Smart Charging Pocket

My sewing for the day.
Today is laundry day. I am busy getting ready to host Thanksgiving here so things need to be baked. Rolls - check. Coconut Macaroons - Done. Pie Crusts - ready in freezer to roll out Wednesday night to make Pumpkin Pies - yes.

November is home of Handmade Holidays over at SewMamaSew.
Today's projects are for the techy (techie?) people in your life.
Saw this - had to make one.

Normally my phone - which has to be charged every night(!) sits on the edge of my island. If you want to bake something, get the toaster out, or make waffles, one is always juggling for space with my phone. This smarty pants phone doesn't take kindly to batter dripping on it or (gasp!) water nearby.

 

Sometimes the cord slithers onto the floor where I live in fear someone with size 10 shoes will flatten the end.  
I didn't have another solution until today.

Coolest thing. Sewed up in twenty minutes flat.
Jet fabric was from my free spoonflower fat quarter I got over Labor Day weekend.

Inner fabric is from Finlayson in Turku, Finland.
I did not hoard these fabrics.
So there.

Now, on to the Butternut Squash Soup.

So Much To Do, So Little Time

Leaving in about a week for the big trip through Sweden & Finland.
So much to do, so little time.

Most of my day is spent communing with my new Smart Phone. Somehow by osmosis, I will become smarter. So far the phone is winning. Actually, I get most of the mini-computer-ness of it all - it's the phone function that defeats me.

The garden is planted - tomatoes, peas, nasturtiums, little tiny pumpkins, butternut squash, cukes - all things that can survive whatever life throws at them. Things that don't need to be babied while we are gone. Glorious red and orange Poppies that will re-seed for another blazing year.

A quick plane ride on a hot & humid afternoon- escaping to the clear coolness at 1000 feet above.

I've been sewing, going to garage sales, working the day job, as per usual -with no photo documentation. Thus - no blogging.

Working on;  My luggage isn't big enough. I still need a semi-dressy outfit, another pair of comfy but dressier shoes. I'd like a hoodie with a zipper down the front- for weather predicaments but haven't found them in the stores I have checked. I have a great blue flowered one but it's gotten a little snug. Is it too much to hope for to find something beyond athletic black or grey?
One of the most useful apps on my new Smart Phone is the 'Memo'.
I am busy making lists. I love it.