BLog Award

Vickie gave me this award and I am so honored to have it. I have been lax the last few days with posting...it seems my job is getting in the way. Perhaps I will catch up this weekend. I want to blog about 10 different posts! Anyhow....I am allowed to nominate 7 blogs...wow that's almost a chore...how d0 I choose? I have to post them on our blog and on our bloglist and then let them know! They in turn have to do the same, if they want! I hope that the bloggers I award don't feel like they have to do this too. I enjoyed making my list!! I just hope they realize how much I enjoy reading their blogs everyday!

I am going to nominate:

1. Passionate Quilter : Karen, one of the first 3 true friends I made when I moved to Ohio.

2. Dandelion Quilts : Great blog, it inspired me to want to post more, and to figure out how I can begin to maximize my blogging.

3. Ginger Patches : Tammy...I don't know how you do all you do...and you and I have very similar fabric taste.

4. Kim's Big Quilting Adventure : Such and Inspirational blog...she ought to be a quilt designer~

5. Mom-o-matic : She is so real. My favorite read any day.

6. Raggedy Old Annies : because I LOVE Nicole's dolls. I only wish I could make a doll half as cute as hers.

7. LA Quilter : Vicki ...a stash busting inspiration. I enjoy seeing your quilts process to completion.

Getting Into A Decor Mood

With this stitchery pillow, I finished last weekend. It's a buttermilk basin pattern.

The quick contest winner...

There were 8 correct answers. The names are from the movie "Hairspray". My 18 month old LOVES to watch and listen to the music on that movie. I watched it literally 7 times over labor day weekend. She'll fall asleep to it, dance to it...and sing (what she can). It's wild. Since I have seen the movie soooo many times, I have those girls names dancing through my head once in awhile. When I unpackaged my quads...the first thing I thought was "they're twins like Noreen and Doreen"...and that's where it began. My DH thinks I should make a chubby one...and of course call her "Traci"!!

So without further a-do...the winner of a charm pack....(uh I forgot to take a picture (dough!))

is.....Lesley. Lesley, please send me your snail mail and I will get a charm pack right out to you!

It's a monday...in a good way...

It's back to work today but...it was a great weekend.

These lovely little patterns arrived this weekend from Raggedy Old Annies. I have 12 of her dolls and am going to someday try to make my own....ah not sure when that will be LOL. I have been stitching...I am thinking of framing this but I need a trip to Jo-Ann's first.

And this is one of my newly decorated shelves with some of my painted jars. Since I made this pic...I have added buttons and things to the jars. Actually yesterday DD1 and I sorted all my buttons by color. Then I started a new stitchery for my Stitchers Angel partner....is it ever going to be cute!

I'm very lucky..

For so many reasons I am so lucky. It is easy to forget that sometimes when we are micro-managing our lives or had a really rough day today at work. Most of what I post here is fabric related, crafting, or quilting related with some family stuff thrown in. I try to keep things upbeat as much as possible. I was really struggling the day I found out I was one of the winners on Anne's blog. I first found her site searching for free quilt patterns and through her website I ended up at her blog. I have followed her pink adventures for months and months. I have her fabrics, patterns and made the jelly bag. I love her applique and all she contributes to my quilting world. So it was an awesome 'pick me up' to know this was on the way:
It perked me right up and reminded me how lucky I am every day.