All the Pinks

I am enjoying having some time to quilt again, and the break from making clothing is nice, too. I started a couple of baby quilts yesterday. What a delight to pull out the bin of pink fabrics and see what plays well together

I’ve have a pattern for another project, but I haven’t pulled the fabric for that one yet. That quilt could be done with 16 fat quarters, so I may use the Tilda bundles that I bought for myself with my birthday money. Or not. We’ll see.

I also cut apart the quilted potholder sandwich, prepped a table runner for quilting on the Q20, and pressed the backing fabric for a quilt. That top may get basted with batting today. I embroidered a bit after dinner last night. Forward progress, little by little.

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I parked myself at my desk yesterday morning and did computer stuff until I couldn’t stand it anymore. A big chunk of what I’m dealing with is related to the homestead foundation and has to be done before our board meeting Monday night. I am also moving my podcast to its own website. Thankfully, I was able to clone this website. The podcast website will look different, but at least I didn’t have to load all the files again.

I have built enough websites in Squarespace that I am considered a “professional” and have access to a special set of perks. Oh, the irony. I would not call myself a website professional. I certainly wouldn’t want to do website design 24/7. I am proud of the one I did for the homestead foundation. That website, more than anything, allowed us to level up our game because now we can offer online registration for events and and take donations.

There are always a thousand niggling little details that come along, though, and have to be dealt with. This is the time of year to do that.

I also e-mailed the accountant and asked him what he needed from me for tax prep. We’re using QuickBooks Online now, so he has access to our files. He e-mailed me back and said to let him know when I had reconciled the bank statements through the end of the year and had compiled some additional information. I responded that I had reconciled the December bank statement at 6 am on New Year’s Day so that was all done. 😇

[I am a bit obsessive about tracking pennies here at Chez Schuster-Szabo, but I don’t think that’s a bad thing. Also, the accountant appreciates clients who don’t wait until the last minute to do their taxes.]

Easier tax prep may be the only positive thing that came out of moving to QBO this year.

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It looks like we may be making up for our snow deficit soon. There are systems moving into the Pacific Northwest and the forecast includes snow every day for the next week. The end of next week is supposed to be frigid, with low temps in the negative numbers. Winter might finally be here.