Another week in my boring life

Gosh it has been a week since I've posted and I have pictures. Not much went on during the week cause we don't do much with me having to get up at 3:45 every morning. That means I go to bed early. These two pictures are of our space at the Milan Mellon Fest. You can see how big our quilt is. I can't wait to see who wins it. Our banner shows up really good, and how could you say no to buying a ticket from the smiling faces behind the table.

Nick really enjoyed the rides after my time in the booth selling tickets, He wanted to ride everything and wanted one of each to eat and drink. He did not get his own way. This is what I have been doing. I am making 7 tote bags for my family quilt group. They are all the same. We use them to give our secret sister the gifts that we get them. Our gifts are usually something small and quilty. The table runner is from a kit that I bought on a quilt shop . My next quilt is going to be a flannel on that I bought the fabric last year or the year before.

It is not that dark in real life. I am going to use Thimbleberries pattern My favorite flannel throw. I am not using TB. fabrics but I just love the snowmen. My grandchildren will probably fight me to use it. I am hoping to use it on my side of the bed this winter. DH wanted to know why I was taking a picture of fabric to post because " Its just fabric" . He just don't understand.I just had to take a little break to catch an act on America's got Talant. Brittany's friend John Burkin is on twirling his fire baton. He did a great job tonight. I have to stay up long enough to vote for him. I always enjoy watching him anywhere he twirls. With all of that going on I guess my life isn't all that boring right now. Have a great day tomorrow and remember to keep quilting.

Time Warner Cable

It happened again our cable went out around 7:00pm friday night and I called them. No luck they couldn't come fix it till thursday. Do any of you have a DH like mine? The man goes nuts without tv. It was just out three weeks ago for almost a week and now they tell him that he has to go another week, lucky me. I even tried to pull the wheelchair and blood thinners needs the phone for that. Did not work. After 6 calls in 2 days I gave up. He got tired of watching vidios sunday afternoon so he called, low and behold he got them to come today. Talk about a suck up!If TWC would have fixed it right the last time it would not have happened this time. They didn't bury the cable the last time and my neighbor tripped on it this time and pulled it out of the box. That would not have happened if TWC would not have run the cable across 2 back yards to get to us. We really had a quiet weekend, the grandkids went home friday and we had no tv phone or internet. I did do some sewing but I can't tell in here in case my family reads this cause I am making the family quilters something. Its a good thing that I'm not making anything big cause I get bored making more than one of something and I have to make 7 of these all the same exactly the same. I have to go so I can call Nick and Brittany, tomorrow is the first day of school for them. LKBye Karen

2009 raffle quilt

I figured out a way to post a picture of the raffle quilt design so here it is. My camera program wouldn't let me upload from it so I had to take a picture of my screen and download it to that and then I could post it. Maybe some of the colors or blocks will change but this is the general idea. I had fun doing this and I might do one for myself cause I won't win this one. The blocks will change where they are . I just stuck them in anywhere for now and we can move them around till they suit us. My hand colored one looks nothing like the colors in this version. My very first queen size quilt was a sample which is not quilted yet. I don't think it has its last border on it yet. Where is our rain? I am adding water to the pool to keep the pump from sucking air and burning up. Most summers I don't have to add a lot of water because we get enough rain to keep it full. Not so lucky this summer, I have added water a couple of times already. All of the kids are gone. Even Shawn, he had to work tonight. The grandkids all went home yesterday. It has been quiet for us today. Sometimes we need that.

Quilts and quilting

I have been busy last night and today. Last night I worked on a new table runner and got about half of it done before Nick kicked me out of our room so he could go to bed. After that I got on the computer and my quilt design program and drew up the raffle quilt for next years raffle. I tried to post it here but the formation of it couldn't be put on here. Bummer! So anyway I am almost out of colored ink so I printed the outline of each block and I am coloring them by hand. The colors are not how I have them drawn but they will show the blocks and how they will look in the quilt. The quilt is done in darker colors with a few light ones thrown in . I think it really looks good. I would like to have it for my bed but I say that every year cause I hardly ever see a quilt that I don't like and want. As soon as I am done with this I am going to work on my runner again while I try to figure out how to get into Kare's suitcase. She is going to Las Vegas and on a quilt shop hop there. I sure would like to go with her. Some of us get to go everywhere. Not me, I am stuck at home with DH and Nick and NO MONEY. At least I am where they love me. I think they do anyway. Time to go sew more later.

Bits and Pieces

I don't know how the kids do it but when I got home from work they were in the pool. The water temp is only 76 and us adults know that feels pretty cold. They were like frozen ice cubes when they got out. Nick has been in every day and he wants me to swim with him. I have to tell him that old people can't swim in water that cold. Butch's tomatoes are starting to get ripe. Its a good thing that he only plants 2 plants. We always have a bunch of them. Nothing taste better than a home grown one sliced up with a little salt on it. Yum! I started something new on sunday. Shame on me, I wanted to finnish some of my things. I went on a shop hop 2 years ago and bought a kit for a table runner at one of the shops. The main fabric is green with white daisys on it and the rest of the fabric is green with one yellow. Just right for summer. I might have it done for fall. I have been really slow at taking pictures of things, I still haven't posted one of my pink and brown quilt. Our cable is fixed and working fine now. The electric co. was doing some work out here and cut our cable. At least TMC gave us a good discount. You don't notice how much time you spend on the phone, on the internet, or in front of the tv untill you don't have it and then you haven't got anything to do. I think DH got tired of watching movies.

What do you do without Time Warner Cable?

Last saturday we lost our cable phone and internet and anyone that knows us knows how much time I spend on the net and how much time DH spends in front of the tv. It was out almost a week. When I called they couldn't get anyoue out here until thursday. Talk about boring! Butch watched movies 24/7 and I just did nothing. I know I know I could have gone in and worked on a quilt, its not like I don't have any thats not done but it was better to just sit and complain about not having the net. I tried to tell TMC that we needed the phone because of DH being in the wheelchair just in case something happened and he needed to call out. Didn't do me any good. The raffle quilt is quilted and is beautifull. Lisa does a great job on them. All it needs now is the binding and I am going to start that today.

What is that on my deck?

Nick and I took our nightly dip in the pool after I got home from work and after about an hour I was ready to get out. I was ready to eat. As I climbed up the ladder I looked up and there was this thing staring at me. It was not the prettiest thing I have ever seen. Nick said that he had one outside his bedroom window and it kept staring at him through the window and crept him out. I think that he was a little scared of it. I knew that I had to get it on my camera so I hurried in to get it. By the time I got back out there it had climbed up to the top deck. Moves pretty fast. It does have some good traits Like after sex it kills and eat the male. And it eats bugs in my yard. Can you guess what it is?

It is a praying mantis. It was not a full grown one. I hope that I don't have to fish it out of the pool tomorrow night.