Cinderella Lives

This is my son's beautiful girlfriend, Nikki. She has started her own business "The Face Painting Robot". She has been expanding her services beyond face painting and came up with character costumes.  Here she is with my son's new Golden Doodle -Dexter.

RIP Drizzy

In 2004 a red haired lass offered

“free to a good home”

A 2 y/o black lab,

housebroken & glad

To go where

Serenity roams.

 

A loyal companion w/ a watchful eye,

He was Happy, Joyous & Free.

He’d lick your knees, ready to please.

A gift of Recovery.

 

In recent weeks he had become

A shell of his healthy wag.

A decision was made to spare him more

Grief than he could drag.

 

10 years of Joy ought to be enough

To prepare one for the sorrows

One has to feel when faced w/ the

End of a dear friend’s tomorrows.   by Fuzzy

Fuzzy Plays in the Snow

Cousin It Snowman

Sorting Wool

I posted a couple days ago about my acquisition of the box of wool squares. Since then, I have signed up for a wool crazy quilt round robin. To help organize I emptied the box and sorted by color. I am amazed at how many different wools. I may consider selling some in my Etsy shop.

BLUES

GRAYS

PINKS and YELLOW

RED and PURPLE

Good Bye to 2013

Tres' Chic

Before and after for my Paris/France Round Robin Block.  I received it a while ago, but have been remiss in posting. I think it is marvelous!

Wool Square Project

This Summer while driving to Milan, MI for the Blue Grass Festival, Fuzzy and I stopped at a rummage sale. It was my favorite kind of sale.. You take anything you want and pay whatever you think it is worth... The proceeds benefit the Susan Komen Foundation. There was TONS of stuff and they were almost done for the day. I happened upon this gem. It is a box full of pre-cut wool squares... Someone had probably intended to make a quilt. They have sat in my sewing room until recently.

   I was involved in a Secret Santa Swap and my giftee mentioned that she wanted a wool pincushion.  I consulted this website for directions and ended up with this.

 

It was fun to do... except for the choice that I made for the bottom of ultra suede... VERY difficult to hand sew through... However I think it turned out so nice, I am planning to make myself one.

Dreaming

Dreaming of spring and chasing bunnies!

Ice Pictures Day 2

Merry Christmas 2013

Ice Storm 2013

Saturday morning we awoke to ice storm. A tree branch broke off a tree in our front yard from the weight of the ice formed on the branches. Luckily we still had power, unlike many people in our county. Today we took a drive around to see hundreds of branches, limbs and trees downed. The news reported that people in a neighboring county were to be without power until after Christmas.



This is the downed tree branch.

Chloe can barely be noticed against the snow...checking out the frozen tree.

Fuzzy took some great photos capturing the beauty of the storm.

The chain link fence never looked so beautiful

My clothesline.

Maple tree buds enclosed in ice.

 

Garden Spider''s Yearly Visit

This lovely creature was waiting for me by the back door when I got home the other day. This is the third year in a row it has visited. It stays for a couple days then disappears.. I would just like to know where it is the other days of the year!

Merry Christmas 2012

Happy Thanksgiving 2012

Paris Round Robin

I have been so remiss in posting... lots of catching up to do.. hopefully over the Thanksgiving holiday. For now, here is the naked block of my latest Crazy Quilting Round Robin... the theme is Paris.

 

I was absolutely thrilled with the first additions... Cathy of Utah added this delightful spiderweb and the corset...!

American Quilt Society Show in Grand Rapids

Well, I have not been on my blog for a couple weeks. For two reasons: One, I have been really busy at work and we have been booked every free weekend. Two, I have gotten hooked on Listia, (a site where you "sell" items for points and then use the points to buy other things.  I have gotten some really cool stuff for crazy quilting, books, jewelry, craft items... But more on that later.

This past Wednesday Fuzzy and I traveled to Grand Rapids to take in the American Quilt Society Show. It was a great day and we have lots of pics. Probably take me half a dozen posts to cover them all. I am starting small today and posting pics of the crazy quilts in the show. A grand total of 4!

 

This is by Kerry Leslie, who is a member of CQI. It was in a special exhibition of quilts for Alzheimers's Awareness. The quilt was about 10 x 12".

Bush Cover

I was never much for the Republican Party, but today's Parade Magazine cover had more power to sway me than anything any politican has ever said!  I mean they can't be all bad if they have a Bichon!

Grandmothers, Victorian Style

I have been spending more time looking through old pics as I have acquired some from my dad when he moved out of his home.  This one is of my Grandmother Pauline. Probably taken around the turn of the century. I assume that this is a confirmation picture as she was Lutheran. I plan to use this photo in a new Round Robin block I will be starting in August... It has a Victorian theme!  Perfect!. I am trying to decide which colors to use with it. I am thinking whites/off whites and pastel colors...

These pictures are from the other side of the family. My mom's mother, Estella.   I did not know they took photos like this in a row. (kind of like from our present day photo booth). I need to try to find a way to make the one in the hat less blurry. Boy would I love to know what colors were in that hat. Eventually I would also like to make quilt blocks using these pics....Unfortunately my grandmother died long before I was born.

Lastly, another strip, this one  of my grandmother's sister; Ruth. I have fond memories of going to her farm in Walkerton, Indiana... She had no indoor toilet even in the late 60's.. She had a beautiful wood commode in her bedroom. Wish I had a picture of it... She taught me how to crochet and I had my first taste of alcohol at an early age, with her homemade dandelion wine!



Day at the Beach 1925

I came across this picture recently. The two babies in the front are my father and his twin brother. It looks to be taken at Lake Michigan... Interesting how the babies are dressed in summer clothers and the rest are dressed in sweaters and coats... It seemed appropriate on this hot day....Picture circa 1925.

4th of July 2012

So what are your plans for the 4th.? We both have off work today. Fuzzy is busy washing his car. We went this morning to get All-You-Can-Eat ppancakes at Bob Evans, then to Salvation Army for a 1/2 price sale.  After a nap and hot dog dinner, we will do some things around the house and head out tonight for the fireworks!