An apron giveaway!!!!

Oh my goodness...another giveaway...Penny at http://sewtakeahike.typepad.com/sewtakeahike/
is having a giveaway for an awesome apron find...I think she's crazy for parting with it...BUT I hope I win!!! Go try for your chance.

An awesome quilty give-away!

Go on over to Debbie's Quilts and More...http://die-steppdecken-des-quilter.blogspot.com/
She is having a fabulous giveaway!...

from the garden....

....this morning, a very tiny garden....love fresh veggies and love to walk out and just pick them...silly hubby forgot to plant pumpkins and sunflowers...silly husband....

WTH

I have a ton of pics to show about all kinds of things...from grandbabies to vintage aprons to me canning (!)...BUT Blogger won't let me do pictures ....it drives me crazeeeeeee! Hope to get it fixed soon!

Vintage aprons from my MOM

A few weeks ago I stayed with my grandmother while my (grandmother care-taker) parents tooks a much needed mini vacation. My grandmother told me a few stories I have not heard before concerning me and my brother ..but that's for a later post. What I did find at my mom's house while I was doing laundry was...a pile of old clothes of my mom's that she had taken out to wash and look at....made by my great-grandmother. I have seen pics of my mom in some of the dresses...and my mom was teeny beautiful redhead, and her clothes were always figure conscious and perfectly tailored...I always thought the awesome clothes were store-bought...WRONG. My great-grandmother made them...all of them! Pictures of those to come later too...the thing I have to show right now is...my great-grandmother's aprons...we called her MOM...she always wore an apron and the pockets always had important stuff in them (like candy for me). I know there were way more aprons and I hope we can find them.

Playtime!

My twin grandaughters and my 4yo grandgirl will be here anytime...I will not get any quilting, sewing, etc done...UNLESS Kaylin wants more than one tutu/princess/fairy skirt...then I'll make her another one...so all I'll be hearing for a few days is....coos, baby gurgles and baby jabber and (hopefully) a lot of 'I love you Nonna' s...and my son and his wife might even talk to me too...when I have time...hahaha!

Pics to come....I know you're on the edge of your seat!

Pine Sol is my friend....

I have been having 'bathroom' issues with the 2 teen boys in my house...apparently toilet paper is one commodity to be used generously at all times.... FOR the THIRD time in 2 weeks, I have had to mop and disinfect my entire main bathroom....BECAUSE said teen boys use too much TP and then it stops up my toilet at 7:30am!!!! BEFORE I've had coffee or anything! Therefore NO PICS of this gal's wild and crazy life. I have come to a conclusion....

Every evening before my hubby leaves work he calls and asks if I need anything from the grocery store (or wherever)...and I usually have to say...yes honey, pick up some TP paper...I usually buy big bulk packs...he buys small expensive 'specialty' packs...AH HA! He's been buying the super thick, cushiony, lotiony kind...easier on the bottom he says...BUT we had a *discussion* last night about how 'using the terlit' is NOT to be a leisurely, make a life decision meditation kind of activity.....I want all the males to ---- go, do the business quickly, look around and clean up any boo-boos (flush, wipe off seat, staighten bath rugs back because somehow they always look like someone did the twist) and then GET OUT! Half the blame went to hubby and his penchant for buying the *best* and the other half goes to the teen boys for overloading the bowl and then being too scared to flush because it 'might' overflow! Then whoever hits it first the next day or afternoon or whenever...ends up having to flush and causing an overflow...I never use that bathroom unless I wash my hands in there and check it to make sure unexpected company won't run screaming from my house...I use my bathroom...smells nice, looks nice, and is always clean!

I made the boys a cleaning bucket with PINE SOL, scrubby brushes, rags and other cleaning items ...it is theirs from now on...and they have been informed that they will be woken up at any time of night to take care of problem IF an overflow ever happens again...I should see much improvement in the amount (and expense) of TP type products. ONE can only HOPE.

...and I have a really, really, really clean bathroom right now.

a full day...of...

STUFF! I got a new dryer....my old dryer was 16 years old and it recently developed dementia..if it was set on cotton, it would just do air, if it was set for 20 minutes, it wouldn't cut off...so it left today...I bought it when my youngest son was still in the hospital trying to gain weight...he was 3 months premature and I had to leave him in the hospital for 3 months after birth...to gain at least 2 pounds...so the dryer was special , as is he...but like all things we love, they must leave ...hahaha, turned that around on ya, didn't I?...anyways...love my new dryer and all it can do...wish it would fold the clothes though!

I finished the binding on another mini wallhanging...the pile is going down.. I want to find an Oriental/Asian button to go in center....and I made 3 sets of napkins to add to gifts this Christmas.

I also made a sweet potato pie...BUT my hubby decided he wanted a broiled hot dog so right in the middle of baking, he turns the oven on broil without even noticing I had MY pie in there...and by the time he realized it...the edges of my perfect crust had burned...the pie turned out kinda wierd because it rose really fast and then fell...but stayed puffed...tasted ok, but not great...so I will make another one when he's NOT AT HOME!

...and to show you I am over being perturbed at him...LOOK what he can do with plants...Mr. Green Thumb he is!

This is his doghouse...lol, I mean toolshed....

Flag day

Friday Finishes

I finished 3 wallhangings this week...alright, so they only needed binding (for months) but they are done and they are way cuter 'in person' than these pics will show...I am a lousy pic taker.

The flower mantle one is not going to be placed like that...I just hung it over the picture frame till hubby can mount hooks for me...I loved making it and it's so not perfect...but it's fun and now I can see what size I need to make to go up there...bigger is better! The den is a hard room to do...it's dark and one whole wall is brick with the fireplace...it's the room we all hang in, drop stuff off in, don't care how it looks... but eveybody gravitates to this room...it's big, it leads outside, it's right off the kitchen/dr...it is way overdue a makeover...but maybe next spring!

The blue one is from Carol Doak Celebration block on her Yahoo groups site...been a long time finishing (when I get to the binding part...I put it down and then forget it..bad me).
The Wonky house one is from an old Foundation Piecer magazine...if you want to know, I'll look it up for you. Just glad to have gotten a few unfinished out of the PILE!