50 years ago today....

This is my parents on their wedding day. They were young, very young. He was a month from turning 18 and she was just 16 years old. They didn't "have" to get married. My Mom says they just wanted to be together all of the time. They almost made it to 50 years...but not quite.

Today we are having a "sew" day at my house. Kathy, Sharon, Paulette, me and my Mom (who doesn't sew AT ALL) are going to quilt all day. Yeah! We don't get to do this very often so I'm really excited. We decided not to worry about food, so we'll just order out, well I might make some beer bread for Sharon...lol...

If you are so inclined, please say a prayer for my Mom today. Thank you!

Baby it's foggy outside

This is the view from my front porch area. Isn't it cool how the camera captures the moisture in the air from the fog? Unfortunately it's fairly warm outside already at
7am, which means that it will be hot this afternoon. I love 50-60 degree days the most and I'm sure we'll get there, but geez it's November 2nd!!!

Okay enough with the weather...Here is a picture of my Fall bed quilt that I got back from my LA quilter last Sunday....I really like it


I do wish I had made it just a bit bigger for a longer drop, but oh well. Now I have a quilt for my bed for every season.

Cleopatra (that's my middle daughter) stopped by for a visit Halloween night along with her friends Tinkerbell and PeterPan. Aren't they cuties???



And earlier on Friday we went to see the "Pride of Stillwater" The Pioneer Marching Band



My youngest daughter is in the middle of all of those marchers somewhere!

I'm off to make breakfast for hubby and me. He's traveling to Las Vegas today for the SEMA show. He'll be back Thursday and the only good thing about him being gone this week, is that I can turn OFF the election results on Tuesday and put on a good movie....LOL

Have a great one!!!

Can you believe it...

The center is finished!!! I'm so excited to have my Dear Jane quilt this far along. Only two more months to go on the BOM that I'm doing with Stitchin Heaven and I'll have this quilt to the LA quilters.

Tonight is quilting night with my "quilting buddies". It's harder now for me to go since it's chilly and I like to snuggle in with my hubby in the evenings, but it will be fun. Next week it will probably be worse since we "fall" back on Sunday but we meet here I think.

I am feeling VERY overwhelmed lately with everything. I wonder if that's normal? I have so much to do at work and so much I want to do at home and I do get a lot done everyday, but it's just not enough. Also I've been thinking about going on a strict fabric diet next year. I really need to sew up all of the projects that I have and NOT add to the list or the stash. It will be hard but think of the money I'll save. Maybe enough that I can quit work? Don't know, I need to think about that one. Also with two daughters in college and one only 3 years away, I'm sure I'll be working forever...lol

I've been asking my family for Christmas lists so I can get started on shopping a little early. I do most of it online since I work in retail and the thought of going shopping nearly makes me sick. Oh I also need to finish up with my SSCS gifts.

Well times a wasting ;o)

Wow...

I cannot believe that it is Saturday already! I have had a pretty good week. Lots of work done on my Dear Jane quilt. I finished M-7 last night which means only 6 blocks to go and I'll have all of the blocks done. I'm sure several will get made today while we watch the OSU-TX football game. Then I have 3 triangles to make and I'll be a caught up until next months packet comes. I am ready to be done with this quilt but I will miss it.

Look what I received in the mail this week



It's pure candy for the eyes. I am a big fan of Kaffe Fassett Here are a couple more pics from the book which I highly recommend




And you can order kits for any of the quilts at Glorious Color

I am really struggling to NOT order a kit for myself. I think I'll send hubby an email requesting one of the kits for Christmas! I think that's a great idea, don't you...LOL

The winner is

The winner of the 2 patterns is.....Infinity Quilter...I will email her and let her know that her patterns will be on the way to her very soon. Thank you to all that entered.

I'm not feeling great today so I'm getting ready to go and prop up in my favorite chair, but I wanted you to see the little block I made from my Postcard Cuties for Winter from Bunny Hill Designs quilt. I showed the fabric and patterns last month I think.



Later this week I really will get busy with my Dear Jane. I need to bust out the blocks for the last row...yeah!!!

Later,

Homecoming weekend at OSU come and gone...

Thank goodness it's over! I am tired because I worked harder than I've worked for awhile...lol Oklahoma State University has one of the largest homecoming celebrations in the country and since we haven't lost a football game this season and the weather was beautiful, there was a record crowd in Stillwater, Oklahoma! We had a record day at the store on Friday and Saturday and probably today (I'm not there though). A friend of mine took this picture at one of the Greek Frat houses for me




How cool is that?!?!? College boys thought this up...they must have lots of Mom's and Grandma's making quilts for them...lol

Not much quilting has gone on here today, just a little bit of stitching and lots of laundry!

If you haven't entered my pattern giveaway, please do. It figures that I would have a give away the same time as someone giving away a quilt. Oh well free patterns are great! I hear that the weather is going to turn colder this week...yeah!!! I LOVE cold weather...as long as I'm warm that is. Have a fantastic Sunday evening.

oh my gosh

Great giveaway over pigtails and snails blog. She's giving away a beautiful quilt. I think if you click on my title you can go there. Geez I'm giving away a couple of patterns and she's doing an entire quilt. Oh well maybe someday I'll do that too!