Finished!

Machine quilted. Binding finished.


Washed and all crinkled - just the way I like them! (this pictures shows the colors better)

Hope you had a great weekend!

Let's try this again

I tried to post both Wednesday and Thursday but my computer was so slow I ended up having to restart and by the time it restarted I had moved on to other things. Mr. computer is slated for an upgrade soon, just waiting on my computer guru (aka - middle son) to have time to come spend a few days transferring and updating stuffs. He helps me out - I cook for him. Pretty good trade! That probably won't happen until April so I'll just have to muddle my way through until then.

Anyway -


thought I would show you a little of what I got for Valentines Day. Hubby came home with flowers and a little bag 'o goodies. Ghiradelli (dark) chocolates and there is a gift card in there. I have something else to show you - next week. :) The flowers and candy were a bonus. :)


I also got this little surprise in the mail from my friend Terry (no blog). She sent me a package of MOP buttons! I love most anything MOP! I can't wait to find something to use these beautiful buttons on! Thanks Terry!

Okay - that's it for today.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Happy Valentines Day!

Hope you have a wonderful day!

A couple of snowmen

No, we aren't getting snow here (but we are getting rain and we had sleet yesterday).

I stitched ornaments for the girlfriends for Christmas, but since we didn't exchange gifts until last week I haven't posted pictures of them yet.


He's a Flake by Little House Needleworks


I stitched it twice (well, if you count frogging, I probably stitched it at least 3 times!) I just made pin-keep style ornaments and the backing fabric is what you see behind them in the picture. I had planned to make one for myself, but that didn't happen. (though I do have the fabric and thread still kitted up, so maybe. . .)

I wonder how many posts Goggle reader will save before it replaces the '1000+' with 'give it up, you are never gonna catch up!'?

Side-tracked

Do you get side-tracked easily? I do.

I'm not sure exactly what my plan was for yesterday but it wasn't painting! For some reason I walked by the bench in the entry and decided it was time to paint it, so I plopped it on top of the table. The poor bench has been used and abused. Besides surviving the boys, it went to live with baby boy when he was in college. When he moved to an apartment that was too small the bench went to live with some of his friends. When we rescued the poor bench it had been living out on their balcony.


I didn't do any real 'prep-work' on it but I had stuck some wood filler in a deep gouge on the top (you can see it on the right side). Other than that, I wiped it down and grabbed the ASCP.


Now it matches the table! Of course it doesn't live with the table


Most of the time it lives in the entry. (unless we need it for company)

It is raining and dreary today. We do need the rain but the dogs don't like to go out in the rain. What do the dogs do on rainy days?


They hide. Yes, there are two dogs somewhere in there.

Hope you have a great weekend!

Old, but new!

I have something that is old, but new.


See the doiley? My great-grandmother made it - no telling how many of those things she made but until recently I only had one (framed, hanging in my living room) My aunt sent this one several months ago. It came the week the girlfriends were here for the quilt festival but it had several places that needed repair. I don't crochet. I would have used it as is, but Sarah's mother crochets and she likes to repair old pieces like this, so Sarah took it to her to fix. I picked it up when I was in J'ville last week.


So, now it is 'new' to me! Don't you love it when you don't notice that something isn't straight until after you upload the picture? I haven't pressed it - couldn't wait to get it on the table and take a picture!

Hope you are having a wonderful week!

A fun week!

I didn't mean to just disappear! I had planned to post last Monday but I ran out of time.

I went to J'ville to spend the week with the girlfriends. We had a great time just hanging out together - shopping and visiting. It was the first time we had a chance to get together since before Christmas so we had our little 3-woman Christmas while I was there. (looked like I was moving - both going and coming!) Some of it has already been put away, but here a few pictures of some ornaments that were in the 'gifty bags'. (we always do bags 'o stuff!)






This one is all wood. The card that came with it says the colors are all natural, no stains, dyes or paint. (www.woodquilter.net) There were several Christmas things in the bag (there always are!) and I have put most of that up, but I'm keeping the ornaments out in my sewing room so I an enjoy them all year.

I hope you had a great week. Of course when you take a week away there is a load of stuff to catch up on when you get back so that is what I'll be working on this week!