Online Quilt Festival

This is my entry for the Online Quilt Festival over at Park City Girl's blog

This is one of the first quilts I made it was in 2003 I made it for my grandmother. She loved pansy's so that was my starting point, I found the lavender fabric in a box that belonged to my great-grandmother so I wanted to include it in my grandmothers quilt.

I used fusible to do the hearts and then hand blanket stitched around each one. I then pieced the squares with the hearts together and added the borders.

I machine quilted it in the ditch.

When my grandmother passed about this last year the quilt was returned to me. It sat on the foot of her bed when she made her bed every morning, She didn't want to use it because it might get dirty LOL!
I love this quilt just because it reminds me of her not because of any great technical achievement.
HUGS~

The pattern I tested...

I now available on Linda's Etsy

Kids are doing better...

The boys are almost back to 100% and DD is close to 80% better, that is fantastic.

However despite my new found love(okay it's more of an every winter fling we have) of Clorox and Lysol I have the scratchy throat and am starting with the nose ickys SIGH!

I have bleached all the linens, bathrooms and kitchen and have Lysol'd anything that held still for 3 seconds. I have given consideration to boiling the children just to be safe but decided it wasn't in anyone's best interest(I am sure the jail is just FULL of germs).

I am hoping my scratchy throat is all that I get and we will all be on the mend soon. Cross your fingers.

3 kids at home

Need I say more!

Update!!

So back from the doc, DD's flu test came back negative which is good. The only thing is the test is only about 90% accurate so she may really have the flu.

The really good thing is that she seems to be dealing with it fine and he said there was no need for Tamaflu, I will however have 3 kids home from school until Monday!

So no one is going to drop dead and I am just going to be busy bleaching and Lysoling everything.
HUGS,

School is closed for the rest of the week...

My DD's high school closed today at lunch because of an H1N1 outbreak(its pretty nasty looking isn't it)
She has been sick but it never occurred to me the she could have the "swine flu" turns out the girl she sits next to in 3 yes 3 of her classes was diagnosed with H1N1 and her mom sent her to school. What the crap was she thinking! DUDE!!!
So we have an appointment with the doc in a little over an hour to find out if that's whats up with my DD. I am told if it is we all get to go on Tamaflu(at a $30 copay per family member)
I will let you know. SIGH!

Can't go to Houston???

Well that has been covered for us Check out the link on my sidebar to the online quilt festival! It will be loads of fun.

A couple of good causes!

First I have added a button to my sidebar for for Terry's quilt, Terry DH was in a horrible accident at work and has lost a leg, Laurie is heading up a quilt project to make quilts for them. check it out. you can also read whats going on at Terry'sblog.

Second and a cause that is just as worthy of our attention is Barb lives in Pago Pago in American Somoa, As you may have heard they have had a series of earthquakes and Tsunami's, She is collecting pillow cases, light quilts and children's clothes for people who have lost everything is some cases even parts of their family

Okay I am having some difficulty in posting the button to Terry's quilt please just use the links in the post. Sorry!

One super secret project reveled

Linda asked me to help her test patterns for her new pattern line. I was honored and thrilled that she asked me. This is the first pattern I tested and I think it turned out beautiful if I do say so myself.
The pattern will soon be available so be sure to hop over to Linda's blog and book mark it so you too can make this fun bag.

Its the first of October!

Yup that means Halloween is right around the corner. Halloween is my favorite holiday I love it more than Thanksgiving and Christmas combined(I am sure it has nothing to do with the fact that Halloween doesn't require a family get together lol!)

I love to dress up, I would have loved to be on stage or in the movies. I would love to be a professional extra. I know that sounds nuts but I want to be in the movies and get to play dress up and act but I don't want all the baggage that comes with being a "star" I want to have a normal life outside of "work" hence the idea of being a professional extra. I could be baglady number 3 in scene 4 or I could be mom at the grocery store on the cereal isle, maybe I could be woman in the park that says "Who are you".

I love Fall I think that's another reason for my love of Halloween. I love the change in the colors of the trees, I love that its cool enough to wear my sweaters but not cold. I love that I can have fires in my fireplace, I love to plan warm things for dinners again.

Of course I LOVE to have people over and make all kinds of yummy goodies, to go through the kids bags and say "oh you wont like the bottle caps I better take those off your hands" LOL!

So I say WELCOME October!
HUGS,

You have to see this yummy fabric...

Check out this beautiful fabric! Here She is doing a giveaway so hurry over.

Something new,,,

Its a great new online fabric store and she is having a giveaway.
Check it out Here

You have to check this out!

Judy over at Green Fairy Quilts has 2 new wonderful layer cake patterns she just put out they are BEAUTIFUL!!!
while you are there check out the giveaway she is having to go with the release of her new patterns. Even if you don't win I know you are going to need to add these gorgeous patterns to your collection.

Okay and if that weren't enough check out Val's FREE!BOM patterns they are lovely!
HUGS!

I have been buzy I just can't show you

So this isn't my vintage White but I have one very similar so I thought since I can't show you any of the stuff I am working on I would share with you something as fun.
Okay maybe not quite AS fun but its the best I can do.

I have been working on several super secret projects this week, I promise when I am able I will post pictures but in the mean time know that I haven't lost my way to the sewing machine, I am not lost under a growing pile of dirty laundry and I having given in to the urge to run away from home and live on a desert island some place.

I am hoping to work on something I can show you later today so maybe my next post will have actual pictures of actual things I am doing ;O)

Until then HUGS!

Of Jury duty and meth labs!

So I got my summons for jury duty today, I get to report the first week of October. As far as I know there are no serial killer or terrorist coming up for trial so even if I get picked for a jury I should be able to come home each night. I will have to let you know.

Now on to meth labs, I was listening to the radio this morning and I heard about a fund raiser for Utah-detox.org It's a program for cops that have been exposed during the course of there duties to the chemicals in meth labs and are suffering ill health from it.
Its the same program used to help the people that cleaned up at ground zero. The I found that some of the cops that had taken part in this program so far are neighbors they are cops for the town to the South West of us and to the West of us. I am posting a link to a video produced about this that is on you tube its 6 minutes long but explains the program and talks to the participants. I think that I will be adding this to the charitable donations we make I hope you will too.

Hey you could even help start something for the police and firemen in your area unfortunately this isn't just a Utah problem, for that matter it's not even just a US problem. Sad but true!
Check it out
HUGS!

Jelly Roll Week...

What could be better than jelly rolls? A free jelly roll check it out HERE

This is the coolest thing ever you have to go HEREand check it out.

I am so tired today!

09/09/09

I was aiming to post at 9:09 but I was running kids and walking dogs! Dang it.

Today was DD's first day of high school SIGH!!! I am so not ready for that. I thought I had another year, when I was in school 9th grade was still Jr High but the school she is attending has 9-12th in high school.
I guess I just need to finally face the idea that I am no longer in high school myself lol!