MONDAY MAGAZINE ON A TUESDAY

Let's make mine a Lady Grey tea.  Or maybe a hot chocolate.  Hello, friends!  Hope you are having a great day.  Yes, I am a little behind.  I wanted to post this yesterday and got so busy that I forgot all about it.  But nevermind.  We are doing a Monday Magazine on a Tuesday.

Here is the latest magazine that I finished.

It is another Martha Stewart Living and this one is from January 2009.  As I said last time she really doesn't have a page for me to use, so I am using the cover.

In this issue she is talking about "Fresh Thinking."  January is a time when people feel as if they can start fresh with things since it is a new year.  Really, it's no different than changing the calendar page from July to August, but changing the year seems to give people the perspective of something new and clean and an opportunity to begin over.  How do you feel?  Is January a new beginning for you?  Even though I know it's only a new month, I do feel it's a new beginning and a fresh start.  Perhaps it's because the whole holiday season is behind us and life goes back to "normal."

This issue also has several "Bright and Easy Citrus Dishes."  Do you like citrus?  What is your favorite citrus fruit?  Although I like most citrus fruits, they often don't like me.  I do not like grapefruit or lime, but I love orange and lemon.

Martha is making citrus marmalade in the cover picture.  Have you ever made marmalade, jelly or jam?  When I was little my great-grandmother made peach jam each year.  It was the best ever.  I have never found anything to equal it.

She also talks about "Closet Makeovers."  I desperately need a closet makeover in every closet in the house.  Not that I have that many.  This is a hundred year old house and they didn't have as many clothes and "things" so there aren't many closets or a lot of storage.  My so-called coat closet is a series of hooks in the stairway leading to the basement.  How about you?  Do you need a closet makeover?  Or do you need a closet?

Yesterday Joe went with Pastor and Rick to the nursing home service and I had a chance to stay home alone.  I had a opportunity to talk to my sister who has been very sick.  She missed a week of work and that is definitely not her.  She went back to work today but is still not feeling well.  Please pray for her.  She works in a hospital and has a very difficult job.

After I picked Joe up, we headed over to Walmart.  Lots of people love Walmart.  I'm not one of them.  It's the only place I have ever been robbed.  Yesterday it happened again.  I was getting eggs out of the refrigerated section and someone came along and helped themselves to what was in my cart.  But there were things there that Joe wanted, so we went.  While we were there I got some yarn to make a blanket for my sister-in-law.  She had admired my temperature blanket and it gave me the idea to make a blanket for her for next Christmas.  Starting it now gives me a year to make it.  I want it to look like stained glass.  I know just how it should look, so I hope I can accomplish that.  I have three blocks made so far and I like the way it looks.  I will be showing you it as I go along.

And speaking of knitting, I was putting my Advent scarf away the other day when Jack decided that it was his and actually grabbed it out of my hand to lay with it.

And I've finished the last of my Christmas candy.  Have you ever seen Christmas candy corn?  I haven't, but Joe found it at 7-11 and put it in my stocking.  How clever!

And that's it for today.  I'm going to go get breakfast.  Back to healthy eating starting today!  I'm looking forward to reading your answers to my questions so be sure to comment.  Until later...

Kathy

Philly at 8:00 a.m.  The snow is gone but it's a little hazy today.