Girl and bag

She posted to my facebook "this bag ROCKS!" LOL

The bag is supposed to be a quilt carrier. I made one for myself and she saw it and wanted one really bad. She travels several times a year between mother and father's houses so she will definitely use it!

It took forever to get to the store with home dec fabric to pick fabric for her. Her favorite color is yellow and she loved the black and white fabric.

I modified the design of the bag some and added pockets inside and out to each end and one on the outside side and one on the inside side.

She was in a school play not long ago and dyed her hair dark brown because Cleopatra doesn't have strawberry blond hair. People would kill for her hair color and she dyes it brown.

the end…

Of the Census job was yesterday.  Yay!  All that nice money coming the next three weeks is going to buy me the Janome 6600, the Tutu rolling machine bag and a Martelli cutting mat.  Plus a whole lot of fabrics!

Where the deer...

And the antelope...

















and the camels play??

I've been working for the Census Bureau and have done a lot of driving recently. There's an irrigated circle north of town that has a pair of camels, a pair of llamas and a pair of buffalo along with several horses. The antelope are pretty thick in some areas I drive thru and you see them in broad daylight.

new blog thing

I discovered this new blog writing thing today. It should make posts a whole lot easier to do. Go here and get it… Windows Live Writer

Stupid thing won't work. Fine.

Deck the Halls

Deck the Halls is done!! This means I have the entire "Year in a Snap" wall hanging series *TOTALLY* done, done, done!!! I think the February and December ones are my top favorites but I also really love May. I think I need to lay them out four at a time and take pics of them that way. The May block was the reason I decided to do the series in the first place but I improved the fabric selections so much for the February and December blocks they turned out to be my favorites.



This pic shows the background fabric a little. The second close up may show the true color a little better.

The next finish is going to be the monster wall hangings for the grandkids! I love making progress!

candy corn and fall leaves

The first picture is a close up of the bird on "Candy Corn." "Candy Corn" is the October wall hanging in the "Year in a Snap" series. He still needs the bead sewn on for his eye.















This is the picture of the whole wall hanging "Candy Corn." I need to stitch the binding down to the back and it'll be totally done.



















This is the close up of the scarecrow on "Fall Leaves" the November wall hanging. I need to add his face!

A pic of the whole wall hanging "Fall Leaves." I need to stitch the binding down on the back of it too.

Back to School

I have Back to School done! I got it quilted last week and took it with me when I had to go get my mother and take her for an eye appointment and procedure. Anyway, while I was waiting for her I got the binding done. I love the orange pencil.

I also have the beading done on Ornaments. The gold one fought me. I ended up ripping off all the beading and making a new ornament. I'll get it quilted next. It's due the 28th for a challenge.