Today is the 23rd.
On my list
Buy Groceries
Get the last two presents still yet to buy
Bake an Apple Pie
Tomorrow
Clean House
Go to Mass
Make Chicken Noodle Soup
Christmas Day
Enjoy all the family and friends
Love Jesus!
Sounds like a great plan!!
Dottie
Bug on Don
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Snow Ball Winter Formal 2010
OMG!! Am I ever glad that's over!! Briana is did look amazing! AND she had an actual date!!
Does anyone know how to rotate these? I set this one right before I pulled it from iPhoto, but it still goes sideways. GRRR!!
Does anyone know how to rotate these? I set this one right before I pulled it from iPhoto, but it still goes sideways. GRRR!!
Three Quilts
I just finished two baby quilts!! Yea! They are already in boxes ready to be given to the mommies-to-be! I used the exact same pattern and two different styles of fabric.
The red and white one is more traditional
and the orange and green and banana quilt is a little more modern. Anywho, my friends don't know what sex the babies are, so I had to go with anything other than pink and blue. What a relief!!
I finally, well, almost finished this spider web quilt. It is 50" X 50" with out the binding. It has over 80 different fabric scraps. I really like this showy piece!
Here's a close up of the web.
The red and white one is more traditional
and the orange and green and banana quilt is a little more modern. Anywho, my friends don't know what sex the babies are, so I had to go with anything other than pink and blue. What a relief!!
I finally, well, almost finished this spider web quilt. It is 50" X 50" with out the binding. It has over 80 different fabric scraps. I really like this showy piece!
Here's a close up of the web.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
QUILT
Okay, so I finally finished this Bargello Queen-sized Quilt. I tell ya, I almost gave up my hobby over this bugger. I used 42 different fabrics which equaled 2012 2" X 2" squares. I started this task in July and just finished last weekend. Grrrr! Every piece with the exception of the border and backing was a scrap in my stash!
The cat likes it!!
The cat likes it!!
Halloween with the Busics
Every year, Don and I go over to Scott and Vicki's house to pass out candy so they can take their tribe trick-or-treating. This year was, as always, lots of fun. Kendall was Tinkerbell.
Cameron, Connor, and Cole we MegaEvil, the Grim Reeper, and Venom, in that order. Funny how in years past, these guys are usually dressed up in some Star Wars or Power Ranger characters. At a certain point, boys go bad!!
Briana was Pebbles, the teenage years!
Fun for ALL!!
Cameron, Connor, and Cole we MegaEvil, the Grim Reeper, and Venom, in that order. Funny how in years past, these guys are usually dressed up in some Star Wars or Power Ranger characters. At a certain point, boys go bad!!
Briana was Pebbles, the teenage years!
Fun for ALL!!
Saturday, October 16, 2010
It has been a long time, Friend
Wow! I did not realized how many calendar pages had fallen from the peg. I sit here this morning alone and too early even for the cats. Don is out of town, Briana got home super late from an Ashland Shakespeare Festival, and no one is awake even to call two time zones away. That's okay.
I am working one two quilts that are very involved. One is a Queen Size Bargello style with at least 42 different fabrics in it. With just a little more top stitching and an edging, I should have a finished project. I'll post as soon as it is done!! The other is called a spider web. It is a little larger than a lap quilt, but has just as many different colors. The entire thing is made of scraps. I used paper piecing for the first time with this one. That was a trip. Regular printer paper is pretty thick, so cutting the little bits away took an EON!! I am undecided as to what to do with this quilt. Part of me wants to hang it on the wall; it is that showy. Part of me wants to give it as a Christmas present to my friend Monica, and part of me wants to give it to a friend as a baby quilt. I'm stumped. I know three people who are pregnant right now, well, actually, I know six. Only three or four are going to get baby quilts. I suppose that is my next big push. (no pun intended)
School has started. This year I have 181 students currently enrolled in my 6 classes. I think this is a record for me!! Overall, however, the kiddos have been really good. Actually, I'm having lots of fun!
Don has found another property in Central Oregon for us to look at. This time, it is in the town of Culver which is right above Lake Billy Chinook. Can you guess why he likes it? The property is a little over three and half acres with a weird house and a new four car garage/rv/boat enclosure that looks better than anything we have. Bank owned and foreclosed means it comes as is. If you'd like to look it up RMLS#10048509. It has water, septic, electricity which is more than I can say for the last two vacation properties on our wish list. One place only had an outhouse. Ummm, that would creep Don out. He already has issues about the toilet. Anywho, this one is about 40K less than the place in an earlier post. Of course, that one had 20 more acres and amazing views. We'll see.
Last weekend, Don and I went to the Pendleton Woolen Mills Portland store. That was either a mistake or an amazing find. I LOVE this stuff! We bought several signature pieces. Then we went to the largest fabric store in Oregon which is across the street. There we found some luxurious taupe/mushroom herringbone micro fiber upholstery material that just matched the beautiful wool. In the course of dreaming we met an ace upholsterer who just happened to work there on Saturdays. Can you guess where this is going? I went home and took pictures of the couch and love seat in my living room, sent them off to this guy, and set up an appointment to have these two redone. We are going to use the Pendleton Wool as the pillows. Now I'm thinking about painting the living room and the hall and the entry way. I have already decided to paint the Kitchen and Dining Room this great Lobster red! Just what the Doc ordered!!
It looks like a busy fall ahead!! Yippee!!
I am working one two quilts that are very involved. One is a Queen Size Bargello style with at least 42 different fabrics in it. With just a little more top stitching and an edging, I should have a finished project. I'll post as soon as it is done!! The other is called a spider web. It is a little larger than a lap quilt, but has just as many different colors. The entire thing is made of scraps. I used paper piecing for the first time with this one. That was a trip. Regular printer paper is pretty thick, so cutting the little bits away took an EON!! I am undecided as to what to do with this quilt. Part of me wants to hang it on the wall; it is that showy. Part of me wants to give it as a Christmas present to my friend Monica, and part of me wants to give it to a friend as a baby quilt. I'm stumped. I know three people who are pregnant right now, well, actually, I know six. Only three or four are going to get baby quilts. I suppose that is my next big push. (no pun intended)
School has started. This year I have 181 students currently enrolled in my 6 classes. I think this is a record for me!! Overall, however, the kiddos have been really good. Actually, I'm having lots of fun!
Don has found another property in Central Oregon for us to look at. This time, it is in the town of Culver which is right above Lake Billy Chinook. Can you guess why he likes it? The property is a little over three and half acres with a weird house and a new four car garage/rv/boat enclosure that looks better than anything we have. Bank owned and foreclosed means it comes as is. If you'd like to look it up RMLS#10048509. It has water, septic, electricity which is more than I can say for the last two vacation properties on our wish list. One place only had an outhouse. Ummm, that would creep Don out. He already has issues about the toilet. Anywho, this one is about 40K less than the place in an earlier post. Of course, that one had 20 more acres and amazing views. We'll see.
Last weekend, Don and I went to the Pendleton Woolen Mills Portland store. That was either a mistake or an amazing find. I LOVE this stuff! We bought several signature pieces. Then we went to the largest fabric store in Oregon which is across the street. There we found some luxurious taupe/mushroom herringbone micro fiber upholstery material that just matched the beautiful wool. In the course of dreaming we met an ace upholsterer who just happened to work there on Saturdays. Can you guess where this is going? I went home and took pictures of the couch and love seat in my living room, sent them off to this guy, and set up an appointment to have these two redone. We are going to use the Pendleton Wool as the pillows. Now I'm thinking about painting the living room and the hall and the entry way. I have already decided to paint the Kitchen and Dining Room this great Lobster red! Just what the Doc ordered!!
It looks like a busy fall ahead!! Yippee!!
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