I'm leaving

I'm leaving in the morning....no, I'm not leaving on a jet plane. We're driving up to Pittsburgh, NH. It's a 4 hour drive. It's so pretty and peaceful up there. Not much going on except for the moose which my bil will be desparately trying to find. I will be without internet until Sunday. I'll be thinking of you while I'm feeding the ducks. I hope that you will all behave....I'm not naming any names but I think you know to whom I'm referring. Sorry Darlene, but you will have to keep her inline by yourself. Did I tell you that I'm going to miss you all......well I am!

my prize arrived

The mailman brought me the wonderful prize I won from Linda. It's more wonderful in person. Maggie thought it was pretty wonderful too!

Let me just say that I hate mice.......

So......I woke up at 3 this morning with a full bladder. While I'm emptying it, I can hear the cats playing with something that sounded rather unfamiliar to me. I didn't really give it a second thought because well I was really still half asleep.
My hubby called me this morning from work to ask how "his girls" were? The cats....he wanted to know how the cats were. I guess when he went into the bathroom there was a mouse trap with a mouse included. I'm sorry for all you animal lovers but.....if they are coming into my house they are fair game. And SNAP is the only way to be sure they are gone. Did I tell you that I just hate mice. Seems the sound I heard was the jingling of the trap. My kitties are so proud when they catch that trap....lol Sure makes me feel secure knowing they are on the job because you know.....I just hate........yep, you guessed it.....MICE!

Then I couldn't access my hotmail account. I have Norton 360 and apparently they decided that hotmail's security certificate was revoked. So I got online with the support team. First it was Arurag and before he could fix my issues we were disconnected. Next came Anwar....it was a very short conversation as we were also disconnected. But then came my friend Sunil...I call him my friend because we were online together for the better part of an hour. Although he didn't fix my hotmail issue, he did fix my live update issue. So we were very happy. We disconnected on our own, I ran my live update and rebooted my computer. I was gonna get to my hotmail....wrong. But Shivaprosad....don't ask me to pronouce that one.....came to my rescue. He did fix my hotmail issues and I'm happy to say I can read my mail. I'm still having an issue with my messinger but I can't bear to meet another new friend today whose name I won't be able to pronounce. All of this, by the way, only took about 4 hours to complete.



The day was not a total loss.....I am having a ball with my cat stitchery. Of course I did a whole bunch of it with stem stitching when it was supposed to back stitching. A little frogging and we're back in business and I'm loving it.


If you haven't seen Kim's Hometown block yet go check it out....it's wonderful and she is so creative. Who needs Lynette Jensen when we have Kim! Ohhhhh....did I just say that....lol

Ok....I'm not sure what's going on with the pictures. You can't click to enlarge them....anyone know what I did wrong? Aaarrrrgggg I better get off the puter before I have more troubles and have to call up some more friends whose names...well you know.....

goodies in the mail

These are a few stitcheries that I got in the mail today. The cat is part of a 12 month series. I've been drooling over all the wonderful projects out there. Darlene has one to put a smile on your face for sure and Hanne has a cute one made from her Dad's drawings. I'm going to prep something tonight. I'm excited to get one started.

The week has flown by again....not much in the sewing department but that's ok....tomorrow is a new day.

Hawaiian applique

I don't have much progress to report so I'm sharing one of my hawaiian applique projects. I just have to finish the backs of the turtles. I love doing this kind of applique. I wonder if I could do it justice by machine quilting it.

I have the pattern and fabrics for a bedsize quilt but I promised myself I would finish this one first. I'm a little intimidated to cut into this fabric....

I'm thinking I might take a class with Nancy Chong in November at the Quilters Gathering in Nashua, NH. I guess I should look into that before the class is full.

It's says Monday but it's really a Tuesday post

I thought I had better post before it's "friday again". I've been working on some tote bags and the "new" project. I'm making one of the quilts from Judy's book with the fabric from a pig. Since I never do anything the easy way.....I've been trimming lots and lots of half and quarter square triangles blocks. It always seems like a good idea to make them a bit oversized until I have to square them all up.








I went to Joann's to buy some embroidery floss and got these (at half price) to helpfully get more organized. I sometimes really do think it's hopeless....I'm such a clutterbug. But I plod on hoping for that elusive magic container that's going to bring it all together for me.

I got the Hometown Christmas kit so I'll be joining in on the fun. Kim is organizing it and so far Vicky, Sharon and Kristie, who is a brand new blogger, have joined the party. Hopefully there will be "no regrets" on my part....if you know what I mean. :)

I won....can you believe it

I can't even believe but I won again! First, it was a lovely pincushion that Darlene made. And now it's the wonderful red bucket bag made by Linda. My cup runneth over!