So blessed

Thank you Nikki!

The details of blogs chosen for this award:

"These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kindbloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interestedin self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbonsof these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated.Please give more attention to these writers. Deliver this awardto eight bloggers who must choose eight more and include thiscleverly-written text into the body of their award."!

I will pass it on to:

Gina, Kristie, Ana, Angie, Amy, Janice, Judy

Thank you Angie!!:

"This award acknowledges the values that every blogger shows in his/her effort to transmit cultural, ethical, literary and personal values every day. Now, I invite you all to stop over and give Angie some love, today especially.

The rules to follow are:

1) Accept the award, post it on your blog together with the name of the person that has granted the award and his or her blog link.

2) Pass the award to another 15 blogs that are worthy of this acknowledgment.

I'm going to pass this on to:

Nikki, Gill, Lib, Carol, and Patty

And Thank You Janice!:

I'm passing this one on to:

Warren, Arizona, Audrey, Ana and Carol.



And this one I'm sending out to:

Mel, Lisa, Gizmo, and Rene

Thank you Carol and Mel!

This award is given to those whose blogs are full of sweetness, thoughtfulness, and kindness. :o)The rules are as follows:1) Put the Berry Sweet Blog Award logo on your blog or post.2) Nominate 5-10 blogs that show sweetness, thoughtfulness, and kindness.3) List and link your nominees within your post.4) Let them know they have received the award by leaving a comment on their blog.It's always so hard to nominate blogs because there are so many wonderful blogs out there. However having said, that I've picked the following to receive this award.

I'm sending this one out to:

Millie, Miriam, Dawn, Em, Lisa and Sarah and Valerie.

I'm sure there is someone I am forgetting - and I apologize if I have forgotten someone! If you visit regularly or I visit you regularly, please feel free to take one!

Kris

Preparing for the weekend

I finally decided to take my fall flowers out of this crock and replace with some spring ones. Have to get more yellow flowers (I think they are forsythia) but they are cheerful right now. Can't have them on the floor - Midnight thinks they are his personal toys....

We are supposed to hit 50's both days this weekend with sun.



I'm working my way round to everyone - but I had a busy day at work, errands to run after work, and I'm making whoopie pies for Todd, which he requested a couple weeks ago. Thanks everyone for your wonderful comments!!!

An easter penny rug I made.....12 or so years ago....

We've got a busy weekend planned between the quilting I want to do, the house that the fire department is burning down, and Sunday afternoon after church we are building a hay loft in the barn to make room for the grooming chute inside for Jessie's steers and heifer.

And I did find fabric for the backing of the firetruck baby quilt - a dalmation print! On sale at my LQS for $3.00 a yard - which was a wonderful find.

I'll be back! Hope everyone enjoys their weekend!
Kris

And....P.S. I still have not unpacked all my "everyday decorations".....one of these days I'll get round to it, but not right this minute. Guess I'm just not in the mood......hehe

Spring

I am normally not a procrastinator - but it is turning out to be a very good thing!

Way back when (OK - the Saturday after Thanksgiving) I packed away all my "everyday decorations" in preparation of pulling out my Christmas decorations. Yes, I have 11 large Rubbermaid tubs of Christmas decorations plus the Christmas tree.

Well, the Christmas decorations came down the Saturday after Christmas, and I have yet to put back out my "everyday decorations." Todd asked me last night if I were "going Amish" in that there is not much of anything out on my shelves or hanging on our walls. My response - I'm thinking about what I want to put out and where to put it all.

Of course, it would help if I would actually remember what I have in the way of decorations. But he doesn't know that I cannot remember - so all is well on that front. So this afternoon upon getting home from work, Tyler and I decorated for Easter (I did bring that box upstairs oh.....about a week and a half ago......at least it's not still sitting here right?)

And here are a few of my favorite Easter things:



My $7 Jo-Ann Fabrics lighted 4 foot Christmas tree -

that I found rustic eggs for at the local junk shop - for $2 an egg.

I only brought 4 - figuring I'll go back here in a week or so and get another 4 or 5.

A wool penny rug table mat that I made oh.......10 years ago maybe?

Hopefully tonight (after the kids go to bed) I can get out some more of my favorite things again. Then this will lead to also having to clean the house.....we'll see how far I get:)

Kris

Basting Spray

I got my basting spray last week, and decided to try it out tonight.




I spray basted this quilt right after work - one word of caution - when the directions say to use in a well ventilated area - they aren't kidding. Hopefully the smell is gone from the office when I get there in the morning tomorrow:)



I started quilting right when I got home. I'm quilting this one in a straight line grid pattern. I know it's for my Mom, and she likes the meander free motion quilting, but I don't think my arms, neck and shoulder are up for it at the moment. After sleeping on my side wrong for 2 nights running aggravating the pinched nerve I have in my neck - lets just say my prescription pain pills are my best friend at the moment.







I love how the spray is holding the layers together. I did trim the backing and batting down to just a 1/2 inch bigger than the top after smoothing out all layers - but so far it hasn't shifted at all.





Now if I just knew how to sew in a straight line without having to mark up the top, we'd be doing good. But I have 3 quilts to quilt this weekend, so.....I guess I had better get busy, right?



Have a great evening!
Kris

Not Meant to Be

I think this baby quilt is possessed!


Baby quilt #1 is done and delivered - have yet to hear if they liked it or not - I asked Todd if Matt opened it at the firehouse - nope he took it home cause his wife would kill him. Ok then.


So I start in on baby quilt #2 - and am not getting ANYWHERE with it. Pulled it out of my stash last week - not very big - all I had was the center section done. I still have several yards of several of the firetruck prints, start putting a border on from one of the prints. It just didn't look right - too busy. So my seam ripper and I became good friends. Found the plain red - which I believe is leftover from Tyler's quilt. Much better. I think I have enough of the red, so I make the borders extra wide (I like baby blankets and quilts to be BIG - so nothing tiny comes out of this house! - this quilt is going to be about 51 x 58 when done).

Oops - I am out of red for the backing. And I don't have enough of the firetruck fabrics to back it in one of them. And I'm loath to use all of my firetruck fabrics as I'm in the midst of making a whirlygiggle bed quilt for Tyler out of the firetrucks.



So I cut the batting - and hopefully either tomorrow or Thursday I'll get to either the quilt shop near where I work or a JoAnn fabrics somewhere to buy something for the back. This baby's father is a firefighter and a cop - maybe I can find some yardage of policeman fabric to put on the back????

The fire department is burning down a house on Saturday - for practice. My hope is to have it done by then so Todd can take it with him. If not, it will get to fire practice next Tuesday.

Wonder what else I can get done tonight since my plans to finish this one have been shot all to heck?

Have a great evening!
Kris

Sunday silence

Yesterday I had no kids in the house (they were off bowling with their Uncle, Aunt and nephews), no hubby (he was working on a neighbors farm) and nothing to do other than some laundry.

So I got LOTS of sewing time in. After working on my Bears in the Farmhouse blocks, I started putting this quilt together:

Within an hour I had it to this point:

1 more row of colored blocks, and the outer borders and the top will be done. Very quick, very easy - my kind of project. Of course, I had to try it out on Jessie's bed to make sure it would end up the right size. And realized that a mostly white quilt might not be good for on her bed - as Midnight likes to lay on her bed and nap the day away.

Oreo is staying clean - and the last of the mud and poop balls have rubbed off him in the nice clean straw in their pen.

Jessie did want to wash him again yesterday, but it was raining so hard and in the 50's - I didn't want her (or the calf) getting sick. Then she ended up going bowling, so that worked to keep her mind occupied!

Have a great day everyone!
Kris

Bears in the Farmhouse - Step 3

I'm plugging right along on this one. Managing by the skin of my teeth to keep up. If we hadn't had a sunny, 70+ degree day with a steer calf that needed washing, I'd have had this step done a day earlier! Fortunately the kids were gone yesterday and we had a monsoon - so I had hours to get this step done!

But I'm loving my color choices. And once again, Todd has asked that I make it king size so as to fit our bed.

Not a chance of that happening!

Kris