And the winner is......

Wow 63 comments....how exciting! More entries than that by the time some of you posted about it on your blogs. I really enjoyed the comments and looking at the new blogs that I hadn't seen before. I decided to do this giveaway the "old school" way and write down all of the entries on paper and draw one. Here's a picture of all of the entries in a biscuit jar that was my Grandma's

Here I am drawing a slip of paper
And the winner is......

Tonya from Tonya's Sewing Room
Congratulations Tonya!!! Tonya's blog is a new one to me, but I do know she's having a 100th post giveaway that looks pretty cool and she has a cute, cute little boy. Tonya I will email you later today when my husband fixes my email...for some reason I have Internet, but the email is only working sporadically! Oh also to those of you that didn't win this time, stay tuned because I picked up a couple of other things for another giveaway, maybe in a couple of weeks.

Okay, remember the picture I posted of my outside front entryway? Here it is again just to remind everyone.
Well we had a huge hail storm on Friday morning. This is the third one in 2009 and it was way, way worse than the other two that we had. It went on for about 20 minutes and I actually saw baseball, tennis ball and golf ball size hail. In fact most of it was golf ball size and now look how the entry looks.

Well the hail stones are gone, but the hostas are still shredded and it looks terrible. My husband is going to try to cut the hostas back today and we're not sure what that will do to them because they were just about to bloom. The hail took out a lot of our tomato plants and really damaged just about everything. We had already been told by our insurance company that we needed a new roof, but we had just put off scheduling it. Well good thing we did because I have a feeling that some of the neighbors that already got new roofs will have new ones soon. Here's a picture of the back deck with the hail.
Both of these pictures were taken after it had started raining and everything was melting pretty quickly.

I have been sewing some. A couple of Nearly Insane blocks (better get busy Janet :o)


Also I'm back to working on the red & white quilt that I started a few weeks back.
In the evenings I'm stitching away on my Truly Scrumptious block. I should be done with this one soon and then only one more to do and I can put this quilt together!

Well I'd better get started on my first day of vacation....the plan is to putter around the house for a few days and then we'll go see Emily later in the week. I plan on getting lots of stitching done and some applique on the car trip. Thank you again for reading my blog everyone and for the compliments on my girls. I am a very proud Mama! Oh and they do get their looks from me....lol...oh and their Dad too I guess. I enjoy making connections with people who have the same passions as me, family and quilting. Have a wonderful Monday and I'll see you later!