My son: the comedian

Truth or Bear: a popular game at mountain men slumber parties.

Son # the oldest boy, surprised me with this drawing the other day. 

His sense of humor kills me.

So I had to share! of course.

TRANSFORMATION (said in a big booming announcer voice--like on bugs life)

Well, I finally did it, the top at least.
I transformed this fabric....

into.....

This quilt top!!!!

Now I just have to quilt it.
I'm feeling pretty good about it though.
This is my first ever quilt - quilt.
I've quilted but never sewn a quilt top.
So for my first attempt I made two -( matchy-matchy).

I've learned a few things along the way.

• measure twice - cut once. (good advice always)
• your iron is your friend.
• your pins are your friends.
• your ruler, cutting board, rotary cutter are your friends.
• your pins are NOT your friends when they poke you.
• spray starch is your friend.
• your friends are your friends (when they give you good sewing advice)
• quilts take a lot of thread, two quilts take even more.
• sewing is very therapeutic - even if you have to unpick a little.

If the rest of the quilt goes this well I may make another!
SOMEDAY!

Note: This post was published on my family blog in the fall of 2008.  The sad thing is.....I haven't quilted and bound the quilt tops yet :(   

I feel it coming...I just may finish this quilt....this year!

So I'm wondering what projects do you have lingering around? Have you decided to finish one or a ton of them up this year?

Feel free to drop me a note in the comments. I'd love to hear what everyone else is up to!

Just a little Peace and Happiness.

I'll be teaching the Young Women at church this Sunday.

No matter how many times I teach I still get a little nervous......every-single-time!

But, I think that's a good thing. It keeps me on my toes.

The lesson manual called for a hand-out with this quote from the lesson. I made these using Picnik.com and turned them into bookmarks by printing them on card-stock, punching a hole in the top and threading some cute (thin-ish) ribbon through.

If anything this has been a good reminder for me......to "get outside myself" daily "life's better out there."

If you'd like to use these too,  let me know and I'll email the jpg to you.

Hello?

{tap, tap, tap, tap} Is this thing on?

Hello?

{clearing throat}

Hello!

Hi!

It's been a while, I know.

We celebrated a lot last month.

Between family parties, birthdays, Christmas & New Years; throw in Christmas shopping, candy making, crafting, gift making, lesson giving, visiting, sledding, football watching, game playing, cooking, more family dinners, learning & loving..and before any of that could be done SEWING SEWING SEWING...We had a very busy month.

.....But we survived!

...and this past week...

after the kids went back to school....

I CRASHED!!!

HARD!

But it felt good.

So I thought I'd share 1 out of the handful of pictures I snapped in the month of December.

First, the day before Christmas, I was in the kitchen (strategic neighbor gift giving planning and prep zone) preparing neighbor gifts to be delivered by my elves when I heard my husband call out, 

"There's the Grinch! He's driving down the street in his chair."

I ran to the door just in time to see him turn the corner and go around the block.

So, I grabbed my camera and waved him down as he came back around the block.

He said he was looking for little Cindy.

Isn't this awesome!

Did you notice the green grass.

Like I said this picture was taken Dec. 24th. By December 27th the green grass was gone and we were officially  blanketed in winter white that stuck around.

Not sure how I feel about that....still undecided!

Happy Monday!