china dog

China dog, china dog what do you see?

A boat full of china in a dishwater sea?

Oh no, no, no, said the young puppy lad

There's more snow a-coming and fun to be had!

Snow pups!

How many days til Spring?

We've got about 7 inches of snow so far and it is still falling. It is a fine snow so drifting will be an issue as well. Last night I got the Maggie Report from Maryland (Maggie is my niece) and she said they had about 6 inches at 9:30 p.m. already.

Actually I love being snowed in! I love good sewing days when no one expects anything from me. I have three more blocks to finish for a spring project and want to make some placemats. Should be a good day to get some things done!

grandkid pics of the week!

Miles is definately teething.
And Helena got some new lip gloss from her Aunt Bube! Thanks Aunt Bube! She also got some magnetic bookmarks (she had to try the magnets out on all the metal appliances in our kitchen :D). Her is the little diva in her faux fur coat applying her gloss; you look mahvelous dahling!

Nana's Cutie Pie! :)

UFO finished

January 2010

My oldest UFO. Look close and you can see the fabrics of the 70s. 80s, and the binding was copyrighted 1992. All I can say is WHEW! Machine quilting cotton/polyester fabric is tough work! This was a labor of love and when I look at this quilt I can hear strains of music from that time and almost see our young children playing in the house as we crafted. It's a true memory quilt for Linda and I; the geese were from our days of beginning quilting. She experimented with machine quilting much more than I--I do believe I pooh-poohed it at the time. Oh we of little faith...

Well that's done so on to more finishes!

Cheer for Mom!

We love the grandkids but they are a HANDFUL!!! Yesterday I had both Helena and Miles; it got to be a bit much so I called in reinforcements! YAAA for my Mom who came and kept Helena busy with crafts (here she is in her killer bee ensemble).

I needed reinforcements because Miles is a whopping 15 lbs at this point (and the little guy is only 10 weeks old!) and he was little under the weather. He was congested and had problems breathing whenever I layed him down. So I ended up rocking him through most of the day. All I can are two things: Don't think I can take care of both kids at the same time right now and THANKS MOM!

This is the first week that Miles seems to be enjoying is Nuk. He was really sucking on it and puts his fingers to his mouth now :)

He is soooooooooooooooo cute!

Working the stash...

I was dedicating this month to pillowcases and teddy bears for my local guilds. They donate these items to the local hospitals (pillowcases for children in the oncology ward, teddy bears for children in the ER). It has been years since I have been able to focus on any kind of community outreach; family problems have taken precendence for some time now. It feels good. It feels like I am becoming a citizen of the world again.

It isn't hard to think about donations now with the haunting images of Haiti on tv. The other day while I babysat Miles, I rocked our wee babe and watched CNN and the awfulness of it all.

All I could think was something I heard once, not sure who said it: "for today and all its blessings, I shall have an attitude of gratitude."

Mr. Miles Day!

Mr. Miles is coming today! It sure is fun having him here :)

This is a close up of an old quilt I have and like a lot (love the colors). I find it interesting on this one that she did crosshatching on the green fabric (which was the border of the 9 patches) and just stiched in the ditch for the 9 patch. Most quilts I have that have cross hatching are quilted that way through the entire quilt. I like cross hatching anyway, it is one of my favorite ways to quilt but the colors in this one spoke to me!

Have a wonderful day!