Back into Quilting ..... sort of, and starting knitting soon!

I'm just posting a few pictures of projects that are actually finished or near finished. Because someone asked to see them (thanks Donna), I'm willing to show them off. Keep in mind that I haven't ventured to do anything complicated as I'm only in my 8th year as a beginner quilter.

Isn't it Just Beachy!

Next to clouds, the beach is my second favorite thing to photograph.....

Some Photos from the Summer

A couple of my great-nephew, and he truly is great! One of the most sweet, cuddly, charming little boys I have ever met.

And then, baby feet!! I took some photos of my neighbor's newborn son. Who can resist baby feet? Nobody, I tell you, nobody!

Good weekend! Lots of down time!

This weekend was the best kind of weekend - no committments to fulfill other than mass on Sunday. While I fully intended to do a bit of yard work, the heat/humidity precluded me from venturing outside to work. Soooo, I stayed inside, did my sewing homework for Thursday's class which will be the last class for making this really cute handbag. When I got the sewing homework done, I then decided to get back to one of my quilt projects. I put together the last of of the thirty blocks for my son's bed quilt. It's a pattern called "Turning Twenty" and it's made up of all the fat quarters I had in my stash plus a few more I had to purchase. It's such an awesome project in that you really have to avoid putting too much thought into pieceing it together. The idea is that it should be randomly assembled. The idea is to make a fun quilt and it truly is fun. I have several UFOs to complete (any quilter should know what that means) and if I get this quilt done, I'll have one less UFO.

Do any other quilters have several UFOs like I do???

Oh, and I found the photo my husband took of the kids and me back in May standing in the same lineup as the photo from March 2007. For fun I wanted to compare the two to see how much my son did indeed grow over the 14 months.

Hope to some day come up with some catchy items to post here. In the meantime, hello to anybody who happens to drop by blog!

Disney Memories (and my nerdy family)

We had an awesome time in Disney World two weeks ago. Lots of fun, meeting up with friends, and way too much food. It was really a vacation to remember. Here are a few snippits of the fun we had...

Mid week, first full week of school.....

I cannot believe summer has ended, well not officially by the seasonal calendar, but by the school calendar it's OVER!!!

The kids are now full throttle into school work, music lessons, and other after school activities. Mornings are tough, though, for both of them but what is really cool is watching brother and sister heading out together to the bus stop together. Danny's the little brother - I can't believe how he is growing. Actually, I guess I can as the most common mantra of his right now is "I'm so hungry". So, obviously, he's burning it off somehow and it must be by growing.

Here they are headed down to the bus stop together for the first time ever.....


Freckles is enjoying being and "only" dog now. Life is so much easier and relaxed when you don't have to worry about your little dog attacking anybody, but oh how I miss the sweet side of her. In really thinking about the 20 second outbursts she would have, and then the fact that she would just go to sleep afterwards, I wonder if she suffered some type of seizure disorder. We will never know but what we do know is that we made the right decision for Ceili. After her outburts, we could tell she definitely felt remorse - she just couldn't help herself. We truly do have some happy memories of her and although I think she was happy deep inside, she's even happier where she is now - free of her demons....

Above is a photo of Freckles that captures a single moment of how he spends most of his 24 hours - in a supine position!!!!

Summer's End, School's Around The Corner

Will post more in the next day or two but I wanted to just note that all in all summer was good, despite the sadness of losing Ceili, but way too short. We just returned from a week in Disney World - the first three days spent drenched in the rains of Faye, lots of time spent in lines waiting to get on the different attractions, lots more time eating great food, and finally seven days of spending time together as a family. I don't think that Dan and I are as boring as I thought. The kids looked happy the entire week - I think we did good!!!!