Quilt Humor

Check out this great blog.... she found some quilters' sayings/artwork that are a hoot!

p.s. quilt humor NOT to be confused with Good.Humor ice cream ☺

The Fourth Revisited

Ryssa put a fourth pic up on f.b. where she cropped Chad and herself into the pic in front of us. I decided to try my hand at it.

Not too bad for a few minutes work!

Neighbors

We had some new neighbors come over on Tuesday afternoon. Miss K managed to snap a pic of them in our backyard!

Wednesday (yesterday) was Rod's 55th birthday! And my Mom came to stay with us for a week while David and Dad go to Michigan for a radio something-or-other!

Today Miss K took Mom and me for a ride. Down to Wagon Train Lake and all around the lake. Saw another baby deer in the cornfield right across the road from Wagon Train.

Hope you're having a great week!

The Hill is Growing

I sent Miss K out with my camera yesterday. I have flowers on the hill and they're beautiful !!!

Have a great week!

It was a Happy Fourth

The whole family... we missed Chad and Ryssa!

And a few fireworks........

Hope you had a great time!

Postcards Galore!

For more than a week now, I've been busily scrambling making fabric valentine postcards! Oodles and oodles of them! Miss K sold them back in 2007 to raise money for camp. And we're going to try it again. Here's what I've been looking at for the last 10 days or so...

Fabric covered blanks ready to embellish...

Ribbons and brads and whatnot for embellishing...

Some of the cards ready for backs and edging...

Who knows how many and counting. I have about 225 cards with fabric to be embellished. We'll see how many actually get finished!

Hope you're having a great fourth!

p.s. I finished all the embellishing last night. I counted 235 embellished cards waiting to be finished!

B's Shower

Last Sunday we had a bridal shower for Bethany... soon to be Mrs. Jake B! We had a really nice time. Lots of friends. Lots of great gifts. Lots of scones... made by Gary!

L - R: sister Cori, Bethany, soon to be S-I-L Megan, and friend Rachel.

Tomorrow... pics of what I've been working on for the last week!

A Little Early

Kali and I ran some errands today.

When we pulled in the drive, guess who we saw?

I think he's just a little bit early for the holidays.

p.s. He's been wandering around the yard for the last hour or so!

Road Trip

Yesterday, I was supposed to go on a road trip for the day with three friends... and one of them became ill. We postponed the trip. Later in the day, it dawned on me that I didn't want to wait another two or three weeks for the sewing machine bobbin for my Sadie (quilting machine) that I was going to pick up on the trip. So, I called Martha and off we went.

Went to Fremont, got the part, and bought some fabric. Drove around Fremont and looked at the houses, stores, the mall. Found a nice little bead shop.

On the way home, we drove through Cedar Bluffs... because it was there and because we had never gone there before! Saw this great house there. It actually had more lime in it than olive. Drove through the one block down town. As I looked in my rear view mirror, I saw the sheriff flip his lights on, park behind a van blocking it in, and get out of the car heading for the man from the van! Oh excitement!!! We kept on driving away from the action ☺

Drove past a nice looking school... looked like elementary through high school. Then we saw this across the street!!! A wonderful, old church for sale... for $105,900! Wish it were closer to our house....

Took the scenic route through Wahoo and looked at houses. This was actually a grayed pinkish plum color. Very pretty.

This picture does not do this house justice. It was beautiful. And a strange color... sort of a burgundy mauve mix. Sounds weird, but looked wonderful on this house. Well maintained and a nice yard too. Wow.

Lastly, this house with the great fence. The house was very striking in person. All three houses were within a couple blocks of each other.

That's all. Hope you enjoyed the tour!

Flowers

Mother's Day has come and gone... but my clematis is still blooming. Rod bought one for me for my very first Mother's Day after Chad was born. We moved it out with us to the country (in the middle of December!) ... and added another. Now you can't tell where one stops and the other begins! It's blooming and growing. Looks great!!! (That cool black thing is my bird feeder.)


These are some of the plants I got this year. Rod planted them at the bottom of the flower hill. So far, so good!

I love blanket flower!!!

This is on the front porch. I cobbled that bench together... probably 12 or 13 years ago! A Christmas cactus. Love the gnome with the lime green hat!

The plant at the bottom is a gardenia. My friend, Merrilee, sent it to me. It looked wonderful and smelled wonderful too! Unfortunately, it didn't like the dry house in a cold Nebraska spring! It's lost more than half its leaves. It is liking being outdoors now that it has warmed up. Merrilee lives in American Samoa. She said they just keep them outside on their patios!

Hope your weekend is going great!

Someone New

We have a new addition to the household!

Isn't he cute?! I found him last week. I just think he's adorable. By fall, he should just be peeking out from behind a bunch of flowers! Hard to imagine with how scrawny they look in the pic!

Have a great weekend!

QOV #1

QOV = Quilts of Valor

I met a woman online named Alycia. She started her own Quilts of Valor program out in Colorado with the fifth graders at her sons' school. They work on different blocks together. Sometimes high school students help out. And they make several quilts each year. The quilts are donated to wounded soldiers at the base near them. Anyway, the chaplain at the base expressed a need for more quilts...way more quilts....and Alycia put out the call for quilts on an internet quilt group. She got more than she hoped for! In 2009, she has already received more than 700 quilts! Most have been delivered, I believe.

Ok, so how does that tie into to me? Well, on the Fourth of July, 2008, I spent the day cutting up fabric for Quilts of Valor. Almost all of my reds and blues. A lot of tan and white. And then I found a bunch of state flower fabrics left over from a project several years ago. Added the white and a few other fabrics and actually had enough for two throw size quilts. Not all QOVs have to be in patriotic colors....right? Maybe some female soldier would like a flower quilt.

Anyway, I finally got one top quilted over Memorial weekend!



Now I only have six (?) more to go!!!! A friend from quilt guild, Sharon, has been piecing the blue, red, and tan tops. She pieces much faster than I quilt :-0

Better get busy. Thanx for stopping by.

Young Quilt Artists Project

I've mentioned before that I go quilt with high school girls each week.
I've shown some pics too.
Here is a cool little article on the LPS site about it.

The reception for their quilt show is Thursday, May 21st,

5:30 - 7:30 p.m.

at the Bernina Sewing Studio, 1501 Pine Lake Road.

Everyone is welcome!

The show will continue to hang through May 29th.

Weekend Blogger

It seems I have become a weekend blogger! That's what happens to you when so little happens in your life during the week.... you can fit it all into one or two blogs on the weekends! Oh well, boring is good... right???

Rod got a new wheel barrow/wagon. Miss K thought Max needed a ride. Max however did NOT think it was such a great idea!



Friday afternoon, Sam checked my birdhouse for me. Last week he found the eggs. This week, there are five babies!!! (Sam checks it because his mother is a coward. The first time she checked a house, she was divebombed by the momma and poppa birds! Almost couldn't get the house back on the pole! So now, it is Sam's job because Miss K won't do it either!!!!)

Last night (Friday), Miss K and I went to Sam Sam's graduation party! And then on to the TPOS concert. (Thirty Pieces of Silver) The HSB (High School Band...such an original name ☺) opened. Then Broken Cistern. That's Jon on guitar and Jake on drums...Kyle's not in the pic. Jon and Jake were two of Chad's closest friends in high school. You can hear their music here. They were great! (I nabbed their pic off their web site!)

And then it was time for the old guys... TPOS! They were awesome! Check them out here. There's a spot on the right to click to hear them. We had a great night... and they raised some money for high school camp this summer! (I snagged these pics off their site too!)

Hope you're having a great weekend!

Happy Mother's Day 2009

Another Mother's Day! Happy Mother's Day to all you moms out there!

Kali and I took off spur of the moment on Thursday morning and drove to Grand Island. (I hadn't been out of Lincoln since March!) Picked up my parents and went out a great little Chinese restaurant. Had a good time and a great meal!!!

Then we took Mom shopping. That was a first...Kali, Mom, and I all clothes shopping! Got Mom a nice sweater. Miss K ended up with shoes and smilie face socks... and some other things. Mom got a kick out of watching her try stuff on... especially more weird shoes!


Hope you have a great week!

Sam's Graduation Quilt

Heard of better late than never? Well, that seems to apply to my quilting these days. I started Sam's graduation quilt a couple years ago... before he graduated! Got it all quilted back in December before my surgery. Even got the binding machine sewn onto it. And got the binding hand sewn between Christmas and New Years! Then it took 4-1/2 months to get the label on it!

So here it is with Sam on Friday afternoon. It's made from Ami Simms' Twisted Sister pattern... obviously known here as a Twisted Brother quilt! And no those are not swastikas! I made a variation of the quilt... the first block is red with black and the alternate block is black with red. Not until I saw this picture did I realize it formed the weirder larger crosses!!! Oh well, it's in great colors! And Sam likes it.

Hope you're having a great weekend!

Miss K and I went shopping for flowers this morning! We went to Low.e's and I was very surprised at the variety of plants there. It was hard to decide what to pick!!!

Impatiens... notice the white stars in the centers.

Asparagus ferns, pansies, bee balm, and dusty miller...

More pansies, dusty miller, snapdragons, and asparagus ferns...

More impatiens...

Creeping phlox... to add to what has survived all the years we've lived out here in the country (that would be 14 years and counting!)...

I forget what this is... (and I'm too lazy to walk out and read the card!)

Or these... I know those are gerber daisies at the bottom... The yellow thingie in the middle is a bush.

And blanket flowers.... I love them and bought four large pots of them.

That's it... now it's up to Rod and Miss K to plant them this weekend!

Have a great day!