I'm Back

I know this might sound strange but I don't like posting while I am doing a swap.

I am afraid that people will think..

"You got some nerve having fun while holding my fabrics hostage."

or

"Woman just get my fabric in the mail."

As of Monday all the swaps are done and in the mail, so I am back.

It took longer than anyone ever thought,

Some got my address wrong, some forgot, some dropped out, and I had to fill their spot.

I promise next time I will be nagging you constantly, so that no one forgets.

I have it all planned, the fun and sarcatic emails I can send.

Maybe it will be like childbirth,

and in March I will have forgotten all this nonsense and think it will be fun to have a swap.

I have been busy and I do have things to share,

I will be back to do just that shortly.

We are going to have hurricane force winds here tonight, so I will be hunkered down and ready to share.

Until then have a great day.



Halloween '11

How was your Halloween?

The weather was perfect here yesterday, today is another story.

Yesterday the sun was shining and the birds were singing.

OK I don't know about the birds, but it was sweet.

Today the sun is gone, the clouds and rain are here, and the wind is blowing.

I am so glad that the weather was nice yesterday,

so that the girls didn't have to be bundled up hiding the costumes.

I don't know how many you made, but my grand total was eight.

I will start with the oldest and work my way down.

I am to lazy to picnic them all so bear with me.

Baubi

She didn't know what she wanted to be until a month ago.

She decided on Robin Hood.

Funny story....

I didn't start making hers until Sunday.

I miss cut the skirt, (that is what I get for doing it on Sunday)

I made a matching green ruffle slip, that is what she wore to school.

I went Monday morning bought another yard of fabric, came home,

finished the skirt, rushed to her school to give her her new skirt.

On the way stopped to get gas, and locked my keys in the car.

Good times. 

My sister asked her son what he wanted to be for Halloween,

 and with out hesitation asked

"What is Baubi being"

He was Little John

(I did not make his costume)

It is fun to have cousins who love each other so much.

Gowyn

Is finally done with Cinderella, and wanted to be something spooky.

I made her be a Gray Ghost.

She wasn't sure about it, but she warmed up to it.

Pretty spooky, huh.

We painted her face white.

Her dress was gray satin and lace.

Like last year, her best friend Tai came to play along.

(I didn't make his either)

They had so much fun together.

Here they are playing dead.

Lala

She anounced this spring that she was over Arial, and liked Belle now,

So that is what we did.

I think that she looks pretty fabulous.

So does she.

I asked her if she liked it and she said...

"No I LOVE it"

Here she is twirling, because like I have said in the past,

she is our #1 twirler.

Baby Sister

Since she cut her hair this summer, we made her be Rupunzel with the short hair

I have a niece who is very girly and princess 100%,

but when my sister asked her what she wanted to be she said

some warrior princess from star wars the clone wars.

Now since she has naturally long blonde hair, we made her rapunzel with the long hair.

Yes I made them both.

My sister made her braid from a wig,

she even put lights in it so that it would gleem and glow.

Her natural hair goes down to about the second pink flower.

Now if you are keeping track at home we are to five costumes so far, here are the other three

Ash-Nanna

(That is what Baby Sister calls her)

My sister has been planning for a year for my niece to be Mulan.

She gathered all the fabric.

She combined patterns.

She cut it out.

She started sewing it up...

and that is when my niece said NO!!!

She wanted to be something poofy,

she wanted a ball gown, and that is what she got.

we went through the stash and had all the fabric to make her a

Snow Queen

(or as she says a snow princess)

I combined two patterns, so that we could add some fuzzy trim.

Her skirt had six skirts, I am thinking that is poofy personified.

See her fancy sleeves.

She does have a pretty cute face,

could you say no to that face?

OK here are seven and eight..

The Chubbers

My sister has twin girls, and they are chubby little babies.

Everyone calls them the chubbers.

When you have two little girls, with cute chubby legs, and naturally curly hair,

there is only one thing they can be for Halloween and that is...

Shirley Temple

They were not quite sure what was going on.

Look at those legs, and those dimples for elbows.

So cute and squishy.

When we googled ShirleyTemple dress

there were two that came up the most. 

This polk a dot one.

And this pink ruffle skirt one.

She didn't want to leave her dad's side.

They were pretty funny trick or treaters.

they would hold on to their candy until they got to the next house,

then they would put it in their buckets, and hold onto that candy until the next house.

Now you know whay I have been away from this blog.

I will get back on it I promise.

To all my swappers, I will be going to the post office this week.

I promise.

I Am Trying My Best

Here is the deal with the swaps.

Swap one

I still have not heard a thing from someone who said that she wanted to do my swap.

I assigned her a color, and have not heard a thing from her.

She is now black balled, and will not be allowed to do another one of my swaps.

My sister is taking her spot.

Also someone else got me address wrong,

and that package is now on it's way back to my house.

Swap two

Over the weekend I got all remaining packages,

they will be on their way soon.

Patty's swap

Still waiting on a few packages to arrive.

The person who forgot my address, joined this swap,

just in case her first one was lost in the mail.

I am now guessing that the second one is now addressed wrong

and on it's way back to her house,

so that it can once again make it's way back to my house.

Christmas swap

I am now starting to get packages,

they are fabulous

You are going to be so jealous that you didn't do it.

Kim I love love love the Christmas robin birds,

I mean seriously how perfect are those.

Linda my Grandmother who I loved, and taught me how to sew,

Always had scotty dogs for Christmas.

Thank you so much for those.

I am trying my best, I really am,

I am only one person,

I guess I am not bossy enough,

or scary enough,

to get people to do what they said they were going to do.

Next time I will pester, like crazy.

I will send out emails weekly reminding everyone what they signed up for

and not to be late.

I guess when you plan something

and then give up all control to someone else this is what happens.

Lost packages and things late.

There are still four spots in the Christmas swap,

The deadline is Nov. 1.

It means that you will have to have them in the mail this week.

If you are in this swap please but them in the mail this week.

I am sure you don't want to be reading an email like this in the middle of November,

with me telling everyone about this one lady who said that she wanted to do this Christmas swap,

and then didn't send me her packages.

I hope I have cleared things up,

and that you will want to swap with me again.

My Quilt Story and a Swap

I am featured to day on Quilt Story.

Go check me out, I am talking about my Jeweled Wedding Ring quilt. 

If you do go check it out you will see that I am wanting to make this quilt again.

I know, I would be the crazy one.

I want to make a Christmas quilt.

I want the red rings to be green.

The white centers to stay white and

all the joining pieces to be red.

For the petals I will make them green and then quilt them like holly leaves

For the circles I want to have all different Christmas fabrics.

I think they will look like lights on the Christmas tree branches.

Won't it be adorable.

I went to picnik and played way to long and made a mock up.

something like this.

Squint a little it might look better.

So even though I am still waiting on two packages from my first swap,

and even though I still haven't filled up Patty's swap,

 I am going to have a Christmas swap.

No colors to assign.

Nothing specific just as long as it is Christmas.

This is the plan gather 10 Christmas fabrics.(1/4 yard or fat quarter)

They can be from your stash or new from the store.

Cut them into 20, 4" squares send them to me by November 1,

and you will get in return 200 all different Christmas fabrics.

You can use them for a Christmas quilt of your own.

You can make stockings out of them.

You can use them to decorate your Christmas tree.

You can use them to make Christmas cards.

You can join me in making my Christmas Jeweled Wedding Ring quilt.

Because, I know you want to.

I think this will be fun I am hoping to get three swaps,

because it will take over 600 circles to make my quilt,

and I don't want any repeats.

So who is with me.

Leave me a comment with your email and you are in.

If you still want in on the fall color swap there are still spots open.

Leave me a comment on what color you want,

Kendra from ScrappinCricut I haven't heard back from you and I am holding a spot for you.

Let the fun begin.

I Messed It Up Again

Every once in a while I think I can do things.

I think that I can take on projects, and not mess them up.

The last time I did a swap, I SO messed it up.

For this fall swap I thought I had it all figured out.

I thought I could keep it all straight.

See the continuing problem is...

I thought.

Now I have messed it up again.

Not only did I mess it up, I ruined it for a cute Grandma.

Her name is Patty.

She said that she wanted to have burgundy, and then I got distracted trying to explain the big flower tutorial to her and forgot to go back and put her on the list.

Now sweet Patty is at home with all of her burgundy squares

 and no place for her in my swap.

I know am the biggest looser here.

I can't just add her, because then the numbers would be messed up.

I could have her send them to me and I just hold on to them for a year, and then she has her spot for next years fall swap guaranteed.

But who is going to want to wait a year, 365 days, 52 weeks.

To make up for all my foolishness I am going to have one more make up swap.

If you wanted to do my swap, and didn't make it, now is your chance.

If you did my swap and want to double up on the fall fabrics, now is your chance.

If you feel bad for my sweet Patty and you want to help her out, now is your chance.

If you want to let me know that I am a looser, now is your chance.

Here are the rules for this swap.

The deadline is going to come fast, so we can get it done and to Patty.

If you want in let me know what color you want, and then go to the store this weekend,

 and get it in the mail next week.

I am going to set the deadline as October 15.

There is going to be another fat quarter sale at Joann's on the 7-10.

If you think that money is an issue you can get all your fabrics for just over ten dollars.

You can review colors here, you can see the basic rules here.

Thank you for saving my life here, and thank you for helping out sweet Patty.

The State Fair

Every year I enter the state fair.

This year was no exception,

the only problem was I did not make a very good showing.

Out of six things I entered, I only got two blue ribbons.

I know....

 I should be grateful for two, but when you have won ten in one year two is pretty sad.

Here is what I entered and what I got.

Baby Sister's Easter dress got a blue ribbon,

seriously how could it not.

Christmas dress also got a blue ribbon.



Musketeer got a second place.

 She was at a party where they painted pumpkins, and did not give out smocks,

and yes she got paint on it.

I know, I was screaming about it too.

They marked it down because of it.

Baubi's pageant dress also got a second place,

I have to wonder who got first, and how they beat me.

My looser quilt lost again, this time second place.

No blue ribbon on that one either.

This adorable witch costume got third place.

They said the shirt was dirty, and that the red bow did not match.

I'm not buying it.

I never thought of myself as a competitive person, until I started entering the fair.

Now I find myself walking around the fair saying things like...

"Come on, how did that not win."

I still have never walked away with a purple sweepstakes ribbon either.

I get all sort of grouchy when I walk over to the sweepstakes table

 and see what made it.

I know, I know I should be grateful but when I do all this work,

 and all I get is a stinking second place, it rubs me wrong.

Good Looking knows this about me, so to make up for the fact that I lost the quilt contest,

 he bought me this.

It was waiting on the front porch for me when we came home from the fair.

Isn't just about the cutest thing.

I knew there was a reason I loved that man so much, he is pretty fabulous.  

In other news I have started getting fabrics for the swaps, they are good ones.

You are going to be excited about it.

I hope a whole bunch come in the next couple of days, so that we stay on schedule.

All Done

Both of my swaps are full

I am sorry if you wanted in, and were turned away.

I have ladies swapping as far away as England and Iceland.

I think having ladies from those two countries is funny because,

last year I was stuck in England because of the volcano in Iceland.

I am thinking of having a simple I spy swap later but not today.

For those of you who made the cut, I hope you are having fun finding your fabrics.

We are looking forward to seeing what you got.