Where were you in......

October 2010? I thot I had a good story until I googled it...darn it all...had to do with 5 Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays....and their brief occurrences...the next time it happens in July will be in 2016...so that is a long way off from 823 years....
But the other interesting thing i found was.....

2011 does feature the unique (for this century)
calendar dates 1/1/11, 1/11/11, 11/1/11, and 11/11/11, and that's not all...

Take the last two digits of the year in which you were born - now add the age you will be this year, (75 + 36 = 111) (76 + 35= 111) (78 + 33 = 111) (79 + 32 = 111)

The results will be 111 for everyone in whole world.

and.... when you add the year you were born to the age you turn in the current year, the sum will equal the current year: 1982 + 29 = 2011

So there is your trivia for today ;) Hope you are enjoying the nice weather...at least we are getting nice weather here in the Northwest

Look what I found....

I just came to this computer to look at something else........and I found this to be published post....oh my....losing my mind? Sucks to get old :)
I got a few books at Joann's while they had a coupon bonanza going.....Have been eyeing the Scrap Basket one for a while...tried to win one in a giveaway but....oh well........so I got it and another book on blocks...figure I can make a quilt out of one block by just making them bigger :)

Also got a couple of patterns...altho the one was a normal star ...it is made with 10" squares....
the other is a scrappy quilt..the problem with it is that the directions SUCK! They don't make sense...they tell you to cut certain pieces and then they give you a picture...which neither of them make sense together. Oh well.....maybe I will return that one...darn cuz it is cute

and then........another set of doubles...

I have lost my mojo and haven't sewn other than a ruffle for my chair.........need to get back in there for quilting...........sigh.............gotta slow down my days ;)

Surprise....

Went looking for a quilt that I had done and couldn't find it...that must mean that I have given it to someone and can't remember who :) Oh well...but in the process I found these gems....three of them already done and one that need quilting.......hum.......maybe old timers is really setting in bad! :)

Loved doing the stack and whacks....this one is bright and fun....Hippos and Elephants and........???


close up of a couple of the blocks....blurry of course so that you really can't tell that they are...think the wind was blowing when I took the picture

another one...Attic Windows Bee style...........funny how you can't see the pattern as well with the eye but through the eye of the camera they pop out :)

Close up of the bees...now doesn't that just make you smile???

and this one...I swore I sent this to my niece when she had her baby...Her baby is now almost 10....

close up of the blocks....


and then there is this one not complete...the top is done but the sandwiching has not started. These are really dark tones set off in white and really kind of cool....again the camera isn't catching the color tones for real...darn it

here is a better shot that gives more of the color tones...altho it is really purple tones instead of blue...good thing I don't want to be a professional photographer when I grow up :)

Dontcha just wish....

........you could lay around on your back enjoying the heat and the comfort of being totally taken care of???

and then there is Bailey enjoying the couch.....but......

not as much as Cassidy is...........I kept calling her and she was zonked

got this one with one with my phone cuz it would have been hard to get the card out of the computer and into the camera before she got off the chair ;)

what an easy life :)

Another Double

Got another set done...actually got four of these done...each a bit different but only quilted these two. Figured I would turn them in and then do the others in a bit...
Lost my mojo today...have time to quilt and can't figure out what pattern to use...like using simple to get the project done............sigh................

here is a close up of the quilt pattern I used

but I did order two books...didn't even try Joann's cuz wasn't sure they would have them...they are simple patterns with the ugliest combos of fabrics but the quilts themselves are very good...somewhere I have both of those books but they aren't where I can find them which means I probably loaned them out :(

OOPS!

This little guy, named Judah, came for a visit today...he is going to be a future stud muffin for me. He had fun playing with the other dogs and then it was time to leave..............

that is where the problem came in :) Judah's mother was backing up but forgot to look that the drive wasn't behind her but the ditch was. This is the second time someone backed in the ditch...well sorta...the other one we were able to pull out with my car.

this one wasn't going to be pulled out easily :) If you can see the back tire...well there is nothing underneath it....

this rock is what is holding the car from falling over :) Also the thing that was going to make it hard to get out without the damaging the car.

spectator seats :)

so between my husband and the tow truck guy they got it figured out....not an easy thot process to get the car out but they did do it

woohoo...the car is out of danger

during the process they broke the stem off the tire so it went flat...then another project...trying to figure out how to get the tire out of the back of the car...then how to get the tire off...it was stuck tight....

Judah figured he would be a helper...or maybe just telling Dave how to fix the tire ....or learning a skill that might come in handy later????

Note to self...

Rethink what you are doing ;)
Today I called my daughter and asked if she wanted me to take "The Boy" for a bit...thot I could take him to the beach for a bit and entertain him.......HA :)
It started with a time with the hose....Aaron had a blast playing with the hose and getting water everywhere. Only thing I wouldn't let him water was the house....my windows were open ;)


he proceeded to wet his feet with the hose

included this one because Izzy was following Aaron everywhere


here is a skip ahead picture...of Izzy bothering Aaron again....

he was having so much fun with the hose

getting himself all wet

and everything else in sight....figured I would take him to the beach....what was wrong with that idea???? He loves the sand and the water

so he gets there and promptly goes into the water

and wouldn't listen when I called him back...so he just kept going out further and further and further...I was just about to go and get him......however...enter his rescuers....I should say my rescuers.....this man and his son went and got Aaron....and because he didn't want to get out they drug him though the water...the man said he was afraid Aaron didn't want to stand up cuz e was cold...I told him it was more like he didn't want to get out of the water.....
So they drug the poor bog closer to the shore and then he would listen to me...well cuz the guy blocked his way from going out again

well rescued (not like he thot he needed it) and back on dry land...Aaron did what I expected of him in the first place......laid down and played in the sand

totally covered in sand...including in his mouth

up close he kept saying "cheese" to me....this is after some of the sand was wiped off ;)


Whew...what a day...and his mom lives with this every day :) Blessings to you Danica

Bearly quilts

Just a couple of singles today.....the stash would go down if I kept NOT
adding to it :)
Bear one

Bear two

We interupt this irregularly scheduled program.....

Have been posting a lot of quilts lately....figured I would take a break and put some puppy pictures in here instead of quilts today.
This is Spencer right after I got him.....he was enjoying the yard and running all over the place...it was hard to get a picture of him at first cuz he was always on the move.

Here he is now sleeping on his favorite bed...can't wait to see what color he ends up when he is grown up...........

Here is Zoey and Bailey...love the way Zoey is using Bailey as her pillow ;) These two have a love/hate relationship...well not exactly but they are always trying to tell the other that they are on top of the other in pecking order :) It is really quite funny...
They don't look like this anymore tho as both got a summer shave and are quite naked now

and this one is for comic relief...well if you understand what is going on here....
Cassidy is the one sitting....Grace is the one laying...there are puppies in the pen........they are Cassidy's pups and Grace is letting them nurse....my guess is that is what started her labor altho I am really not sure...but right after I took this picture and got Grace out so Cass could take care of her pups...well...I saw that Grace was in labor........so much for my getting to bed at a decent hour that night :) Bet Cass was glad to have her pups back as her own....crazy the way my dogs will share their pups with each other.

Thanks for indulging me while I talk about my dogs instead of quilts :)

Seeing doubles...

I really had a cool title for this post but it just didn't work..........mostly cuz I forgot to take a picture of one of the sets of quilts....oh well.....if I had noticed that I would have posted some of these sooner...but oh well.......
Here are some more of the 'twin' quilts I got done
Dino's....got this material when I was in California and just finished these two...still have more material but will redigitize the dinos on it...they had some eye issues that I had to fix as I sewed them but if I do it again will fix it first



Pinwheels are fun to do...I like taking pics and putting them here because I can see what patterns worked...sometimes with fabric that I only have --so much of--I have to be creative to get a couple of quilts out of it...this was the last of this line that I got...and I make the twin quilts almost the same but a bit different....guess so each twin can have something different than the other one...not that they care at this age???/

the back of the pinwheels

I made ones somewhat like this for girls that I had already sent to the hospital...but the boys ones finally got done also.....

the back was a really simple design but worked well with the front of the quilt

and here is the finished one from the post yesterday about the flying geese no wasteroonie blocks. They made up really quick...I have some green flying geese almost done and it will probably be the reverse of this with the big blocks being pink and the middle blocks being green...then I still have some blue in this fabric too but am really low on the center of the star...hum...improvise?

here is the block quilted.......