This report is for two weeks. Nothing went in or out between the 6th and the 13th so I didn't even bother to post. This week I have the yardage for the Moda Origins Placemats OUT.
0 yards in week ending 2/20
3.66 yards out week ending 2/20
9.75 yards YTD IN
15 yards YTD OUT
5.25 yards TOTAL BUSTED 2011
I am linking up here with my stash report.
College Girl came home on Friday for the long weekend. It is SO wonderful to have her home. This evening, while she is visiting with friends, I am doing some mending for her. No sewing will get done today but I will be back at it after she leaves tomorrow.
Praise - friend from church with bone cancer was feeling well enough to attend church and our potluck today!
Prayers - young lady from church (who happens to be College Boy's girlfriend) is headed to China on Friday. She will be there for 10 months (with a weekend back to be at her brother's wedding in May) to teach music and English, share the Gospel and learn Chinese. Sooo many prayers - for her travels, her health, her witness, her safety.
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Friday, February 18, 2011
On to the next thing
I just packaged up this set of 6 placemats, made for an internet friend in TN. Each mat has a different set of prints on the side, making them each unique. She was impatient and wanted to see a picture of them and she said they are just what she wanted! YEAH!
Basic Grey's Origins for Moda.
I took the pictures above before I washed, dried and ironed them and then realized I had forgotten a picture of the back.
The back of each placemat is this same print.
So I'm thinking about what my next project will be. I am pretty sure I will sandwich and quilt the Bliss baby quilt top that I finished back in the fall. I'm going to give it to that new baby girl at our church. You know, Daisy!
Praise - That College Girl gets to come home for the long weekend and so far has had safe travel. College Boy is playing in the snow at a mountain horse get together and having a great time.
Prayers - For College Girl's travels home and then back again. That College Boy would remain safe this weekend.
Basic Grey's Origins for Moda.
I took the pictures above before I washed, dried and ironed them and then realized I had forgotten a picture of the back.
The back of each placemat is this same print.
So I'm thinking about what my next project will be. I am pretty sure I will sandwich and quilt the Bliss baby quilt top that I finished back in the fall. I'm going to give it to that new baby girl at our church. You know, Daisy!
Praise - That College Girl gets to come home for the long weekend and so far has had safe travel. College Boy is playing in the snow at a mountain horse get together and having a great time.
Prayers - For College Girl's travels home and then back again. That College Boy would remain safe this weekend.
Monday, February 14, 2011
Happy Valentine's Day
Here is a sampling of the cookies I made last week and mailed off to my college kids.
Taking pictures of cookies at night just isn't a good idea. The flash pictures were even worse. I shall keep practicing. The cookie decorating and the picture taking.
Praise - Hubby and I are celebrating today - it is our BIRTHDAY! 16 years ago on Valentine's Day we accepted Christ as our Lord and Savior! HE showed us the very best expression of Love.
Prayers - that we would continue to grow in our relationship with Jesus Christ, first and foremost.
Taking pictures of cookies at night just isn't a good idea. The flash pictures were even worse. I shall keep practicing. The cookie decorating and the picture taking.
Praise - Hubby and I are celebrating today - it is our BIRTHDAY! 16 years ago on Valentine's Day we accepted Christ as our Lord and Savior! HE showed us the very best expression of Love.
Prayers - that we would continue to grow in our relationship with Jesus Christ, first and foremost.
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Thank you Benjamin Franklin
Most of all for standing out in a thunderstorm and flying a kite. I love me some electricity. Blow dryers, curling irons, heaters, air-conditioners, sewing machines - all of my essentials, powered by electricity.
I don't know how that same guy figured out that a free public library would be a good idea. It doesn't even seem the sort of thing an inventor would come up with. Maybe he wanted to read what others had found out while they were flying kites in thunderstorms. Just look what I got from our little podunk library in the last two weeks;
The Modern Quilt Workshop and Simplify were brought in by my request. I like to help the library stock their shelves. Now I know for sure I am going to get my own copy of Simplify, it is just beautiful and I can see myself making many of the projects. I haven't looked at the other books in depth yet.
These books are just a small sampling of what's available under quilting or sewing. Have you checked your library for these titles? Maybe you could request that they get them. I like to think about all the people who will benefit from just one book. Our podunk library has an online catalog where I can create lists of books I want to read at some point or put books on hold. They just send me an email and let me know when they are ready to be picked up. When I lived in Washington, at one point in time they would even mail the books right to your house!
A book to borrow and the light to read it by brought to you by Benjamin Franklin. What a guy.
Praise - Joanne's progress! Praise the Lord, Praise the Lord!
Prayers - Praying BIG for Joanne's complete healing and restoration!
I don't know how that same guy figured out that a free public library would be a good idea. It doesn't even seem the sort of thing an inventor would come up with. Maybe he wanted to read what others had found out while they were flying kites in thunderstorms. Just look what I got from our little podunk library in the last two weeks;
The Modern Quilt Workshop and Simplify were brought in by my request. I like to help the library stock their shelves. Now I know for sure I am going to get my own copy of Simplify, it is just beautiful and I can see myself making many of the projects. I haven't looked at the other books in depth yet.
These books are just a small sampling of what's available under quilting or sewing. Have you checked your library for these titles? Maybe you could request that they get them. I like to think about all the people who will benefit from just one book. Our podunk library has an online catalog where I can create lists of books I want to read at some point or put books on hold. They just send me an email and let me know when they are ready to be picked up. When I lived in Washington, at one point in time they would even mail the books right to your house!
A book to borrow and the light to read it by brought to you by Benjamin Franklin. What a guy.
Praise - Joanne's progress! Praise the Lord, Praise the Lord!
Prayers - Praying BIG for Joanne's complete healing and restoration!
Monday, February 7, 2011
Fruit of the Spirit
The church I attend had their women's retreat this past weekend and the theme was the Fruit of the Spirit. I decided to surprise the gals with a dessert based on the theme. I got LOTS of help from Cookie Crazie's blog and flickr account as well as Callye from The Sweet Adventures of Sugarbelle's blog. They both have links to recipes, videos, FAQs and so on.
I was taking most of the pictures at night so the lighting isn't the greatest - story of my life lately. This was a fun project although it took me longer than I expected. I think I underestimated the time it takes to make and tint all the icing the most. Once that was all done the decorating actually went pretty quickly. Considering I decorated 76 cookies! Lots of colors, two different icing consistencies for each color. Hubby was a verrrry smart man on Thursday offering to bring home some dinner.
The ladies loved them. I learned a few things and I know I need more practice.
Praise - for a fun new hobby that I can use to bless others. For the newest baby to join our church family - born Friday. Her name is Daisy!
Prayers - for the young family with the new baby, that they would raise her to love and fear the Lord.
I was taking most of the pictures at night so the lighting isn't the greatest - story of my life lately. This was a fun project although it took me longer than I expected. I think I underestimated the time it takes to make and tint all the icing the most. Once that was all done the decorating actually went pretty quickly. Considering I decorated 76 cookies! Lots of colors, two different icing consistencies for each color. Hubby was a verrrry smart man on Thursday offering to bring home some dinner.
The ladies loved them. I learned a few things and I know I need more practice.
Praise - for a fun new hobby that I can use to bless others. For the newest baby to join our church family - born Friday. Her name is Daisy!
Prayers - for the young family with the new baby, that they would raise her to love and fear the Lord.
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Stash Report 2/6
This is an easy one this week - no math required
0 in week ending 2/6
0 out week ending 2/6
9.75 YTD IN
11.33 YTD OUT
1.5 TOTAL BUSTED 2011
Linking up here with my stash report.
Praise - for the wonderful time spent at the Women's Retreat this weekend. Such wonderful sisters in the Lord and a BIG Praise for the newest 'sister', Melissa.
Prayers - for Melissa, a babe in the Lord, the only believer in her home. Pray for her growth, for her witness to her family.
0 in week ending 2/6
0 out week ending 2/6
9.75 YTD IN
11.33 YTD OUT
1.5 TOTAL BUSTED 2011
Linking up here with my stash report.
Praise - for the wonderful time spent at the Women's Retreat this weekend. Such wonderful sisters in the Lord and a BIG Praise for the newest 'sister', Melissa.
Prayers - for Melissa, a babe in the Lord, the only believer in her home. Pray for her growth, for her witness to her family.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
More of January
Just a few more things I wanted to share with you about January before it is a distant memory for all of us.
I knew what I wanted for a Christmas ornament in 2010 once the tree was up but I didn't spend any time looking for it until after Christmas. I found dearjes on Etsy and fell in love with her little nests. We had a few conversations via Etsy messages and she was able to personalize an empty nest just for me! It has a great clip on the bottom so it can be attached to the tree.
Isn't it adorable? An empty nest to commemorate that my children are both off to college.
One of the things on my list of goals - learn to decorate sugar cookies. With some of the money that I received for Christmas I have been buying some supplies to help with that goal. Here is my first attempt.
I was pretty pleased with how it went. I shipped the majority of these off to the kids. They were really excited about them. I love that about my kids.
Here was my second attempt. Uhhhhh, not as nice. I had leftover icing and so I made up another batch of cookies to practice. I brought the refrigerated icing to room temperature and boy, oh boy! It was all I could do to keep it on the cookies! So different from the first experience. Hubby has the job of eating all of these. I know they aren't pretty, just keeping it real!
To go along with College Girl's cookies I made this Mug Rug for her. I have seen these all around blog land, wasn't really sure of them then something clicked and I wanted to make one. I played with my design for awhile, on the back of envelopes and on some scratch paper. I got all of the pieces cut out and applied to the background and then I just stalled. I was afraid of messing it up with the free motion quilting to outline the figures. I finally decided to go with the same color thread on each piece rather than a black/charcoal sketchy look. I was pretty sure my stitching would be such a mess and that I would hate the dark thread.
I even surprised myself by 'coloring outside the lines' and making the bird's little top knot.
I actually liked creating the tree bark effect. The little clumps of snow were the hardest since they were so small.
I even liked how the back looked! But I did cover it with a piece of the blue w/snowflakes like the front just to keep those stitches protected.
With a mug to give you an idea of the size. I used a tutorial I found at That girl... That quilt for applying the binding by machine. Thanks, Jennifer! What a time saver that was! I cut the binding at 2" wide so there wouldn't be so much overlap on such a small project.
I'm linking up to the Quiltstory blog for Fabric Tuesday. Their button is on the right at the top if you want to link up too!
I did also do some reading this month. Two non-fiction books. One of them called HOME by Julie Andrews. It didn't thrill me at all. Slow, too many details that didn't interest me at all. Sorry, Julie. You sing pretty though!
The other was a fantastic page turner called In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Opdyke. Just incredible what she went through. I can't imagine doing any of the things she did, it takes a certain kind of courage for sure. I highly recommend this book.
For January I also memorized two verses of scripture. Psalm 65:11 to start the year off and then Psalm 46:1.
No scrapbooking, not a lot of exercise, the eating was healthier than December!
Okay, bring on February!
Praise - for the family that God has given me, individuals who love and appreciate one another and the things we do for each other.
Prayers - for Joanne of The Simple Wife, Sandi of my online scrapping friends, and Katy from church, who all need continued prayer for the health struggles they are facing.
I knew what I wanted for a Christmas ornament in 2010 once the tree was up but I didn't spend any time looking for it until after Christmas. I found dearjes on Etsy and fell in love with her little nests. We had a few conversations via Etsy messages and she was able to personalize an empty nest just for me! It has a great clip on the bottom so it can be attached to the tree.
Isn't it adorable? An empty nest to commemorate that my children are both off to college.
One of the things on my list of goals - learn to decorate sugar cookies. With some of the money that I received for Christmas I have been buying some supplies to help with that goal. Here is my first attempt.
I was pretty pleased with how it went. I shipped the majority of these off to the kids. They were really excited about them. I love that about my kids.
Here was my second attempt. Uhhhhh, not as nice. I had leftover icing and so I made up another batch of cookies to practice. I brought the refrigerated icing to room temperature and boy, oh boy! It was all I could do to keep it on the cookies! So different from the first experience. Hubby has the job of eating all of these. I know they aren't pretty, just keeping it real!
To go along with College Girl's cookies I made this Mug Rug for her. I have seen these all around blog land, wasn't really sure of them then something clicked and I wanted to make one. I played with my design for awhile, on the back of envelopes and on some scratch paper. I got all of the pieces cut out and applied to the background and then I just stalled. I was afraid of messing it up with the free motion quilting to outline the figures. I finally decided to go with the same color thread on each piece rather than a black/charcoal sketchy look. I was pretty sure my stitching would be such a mess and that I would hate the dark thread.
I even surprised myself by 'coloring outside the lines' and making the bird's little top knot.
I actually liked creating the tree bark effect. The little clumps of snow were the hardest since they were so small.
I even liked how the back looked! But I did cover it with a piece of the blue w/snowflakes like the front just to keep those stitches protected.
With a mug to give you an idea of the size. I used a tutorial I found at That girl... That quilt for applying the binding by machine. Thanks, Jennifer! What a time saver that was! I cut the binding at 2" wide so there wouldn't be so much overlap on such a small project.
I'm linking up to the Quiltstory blog for Fabric Tuesday. Their button is on the right at the top if you want to link up too!
I did also do some reading this month. Two non-fiction books. One of them called HOME by Julie Andrews. It didn't thrill me at all. Slow, too many details that didn't interest me at all. Sorry, Julie. You sing pretty though!
The other was a fantastic page turner called In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Opdyke. Just incredible what she went through. I can't imagine doing any of the things she did, it takes a certain kind of courage for sure. I highly recommend this book.
For January I also memorized two verses of scripture. Psalm 65:11 to start the year off and then Psalm 46:1.
No scrapbooking, not a lot of exercise, the eating was healthier than December!
Okay, bring on February!
Praise - for the family that God has given me, individuals who love and appreciate one another and the things we do for each other.
Prayers - for Joanne of The Simple Wife, Sandi of my online scrapping friends, and Katy from church, who all need continued prayer for the health struggles they are facing.
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