Mothers Day""""""'''

Well I hope that everyone had a nice mothers day" I received a very pretty sentimental card from my daughter. My son sent me a very pretty handmade card with roses that he had colored on the front of the card, My stepson called to wish me a happy mothers day from seattle and my stepson here in N.C. and his wife gave me a dvd with Julia Roberts called run away bride. It sounds like it will be a good comedy. My hubby dosen't like Julia roberts but I think she is great! I sat here the other day and watched a rerun of steel magnolias and when I wasen't crying my head off I was laughing untill I cried! I love movies like that touch all of your senses.
A couple of weeks ago I went to a new doctors office and gave them permission to transfer all my files over to them. Would you beleive I had a lung test completed a month ago and they just now called me to inform me that I have asthma. I swear some things are just unacceptable. I am usually pretty easy going but there are times when you just have to get up and find a better situation.
Not a lot going on around here today. I have been working on a nine patch quilt or at least blocks for one. I found a blogg that was doing these blocks and what they are is just nine two and a half inch squares sewn together into a nine patch block which by itself is not all that exciting. but she has used scrap fabrics and set them together with white strips and for some reason that white just really brings out all the colors. I am normally not into white but in this instance I love it. hopefully I will find some time to take some pictures one day soon so that you can see what I am talking about.
WE have been looking all over to find some chickens. This is the first area that I have ever lived in that dosen't have a livestock section in their newspaper. So we are going to have to get more creative in finding what we are looking for. Hubby is going to go online tomorrow and see what he can come up with. Years ago when we first met" my hubby rented a place just outside the city limits and started getting chickens , ducks, rabbits ect. well we aquired all kinds of different breeds of chickens some of which were quite adorable. That is what we would like to do now is get several differnt kinds. Hopefully we will get lucky.
I ordered something today called a skipblade. When I lived in Paris Idaho the girls there were always using something they called a hemmer machine to put holes in the edge of baby blankets made of flannel or fleece and bibs, burp clothes ect. then they would take chrochet thread and chrochet an edging around the edge of the blanket. These were soooooooooo cute. anyway I went to michaels and came home with a leather press that I could use to punch holes and do the same. This is o.k. but requires a lot of marking and time to punch the holes. with this skip stitch blade all you do is insert it into your rotory cutter and you run it up the outside edge leaving 3/4s of an inch to turn under and you have it ready to chrochet. I love it when they come up with things to make my life easier. The nice thing is that it only costs 11.00. It is owned by a mom and pop type bussiness so I feel good about supporting them. If anyone else is interested simply type in skipstitch blade to google. Welllllll thats about all that is going on around here so will close untill next time.

Monday"""""""""''

What a nice day I have had" I went to work and our boss had gotten all of us some gorgous plants for employee appreciation day". I decided that I wanted it to hang right outside my sewing room window so that whenever I am on the computer I can look out my window and see it. soooooooo we had to run into town and get a shephards hook. While we were there I purchased some chocholates for a co workers birthday and another package for my secret pal at work. The school has a secret pal that you can sign up for at the beginning of the year and each month you have someone drop off a package for you to your secret pal. It dosen't have to be anything expensive but something that you would enjoy receiving. You can also leave them something on hollidays, birthday ect. This is the first year I have joined and so far it has been a very pleasant experience. I have enjoyed it.
I have also started doing nine patches do to a blogg that I was looking at. If you would like to become involved with her project go to htt://crazymomquilts.blogspot
You are supposed to try and get at least one nine patch completed a day and by a certain number of days there will be enough to complete a quilt. These nine patches are done with white sashing strips and they just looked sooooooooooo cute that I had to start making them. I didn't join the group because I have way too many things going on right now and do not want to get myself stressed out. I will simply play along as if I had joined and hopefully will accomplish as much as the rest. I started two days ago and already have six completed so far so good!
Ohhhhhhhhh my strawberries have blossums on them!It is truely amazing how happy simple little things can make me!
O.k. I am off to make some more nine patches. take care untill we meet again.

Sunny Saturday"

Well I got up this morning and it is gorgous outside. The sun is peeking through the clouds so am hoping that it will be nice today instead of the rain that was predited. That being said The rain probably wouldn't hurt our gardens either. lols
I finally got my swap partner in the friendship swap! Have been waiting patiently. she seems to be a lovely person . she is from Philadelphia, and has four children and two grandchildren. She works for a police dept. something I would have loved to have done if I weren't so darn short! She loves chocholate! who could possibly go wrong with someone that loves chocholate! She is a scorpio just like me! and we seem to enjoy a lot of the same things. quilting , bags, emb,stitching. She makes the most beautifull dolls I think that I have ever seen. When she talked about rag dolls I thought she meant just the plain raggidy ann dolls like I used to make the kids and grandkids. noooooooo wayyyyyy hers are absolutely fantastic. From what I have met of her I think she is going to be fun to partner with. Khris evidently puts a lot of thought into who she pairs together. Thanks Khris!
Well this is saturday and that means that I normally do the laundry but hubby wants to go to the highschool and get some more plants. We have a highschool just outside of Goldsboro that has a nursery class and they produce the most gorgous plants. we love buying our plants there each year as it not only makes us happy but it helps to support the school system.
Everything is popping up all over the place. We have decided to build a small greenhouse this fall. It would be so much more fun to start all our plants ahead of time from seeds. we do start a lot of them now that way but this would really give us a headstart. The greenhouse is made from pvc and costs around a hundred dollars to make. I am excited about that one. should be lots of fun to put together.
My doll quilt has been quilted and I am just now finishing up the binding. I need to get busy on some of my other projects. I have been in one of my dulldrums lately. unforutunately I seem to get into these burn out periods that don't last too long but they are irritating just the same. I want to put together some applique blocks to take on the airplane with me in July when I go to see my daughter and grandkids. not too forget my son in law. Nobody could ask for a more perfect son in law then Bryan. he is such a good daddy and a good hubby to my dd.
O.k. well I have carried on long enough and I think hubby is about ready to go for more plants so will close for now. I hope all of you have a great day!

april

Well you can tell its april around here" all the plants are comming to life and yestarday we had 92 degrees. There are only two drawbacks about living in N.C. one is that when it gets hot! It gets hot! Now thats not that bad because when I visited my daughter in Spokane last summer it was just as hot there as it was here . but the thing I hate the most are the bugs! I'm not talking about the creepy crawling types of bugs I am referring to the darn flyinggggggg bugs! The ones that bite! misquitoes and flys and the darn nats that are up close and in your face. It makes it absolutely miserible to be outside. Luckily they are not out there all summer long but enough to make you wish they weren't. They also have some nasty little things call chiggers here. The best I can gather is that they are some form of a sand flea" I say gather because you can't see the little buggers you just know there theyve been there later when your ankles and feet start itching.
Now for the good things. It is beautifull and soooooooooo green here that I love looking out into the yard from my windows. the flowers bloom most of the year here. and the birds are fantastic! we have the most beautifull red cardinals and these little tiny yellow and black birds that are soooooooo cute. we of course feed all of them plus the squirrels and they could very quickly eat you out of house and home.
Last nite I started a doll quilt for my granddaghter Casey. She will be one in may so it won't be long before she will need these things for her own baby doll.
I also worked on a dresdon quilt block" not sure how far I will go with it. I am a bit on the strange side. I have a tendency to get all excited about making a block and then by the time it is finished I am ready to tackle something else. you would not beleiveeeeeeee how many orfan blocks I have stacked up around here. one day I would like to put them together into quilts. and I probably will but not todayyyyyyy.

oops I thought I had copied the friends swap

I have signed up for a swap and wanted to post it too my blogg so all of you who were interested could also sign up but for some reason when I copied it the whole thing did not come with it.so if you are interested look up Sew Prim Kris blogg" It is called a friendship swap and you come up with something for every letter of the word to send to your partner. It sounds like it will be fun! I have signed up and will have to make sure that I get shopping completed early because it is sent off in july and that is the month I will be in SPokane visiting with my little grandkids.
I have not been up to a lot of quilting lately. My grandsons quilt is up on my design board and is growing very slowly. I have been very busy out in the yard helping hubby get all the planting beds redone and putting in the vegitable gardens. Lucky for me" I just finished a weeks vacation so it was good that I was here to help him.
I love this time of year in N.C. it is nice outside, not too hot and all of the bugs are not out yet.
I have managed to get some baking done. I made several dozen honey butter rolls and froze them . then I made three loaves of bananna bread and frose two of those. So I haven't been idle by any means.
I have also managed to start a journal and sooooooooo far have stuck too it! I have started them in the past and somehow always gotten sidetracked but they really are sooooooo handy to look back on and see what happened when so I really am going to try and stick with it this time.
O.k. will sign off for now and hopefully next time I will have something to show.

7 gifts-use letters F-R-I-E-N-D-S

Easter is almost here"

Am feeling a bit guilty because I have not written anything in my blogg lately. Between being sick with respiratory infections and work it seems Like my time gets soooooooooo limited. Of course if I would manage it a little better that might help.
Today was a great day at work because we are now off for the next ten days! yessssssssss! Working for the school district does have some bennefits. lols
My secret pal had my easter bag delivered to me today. There was a chocholate easter bunny, a bunny tin with candy, some shopping pads, some easter pot holders and a pretty easter colored dishtowel. I could get used to this secret friend bussiness! I had mine delivered this morning and it contained lots of cute scrapbooking things. She is into scrapbooking so she should enjoy them.

We have also been busy with the yard this time of year. The other day we bought flowers and hubby has been tilling the garden so that we can start planing veggies. I am sooooooooooo looking forward to eatting from the garden again! There is just something so good about eatting a cukecumber or zuchinnie and tomatoes from your own garden.

The other thing I have been up too is embroidery by hand. I am actually enjoying it. there are several sites with block of the month embroidery and I am slowly working on them. Hopefully I will get enough done to take some pictures one day soon.

My daughter called me and is going to start getting into geneiology. That made me a happy camper as that is something I had started to get into a few years ago. I soon became discouraged because both of my parents families are from norway. welllllllll it can get very complicated trying to get through the name changes, and not being able to write or speak norweigion made it even more difficult. Now however things have improoved and i think she will have a much better chance of finding out information. So I am excited to see what she will find out.

Well that is about all that is going on at the moment so I will stop for now and hopefully get back here more often.

A fruitfull Sunday!!!!!!

Wow another fruitfull day! That makes two days in a row. I guess I am on a streak". I went to work on the miranda bag while trying to get my laundry done . It's back to work tomorrow.

Saturday

This is normally my laundry day but I woke up thinking potato soup because the weather is very drizzly today. Welllllllll wouldn't you know it" no potatoes in the house sooooooooo we made a trip to the store. a hundred and something later we are on our way home again. Have you ever noticed that whenever you walk into wallmart you always spend around a hundred dollars? or is it just us? Anyway hubby decided he would make some of his clamchowder with potatoes. I knowwwwww I should have taken a picture of it. take my word " It was awsomeeeee! Then I retirid to my sewing room and started a little wristlet bag that I had found on one of my bloggs that I like to visit http://pinoyinoz.blogspot.com It was sooooooo simple " I love this pattern. picture included. Would you believe that I just now noticed that I forgot to add the little wrist strap". Oh wellllll this was just a practice run anyway.
I also read a post on one of my quilting sites that someone had taken your local little black bag that you buy at wallyworld for .99cents to carry your groceries in and she had added a piece of fabric on the front to cover up thier logo so that she could use it anywhere she shopped and personalize it so that it didn't look like everyone elses. I thought hmmmmm I can do that! So you guessed it" I also bought one of those on our wallmart trip this morning. Here is the picture of how that came out.
And last but not least I baked a loaf of bread from a recipe I found on the net. The only drawback is that they tell you to leave it over nite as the taste is much better. well we did and hubby says it is great! I of course have yet to eat any as I had to save all my energy for the soup. This bread recipe called for raisins and since hubby isen't the least bit fond of raisins I decided to use some chocholate raspberry chips that I had on hand. O.k. I guess that is about all I have been up to lately. still working on another bag and waiting for the mail to come so that I can get started on the one I posted about the summer bag. right now I have cut out fabric for the miranda bag. Hubby says that is just what I need is another bag! Take care

whacky wednsday!!!!!!!!!!!

This is whacky wednsday! That is what they call it at school. The teachers all dress up in whacky clothing . pj's tops turned backwards. pants inside out" the kids just love it! Wish I had thought and would have taken my camera. maybe next time"
I convinced hubby that I needed to run to the fabric store yestarday to look for some summery type fabric for a bag I want to make to take with me when I fly back to Spokane this summer. Have any of you ever taken your hubbies inside a fabric store with you? welllllll let me tell you it can be quite the experience. Hubby kept following me around and asking me what I was looking for? well when I explained what I wanted he started pointing out this fabric and that fabric. I told him I will know it when I see it as it will hollar at me and sayyyyyyy take me home" He said will I be able to hear it hollar in case you don't? I cracked up! Mennnnnn ya gotta love em!
Anyway I did find the perfect flip flop material and a poka dot to go with it. I also wanted some yellow fabric for my pockets but got sidetracked getting a zipper and it completley slipped my mind. We finished shopping and then I took him out to Logans a local restaurant to eat. This place is so goodddddd It has the best food and atmosphere. They have a small metal bucket of peanuts on every table and you eat the peanuts while you are waiting for your order and throw the shells on the floor. they have a great fireplace in the middle of the room and they have windows surrounding the kitchen so that you can watch the chef cook your steaks. They also have yeast rolls made with honey that are to die for! I have decided that I need to get to the store and buy some yeast and some honey and make some myself. After that we returned home and I got a good start on my bag. everything is cut out but we have no joanns here and I need steam a seam 2 so have contacted my daughter to send me some. she is such a sweety!
Lets seeeeeeeeeeee what else have I been up too" ohhhhhhhhhh I have started a new quilt for my grandson Donald. The one I made for him years ago has apparently seen better days so I have started a square in a square quilt or at least I think that is what it is called. I will add a picture of some of the blocks. of course you know that when I add them they will go above the other picture. I hate that part of writting these bloggs. I wish they would go where they are supposed too.
O.k. wellllllll I am off again " will try and return soon. take care

Ahhhhhhhhhh the weekend!

Well here it is the weekend and you would think that would be the time to relax , lay around with a spot of tea and eat crumpits right? Not a chance" I have been going from the time I got up this morning. First I had to empty and clean the cat box. then I had to vaccum the bedroom and the bathroom which I usually let hubby do but clutsy me" spilled some of the litter so I wanted to get it up right away. After that it was off to the kitchen to start the laundry. Then I browned some pork chops and added them to the crockpot with all the goodies to make a nice gravy and some sliced potatoes. After that I decided to make up some of the minnie cheese cakes that I had found the recipe for on one of the bloggs " I knowwwwwwww you want to know the recipe" Well I will have to just tell you how to make it and what is in it because for some strange reason when I printed it out" there is no url at the bottom of the page. so here goes.

You take two 8 ounce pkgs. of cream cheese plus 2 eggs, 3/4 cups sugar, a teaspoon of vanilla and a teaspoon of lemon juice, mix all of that together in a mixing bowl. then take some cup cake holders and put into a cupcake pan. place a vanilla wafer in the bottom of each cup cake paper unless you want to be very daring and you can use an oreo on the bottom. which ever you use it is going to form your crust". Now you take your mixture and spoon it into the cups untill they are about 3/4" full. Now bake them in a preheated oven at 325 for about twenty minutes. pull them out and set them on a rack to cool. Once cooled open up a can of cherry or blueberry pie filling and spoon a little bit into the center of each cup. Now comes the hard part. put them into the fridgerator and let them cool for about two hours. Then you can take them out of their papers and arrange them on a plate and you have yourself a little piece of heaven. Hows that for a quick super easy yummmmmmmmmmy desert? I would like to thank whoevers blogg I got this off of but don't remember where it was. It is definately yummyyyyyyyyyyyy and very easy. I think it made around sixteen of them.

Besides that I managed to sew up a sewing bag for my buddy in Spokane. She likes pastels but I think once she sees this adorable sewing fabric she will like it anyway.

Other then that" all I managed to do was housework. tomorrow I will have to get to the kitchen floor yuckkkkkkkkkkk why can't I be rich and have a housecleaner and a workout trainer ect. Oh well back to reality. hope your day was as fun as mine was.

Another month""""""'

Is it just me" Or do any of you wonder where in the heck the time goes! I swear maybe its my age but it seems like time is flying by much too quickly!

It seems we are always going somewhere and there is just never enough time to do what I like to do. I did manage to stay up untill eleven last nite and get an eye mask and a an eye glass case made for my granddaughter kloe. She recently got new glasses and I have wanted to make her a new glass case ever since but just didn't get around too it. She also has migranes so I thought one of those eye masks would help to keep the light out of her eyes and might make her a little more comfortable. I hate seeing my grandkids in pain and would much rather go through it myself .

I also managed to get into my hairstylist today and get a much needed haircut. Don't you just hate it when your hair is hanging down your neck! I wore my hair long for most of my life and just recently decided that I needed to start wearing it short. welllllllllll I was always told that once you started wearing short hair you would probably never go back to long again. I think they were right because I tried too and it has been driving me crazzy.

We had something happen at work today that everyone who was born here is used too and I of course had no idea"''' As most of you know I work for the school system. I was in the kitchen preparing for lunch when someone came over the loudspeaker and announced that there had been a tonado warning. well I said guess if I hurry I can make it home. everyone laughed and said Linda you can't outrun a tornado. someone said why would you want to try. and I said welllllll if I am going to die I would rather be with someone I love" Wellllllllllllllllll one of my good cooking buddies Namely my boss says wellllllllllll that tells you what she thinks of us! I laughed and said ahhhhhhhhhhh I love you guys too but its just not the same! Anyway then I went to use the phone because I suddenly remembered that I had forgotten to call my beauty operator for a hair cut. One of the girls was listening in thinking I was calling my hubby to tell him I loved him and she went back and told everyone that I was in there calling my hairstlyist. That brought more laughter. O.k. it isen't over yet! A little bit later anouncer came over the loudspeaker and said there is a tonado in the area please proceed to your designated area nowwwwwww. well we all headed to the pantry and while we are sitting there amongst the pans, and boxes of cereal , ect, ect. I made the comment wellllll this is a heck of a place to be if a hurricane hits we are going to get hit in the head by all this flying debree". Everyone agreed and we discussed other things. Well I made the comment How soon will we know if it has passed? Welllllllllllll let me tell you everyone started laughingggggggggggg you see unknown to me" This is a drill that is performed every march several times because of tonado season. Nowwwww you knowwwwwww that I am never ever going to live this one down.

Once I got home I did manage to go to get my hair cut and she did a fantastic job. Don't you just love it when you find a great hairdresser! O.k. I am off to read a few emails and hopefully get some more sewing in. take care and have fun!

new cake plate"

Awhile back I posted a picture of a cake plate that we made using a cheapie plate and bowl from wallmart. well it would have been cute except that the texture of the bowl made the plate lean in one direction. Anyway I finally managed to get to a thrift store and found two pretty flowered plates for .50 cents each. I also found a candlestick that was perfect to put unterneath the cake plate.

I am thinking these could become habbit forming.! Not a good thing for someone like me that lives in a veryyyyyyyy small house!

It's Monday"""""""

Wow two days in a row! This is very unusual for me" If I keep this up" I may have to try and keep a diary again. I will say one thing about keeping a blogg, It does keep you going with your projects. I have noticed that in the back of my mind I am always thinking what am I going to post to my blogg today. Yestarday I finally got off the computer and headed to my file folder to look for something and before you know it" I am sidetracked by a cat pattern. Do any of you ever get that way? I used to tease my girlfriend Judy about doing that. She is a few years older then I am" and every time she would start going through a box or whatever to find something she would get completely sidetracked by other things she would find to the point that she completely spaced out what she was looking for in the first place. WEllllllllllll I am beginning to think this must be one of the side effects of old age! At any rate I am so farrrrrrrrrr still remembering what it was I was looking for in the first place but have a tendency to get very excited about an entirely different project that I come across. This was the case yestarday. I found a cat pattern that I had completely forgotten I had and for some unknown reason I just hadddddd to make it up. I have also made up something that I have wanted to make up for the longest time. Somewhere I saw a reference to creating a color wheel with your fabrics and I loveeeeeeeee it! They are so much fun to make. I made mine out of the dresdon plate designs and am in the process of appliquing it down now. I sat in my easy chair last nite stitching away and it is almost done. Will have to think of something to put around it so that it can be more of a wall hanging for my sewing room. nowwwwwww where to find space to hang it! well I had better go do something with my hair. hubby seems to think that its time we went to the grocery store to get some groceries. We have both decided that we need to start eating lighter and right now what is in our kitchen definately does not qualify! take care untill next time.

Sunday"

Well here it is sunday and I am being lazy sitting around in my pj's. I have been on the computer for most of the morning and I did manage to make up some of the raggedy coasters that I found the pattern for the other day. http://www.lovetosew.com/

They aren't quite as raggady as they should be but the four inch heart that they call for is a bit too large. Next time I make some I will use a little bit smaller heart so that I have a deeper fringe in the end. All in All they are very simple and fun to make. I think they would make great christmas gifts with christmas fabrics or neat valentine gifts if I had seen them in time to make them. (story of my life). I am trying to decide what to do next on my list. I have so many unfinished projects laying around. I have several of the pirmitive emb. designs printed out and ready to add to fabric. I found that I had a embroidery transfer book from several years ago that I had bought at a dimestore and it has lots of very cute emb. patterns. Speaking of primitive I received an email today from someone that thought I was demeaning hand emb as some kind of old persons art by calling the designs primitive. Believe me that couldn't be farther from the truth. I am oldddddddddddd myself! The big 60 is justttttttttttt around the corner. What I mean by primitive is the type of designs. They are very plain primitive in style. So lets not let this get out of hand folks. I am about as primitive as they get".

Joanns has a free bag pattern that is made up of double quilted fabric and is veryyyyyy cute! I am thinking about making one up. First of all I will have to get back to town and see if I can find some material that I like. I do have a piece I bought just recently but it is black and if I make one I would like to take it with me to Spokane when I go in July. Somehow the old standards are still whispering in my ear that you don't wear black in the spring or summer . Funny how those things stick with us. Do any of you remember hearing your mother say make sure your underware is clean in case you get into an accident and they have to take you to the hospital. Tell meeeeeeeeee where did that ever come from? Was my mother the only one that ever did that! Like anyone is going to be worrying about their underware if they are in an ambulence on the way to the hospital. Darnnnnnnnnn it! those of you who heard this growing up are just like me" and that will be the first thing that comes to mind once you are conscience again (is my underware in good condition?) O.k. my mind is really wandering now so I think that I had better go find something productive to do. take care and I hope that I have in some small way given you something to think about. Hee hee

Another thing I have recently gotten back into and haven't done for yearssssssss is hand embroidery" yeah you heard it right! Can you beleive I have two perfectly good embroidery machines sitting here and I am resorting to handdddddd embroidery" Well blame it on the bloggs. In my surfing of the bloggs I have run into sooooooooo many adorable primative type embroidery designs and there is just something so sweet about them. It brings me back to my childhood and watching my mother embroider by hand. I had a hope chest with lots and lots of pillowcases that had been embroidered by hand which I gave to my sweet daughter. She of course also owns and embroidery machine. Anyway I really am enjoying this so may just have to keep it up. I found this adorable love pattern on one of those bloggs. I knowwwwww I forgot to write down the name of it but if you go to Happy zombi blogg I believe there is a link to it there or on one of her bloggers. sorry I really should be more organized but organization skills seem to illude me no matter how hard I try. lols ohhhhhhhhhhhh I think it may have been bunny hills blogg but not entirely sure. Its worth checking out anyway. Wellllllll I am off to create some more. take care and have a great day!

Its Saturdayyyyyyy!!!

I absolutely loveeeeeeee saturdays! It is the one day that I am reasonably sure that I will be home sewing and playing on the computer. The reason for this is saturday is my laundry day so no running around yessssssssssssss Boy am I getting oldddddddddd or what! Can't believe I just said that! Anyway We had thursday off at work because it snowed. Can you believe it? Being a northerner I am not use to these north carolinians closing everything down for a couple of inches of snow. lols Anyway I am not complaining as I managed to get some sewing done. Both then and today. Have you heard of the pennie pockets yet? They were designed by The happy zombie blogg and they are soooooooo cute. we used to call them may baskets I think" when we were kids. you make these cute little pockets and you put something in them" candy, flowers, ect. and you hang them on someones doorknob. I managed to finish several of them. I need to get some little heart chochoaltes to put inside of one of these for my secret pal at work.

cake plates

O.k now after these adorable pictures (I might be a bit predjudice) nooooooooooooo anyway I thought I would show you a cake plate that I made from a blogg I saw somewhere. If you would like more information you can go to my daughters site as she showed how to do it step by step and I love her plate much better then the one I found. Her blogg is http://a-needle-pulling-thread.blogspot.com/

one more picture

Another busy day.

My daughter sent me some gorgous pictures of my granddaughter so I thought you all might like to see just how sweet she is"

Weekend is hereeeeeeeee

Hi everyone" Hope you are having as much fun sewing and creating as I am." Today is saturday so I can play while I am doing the laundry ect. I managed to finish two of the doll quilts I have been working on. And I have two others in the making.

The other two are going to be done in 4 1/2" squares. these two were done in 2 1/2" squares. I think the larger go muchhhhhhhhh faster and I have several more to make. I still have pillows and pillow cases to make along with some doll carrier beds. Everyone thinks that I spoil my grandkids but if theirs lived as far away from them as mine do they would spoil them too. I am so looking forward to seeing them again in July. I cannot hardly believe that my youngest granddaughter is going to be 14 months old ! I will really have to spoil that one so that she remembers her granny.

Today I had intended on posting a cake plate that we made from a blogg idea somewhere" you take a plate and a bowl and you turn the bowl upside down and lay your plate over the top. This really does make an adorable cake plate! but I happend to stop by wallmart yestarday and picked up a set that had a swirl design on them so for some reason the plate didn't sit as evenly as it should have so back to the drawing board. When you use these permanent glues there is no second chance to get it right.

Well I am off to work some more on another doll quilt. Will try and post again before long. take care untill we meet again.

coaster swap

I joined a coaster swap in a group that I bleong too called sewgoodfriends and I received my packages in todays mail.

From Dee I received four coasters ,a beautifull lace bookmark and some bobin bikinies. I had never seen these before but they look very interesting and I can see where they would keep your bobins in place.

From Fliesha I received four coasters, a nice card and some blackberry tea yummmmmmmm

Today I tried my very first snaphappy bag pattern yesssssssssssssssssss these are sooooooo simple and so much fun to make. Other then the time it takes to cut and trim and tape the tape measurer it is really a snap to make and they are sooooooo cute!

snowmannnnnnnnnnnnn

Oops I forgot to add the picture of my january snowman!

I did join a coaster swap also but wouldn't you know" I forgot to take pictures before I mailed off the packages.

I also managed to make some kleenex holders. My gift box is already full so I will have to start another one. between friends family and all the things I get myself involved in" I am sure I will need all of them"

Snowwwwwwwwww

Well we are home from the hospital and all is well once again. He had two areas that were about thirty percent clogged but no need for a stent or surjury. they have to be at least 80% before they can do anything like that. They are going to change his medication and see if that won't stop the pains he has been having.

It snowed six inches here in N.C. so we didn't have school today. It always amazes me that everything closes down for even a couple of inches of snow. comming from snow country that is hard to understand. Anyway I am not complaining because when the schools shut down I stay home yessssssssss. Since I was home I went blogg surfing and found a monthly snowman pattern. This is offereed by ellie and I am addign her blogg to the right hand side of my blogg so that you can go over and get your own snowman pattern. She will be creating one each month. she already has several pictures in her gallery and they are sooooooo cute.

I will also add a picture of our snow I had to take pictures as no body will ever believe me. lols Take care and above all else have fun! you never know what tomorrow will bring.

Keeping busy'''''''''

Well this is saturday a typical laundry day. yuckkkkkkkkkk not a lot of fun in doing the laundry so I try and sew inbetween loads. This morning I managed to finish two ruffle skirts for the granddaughters Kaylee and Kristina. Last nite I made a mixer cover for my daughter kerrie.'

Will add the pics and hopefully they will go in the correct order. not sure why but whenever I write in this blogg and enter pics they go in backwards from the way I entered them.

Not a lot going on today other then sewing. I think I might look for some fabric and make a mixer cover for our kitchen. I am always making things for others and never quite get around to making them for myself. I think all of us sewers have that problem. Maybe we should make a list of projects and actually stick too it. What a novel idea" I think I might just try that. It would be nice to be orgainize. I actually belong to a couple of groups that are supposed to keep me organized. I do manage to get more accomplished but I am beginning to think that some of us are orgainized and some are not. I seem to prefer the spur of the moment!

The birds are arriving back in North Carolina. They don't seem to stay away for very long. I love sitting here at the computer in my sewing room and watching them out the window. we have invested in several bird feeders as they are sooooooo pretty and we love watching them. It amazes me just how much food the little buggers go through! One of my neighbors has fifteen outside cats and at least three of them think of our yard as their yard. They love to sit under the bird feeders and just wait for a chance to jump at them. Have you ever actually watched a cat jump after a bird? Let me tell you these little buggers can jump highhhhhhhh. Now I realize that animals operate by supply and demand and it is the natural order of things for cats to eat birds but I have to say " even though I love my indoor cat! I am cheering for the birds. Luckily it is very seldom that they manage to catch one. It won't be long before we will be getting ready to plant a garden again. I swear I don't know where all the time goes. speaking of time" I had better get back to sewing " take care untill we meet again.

LIfes ups and downs.

Hi its me again" I just finished a baby quilt that I needed to donate to the local quilt guild. That makes me feel good because it is one less unfinished project in my sewing room. Now there are only about 99 left. Welllllllll maybe not quite that many. I have two projects on the ironing board right now. One is an applique block that I want to take along to the hospital next week. Hubby has to have a catherization. He had a small heart attack a few months ago (If there is such a thing) Anyway they put him on pills to slow his heart down. Well He has not been feeling all that good and the pills aren't doing as much for him so he decided it was time to go back in. We will go in tuesday afternoon its a sixty mile drive and then they will do the proceedure wednsday morning. Hopefully everything is o.k. and we will head back the same day. If not " if he needs another stent or anything else then it will be longer. Buttttttt I digress" The other projects are some ruffle skirts for my granddaughters Kaylee and Kristina. They are going to loveeeeeee these. I owe many thanks to a certain cyber buddy for the pattern. Thanks Jeannie!

Life goes on""""

Well the hollidays are over with and life goes on. Took hubby into Greenville yestarday to see a cardiologist. They are going to do a catherization on him to see if he needs another stent. There is never a dull moment around our house. I get soooooooooo tirid of worrying about one person or another. I wish that life could just go along at an even keel with no worries. But I guess that is just not too be. That being said I am glad he is getting this proceedure done because the pain is comming from some where and with his heart history the chances are that there is a reason for it. Will just have to leave it in Gods capable hands and hope for the best.

My daughter lives in Spokane and they have had sooooooooooo much snow! It has all started to melt now and freeze. That is going to be a real problem there for some time I am afraid". They are not used to getting that much snow and there have been bussinesses collapsing due to the weight of the snow.

I am still working on all my crafts inbetween working and doctor visits. hopefully I will be able to post a few soon. My problem is that there are just wayyyyyyyy too many things that I want to accomplish. I try to work on smaller projects as I haven't been able to handle the larger ones for some time now. I love making wall quilts, and have recently gotten into minnie quilts. Helps to keep my mind and body busy. Have recently aquired some cute little bag patterns that I would like to complete " also some scissor holders and needle keepers. Do any of you get addicted to going from blogg to blogg? I have gotten so addicted to looking at different projects. I loveeeeeee these bloggs! Especially all the great tutorials. The only downside is that I seem to spend more time looking then actually completeing! wellllllll will close for now and hopefully be back soon with some good news. "

Christmas Day!

Well here it is Christmas Day and before you know it we will be taking the tree down and putting everything away. I hope everyone had a great Christmas. Ours was good! And could only have been better if (you know this by nowwwwwww My grandkids were here). They have been getting tons of snow! Our weather couldn't be more different then theirs. Its warm and drizzling outside here.

My daughter sent pics of the grandkids in their outfits that grandma got them for christmas, Kristina has the monkey that I got her and Kaitlin is holding her toy and bears that I made her. Daniel of course is sporting the shirts granny got him. My daughter says he is difficult to buy for but granny has his number haaaaaaaaa And the other photos are the great grandsons that were here for christmas eve. Just a short post as I am due at the son in laws for christmas dinner so have to get ready. take care and merry christmas too everyone!

Almost Christmas"

Wowwww where is all the time going? Is it just me" Or does time seem to be going by much faster then it used too".

I managed to finish the dresdon plate table topper and gave it to a friend at work who was in the hospital .

I am working on another one now in orange colors. I also have several frog blocks that I had from a friend some time ago and they have a lot of orange in them. They have frogs which I love but with the color scheme she has chosen the only way to set them to gether where they would look good would be to use the gold that she already used in the blocks. soooooooooo I am trying to come up with a solution. so far I am playing around with random scrap strips which seems to be working. I would like to get this put together so that I have one less project laying around in my sewing room. Sometimes I really wish that I were the type that never started another project untill I finished what I was working on". I know that will never ever happen but its nice to dream.

The christmas shopping is almost done: and before we know it we will be getting ready for christmas eve and christmas day. My husbands son and his family come over for dinner on christmas eve and open gifts. Then Christmas day we go to their house for christmas dinner.

I would sooooooooo love to have my grandkids here durring the hollidays. I keep praying that one day that will happen.

There has been a lot going on at work. we have had our girls nite out to exchange christmas gifts and the following day we had christmas dinner at the school. The pta and the school do this every year. I have also been involved with a secret pal at work and she had someone drop off her christmas gift. While I love this time of year it is sad also because I miss my grandkids. I watched the kidnegardeners sing us christmas songs and I had to pinch myself to keep from crying. I just keep telling myself that summer is on its way and I will spend three weeks with them in July. I am thinking that one of these christmases I may just jump on a plane and spend a week at christmas time instead of the three weeks durring the summer. It would be such fun but at the same time not nearly enough time. ohhhhhhh my this is beginning to sound more like a diary then a blogg.

Lets see " I also finished a christmas wall hanging just in time. Hmmmmm not sure what I do wrong but the last picture I post never comes last" It always seems to go first. Wellllllll guess I will close for now. I wish all of you a very Merry Christmas if I don't get a chance to get back here before then.