A gift from God - a new grandchild is on the way!

Motorcycle Man called me yesterday afternoon and said "Hello Granny "again".  It took a second and then I realized what he meant - our oldest daughter, County Gal and her husband The Hunter just found out yesterday that they are expecting their second child in July.  Thank you God!  

Can you imagine what gear my mind immediately went in to?  The quilting, the knitting, the garment sewing - do I have enough time if I start today???  I will keep you posted throughout the next 8 months.  :o)

My mind is running like a screen of never ending pictures of all the goodies I can (and will) make for this newest grandbaby.

Stay tuned!

Shower Gifts Pictures

WIP Wednesday

My WIP Wednesday project is for my unborn great-niece who is due in November.  I found this fun material in TN last week at one of the wonderful quilt shops I visited.  I started hand-piecing it while I was there and finished it last night.  Today I added the borders and sandwiched it together and am it is ready for the quilting.  I am undecided whether to hand or machine quilt it.  I have plenty of time to hand quilt it and it gives it a vintage look in my opinion so I may choose that route.  Her parents are very "green-earthly" college professors so I think that completing it with the hand quilting might be pleasing to them as well.

Hopefully I can have this finished before next Wednesday so it does not show on the list twice.  :o)

I did not spend alot of time working on my poncho last week after ripping it out and starting over.  Here is the latest picture of it.

And here is a newborn washcloth that I just finished I need to weave in the ends and it will go in the finished stack of things to give to my niece and her husband.

You know, looking at this post and the pictures I actually did get alot done this last week without my beloved Internet!!!  Hmmmmm - is this something I might want to do once a month?  The answer is.............

No Internet for over a week!

A sudden unscheduled trip left me without internet  (and my beloved blog!) for over a week!  I could never imagine what that would be like and after having lived it recently I can tell you it is horrible.  Right up there on my top ten five things I never want to have to go through again.

However, I did find that without my laptop attached to me I was able to knit a newborn washcloth, get a third of a newborn quilt sewn together by hand since I did not have time to even grab a sewing machine.  I keep a bag of yarn and needles always packed and ready to grab but had taken apart my sewing/quilting bag.  Thank goodness two awesome quilt shops were within 10 miles from me and I was able to pick up the baby quilt kit, thread, thimble, needles and scissors for a very fair price. 

I am so overcome with the need for sleep right now but when I am back online later today I will post pics of the things I was able to work on as well as pictures I took while I was gone.

TTYL

ok girl - you are turning this into a food blog...NOT!

ok - I am having to stop myself - I am doing it all over again.  I had another blog for about 3 years that was supposed to be about all of my loves.  Basically what this blog is going to be.  The other one turned into more of a just quilting and knitting blog and all my other passions kinda got lost in the mix. 
However, after reading my last post tonight I see that it is turning into a food blog.  Soooooo here goes - here so some of the things I love to do.

I love to quilt

and quilt

and quilt

I am learning how to make cards

I loved this one

with a tree and presents

before all the finishing touches with ink edging

need to still add presents or more to the tree

one for a grandchild

still wondering what else it needs

grow plants of any kind...

Christmas cactus

Houseplants

build and paint birdhouses

of all colors...

and styles

paint ceramics

scrapbook

which requires tools

and tools

and paper plus I made the totes and purses on the door too

study and use all types of softwares

dabble in photography of all the birds that come to visit

the feeders at the window of my studio

some even in flight

some just sitting and resting

some in the tree waiting their turn

while these are having seconds.