bate’s shower scene! So I guess it’s a family thing lol. Though I really enjoyed Tremors. I do remember being convinced to watch a scary movie while knitting and getting startled so bad that I accidentally pulled the needles out! The project bags are a great idea! I do remember walking into the living room to find that the kitten had removed most of the knitting and yarn out of a bin and spread it all over the room in a great big tangled mess! Took me forever to untangle that!
Your videos always pop up just as I am about to go to bed. I have no will power. I have to watch as soon as you post. This one came in a little after midnight, (I live in New Zealand) yet another late night. Oh well. You are worth it.
Sorry about the late nights! I usually try to time my videos to go live on the East Coast of North America. One day I'll have to switch my target time zone 😉
I love Nancy Warren’s The Vampire Knitting Club series! So fun! Love watching your videos too; I can’t wait to see what projects you’ve been working on. 😊
Ooh! Ooh! Somewhere in Pinterest there is a bag I plan on making. It's hard to describe, but it's sort of one long tube with a handle on each end, you sew the middle of the tube closed, and when you put the handles together you get two bag openings, with room between the two bags for something that would be too big for the bags. They have a picture of a yoga mat, but I want something to hold my bigger embroidery frame, plus all the supplies. Wishing I knew how to get pics. Anyway, I'm going to crazy quilt the bag, because I myself am 🤪 crazy!
I once made a project bag for knitting. It was small, sort of page sized (8x10) with multiple random coloured zippers and exterior pockets also zippered and made of bright yellow nylon. It finally disintegrated a few years ago. Since then I have used Chinese fabric fancy handbags I found in value village. I hate making bags. With a passion! which I realized when I made that first one 30 years ago.
hope you managed to get everyone to dinner, we did ours on sunday. i use the more interesting bags i get from stores as project bags. my life is a ufo, im redoing a sweater and socks and then there is school stuff. as for reading i like the books by j.d. robb, and laurell k. hamliton, hamlitons books are very adult. the jayne kastle books are fun. oh a spookyish book i like thats not too scary is jonothan strange and mr norell its eerie but funny. and no king on my list because there are no good endings in his books. oohhohhh clue, and rocky horror is a must. i watch underworld all year. ohh i wanted to be bit by Nick Knight.
Dinner is...soonish? We'll see if we make it on time! 🤣 I've enjoyed Robb/Roberts and Jayne Castle. I think I tried Hamilton, but couldn't get into them. Same as the gal who wrote the Sookie Stackhouse books. I think we have the Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell book around here! I'll have to see if I can find it! 😃
Drawstring bags are great! My two current favourites are my old Holly Hobby Barbie dolls clothes bag that I recently pulled out to use as a knitting bag and a larger one with a leather base and a tape measure ribbon drawstring. Love The Goonies!!!
I'm very boring when it comes to tea and soup. A pot of Tetley with cream and sweetener. Minestrone. Though the husbeast makes a really nice soup with squash... 🧐
To be done "properly", Autumn requires a steaming bowl of French onion soup and whatever tea scratches at your curiosity. - Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown/Pimisi
While i don't need any horror recommendations, my imagination is good enough without new inspiration, but i enjoyed this video a lot. 😊 I hope your fall season is great!
I just learned There where Labyrinth comics 'Coronation' A story Jared is telling the babe while they wait! Fair warning physical copies are rare and correlatedly expensive, but Amazon appears to have digital versions. Your welcome.
Happy Thanksgiving! I’ve been upgraded from cranberry duty to making the stuffing. I thought crock pot stuffing was the peak of indolence… then I discovered you can buy pre-seasoned loaves of stuffing bread. I might zhuzh it up with sausage and chestnuts for Christmas. Or I might not 🤷♀️
I find pillow cases that I like at the op shop, sew a length of ribbon at the side seam about 5cm down from the top to be able to tie it closed.😊 Almost instant very large project bag.
My sister has been telling me to watch Interview with a Vampire and was surprised I hadnt even read it as yet. Hearing you mention it on your shelf makes me realize i need to get onto reading it.
Thanks for the Autumn and Samhain vibes, just what I needed today. I loved Forever Knight - I lived in Canada in the early 90s and Forever Knight felt like a not-quite-adaptation of the Tanya Huff Fitzroy/Nelson books I was also obsessed with. (They went on to make a Blood Ties TV series which was entertainingly terrible but also had a very pretty cast.)
@@MaireColclough I think they were trying to cash in on the Buffy/Charmed trend but didn't spend enough to make it work. I just looked up Forever Knight and didn't realise it has 3 seasons and 70 episodes. Might have to find somewhere that's streaming it and stroll down memory lane.
If you need project bags, and don't want to prioritise making them in your crafting time, the bags which are sold for packing shoes in your luggage are a good size and shape for me.
Happy Thanksgiving! The decorating looks so good. I love spooky season but horror/gore/freak me out stuff is a hard no. Cozy mysteries? Those recommendations I'll take, thank you. And if you are so inclined, I'd love a UFO tour.
Really enjoyed your take on project bags - I feel like it's been recently kind of popular to see them as unneccessary, which might be true if you're a monogamous knitter who is quite minimalist and also doesn't have cats, but as a fellow kitten owner - project bags (in my case with a zipper since mine EAT drawstring....) are absolutely essential to me!
I even have my husband listening on occasion. Keep the posts coming. I would love to work on finishing knitting projects with you. I am also curious about the antique shawl. I want to try an older pattern but they either aren’t practical for me or seem very difficult. Any suggestions?
Most are fairly simple when it comes down to it. Most of the instructions are right there, and if they seem sketchy, look for more modern instructions you can understand that look similar. The hardest part is usually checking gauge because while you can look up a needle/hook comparison chart, some of the yarns/threads used are no longer available and don't have a ready description. So materials gauge is often where research is needed.
I loved the Vampire Knitting Club series ! I listened to it through the Libby app. Hocus Pocus and Practical Magic tend to be my level of Halloween movies ... And The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown. You might like The Donovan Legacy by Nora Roberts
For my Recs ( nearly all of these are parts of series but can be read as a standalone ) Celia Lake's Mistress of Birds - Gothic mystery in a house on the edge of the Moors. The main chars in this both have PTSD and are dealing with that at the same time. Travis Baldree's Bookshops and Bonedust - Spooky bits wrapped in very cozy fantasy. The main character is getting book recs through the story and her reactions are fun. Nghi Vo's The Brides of High Hill - Great Spooky Vibes, another 'trapped in spooky place' mystery. Very unsettling vibes that gradually get worse. T Kingfisher's A Sorceress Comes to Call - Mix a regency farce with a fairytale horror story. Great cast of characters, mostly older. -- I used to be into the 'In Death' series more, but these days it's a lot harder to reconcile 'good guy' with 'ultra rich'. Plus the inevitable pre-arrest beatdown is..eeeee ( the criminals are always guilty but still..). However, if those tropes don't bother you, it's really good, and i don't think you have to start with book one. Nora Roberts also does some great Paranormal romance trilogies that might be easier to get into. The Sign of the Seven trilogy has that recurring evil/cursed town thing going on. -- I'm putting 'Hex' on my wishlist
Happy spooky season and Thanksgiving!!! I love videos like this. Project bags are always useful. Thank you for sharing it. I do love baking too. I have a gluten free triple chip cookie recipe I’ll send you. I love lots of books, and only old horror movies who’s effects are bad enough I don’t get scared any longer. I know for my hair, I’ve embraced my wisdom highlights. I have dark, thick hair with no texture other than my wisdom highlights. So as much as I’ve always wanted to be a red head, I haven’t wanted to d touch ups for years. I do love the decorating.
I'll happily anticipate the recipe! Old horror movies are fantastic; they go really well with my trend to comedic horror 😁 (And apparently the henna will just give my silver some extra twinkle to the red, so I'm down for that! 🤣)
@@MaireColclough Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookies Makes 4 Dozen Tips: I normally double this recipe and use three bags of chocolate chips. Milk, dark, and white chips. If someone doesn’t like chocolate it’s also good with Heath pieces, caramel, and butterscotch chips. Also when placing the dough onto the pan sprinkle with pink himalayan salt just before baking. Ingredients 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened ¾ cup sugar ¾ cup dark brown sugar 2 tsp Vanilla 1 tsp Baking Powder 2 eggs ½ tsp Salt 2 ¼ cups unsifted flour (Bob’s Red Mill Gluten Free Baking Mix) 2 ¾ cups of chocolate chips 2 cups nuts of your choice Preparation Cream butter and sugar together. Add brown sugar and continue creaming. Add salt, baking powder, vanilla, and eggs. Slowly add flour a quarter of a cup at a time until fully mixed. Add chocolate chips and nuts stirring in. Allow the dough to rest in the refrigerator for at least one hour. Preheat oven to 375. Bake for 9-11 minutes. Remove from the oven and allow to rest for 5 minutes on the pan before transferring to cooling area. Let cool and enjoy.
The bags are fantastic. Need to make some. My fun leggings come in ziplock bags so use them as project bags for the smaller things. Need something that I can hang off the handles of the wheelchair and not have a fight with the wheels. Love RED and the 2nd one. Goonies, Ghostbusters and Beetlejuice. Seen the most recent ghostbusters series and they are good. Other half went to cinema recently the new Beetlejuice movie and recommends watching it. Getting ready for Samhain. Going to be in Whitby for the Goth Weekend. Think its going to be a busy one. Home of Dracula on Samhain (or near enough) and Goth Fest.
Goth weekend is fantastic if somewhat busy. If you ever got over here would be happy to show you round. its twice a year. April and October. Will have fun for us both and will try and get pics.
Personally I'm over Halloween. Christmas too. I'm not into all things Spooky and Christmas has just become too commercialized for my liking. It takes away from what it's supposed to be about. However when I saw that you had uploaded, I had to get a dose of snark and sarcasm, and boy did you deliver. Never a let down there. I live how you bags turned out, super cute. I see the kitties are still up their antics. I'm more of a Sci fi/ fantasy person. I personally struggle with modern fiction. I'm more of a Tolkien fan than whats out there these days. I love the classics, but there are others I enjoy as well. Give me a good dragon book any day. I'm pretty sure I own all Anne McCaffrey Pern series books. Christopher Paolini released another book in the Eragon series recently, Murtagh. I'm about 2/3 of the way through it. It's been forever since I read the first four books in the Eragon series that I have to remind myself of some of the events that played out. After that I have another 7 books from Elizabeth Hayden lined up to read. 3 of which were from the Rhapsody series that I didn't know she wrote until the suddenly appeared in my recommended reading list of Amazon. I have a whole books shelf full of books waiting to be read, but I'm supposed to be getting things set up to do school with my kids. I'm procrastinating. I don't really feel like fighting my 11 yr old on his math page today. Or reminding my 13 yr old to focus. I'm certainly not in the mood for my 8 yr old to mess with his older brothers. My not so sweet 16 yr old has already come out of the abyss she calls her room to sass me and use me as her captive audience. As for the 18 ur old at least he's graduated and I don't have to worry about him. He at least will do his own thing now. I guess I just needed a dose of snark to start the day off.
I'd recommend a Christmas eve service . They can be filled with gorgeous music 🎶 Live! And memorable words to help you find the true meaning. Or alternately a children's service on Christmas usually held a week or 2 before Christmas. These are rarer as fewer children are taught this tradition. 🙂💞
The mug came from Homesense...unfortunately, I haven't found anywhere on their website to order them. I think Homesense has a US equivalent store...it's by TK/TJ Maxx?
I carved it! I use a Michaels/Ashland pumpkin with hot knife, and when I don't feel like designing them myself, patterns from Zombie Pumpkins (if you look that up, you should find the website a-ok) 😃
You making the cranberry sauce ah la Lady Martha or you grabbing the can (I would lean towards the can, lol, I'm not feeling very Martha these days...)? Happy Canadian Thanksgiving. Happy Samhain. Blessed be, Doll. All the best for the new year. My project bag for sewing is a 1950's train make-up case (with a dollar store travel strap for insurance). Let's me take advantage of the local cafe's and the open-work night at the local fabric shop. Bonus points for being able to carry my Singer chain stitch kiddy machine. So far so good for keeping everything in one place. And the occasional toe crunch when I walk into it acts as a good reminder for daily creative practice... _Just to brag_ - on Saturday I picked up this cast iron, Victorian (circ. 1881) 16" embroidery hoop that has a built-in clamp to attach to a table. The hoop is on a metal gimble attached to the clamp (that attached to a curved piece of metal that supports the inner ring of the hoop). I searched through the etsy and the ebay and wasn't able to find any equivalent. Grand price for a one-off Victorian embroidery solution - Fifty bucks. Blows my mind and I now realize I'll be adding embroidery/slash/beading into the final version of every project I'll be working on, laughing... At some point it got separated from the original outside hoop, but I'm looking at a local woodworking shop to replace that part. Thanks for the book suggestions. They sound really good. - Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown/Pimisi
That embroidery setup sounds involved! I'm intrigued by the train makeup case...sounds like you have quite the mobile setup! Happy Thanksgiving, Happy Samhain and Blessed be to you and yours! 💕
@@MaireColclough The Victorians were a serious bunch of designers. My best guess is it came from someone immigrated from England. It's not really that complicated a clamp-embroidery-hoop - it's just really hard to describe properly, lol. The base hoop of the set-up is wrapped in a yellowed linen ribbon. The herringbone stitch holding it all together are possibly over 100 years old. You can see on the linen where it was handled often. Thing is a time capsule. I'm rather in awe that it survived so well. You can see the 'needle rash'... Have to be mobile for sewing. I'm still trying to infect the Godkiddo's with the sewing virus. 'Tis the only option for body dysmorphia I can think of... Anyways, it means I'm available whenever the kids get an urge to modify their clothing. The Child Singer Machine is to keep their attention with gears, lol. Gen Z is fascinated by gears. Enjoy the turkey-lurkey... Blessed be to you and yours.
~snuffling into a handkerchief because of disintegrating dried leaf dust and goldenrod~. Still enjoy this season, less mosquitoes! I’m just here for your fun snark. ^^ edit: everything from this house is always covered in pet fur -including food x.x - I don't even bother vacuuming/sticky tape removing fur from gifts for others, its just the pet's contribution.
I also have an overactive imagination...so as a result I do not read or watch horror....(even ernest scared stupid is a movie i need to watch during the day)...but my nephews and nieces all love horror so this list is going to be a huge help when i do my gift stopping this year ❤
I think I probably saw Ernest: Scared Stupid in the theatre 😁 I tried to keep most of my movie picks to comedy with suspense/very light horror, so you might have some luck there. Particularly with Goonies 😉
I (40 something) am here because in Australia it just got very hot this week and I am seeking content from the strange northern climes that celebrate things like Halloween not in 30C. Your spooky vibes are still 100% more cosy than here. 😂 I have a million draw string bags care of my mother (hence why I don't make any, she has an addiction) - I use them for travel to compartmentalise small items.
@@MaireColclough Ah, it is that time of year when the weather realises it needs to start summer-ing. But I do enjoy watching cooler clime material. Always yay mum made draw string bags! They are great!
Here's me very guilty for not using project bags, only store yarn by type in tulle drawstring bags (you can buy them in like 3 pack for vegetables or bakery) so that's where my projects end. Due to we don't really have too much Halloween stuff in my country me and my friends are hoarding random decor items like dragons on their periods. Am I gonna make a table runner from leftover yarn, to store my candy-holder witch statuette and a plastic, purple skull? MMMMMMMAYYYYYYBBEEEEEE.
Yep. I don't know what juvenile Michael's buyer is so obsessed with characters on the toilet, but I really wish that person would GROW UP and buy something else. Your decorations look good. I love your Vincent Price and Edgar Alan Poe pumpkins--they're wonderful. The bags you made came out great.
I buy decorations when I find them...I've had the masks and ceramic pumpkin for a few years. The pumpkins are a couple of years old. I love being able to get use from them 😁
@@kjtherrick4031 The large pumpkins are the hollow foam pumpkins by Ashland that you see at Michaels every year. I've carved them with a hot knife (it's an actual tool, not a knife heated on the stove!) and a pattern from Zombie Pumpkins 😃
For some reason, it didn't occur to me what I was watching until I did a re-watch a while ago and realized the subject matter was kinda inappropriate for Family Viewing 😁
I love the project bags so cute🥰 I need to make some project bags for my cross stitch projects. When you mentioned vampire knight I was like “wow I didn’t know you liked anime and manga” then you showed the picture of the show and I was like “oh. Never mind😅” there is an anime and manga called vampire knight but I don’t recommend it the art is pretty but the story is hot garbage.
Well...I do like *some* anime. Sailor Moon was on the tube right before I'd have to leave for college in the morning (back in the 90s). I enjoyed G-Force/Gachaman as a wee kid, and still watch Akira every so often 😁 And, of course, anything out of Studio Ghibli, but I feel that's less anime than just animation. If there's even a difference.
@@MaireColclough Sailor moon was one of my first anime along with DBZ and Ruroni Kenshin though I won’t ever recommend Ruroni Kenshin to anyone because the mangaka is a trash human. If you are looking for a really good vampire anime/manga The case study of Vanitas is really really good it set in an alternate universe 19c steam punk France and the art and the Characters are just beautifully well done🥰. I also recommend Pandora hearts which is made by the same mangaka Jun Mochizuki.
Nah. Crafting is for everyone. I'm always happy to talk yarn, fabric, and stuff with folks. I'm constantly learning from everyone, whether they're older, younger, or the same age as me 😃
I have to admit that I watch your content for your sarcastic wit, your projects and the cats.
It's a good thing sarcasm is a renewable resource
I’m here for the sarcastic crafting of all flavours 😊
Thank you! 😃
I love this video! You have such a great speaking voice and manner, and I love your dry wit and sarcastic (but somehow still warm and cozy?) humor. 😂
Oh, thank you 😁
WooHoo! Day made!
Thank you 😊
Do I like Halloween/Autumn? Moderately, sure, somewhat..
Do I love people talking about Halloween/Autumn? Yes. Love it.
I'm a fan of crunchy leaves and sweater weather that's not trying to suffocate me with humidity 🤣
I love your videos, you are one of the rare TH-camrs I don't watch on 2x speed.
I'm glad to hear I've hit a good pace for you! 😃
I love watching you because of your sarcasm, wit and humor. It’s relaxing 😊. I have a t-shirt that my hubby bought me it says “sarcastic remark loading, please wait”. Yep, sarcasm is my jam 😁. Thank you for sharing! Your friend Diane ❤
Thank you, Diane! 😃
Love your videos 😅 Sarcastic Witch is my vibe 🖤🧙♀️🖤
Sometimes you just gotta snark 😁
@@MaireColclough that's what I always say 😁👌
It never occurred to me to have projects bags until recently. If you only do one project at a time it probably isn't necessary. I alternate between projects depending on the weather, my health, or ambition. I mostly sew, crochet, or draw. The drawing is the only one that doesn't get a project bag. Oh, and I dabble in other crafts.
Project bags definitely help me keep things together.
And I also make little zippered bags that wind up holding pencils and drawing implements of destruction when I can't find a fun tin or jar 😉
I use clear plastic boxes that stack, I got the "Home Edit" boxes from WalMart for my kitchen and just keep shoving yarn and watercolor paper in them instead lol
@@haleyspence I have a few rubbermaid /sterilite boxes for fabric and Mum's yarn stash 😁
I love your videos. You and I have the same vibes and interests, so watching these is like hanging out with a friend. We'd be great knitting buddies, lol.
Yay! Hearing that always gives me hope that when I get the time and energy to livestream again, I won't just sit there quietly knitting 😉
I’m here for your wit and sarcasm. The cats are a plus.
I don’t do horror cause my imagination doesn’t need any help! My dad still says that his sister hasn’t showered since the the Bate’s shower scene! So I guess it’s a family thing lol. Though I really enjoyed Tremors. I do remember being convinced to watch a scary movie while knitting and getting startled so bad that I accidentally pulled the needles out!
The project bags are a great idea! I do remember walking into the living room to find that the kitten had removed most of the knitting and yarn out of a bin and spread it all over the room in a great big tangled mess! Took me forever to untangle that!
Darn forgot to say happy thanksgiving! We actually had normal fall weather to enjoy. Have a great weekend
Project bags definitely help combat feline curiosity!
And your Dad sounds like a character 😁
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Yay, thank you! 😃
Your videos always pop up just as I am about to go to bed. I have no will power. I have to watch as soon as you post. This one came in a little after midnight, (I live in New Zealand) yet another late night. Oh well. You are worth it.
Sorry about the late nights! I usually try to time my videos to go live on the East Coast of North America. One day I'll have to switch my target time zone 😉
I love Nancy Warren’s The Vampire Knitting Club series! So fun! Love watching your videos too; I can’t wait to see what projects you’ve been working on. 😊
The next project has a lot of string. And there's a clue somewhere in this video 😉
🦃 Happy Thanksgiving ❤
Love the great little bags you made. Quick and cute. Love from Manitoba 🦃🎃
Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃
Your wit and personality are what I'm here for!
Also, UFO round-up works! You are my sewing room company while I work on projects, why shouldn't you work on yours at the same time? :)
Ooh! Ooh! Somewhere in Pinterest there is a bag I plan on making. It's hard to describe, but it's sort of one long tube with a handle on each end, you sew the middle of the tube closed, and when you put the handles together you get two bag openings, with room between the two bags for something that would be too big for the bags. They have a picture of a yoga mat, but I want something to hold my bigger embroidery frame, plus all the supplies. Wishing I knew how to get pics. Anyway, I'm going to crazy quilt the bag, because I myself am 🤪 crazy!
You had me at “root canal”.
I once made a project bag for knitting. It was small, sort of page sized (8x10) with multiple random coloured zippers and exterior pockets also zippered and made of bright yellow nylon. It finally disintegrated a few years ago. Since then I have used Chinese fabric fancy handbags I found in value village. I hate making bags. With a passion! which I realized when I made that first one 30 years ago.
It's always good to know what you *don't* like to do! And where to get the kind of supplies you need 😁
hope you managed to get everyone to dinner, we did ours on sunday. i use the more interesting bags i get from stores as project bags. my life is a ufo, im redoing a sweater and socks and then there is school stuff. as for reading i like the books by j.d. robb, and laurell k. hamliton, hamlitons books are very adult. the jayne kastle books are fun. oh a spookyish book i like thats not too scary is jonothan strange and mr norell its eerie but funny. and no king on my list because there are no good endings in his books. oohhohhh clue, and rocky horror is a must. i watch underworld all year. ohh i wanted to be bit by Nick Knight.
Dinner is...soonish? We'll see if we make it on time! 🤣
I've enjoyed Robb/Roberts and Jayne Castle. I think I tried Hamilton, but couldn't get into them. Same as the gal who wrote the Sookie Stackhouse books.
I think we have the Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell book around here! I'll have to see if I can find it! 😃
Drawstring bags are great! My two current favourites are my old Holly Hobby Barbie dolls clothes bag that I recently pulled out to use as a knitting bag and a larger one with a leather base and a tape measure ribbon drawstring. Love The Goonies!!!
I love my drawstring bags, box bags, and pencil case sized bags...great for yarn, knitting, threads and notions 😃
you get a like, you said "everyday is halloween."
yes. 😘🖤👌🏻
Tea recommendations. Autumn requires tea and soup.
I'm very boring when it comes to tea and soup. A pot of Tetley with cream and sweetener. Minestrone. Though the husbeast makes a really nice soup with squash... 🧐
To be done "properly", Autumn requires a steaming bowl of French onion soup and whatever tea scratches at your curiosity.
- Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown/Pimisi
@@MaireColclough one of my favourite soups is pumpkin/ winter squash and sriratcha
I am so basic- every Autumn I re-read 'Salem's Lot. This year I bought a copy of 'Salem's Lot for my granddaughter. Good times!
My grandfather let me read 'Salem's Lot at an early age. I don't know if it was a good idea or not 🤣
While i don't need any horror recommendations, my imagination is good enough without new inspiration, but i enjoyed this video a lot. 😊 I hope your fall season is great!
I hope your fall season is likewise! 😃
I just learned There where Labyrinth comics 'Coronation' A story Jared is telling the babe while they wait! Fair warning physical copies are rare and correlatedly expensive, but Amazon appears to have digital versions. Your welcome.
I'll have to check that out, thanks! 😃
Happy Thanksgiving! I’ve been upgraded from cranberry duty to making the stuffing. I thought crock pot stuffing was the peak of indolence… then I discovered you can buy pre-seasoned loaves of stuffing bread. I might zhuzh it up with sausage and chestnuts for Christmas. Or I might not 🤷♀️
Oh no...pre-seasoned stuffing bread? Sausage and chestnuts?
I think the Husbeast would like an invitation to dinner 😁
@@MaireColclough 😄
I find pillow cases that I like at the op shop, sew a length of ribbon at the side seam about 5cm down from the top to be able to tie it closed.😊 Almost instant very large project bag.
See? Pillow cases strike again! 🤣
My sister has been telling me to watch Interview with a Vampire and was surprised I hadnt even read it as yet. Hearing you mention it on your shelf makes me realize i need to get onto reading it.
I haven't seen the new show, myself. But I've read the book a couple of times, and saw the movie back in the...90s? 😃
Love the Vincent Price pumpkin!! I watch all your videos. You speak sarcasm very well😅.
I have no idea where I learned it. Probably not from my parents. I blame Bea Arthur, Steven Wright and Leslie Nielsen. 😁
Absolutely finish things. Currently, I keep trying to do something new, and I just end up finishing something from the pile.
FInishing something is always good! It means you're choosing projects you wanted to make! 😉
Thanks for the Autumn and Samhain vibes, just what I needed today.
I loved Forever Knight - I lived in Canada in the early 90s and Forever Knight felt like a not-quite-adaptation of the Tanya Huff Fitzroy/Nelson books I was also obsessed with. (They went on to make a Blood Ties TV series which was entertainingly terrible but also had a very pretty cast.)
Oh, Blood Ties. I remember that show. Didn't last long. I was surprised how long Forever Knight aired!
@@MaireColclough I think they were trying to cash in on the Buffy/Charmed trend but didn't spend enough to make it work.
I just looked up Forever Knight and didn't realise it has 3 seasons and 70 episodes. Might have to find somewhere that's streaming it and stroll down memory lane.
If you need project bags, and don't want to prioritise making them in your crafting time, the bags which are sold for packing shoes in your luggage are a good size and shape for me.
I have a couple around that size! 😃
Happy Thanksgiving! The decorating looks so good. I love spooky season but horror/gore/freak me out stuff is a hard no. Cozy mysteries? Those recommendations I'll take, thank you. And if you are so inclined, I'd love a UFO tour.
I'll have to look into rounding up the UFOs! And gore really isn't my thing. I much prefer the cozies and suspense (even in my horror) 😃
I LOVE The Vampire Knitting Club! The Cornwall offshoot has its second book coming out this month.
I'll have to give it a read...maybe once I'm done the primary series 😁
Really enjoyed your take on project bags - I feel like it's been recently kind of popular to see them as unneccessary, which might be true if you're a monogamous knitter who is quite minimalist and also doesn't have cats, but as a fellow kitten owner - project bags (in my case with a zipper since mine EAT drawstring....) are absolutely essential to me!
Yeah...minimalism isn't a thing here 🤣
Hooray for project bags thwarting rampant catness! 😁
I'm here for a UFO round-up. Need to round up mine...
I even have my husband listening on occasion.
Keep the posts coming.
I would love to work on finishing knitting projects with you. I am also curious about the antique shawl. I want to try an older pattern but they either aren’t practical for me or seem very difficult. Any suggestions?
Most are fairly simple when it comes down to it. Most of the instructions are right there, and if they seem sketchy, look for more modern instructions you can understand that look similar. The hardest part is usually checking gauge because while you can look up a needle/hook comparison chart, some of the yarns/threads used are no longer available and don't have a ready description. So materials gauge is often where research is needed.
Love J D Robb. Am looking for some of the others.
Tremors is one of my favorite movies. Need to rewatch it soon.
Hooray Tremors! 😃
I loved the Vampire Knitting Club series ! I listened to it through the Libby app. Hocus Pocus and Practical Magic tend to be my level of Halloween movies ... And The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown. You might like The Donovan Legacy by Nora Roberts
Libby is fantastic - all hail the library card! 😁
For my Recs ( nearly all of these are parts of series but can be read as a standalone )
Celia Lake's Mistress of Birds - Gothic mystery in a house on the edge of the Moors. The main chars in this both have PTSD and are dealing with that at the same time.
Travis Baldree's Bookshops and Bonedust - Spooky bits wrapped in very cozy fantasy. The main character is getting book recs through the story and her reactions are fun.
Nghi Vo's The Brides of High Hill - Great Spooky Vibes, another 'trapped in spooky place' mystery. Very unsettling vibes that gradually get worse.
T Kingfisher's A Sorceress Comes to Call - Mix a regency farce with a fairytale horror story. Great cast of characters, mostly older.
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I used to be into the 'In Death' series more, but these days it's a lot harder to reconcile 'good guy' with 'ultra rich'. Plus the inevitable pre-arrest beatdown is..eeeee ( the criminals are always guilty but still..). However, if those tropes don't bother you, it's really good, and i don't think you have to start with book one. Nora Roberts also does some great Paranormal romance trilogies that might be easier to get into. The Sign of the Seven trilogy has that recurring evil/cursed town thing going on.
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I'm putting 'Hex' on my wishlist
I'll have to check out your recommendations! I've been thinking I need to pick up a Kingfisher book, and that might be one to check out!
The Michael's Monsters on the toilets are just bizarre - even with the trousers still on.
Right???
Happy spooky season and Thanksgiving!!! I love videos like this. Project bags are always useful. Thank you for sharing it. I do love baking too. I have a gluten free triple chip cookie recipe I’ll send you. I love lots of books, and only old horror movies who’s effects are bad enough I don’t get scared any longer. I know for my hair, I’ve embraced my wisdom highlights. I have dark, thick hair with no texture other than my wisdom highlights. So as much as I’ve always wanted to be a red head, I haven’t wanted to d touch ups for years. I do love the decorating.
I'll happily anticipate the recipe!
Old horror movies are fantastic; they go really well with my trend to comedic horror 😁
(And apparently the henna will just give my silver some extra twinkle to the red, so I'm down for that! 🤣)
@@MaireColclough
Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookies
Makes 4 Dozen
Tips: I normally double this recipe and use three bags of chocolate chips. Milk, dark, and white chips. If someone doesn’t like chocolate it’s also good with Heath pieces, caramel, and butterscotch chips. Also when placing the dough onto the pan sprinkle with pink himalayan salt just before baking.
Ingredients
1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
¾ cup sugar
¾ cup dark brown sugar
2 tsp Vanilla
1 tsp Baking Powder
2 eggs
½ tsp Salt
2 ¼ cups unsifted flour (Bob’s Red Mill Gluten Free Baking Mix)
2 ¾ cups of chocolate chips
2 cups nuts of your choice
Preparation
Cream butter and sugar together.
Add brown sugar and continue creaming.
Add salt, baking powder, vanilla, and eggs.
Slowly add flour a quarter of a cup at a time until fully mixed.
Add chocolate chips and nuts stirring in.
Allow the dough to rest in the refrigerator for at least one hour.
Preheat oven to 375.
Bake for 9-11 minutes.
Remove from the oven and allow to rest for 5 minutes on the pan before transferring to cooling area. Let cool and enjoy.
Ngl, I'd love a UFO video so I'd actually work on my own projects
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I'll keep that in mind! 😁
totally for the UFO video! Or two! Or more... 😁
The bags are fantastic. Need to make some. My fun leggings come in ziplock bags so use them as project bags for the smaller things. Need something that I can hang off the handles of the wheelchair and not have a fight with the wheels.
Love RED and the 2nd one. Goonies, Ghostbusters and Beetlejuice.
Seen the most recent ghostbusters series and they are good.
Other half went to cinema recently the new Beetlejuice movie and recommends watching it.
Getting ready for Samhain. Going to be in Whitby for the Goth Weekend. Think its going to be a busy one. Home of Dracula on Samhain (or near enough) and Goth Fest.
We saw B2 at the theatre! Not a bad movie 😃
Goth Weekend sound fantastic! There's a part of me that's always wanted to go. Have some fun for me! 🦇
Goth weekend is fantastic if somewhat busy. If you ever got over here would be happy to show you round. its twice a year. April and October.
Will have fun for us both and will try and get pics.
YES! I want to see your UFO's!
I'll put it in the schedule, then!
Personally I'm over Halloween. Christmas too. I'm not into all things Spooky and Christmas has just become too commercialized for my liking. It takes away from what it's supposed to be about. However when I saw that you had uploaded, I had to get a dose of snark and sarcasm, and boy did you deliver. Never a let down there. I live how you bags turned out, super cute. I see the kitties are still up their antics. I'm more of a Sci fi/ fantasy person. I personally struggle with modern fiction. I'm more of a Tolkien fan than whats out there these days. I love the classics, but there are others I enjoy as well. Give me a good dragon book any day. I'm pretty sure I own all Anne McCaffrey Pern series books. Christopher Paolini released another book in the Eragon series recently, Murtagh. I'm about 2/3 of the way through it. It's been forever since I read the first four books in the Eragon series that I have to remind myself of some of the events that played out. After that I have another 7 books from Elizabeth Hayden lined up to read. 3 of which were from the Rhapsody series that I didn't know she wrote until the suddenly appeared in my recommended reading list of Amazon. I have a whole books shelf full of books waiting to be read, but I'm supposed to be getting things set up to do school with my kids. I'm procrastinating. I don't really feel like fighting my 11 yr old on his math page today. Or reminding my 13 yr old to focus. I'm certainly not in the mood for my 8 yr old to mess with his older brothers. My not so sweet 16 yr old has already come out of the abyss she calls her room to sass me and use me as her captive audience. As for the 18 ur old at least he's graduated and I don't have to worry about him. He at least will do his own thing now. I guess I just needed a dose of snark to start the day off.
If you're into SFF/F, I can recommend Elizabeth Bear and C. L. Polk. Though they aren't Epic Fantasy. You MIGHT enjoy Scott Lynch for that 😁
I'd recommend a Christmas eve service . They can be filled with gorgeous music 🎶 Live! And memorable words to help you find the true meaning. Or alternately a children's service on Christmas usually held a week or 2 before Christmas. These are rarer as fewer children are taught this tradition. 🙂💞
7:15 oh my goodness can you link where you got that mug!?
The mug came from Homesense...unfortunately, I haven't found anywhere on their website to order them. I think Homesense has a US equivalent store...it's by TK/TJ Maxx?
Did you carve the Vincent Price pumpkin or buy it ready made? My husband is a big VP fan.
I carved it! I use a Michaels/Ashland pumpkin with hot knife, and when I don't feel like designing them myself, patterns from Zombie Pumpkins (if you look that up, you should find the website a-ok) 😃
You making the cranberry sauce ah la Lady Martha or you grabbing the can (I would lean towards the can, lol, I'm not feeling very Martha these days...)? Happy Canadian Thanksgiving. Happy Samhain. Blessed be, Doll. All the best for the new year.
My project bag for sewing is a 1950's train make-up case (with a dollar store travel strap for insurance). Let's me take advantage of the local cafe's and the open-work night at the local fabric shop. Bonus points for being able to carry my Singer chain stitch kiddy machine. So far so good for keeping everything in one place. And the occasional toe crunch when I walk into it acts as a good reminder for daily creative practice...
_Just to brag_ - on Saturday I picked up this cast iron, Victorian (circ. 1881) 16" embroidery hoop that has a built-in clamp to attach to a table. The hoop is on a metal gimble attached to the clamp (that attached to a curved piece of metal that supports the inner ring of the hoop). I searched through the etsy and the ebay and wasn't able to find any equivalent. Grand price for a one-off Victorian embroidery solution - Fifty bucks. Blows my mind and I now realize I'll be adding embroidery/slash/beading into the final version of every project I'll be working on, laughing... At some point it got separated from the original outside hoop, but I'm looking at a local woodworking shop to replace that part.
Thanks for the book suggestions. They sound really good.
- Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown/Pimisi
That embroidery setup sounds involved! I'm intrigued by the train makeup case...sounds like you have quite the mobile setup! Happy Thanksgiving, Happy Samhain and Blessed be to you and yours! 💕
@@MaireColclough The Victorians were a serious bunch of designers. My best guess is it came from someone immigrated from England. It's not really that complicated a clamp-embroidery-hoop - it's just really hard to describe properly, lol.
The base hoop of the set-up is wrapped in a yellowed linen ribbon. The herringbone stitch holding it all together are possibly over 100 years old. You can see on the linen where it was handled often. Thing is a time capsule. I'm rather in awe that it survived so well. You can see the 'needle rash'...
Have to be mobile for sewing. I'm still trying to infect the Godkiddo's with the sewing virus. 'Tis the only option for body dysmorphia I can think of... Anyways, it means I'm available whenever the kids get an urge to modify their clothing. The Child Singer Machine is to keep their attention with gears, lol. Gen Z is fascinated by gears.
Enjoy the turkey-lurkey...
Blessed be to you and yours.
~snuffling into a handkerchief because of disintegrating dried leaf dust and goldenrod~. Still enjoy this season, less mosquitoes!
I’m just here for your fun snark. ^^
edit: everything from this house is always covered in pet fur -including food x.x - I don't even bother vacuuming/sticky tape removing fur from gifts for others, its just the pet's contribution.
I'm consistently covered in pet hair as well. It's perpetual.
And my sympathies on the allergies!
I also have an overactive imagination...so as a result I do not read or watch horror....(even ernest scared stupid is a movie i need to watch during the day)...but my nephews and nieces all love horror so this list is going to be a huge help when i do my gift stopping this year ❤
I think I probably saw Ernest: Scared Stupid in the theatre 😁
I tried to keep most of my movie picks to comedy with suspense/very light horror, so you might have some luck there. Particularly with Goonies 😉
I'm incredibly nosey and would love to see all your UFOs in a vid!
That is a thing that could totally happen, then! 😁
You make me laugh.
Vincent Price Pumpkin!!🎃
I have a fondness for Vincent Price 😃
Have you done a "whats in my bag?" video for each of those crafting bags? If you have, I need to catch up on videos 🤔
Edit: typo
I don't think I have. That might be something to try!
I (40 something) am here because in Australia it just got very hot this week and I am seeking content from the strange northern climes that celebrate things like Halloween not in 30C. Your spooky vibes are still 100% more cosy than here. 😂
I have a million draw string bags care of my mother (hence why I don't make any, she has an addiction) - I use them for travel to compartmentalise small items.
I'm so sorry it's gotten so hot so quickly over there! Fingers crossed the weather cools down a bit!
(and hoory Mum for the drawstring bags?) 😁
@@MaireColclough Ah, it is that time of year when the weather realises it needs to start summer-ing. But I do enjoy watching cooler clime material.
Always yay mum made draw string bags! They are great!
I find it ironic that Vincent Price is considered synonymous with the classic vampire but he only played such a role once, when he was 70.
If nothing else, he was a fine actor, and known for his work with suspense 😃
Here's me very guilty for not using project bags, only store yarn by type in tulle drawstring bags (you can buy them in like 3 pack for vegetables or bakery) so that's where my projects end.
Due to we don't really have too much Halloween stuff in my country me and my friends are hoarding random decor items like dragons on their periods. Am I gonna make a table runner from leftover yarn, to store my candy-holder witch statuette and a plastic, purple skull? MMMMMMMAYYYYYYBBEEEEEE.
Definitely make that table runner! And they may be vegetable bags, but you're using them for projects, ergo... 😉
Yep. I don't know what juvenile Michael's buyer is so obsessed with characters on the toilet, but I really wish that person would GROW UP and buy something else. Your decorations look good. I love your Vincent Price and Edgar Alan Poe pumpkins--they're wonderful. The bags you made came out great.
I buy decorations when I find them...I've had the masks and ceramic pumpkin for a few years. The pumpkins are a couple of years old. I love being able to get use from them 😁
@@MaireColclough I buy and use repeatedly as well, but I don't have any large pumpkins...yet.
@@kjtherrick4031 The large pumpkins are the hollow foam pumpkins by Ashland that you see at Michaels every year. I've carved them with a hot knife (it's an actual tool, not a knife heated on the stove!) and a pattern from Zombie Pumpkins 😃
I just over-empathized with the horror of a young Marie watching Twin Peaks with her parents by remembering watching Game of Thrones with mine...
For some reason, it didn't occur to me what I was watching until I did a re-watch a while ago and realized the subject matter was kinda inappropriate for Family Viewing 😁
I love the project bags so cute🥰 I need to make some project bags for my cross stitch projects. When you mentioned vampire knight I was like “wow I didn’t know you liked anime and manga” then you showed the picture of the show and I was like “oh. Never mind😅” there is an anime and manga called vampire knight but I don’t recommend it the art is pretty but the story is hot garbage.
Well...I do like *some* anime. Sailor Moon was on the tube right before I'd have to leave for college in the morning (back in the 90s). I enjoyed G-Force/Gachaman as a wee kid, and still watch Akira every so often 😁
And, of course, anything out of Studio Ghibli, but I feel that's less anime than just animation. If there's even a difference.
@@MaireColclough Sailor moon was one of my first anime along with DBZ and Ruroni Kenshin though I won’t ever recommend Ruroni Kenshin to anyone because the mangaka is a trash human. If you are looking for a really good vampire anime/manga The case study of Vanitas is really really good it set in an alternate universe 19c steam punk France and the art and the Characters are just beautifully well done🥰. I also recommend Pandora hearts which is made by the same mangaka Jun Mochizuki.
Forever Knight but no Lost Boys? Shame lol
Definitely not an exhaustive list. I'll have to find my DVD if it's not on streaming 😁
I don’t know why I thought that at 25 I wouldn’t be your target audience. I forgot how abnormal it is for us youthes to be into this stuff
Nah. Crafting is for everyone. I'm always happy to talk yarn, fabric, and stuff with folks. I'm constantly learning from everyone, whether they're older, younger, or the same age as me 😃