10.24.2012

Hi everyone!!
It's nearly Halloween!  I still need to get candy from the store I will have to remember to get it on thursday and stash it this time!! the last bags disappeared!

I haven't gotten much done this week at least variety wise. I have been determined to get my Crinoline picture done by the end of the month.  I am trying to plan section by section  today I have to finish the left  side poof and start on the right side so here's hoping!! I found a few movies on netflix and put them in the list for instant watching so after I catch up on my dvr shows I will watch one. Both  husband and son are working late tonight so will be a long day.

 Here is a picture of the crinoline so far
Having computer problems today so I will go have a great week!!!

10.17.12

October is nearly over!!I'm not nearly caught up enough for x-mas!!
I worked all day Monday and Tuesday finishing my sister-in-laws quilt. It went from a lapquilt to a king quilt for her bed!!
I ran out of blue for the back and the store was sold out of it so  I had to re dig in the stash and found a bolt of fabric I bought on a whim last month  who new it was going to jump out for the  quilt!!! It is perfect for the back along with some blue it picks up a lot of the different  colors on the front of the quilt. I remembered though why I said  NO MORE BEDSPREADS!!!! I don't have enough room to sew them or lay them out properly.  Usually my quilter is nice enough to put the backs together for me but I didn't like to ask her to do the king size one. Hopefully my husband will drop it off to her by the end of the week!

Daisy is doing great now. she has the all clear from the vet and she got her cone off. She is playing with the other dogs now like nothing is different!  We had a good laugh the other week  the neighbour came over to talk to my husband while we were working in the back yard. He was all upset about this dog that he saw that was being abused he couldn't remember where he saw it but he thought it was terrible that someone would let a dog go around with a lampshade stuck to its head!.

Yup, It was our dog Daisy with the vet cone on her head!!! The poor man thought she was stuck and left like that!!!!  Here is a pic of her getting back at the cone she tore it all to pieces.













I finished two more Country Cottage blocks

 and sewed the last part of the wall quilts. I need to sit down and re do my x-mas list to see what I actually need. I have baby quilt half done as well but that one I have a little time to get done.  after today I am putting EVERYTHING  aside until I finish the Crinoline I really really need to get it done this year!!!!LOL




I got my material in the mail yesterday for  the Winter Blog land quilt  I am not making it until I have all the pattern though so I can make it all at once.








I picked the tulips to make on Esthers quilt I have gotten behind three blocks now but two are all cut and turned  and pinned  so catch up shouldn't be too bad.

Well I will go now and get some more done I have a roast beef to cook today for supper so I won't get much done in the afternoon.
MY sons girlfriend is celebrating her 21st today so we won't see him until tomorrow by the time he gets home we will be in bed!!

Hope you all have a great week
speak to you soon

Jennifer

wip 10.10.12

Hi everyone!  I have been up since 2 am this morning got up to let the dogs out to bathroom and couldn't get back to bed!!  Tried sleeping on couch but my mind wouldn't shut back down!! It's days like this that I wish we had a house house and not a mobile home.!! I  can't make too much noise or the others will all wake up and boy will I get in trouble!! 
I closed off the bedroom door and cleaned my kitchen ,put dishes away and re loaded machine  had two cups of tea already and made all the lunches so I'm really ahead of myself. waiting for the alarms to go off to get the men off to work then I can sew the rest of the day hopefully.

I have been working on some of my ufos this week

Worked on my Raspberry Rabbits   as you can see I sewed them together and then saw I missed the border so I had to rip it apart and add the color strip! I have one more block to catch up and that is the October one.

My son took this picture the other day Perfect for Halloween desktop!!
It is my husband  sitting with maggie,cletus,princess,and diasy!

We cleared up some more of the back yard this weekend only a few more damaged trees to be taken down.
The old chicken pens are gone now and the yard looks empty.  Then My Hubby fixed my sewing desk in the kitchen again so I can work in there I can't put up my big folding table in the livingroom any more to sew as Daisy will trip on the cords I got some sewing done the other day but it will take a bit to get used to sitting in there again! 
Today I plan (notice I say plan!) to finish putting together my sister in laws quilt so heres hoping!! then I will see about getting the next group of boms ready to sew I have one more to finish then I can get back to Esthers over the weekend I have my tv shows all planned and the lap top ready to go football season you got to love it!!
I ordered material this morning for a new bom from Ellies it is called winter in blogland I decided to wait to start it when I have all the directions printed. I have so many others going now I dont think I can take on another at the moment!!  X-MAS IS NEARLY HERE!!!!! can you hear my screams and hair pulling!!
I don't think I will make my deadlines for gifts!! some might have to wait until next christmas to get theirs!!

Well I hope you all have a great week. Oh I almost forgot my Grandmother got back into her apartment  on monday. they finished the remodel of her kitchen and it is wednseday now and they carers still haven't let her toddle over to the doorway and look at her new kitchen. may be this weekend my cousin will walk her to the doorway.

well have a great one./

Jennifer

10.3.12

Another Week ! This year is almost over/. It is going so fast now I don't think I will ever catch up on my boms and obligations for this year!!

I didn't get a whole lot done this past week our baby girl Daisy  went completely blind on thursday morning .
we all went out to get the mail and she used the restroom on the way back to the porch I noticed the other dogs crowding her up the steps and then once in the house she started to walk into walls. I looked at her and her eye was completly swollen and white/blue.  I called my son home from work and he took her to the vet  they said  the eye couldn't be saved so we operated on friday morning really didn't know whether to put her through being blind or not but the vet convinced us that she was young enough to adjust her second eye didn't last long from the first surgery not even two months so much for up to three years. after the surgery they told us the eye must have been already going so she would already be partially used to being blind. 

It;s amazing what a few days can do. she is going up and down the porch steps herself running around the front yard and climbing up onto the couch and the bed!  we cleaned the house from one end to the other before she came home and blind proofed it. we did pretty good only a couple of things we had to fix for her. we got rid of the old couch as it was a reliner one and got a temporary futon couch from walmarts. can't use the recliner now as she can get hit in face with the corners of the foot piece. My family thinks its great now I cant move the furniture around anymore! 

Well lets see I have made a baby cover for a car carrier and a small pillow for the car seat for a baby shower. I didn't have time to finish the floor quilt so I bought some baby shampoos and things to go in with it.

then I worked on my sister-in-laws quilt

Did a little embroidery on my crinoline finished the hat and started on the bust.

and I finally finished one of the bom blocks from the other months.

That has been about all that I have completed hopefully over the weekend I will get some more hand sewing caught up I need to get Esthers last two months completed I have then ready to sew and all pinned on just have to get to them in the pile!  It's bad I had to start a plastic box with all the ready to sew projects as I got too many of them!! I was doing so good there for awhile as well!!  As for the house a day quilt well.........

yup It hit the  UFO pile!! maybe next year!! 


Well I hope everyone has a great week, It's almost Halloween  I have to remember to put treats on the shopping list for the kids.

Oh I nearly forgot My son Kyle and his girlfriend of two years had their pictures taken and this is the one they gave me
and this is one of the other ones that they used for facebook

She will be 21 yrs this month and he will be 21 yrs in feb 2013


Have a safe week.

Jennifer

9.19.2012

Hi everyone!
Been as slow slow week this week!  I have a good laugh for you this morning.
I make lunches for my husband and son at 4 am every morning as I get them out the door. Well we have been getting micro meal lately for something different than sandwiches. of course they don't like the same ones so they have to be marked to give the right ones !  Well yesterday at lunch time I got a texted message from my son mad at me "Why did I bother to mark my meals mom if you still give me the wrong ones!"

needless to say I wasn't very pleased with him as I Know I checked before I pulled them from the freezer.so I wrote him back to that affect. then I got this message and photo back from him  (You have to love technology!!)

Yup I sent the wrong one! the letter K I thought I saw was a pair of scissors on the box!!! I guess I need my glasses in the mornings!!!









I have been working a little this week on my sister-in-laws quilt but have alot to go yet  and worked on some hand sewing but mostly I got the new boms blocks for this month ready for applique.  I have all the material cut out and turned and pinned the only one I have left to do is Esthers forget me knot for this month. I have the pattern traced to freezer paper but I haven't picked my material yet hopefully I will get to that today.
Well I hope everyone has a great week and happy sewing!!

Jennifer

9.12.12

I have been busy this week, My husband has been working late hours so I have gotten a lot  of sewing done.
I worked on my mini quilts for this year and sewed them together.

jan/feb/march

april/may/june/july

x-mas gifts

x-mas gift

printed out my BOM so far this month and traced to freezer paper. today I hope to get them ready for sewing but we will see.

Then I have been working on the quilt for my brother and sister-in-law.  I have to cut more white strips today to finish the border then I will have to decide on what to put where !!



















I made little beds for Gizmo to sleep on for the winter I promised her a while back to replace her little quilt after the big girls ruined it on her but I just now got to it!! I made a small mattress then a quilt for the basket then a small quilt for under her hidy hole  and an extra pillow for the floor. now I just need to get a move on and make some warm jackets for winter for them all. I never would have thought I would be putting coats on big dogs but we ended up with two dogs with hardly any hair and they really feel the cold and I don't want to have to keep going to the vet this winter!!

 






I have a pile of hand sewing ready for the weekend now. I can't use my machine during football so I have to have plenty of hand sewing to keep me going!! I have a small net book that I can sit and watch show on so I set it up on a table in front of me while I work with a pair of headphones ! that way I don't bother the husband!!works pretty good. well I hope you all have a great week.

Oh and my new used fridge works great now and the ac is fixed and works better than it did before!! waiting for a call back from the repair people for a price on the two bathrooms. I will be glad to get them fixed up finally. hopefully before x-mas then just the livingroom floor to be redone again this year  so we will see how it goes.


Jennifer

9.5.12

September!!

What a month this has already been!!  I swear if I didn't have rotton luck I wouldn't have any!!!
We will have to be very careful this next New Year to see who is our first footer!!

My husband was off from Friday until Tuesday for Labor Day weekend. We had so much planned. L.O.L

You guessed it nothing went accordingly!!!

Went to get the title and regestration don on all the vehicles only got the tags for one done. Son had to take off work early to get his title work filled out and go back with it. Husband had to go to his parents house 2 hour drive one way to get his title work completed!! He planned to stay the night there and son went to Spring Texas with friends for the night. Should have been a nice quite night right!! Had my bath with lovely bubbles and a glass of wine read a few chapters of my book then went to bed.
About two hours later my little Gizmo woke me and the girls ( dogs and cats!!) up barking and nipping me.
I turned my light on and the room was filled with smoke and the smell was awful. The blower motor on my A/c unit caught fire and the fire alarms went off a few minutes later. Had to have the fire department to the trailer and the neighbour came and helped me with the animals. Luckily it was just the motor and the fumes were sucked through the trailer. So I had to call my husband and tell him to come home in case it caught up again. I was here with no car  of course!!Kyle came home as well.

My husband took the blower apart himself and they ordered the parts couldn't get them until tuesday.
So we had to put the  window units back in but only one still worked. Luckily my friend had her small one for hurricane time and let us borrow it for the bedroom.

It gets better!

Saturday night my Husband goes to his friends down the road for beer and to play pool. Thought I would have a quite night this time. went to bed got up at 11 when I realized he wasn't home yet. Let the dogs out to bathroom and a creature ran in the house!!  It was only about 2 inches long but It was weird looking!!
I thought I had a lizard and I went chasing it down the hall wall (I didn't have my glasses on!) When I caught up to it I saw it had spikes all over it and a whipping tail with a spike like a scorpion thank goodness I didn't catch it in my hands!! I still don't know what kind of critter it was! I of course made the mistake of calling down to my husband and asking if it was safe to pick i t up. Yup the men thought it was hillarious. So down to the house they all come (don't know how they could even walk to get here!!) and I had three grown men looking all through the hall to find it. They found it , Left it and ran!!! They didn't know what it was either but
the tail kept trying to strike  them . Guess I wasn't so dumb after all.!
Happily I found it have eaten the next day in the cats area they caught it and killed it.

The next morning I go to the fridge to get milk out and the fridge was warm. You got it  the fridge went out!!
So we had to find a fridge as my one was filled with groceries. we just shopped the other day and had a bunch of meat in it as we planned a bbq.  Out came the ice chests and down to the store for ice my son went.
A short time later we get a call Dad come get me my tires are flat...................  Mind you not one tire oh no three!
He went through a section of road where an accident had happend and bust three tires!
So now we had to find a fridge and three new tires!!~ and Ac parts  .
In stepped the neighbours and family so they helped us get everything taken care of.
Yesterday the parts for the ac came  and my husband got it put back together. He woke me up  in the middle of the night wanting his quilt as he was cold!!

Yesterday was really a nice day I cleaned the house up re loaded the fridge and then was able to sit and finally get some hand applique done. I finished three more small wall tops for Grandma and started on the fourth only one more to go.

Then I can catch up on August BOMs and make a start on Septembers.  I haven't gotten any more of my Crinoline done either so I will really have to make myself sit and work on it this month.
Well I hope all of you have a great week  I hope maybe I gave some of you a laugh today ! If we don't take time to laugh at our disasters we might as well give up!! Speak to you all next week. Have fun Sewing!!