Toilet paper and plastic wrap....."the best $12 investment I ever made" according to one of them. Hmmmm, I think she might have been in the Principal's office enough times to get really familiar with the layout. :)
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Seniors
At the school where I work there's a long standing tradition that seniors have a "Prank Day." One year teachers arrived at school to find a full classroom set up on the roof of the gym. (It had a flat roof.). This year my office was the target.
Toilet paper and plastic wrap....."the best $12 investment I ever made" according to one of them. Hmmmm, I think she might have been in the Principal's office enough times to get really familiar with the layout. :)
Toilet paper and plastic wrap....."the best $12 investment I ever made" according to one of them. Hmmmm, I think she might have been in the Principal's office enough times to get really familiar with the layout. :)
Sunday, May 12, 2013
I Just Wanted One Picture With Some Of My Grandchildren.....
Getting one picture proved to be a bit difficult. Andrew had a little trouble with the concept of posing.....
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
A Bouquet of Irons
Sew We Quilt is having the most awesome giveaway for Mother's Day! Not one, not two, but three Reliable Irons! You must go visit right now so you don't miss out on this one!
For those of you who might not be familiar with Reliable let me tell you about their product and service....from personal experience. As most of you know I'm a faithful follower of Sew We Quilt and love, love, love the wide variety of hops there as well as the incredible giveaways Madame Samm has. For the longest time I read her descriptions of Reliable Irons and entered every time she had one to giveaway. Of course she has thousands and thousands of entries so I never won one but finally late last November I decided to bite the bullet and buy one for myself. I've had so many irons and so little luck with them. I know an iron isn't going to last forever but I at least expect good service when something goes wrong. After buying three different Rowentas and never even getting a reply when I e-mailed them I knew I wasn't going that route again. I ordered the Reliable V200 and fell in love with it...the steam is amazing! Unfortunately a couple of weeks ago it developed a problem with the steam so I e-mailed the company. Within a few days I had a replacement iron! And I'm talking about a very few days! They asked me to mail my old one back so they could investigate the issue so that they could use whatever they find to improve their product, and they trusted me to mail it back....they didn't wait to receive it to send me a new iron. That service alone will keep me buying Reliable products. So go on over to Sew We Quilt and try to win one for yourself....I know you'll love it if you win. And if you don't win, seriously considered saving your money to buy one. It's worth it!
Don't forget the current blog hop....It's For The Birds.
Wednesday, May 8
Thursday, May 9
http://Ipiece2-Mary.blogspot.com Robin Sheaffer
Friday, May 10
Monday, May 13
Tuesday, May 14
Wednesday, May 15
Monday, May 6, 2013
It's For The Birds!
I can hardly wait for this blog hop ya'll - my mother loved birds so much that even as she reached her last days here on earth she was reminding us to "fill up the birdfeeders." This would have been her favorite blog hop of all!
Mary from I piece 2 is our cheerleader for this event...and here is the schedule
Tuesday, May 7
Wednesday, May 8
Thursday, May 9
http://Ipiece2-Mary.blogspot.com Robin Sheaffer
Friday, May 10
Monday, May 13
Tuesday, May 14
Wednesday, May 15
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
It's Still A Crazy Spring
Saturday was such a nice, warm day here. We have a garage that's a separate building (this house was built in 1975 when that was the norm) and it is, of course, not used as a garage but for storage. My husband has been a tad bit unhappy for a long time with all "my stuff" being in there and in his way. Right. It couldn't possibly be anything like this:
Or this:
Or all kinds of this:
Or a few of these:
Nope, none of those are in the way.
However, my off season clothes, canning jars and pressure cookers, Christmas decorations, etc. were taking up way too much of his space. :) So I just went out and bought myself one of these:
Mine isn't exactly like this one, but it's very similar. It has two windows so I can put some plants in there in the winter and it has a loft on three sides so I have tons and tons of room! It's 12' x 16' and I added shelves all along the back wall, a potting shelf in front of one window, a shelf with a formica top in front of the other window, a 6' table on one side and a shelf on the other side. All my Christmas decorations are now in red plastic tubs, my fall decorations are in green ones and my spring decorations are in blue ones - all in the loft. Canning jars and supplies as well as small appliances I don't use often are on two shelves. Off season clothes are all in clear tubs, labeled and on shelves. Old pictures, photo albums and old yearbooks are in tubs ready to be sorted and organized and doled out to my unsuspecting children this summer. :) I even took my boots and winter shoes out there - all labeled and in shoe boxes, of course!
Of course since I took all my winter clothes and shoes out on Saturday it was 40 degrees, rainy and windy today! That's spring in Arkansas.
(all pictures are from Google Images)
Nope, none of those are in the way.
However, my off season clothes, canning jars and pressure cookers, Christmas decorations, etc. were taking up way too much of his space. :) So I just went out and bought myself one of these:
Mine isn't exactly like this one, but it's very similar. It has two windows so I can put some plants in there in the winter and it has a loft on three sides so I have tons and tons of room! It's 12' x 16' and I added shelves all along the back wall, a potting shelf in front of one window, a shelf with a formica top in front of the other window, a 6' table on one side and a shelf on the other side. All my Christmas decorations are now in red plastic tubs, my fall decorations are in green ones and my spring decorations are in blue ones - all in the loft. Canning jars and supplies as well as small appliances I don't use often are on two shelves. Off season clothes are all in clear tubs, labeled and on shelves. Old pictures, photo albums and old yearbooks are in tubs ready to be sorted and organized and doled out to my unsuspecting children this summer. :) I even took my boots and winter shoes out there - all labeled and in shoe boxes, of course!
Of course since I took all my winter clothes and shoes out on Saturday it was 40 degrees, rainy and windy today! That's spring in Arkansas.
(all pictures are from Google Images)
Monday, April 15, 2013
Spring Ramblings
A couple of years ago at our annual quilt guild retreat I made the background for this quilt top. The center is simply squares of varying colors of beige and cream. The half square triangles represent a garden gate. The solid piece on the left is the foundation piece of the gate and the triangles are the part that swings open...make sense?
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When I got home from the retreat I cut out the wool flowers and got them fused on and occasionally since then I drag it out and add some blanket stitching to them. Finally a couple of weeks ago I got all those done and started on the stems, which are cotton instead of wool and are bias strips I made.
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Last night I got the last stem sewn down! There's absolutely no reason for this to have taken this long to do except I so often get sidetracked by a beautiful piece of embroidery I just have to make right now, or a blog hop that's so cute that I can't resist, or by..... I bet that happens to you too. :)
I wanted the flowers to be simple enough to stand out against that background and I think this is going to do that. Now comes the hard part....how in the world am I going to quilt it? Oh my goodness, that's going to be a hard decision. Any ideas?
I've moved on to try to finish another top now...one that I've been working on longer than this one. Oh dear. I'm on the last of four sections of red work embroidery on Twas The Night Before Christmas. I think I might have been working on it four years. Or more. Probably more.
On another note it's spring in Arkansas. I take allergy shots every week but for the first time in years they didn't seem to help last week - I sneezed, coughed, wheezed, had watery eyes and a runny nose, and finally a sinus infection that just about kicked my behind. And since I'm working the most awful hours at school I couldn't stay at home and feel sorry for myself. I just went to school and made everyone else feel sorry for me. :) I blame it all on this stuff:
Well this stuff and the fact that the weekend before I got the leaf blower out and blew all the moldy leaves off the courtyard, carport and deck. Shouldn't have done that. On a positive note though, look what else is up...
Potatoes! Yes, those are potatoes in a pot. Do you think I might get enough for one helping of mashed potatoes? :)
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