Ga -ga!!

I am so in love!!!!! I am absolutely ga-ga!!! Have you ever felt that way??!!! I am so giddy!!!





In keeping with this being National Sewing Month, I checked out a book on quilting from the library. It is Liberated Quiltmaking by Gwen Marston. I can not put it down!!! I have been all excited and smiley from the first and the more I read the better it gets. I can hardly control myself, I am so excited!!!! This is such a perfect match for me!!! This is such a dream come true and exactly what I have been searching for!!!! This book just tells you to step away from the templates and squared corners and go with the flow!!! What a great idea!!!! If you do any kind of quilting you have got to read this book, even if you don't you have got to at least look at the pictures of her quilts. I love them they are so great!!! I love the concept behind them and I can't wait to try it. (although I think I may already have, just unknowingly) How great is that!! I just had to share that. Thank you!

The Sky IS the limit!!

This weekend we got to go to the Mountain Home Air Force Base airshow!!! I have never been to one and so I told Doug we needed to do this in the name of family togetherness. => It was AWESOME!!!!!!
We got to walk through several huge airplanes, get our picture taken with men who are here to serve and protect and see some incredible acrobatic tricks in the sky!!! (Yes, we did wear our ear protection, look closely at Erica's ears) It was incredible!!! These guys were flying so close to the ground and each other. You can see in a couple of my pix the plane going straight up and then stalling out and just falling until the engine started back up. It was so neat!! Unfortuneatly, the batteries in my camera died before the show was over so I only got a few pix of the Thunderbirds flying around. That was SOOO COOL!!!! The noise was a bit loud for Amber and Clara, but it didn't seem to bother Erica a bit. All in all it was so worth it and everything I had ever imagined!!! I can't wait to go to the next show!!

National Sewing Month

September is National Sewing Month!! Finally, a "national" month I can support and as a cause near and dear to my heart, I urge all of you out there to give your all for this cause. On my side bar is a link, go there and find out what you can do. I plan on spending all my extra time and just generally all my time sewing up a storm this month in support of this great cause!! Up coming projects include binding two quilts tied by Sara and Tessa's activity days group, (they are giving them to two other girls whose home burned down in a recent fire here in town.), making a few zippered shopping totes, (way cool!!!), a couple of tops for me (I hope), several other bags I have ideas for, pants for the willow twins, (they are about as tall and skinny as willows) something special for Amber's birthday, and a few special items for the National Sewing Month project.

They are making Anti-Ouch bags (see the site for info) to give to women who are breast cancer patients. It is a great idea and a simple project so I hope that if you can, please support it!


But other all my lofty goals and aspirations, I am getting back into the swing of school schedules, running kids all over the place, and just general bedlam. Fun huh. But I am excited to have an extra excuse, reason, push to sew. I know it doesn't take much, but still, I'll take it. I hope you will too!!

SEW MUCH, SEW MORE, SEW HAPPY!!!

Toot! Toot!!

This past week we were at my in-laws cabin, (which they are getting some work done on) and they just happened to have this space available to paint on. So, with a little help from eleven little girls, I managed to create this masterpiece! I must say we did good work. So toot! toot!

projects

Now that I have a camera I can take pix of what I have been sewing. This first is a quilt I started for Sara and Tessa about 3 years ago, but never got done, until now. There is another that is in pink tones, that is almost done also. I am quite pleases with the red quilt top. Now I just have to figure out how I am going to quilt it.





This is a new diaper bag I made. I meant to have it done before Erica came, but we all know how that works. = > Anywho, it is done now and I LOVE it!!! All those colors. It is soooo ME!!!

photos

I recently had a friend take some pictures of Clara and Erica for me, and the others came along with us and had pictures taken too. You will have to go to her web site to see them. Go to :
Heathphotos.blogspot.com

and we are under Smith Girls. They turned out soooo cute!! Now I have to have some done of Sara and Tessa when their hair is done. => My favorites are of Erica, she is so cute and such a cheezier!!!! Imagine that. She is now 6 months old and getting so tall. She can roll over but chooses not to becuase she hates being on her tummy and when she does roll over she just screams and screams. Which is okay with me because that only leads to crawling and walking and general mobility. Ugh!! And who wants that.
The picture on the side of my blog of all the girls together was also taken by her. If you click on it, it will take to her web site also.

we are now in the process of getting ready for a last trip this summer to Phoenix, of all places. I can only think of a few places that would be hot this time of year and I am not allowed to mention such places. I am looking forward to seeing all the fam. but not the heat, and the long drive.

We got a new camera now so I can take pictures of the girls latest sewing projects and what I have been up to now to show everyone.

Evolution

since my camera is now broken and I can no longer post the pictures of Sara and Tessa's latest sewing projects, (skirts) I will just ramble about my thoughts on evolution.
Here goes:

It just can't be true, evolution, that is, because if it was true than mom's would have 3 or 4 arms, eyes on the back of our head (for real), and be able to function on just 3 or less hours of sleep a day (for all you new moms). Isn't that how it should work???