Once and Future projects

So the other day, I made the "infamous" whipped coffee.  I was so convinced that it was going to change my life and all my closets would get cleaned up and maybe if I drank enough, the garage.

The only thing I can say is, eh - iced coffee...  and (ok 2 things) I must be broken because I didn't do more than I usually do in a day.  and (ok 3 things) I think I overheated the motor in Jen's hand held immersion mixer.  The handle was smokin hot.  So I stopped before it whipped up as much as on the internet.  Threw it in the blender to finish it up.  It's harder to get every bit out but oh well.

It had kind of a coffee meringue consistency...  

I only used half of it as I didn't want to have a heart attack.

Here's the recipe in case you ever want to try it.

2 tablespoons instant coffee

2 tablespoons sugar

2 tablespoons boiling water

Whip it by hand, with a mixer or an immersion blender for a LONG time.  Some said for 20 minutes, others said 5.  

Then fill a glass half way with ice cubes and then with milk.  Put the coffee froth/meringue on top and drink the milk thru the froth.

I was getting too much coffee meringue on my upper lip, so I stirred it in.

Again, eh.  Not worth the hype.  Unless I totally did it wrong. 

How are you all doing making face masks?  After making roughly 40 and finding out that hospitals want a different type of mask or when the hospitals wash them in boiling water for extended periods of time, they will fall apart because I used poly thread...  I hadn't given them to a hospital yet so at least it wasn't MINE that fell apart...

So I'm done.

For 2 reasons.  I don't have just cotton thread and I'm out of elastic.  AND because (ok 3 reasons) my family and friends have enough now to hold them *hopefully* thru this period of Covid yuck.

I mailed off a couple packages of the DON'T BOIL ME masks yesterday so unless this drags out and my masks fall apart, I won't be making more for the next week or two.   

I'm actually so excited to sew something for myself that I don't know where to begin!!!

Do I finish the hem on the last shirt that I was making? 

Do I sew a few potato bags because I'm going to grow potatoes this year?

Do I start a new pattern?  

I just don't know!!!!

THEN I saw this...

But not only am I out of elastic, we're out of bacon too.

Darn.