I made stuff!

I finished some needlecases today...first I had to find felt, and it's hard to find, well, 'good' felt, meaning thicker and not see-through, then I had to decide how to close it, with snaps or velcro, and I remembered I had a some snap pliers that I hadn't used in years...and Sandra Sews was asking about them...so I went with plier snaps...a bit too big, but they will work. The needlecase pattern/tutorial is from Kris at ....
http://sewprimkhris.blogspot.com/2008/01/needlecase-tutorial.html Thanks Kris, super cute!

Then I made 2 Wonder Wallets from http://www.lazygirldesigns.com/ WOW, wonder Wallet is right! I had them cut out for weeks and thought they were going to be complicated, especially for me...BUT I was WRONG...they are easy and too sweet. I have my Miranda cut out and now I think I can dive right into it...

So my lesson for the day is...JUST DO IT!

Finally! he has something to do

I may have my quilty, sewing, crafty side which comes with lots of physical items (and has taken over at least 3 rooms in our house) BUT my hubby, The Burn, has got his 'green' on. I started noticing boxes with clear lids in odd places in the house a couple of weeks ago, then they'd disappear and more would return...on top of the fridge, on my dresser, on top of the entertainement center, on my (antique & never-to-be-touched-by-anyone) buffet, on the suede bench in the LR. Now had I looked closely at these boxes, I would have seen DIRT, but I am a bit ADD, so I just mentally noted it and went on to whatever else was invading my mind. And , of course, I forgot to go back and see or ask him about it. The Burn has been growing seeds, too early I might add, because he has apparently had to re-seed then 3 times. They were in their places around the house due to the windows that get SUNSHINE......the plants would sprout and then search for the sunlight and in 3 0r 4 days be too big to plant because it's too cold outside...don't take my word for this...because The Burn goes into a trance of information and giddiness when he explains growing 'stuff', thus I go into a trance of oooo, boring, smile and pretend to listen state of mind, so I didn't really get all the info.

We had a beautiful day yesterday, still chilly and The Burn took a half day off work...he mowed the yard and was outside a long time, I decided to take him some coffee and found him with (I counted what I could see) 22 different containers of sprouting seedlings (y'know, the kind with 24-48 compartments) and some huge flower pots full of teeny-tiny plants. He's on a roll. His pride was a pink plant (beautiful) called the Mandevilla Trellis, he wanted a red one but...he got a PINK one.. his hyacinths are blooming and he always plants gerbera daisies for me.

ALL I want is color and it looks like I am going to have lots of color this year. WOO HOO!

Show me yours so I can show him ...and it will drive him crazy seeing stuff he doesn't have and covets... and then he'll be too busy to see what room I take over next with fabric and sewing machines.

Contest for the teens in your life - Miley Cyrus

I am all over the board this week...but here is a link to a contest for time with Miley.


http://www.cmt.com/interact/sweepstakes/mileyworld/

Foot Fetish (not that kind...duh)

I have a thing for sewing machine feet...always have. It's just like icing for machines...so when my friend Sandra HAD to have a Flower stitch foot, well so did I...I ordered mine off EBay.....

iblawson ...he's great and has LOTS of things for my sewing machine....so I got to looking around his site and saw some items I had always intended to get...then I got busy (Easter was coming, Keera had a seizure and I needed to take care of her (*read* hover over her until she gets more nervous than she is), my house needed cleaning, I'm a ditz, well, you get the idea...so today I decided to do a little straightening in the craft room....AHA!!!! Almost all of the 'new' feet I wanted to purchase...I already have . UnBeLiEvAbLe!!! well, not really. I do that all the time...so here are some feet...can you name them? and also a pic or 2 of what the flower foot can do...

The 4 feet are: an overcast guide foot, a low shank cording foot, the Little Foot, and a low shank edgestitching foot...now I can get BIZZY! (er).

Ipod giveaway and a cooking site

...cause I love to find out how and what I should cook, not that mine ever turns out the way the pic does...

Go check out...Cooking by the Seat of my pants ...a cool contest and his blog is awesome!

http://www.cookingbytheseatofmypants.com/ipod-touch-giveaway/

Crocs Inc - cyprus

Crocs Inc - cyprus

WOW...I may actually buy some 'crocs' now!!!

Ahhhhh....

The little things in my life make such a difference! I have perfected my nightly winding down ritual. I drink hot cocoa every evening after all go to bed and I am having my quiet-on-the-outside, loud-on-the-inside 'time'. It helps to shut down the brain so I can sleep. Anywho, I finally found my 'blend'. 2Tblsp dark cocoa, 1/8c sug, 1/2c leftover coffee (I saved for this purpose from hubby's afternoon coffee - he comes home around 2:30 every afternoon for a coffee break, wierd) and milk to top of mug...it's MINE...it's PERFECT. Now I can move on.

Happy foot

Pic of old and abused applique foot that I use in approximately 80% of my sewing projects...mine doesn't have red where the arrow is ...BUT that is a great idea, think I'll take out the fine-point Sharpie and color in the arrow...better for the eyes! I have a couple of these and I like using them for straight, zigzag, and satin stitch because I can keep the arrow lined up with whatever point I choose on my project...and since I do Marine labels..it's a MUST for zig-zag/satin stitch applique.

...and speaking of Marine labels...please check out Marine Comfort Quilts and make some blocks...for all branches of the military that have fallen soldiers...

http://www.marinecomfortquilts.us/

Have a BLESSED day, y'all!

My brain...spring MUSH

I went outside today after work...aww, it's so pretty and blue and green...some of Kim's flowers are coming up and the pear trees have some blossoms...and the Jiffy is in the yard..

Too tired to psot ...will try to show quiltts tomorrow...

Happy 22nd Birthday Jamey!!! I love you!

It's a LUCY week...

Keera is doing sooo much better...Saturday morning I got up early and tidied up around house, had to work for 4 hours and so I got dressed early too...an hour before I needed to be at work I decided to check on Keera and feed her, put medicine on her incision and get her comfy until I could get back home...I noticed fresh blood coming from bottom of her incision, red and swollen around incision...Dr had told me if that happened to just bring her on in to office, SO I grab my stuff and a blankie, decide to take Kim's Jeep Cherokee. Kim offers to go with me, but I figured ..hey, no prob, she just needs checking and probably some bandages and antibiotics, so Keera and I are off to the vets...we get there, we go in, lots of animal visiting the vet Saturday, but Keera obviously felt bad cause she mainly ignored all creatures and stood ready to bolt out front door first chance she got...we waited 30 minutes and then it was our turn...kinda had to drag her into room, but I understand...Dr was so nice and sweet, feels she doesn't need antibiotics, just CortAid and food and some way to keep her from biting her incision. She gave her a dose of anti-inflammatory ....it is to make her less itchy, help her appetite and somewhat drowsy...I am happy, Keera is too...she gets to LEAVE...NOW for the LUCY part...somewhere between the office door and the Jeep , Keera's meds hit and she is wobbly and woozy...uh, oh...I still figure we can get in the car in a few minutes and be home in 20...HA!!!!! I am NOT a good story teller so you must picture this with all exaggeration and then it will be clear! Keera weighs 85 lbs...you need to know that, and I am a small person, that will help the visualization too. We get to the car, I open the back door..I get her to jump, and I am at her butt-end trying to help lift her after she gets the momentum going...but she stops after she realizes she cannot pull her weight up and I am left holding 85 lbs of dead weight...oookaaayy, we try again, same thing...we rest, we try again, same thing...then I decide we will try back seat, maybe that will be easier...she seemed to think so too, so off we go ...we try again and same thing...we tried 2 more times and had to take a 10 minute rest....it did work this time, I think she finally figured out to keep going after her front legs hit the floor! It didn't dawn on me that we must have been a very amusing sight, but no one was around to offer their help, and I can just picture everyone in the office looking out the window trying to see when we would finally leave!
Ok now we are in, she is laying on back seat and her poor little head is lolling sideways...I did not want her to go to sleep because she would fall off seat into floor and I would NEVER get her out of the car...so off we go...I am looking back every few seconds yelling at her to stay awake, saying everything I can think of that usually makes her perk up...SNACK, JIFFY,
OUTSIDE, CHICKEN, WALK...over and over...I notice people are looking as I pass them...I get a red light and the car next to me looked terrified after I did a little wake-up yell for her...luckily I got to drive on while they turned left....WHEW...we made it home and she wobbled her way into the house and took her place in the den and SLEPT for 3 hours!

...and today is Tuesday and I have my dog back...she seems happy and semi-young again.
Life is good.