Money Just Lying around

Have you ever wondered the type of people that drop money and don't bother looking for it?
or don't pick it up? I don'd understand it.
Sure you can no longer buy anything with a penny, but with enough pennies you can buy anything.

on Saturday, I picked up two dimes
and yesterday I found a penny.

total for the year- $0.21
how much can I get this year?

Mending Month

So I decided that January is mending month.
So I can not feel bad about the pile sitting there while I make new quilts instead...

Also the quilting bug bit my mom :D she is planning her first quilt.

and I have to add another quilt in to new years resolution! so 5 quilts and a 5K.

I also started volunteering at the local library and am looking for a job, and I plan on registering to substitute teach.

let the mending begin.

End of last year

Well sometime in December I posted my last post of last year. BUTTTTTT....a lot of stuff happened...

I got the yellow quilt back from Teresa looking great all quilted and I put on my first print border

Then I was in a wedding at the end of December and the bride made all of these for the bridesmaids

and while I was at the church which happened to be my Grandma's church I saw this quilt

which my Grandma helped make, at the roots are the names of the founders of the church, and the leaves represent each member

overall this has been a great quilting year, i learned a lot, and I know I will do great next year :D

Wrapping up the Year

So this year I had big plans... 6 quilts!
however... God of course had other plans... Moving... Twice
Traveling to 4 continents, ,which was amazing and working my tail off... then retiring.
Funny how things work out.

So needless to say with everything all squeezed in I managed to finish only two quilts...

and I didn't meet my new years resolution either. which was running a 5K, see above for my excuses :D
so next year... make 4 quilts and run a 5K, I will go on record again saying it is my new years resolution, if my husband can run a marathon I can surely run 3 miles... right?

well the last quilt is off to be quilted :D

And now I have a new distraction...

I know, I feel this is cheating too... but I didn't know how else I was going to cut thousands of perfect little hexagons... how those women did it in the 30s is beyond me... but I don't plan to do it by hand... cause then I would probably mess it up...

Here are my first two hexagons. I'm sure this project will take FOREVER, because it is going to be a queen sized Grandmothers flower garden, and I am going to hand sew and hand quilt it all. Now I know you think I'm crazy, I think so too :D but I WILL NOT GIVE THIS ONE AWAY... end of story.

so over the next 30 or so years check back for updates :D

Workin' hard

So as you know I'm now a stay at home wife.
and should have plenty of time to work on quilts... but I never seem to... not sure why.
but this week I neglected everything else...

and finished cutting out all of the squares

And made these ones into triangles

and finished half the quilt... hopefully I can finish this weekend!!!

House Wife Wednesday

Well,
Yesterday started out like a typical day, except I was feeling a little tired so I slept in a little, then I got up did a little ironing, washed some curtains and decided to go shopping for the like 5 things on my list. Since one of them was a larger litterbox for Mister.
He decided it was ok to pee on the mat outside of his litter box... for future reference... it is NOT ok.
so I picked that up and dropped off some ice cream for Josh, to celebrate me passing my NC license test! YEY!
Also I picked up an cape for hair cutting, and last night Josh let me cut his hair for the first time.

After some trial and error we got it done

Oops I cut into Josh's Side burn :-/

He then decided since he had to shave his sideburns off, why not shave his entire face...

Keep in mind in the over 9 years we have been together, I have NEVER seen Josh without facial hair... 

What do you think?

I'm getting used to it...

Tuesday

Well Finally back to quilting. yey!
Yesterday I worked on cutting squares out for my quilt, and the problem was the plaid was straight

but I needed them to be on an angle...

so it took a while... and I only got 20 cut out before I had to eat lunch and get a few other things done.

Then before I went to the grocery store I stopped by a store Teresa suggested, and they have a once a month quilt meeting, so I gave them my e-mail address and they are going to mail me before their next get together, and I talked to the lady that was working in the store, and she was super nice, and said because I dont work during the day that she could teach me stuff during the day for free. How awesome is that???!!!  However all of the fabric there is very expensive ,but its really really pretty...

Thanks Teresa