blogiversary coming up....

I am almost to my 250th post...I have been thinking about doing some kind of giveaway..Any ideas? I have a few floating around so stay tuned...I finished my first round robin nature journal page for Malin in Sweden. It is 4"x4"...We are doing the front and back. I have a feeling that by the end, we are all going to have some beautiful books to show...exciting stuff!

quiltie and a journal page...

Wow! long day today..I have been on the run all day, but I got home from work and thought I needed to spend some time up here in my little sewing nest. It is hot tonight but I have a little air conditioner going in the window so it is nice. I have the cat at my feet and we are feeling cozy and enjoying this time. Today was my Friday at work and I don't have a lot of weekend plans, so I hope to get up here more... I wanted to update everyone on the kids. AS you all know, I have been busy raising them for the last two years..well, they are officially back with their mom and dad and so far, things are going well. The kids are happy to be there and they spent a lot of time with mom before they went to Oregon so I have a measure of peace about it. At the same time I am walking around with a broken heart. Especially about Andrew. I really feel like I have lost my own child but I know time will help and he will always be my special boy. I just wish they weren't so far away, but at the same time maybe the distance is good so mom and dad can be the parents again. I know that their place is with their own parents, not their grandma, as long as things are going good and they are. I am proud of Lisa for turning things around in her life and I am happy to know the "old Lisa ' again. We are working on mending our relationship and she is trying hard to build my trust again. So send up a prayer or two for their little family and that God will bless them and keep them safe and happy. While I was up here tonight, I made a quiltie for one of my yahoo groups. The recipient had an open theme and I just played with fabric and put it together.It was modeled after Genevieve Pfieffers paintings that I saw in a Somerset Studio. I just love the whimsical faceless girls..She is pretty amazing and a favorite of mine. I also finished a page for my nature journal. The leaves are an actual photograph that I cut out from a picture I took. It is simple but pretty. ..I have to tell you all a funny story. Boyfriend and I went to a baseball game. There is a minor league team here called the Ogden Raptors and a lot of people go. I really love it, all the organ music, peanuts, hot dog, the announcer. I guess it is kind of a nostalgia thing..I hadn't been to a ball game for a long, long time and I was having a hoot and a holler of a time. Well at the 7th inning everyone stands up and they put the words to "take me out to the ballgame" on the scoreboard and everyone sings..it was so fun and we sang our little hearts out...( I have a really loud voice by the way). so we sit back down and pretty soon they started playing sponge bob square pants and the words were up on the scoreboard again so I started singing full volume and by the end of the chorus I realized only two people were singing...me and a little boy about six. yep, I was his new hero...We got a good round of applause by the way and no, I was not drinking beer..just happy I guess...

Nature Journal

I recently joined another round robin journal swap and the theme is Nature. Here is my book that every ones pages will be going into. It felt so darn good to actually make something and I am thinking it got me back into the swing of things! I am working for AT&T and it is crazy...I just finished a 6 week training class and I am constantly on a computer and I think it is more tiring than anything I have done before! Mainly because I have to sit still. I am not a sitting still kind of person but it is getting easier. I also finally have my sewing room put together. I wont say it is organized but it is together...Today I am going to cut out some pj pants, a skirt and a handbag and then tomorrow I will sew them together...Well, some of them anyway. My work schedule is nice for me but hard for sewing. I work from 2;30 until 11;00. which means I have to get up early and get things done, because when I come home I am brain dead. Oh Yeah, PROJECT RUNWAY started on lifetime! woohooo.. just love that show and I loved the first episode...Guess I better go start cutting...

 

 

 

Dinosaur park .....

My new boyfriend and I took Daniel to the Dinosaur Park here in Utah...It is in the Ogden Canyon and the museum is awesome. Daniel was just thrilled...he told me he told his friend that he was going and his friend told him it was for nerds. I told him " guess we are nerds then cause I love this kind of stuff." He gave me a big smile in return. He loves to watch the science channel and he knew a lot about what we were looking at. His brain amazes me....It was only in the high 70's so it was perfect. Daniel and I panned for gold and I am really good at it...It was pretty fun. We decided that our favorite dinosaur is the Utah raptor...He was bigger than the velociraptors in Jurassic park.... Still trying to get everything in it's place...It's all here in the house, just not organized at all. I just do a little bit every day. I need to get the upstairs done so I can sew pajamas for Jace and Julie's birthday...We are celebrating it this weekend. I have the cutest fabric, just gotta dig it out. I plan to be all set up and sewing again by next week. I have a nature journal round robin coming up so I need to get busy....