The lil' Princess

I got to visit this lil' sweetie all last week! The Honey had a work related convention in Denver so I tagged along to see our most favorite granddaughter in the whole wide world! (yes...there is only the one)

 

It was hard to leave this lil' one when we had to head home yesterday but sure did love our time together while we were there!

 

I'm spoiled!

The Honey certainly loves me! 32 roses for our anniversary yesterday plus bath goods and a gift certificate to my LQS! Also had dinner out at a local restaurant that caters to my dieting ways. It was yummy! Yea!

 

 

Here are the goodies I purchased from the Utah Shop Hop. Just getting around to putting them away. The weeks have been busy around here! I wasn't too impressed with the "sales" most of the shops had...meaning there wasn't much of a sale...but when I saw 20% on the books at a few of the stores, I took advantage of it and bought a couple that I had been wanting to buy. The owl pattern was so cute made up into a quilt so I bought it. Found the owl fabric at 40% off and will use it for the backing of the future quilt! Don't you love how Broadbent's folds their fabric they cut for you?! You can see everything you purchased while it is neatly folded for you! Got the fat quarters and sparkly fabric at shops that had them on sale. I never like to buy full price if I don't have to!

 

Can today really mark.......

.......32 years with this man?! Happy Anniversary to my Honey!

 

Paducah, Kentucky

I never showed my pics of Paducah so thought I would share them today. What a cute town! Loved the wall of murals by the river. Went to the Farmer's Market and bought some foot lotion that was made locally to take home with me. There was also the National Quilt Museum to visit. The really fun part of the day was finding Eleanor Burns Quilt in a Day shop and hearing that everything in the store was 30% off! Poor Honey had to walk around town by himself while I shopped there.

 

 

 

 

Utah Shop Hop 2010

The theme of this year's shop hop was Celebrations. Here are a few of the quilts that were made by a few of the quilt shops. Can you guess the celebration from each quilt?
This is Family Reunion from Corn Wagon Quilt Co.

 

I really loved this Birthday quilt that Broadbents made! Notice the banner? So cute to see it in person.

 

4th of July from Thimbles and Threads in Draper.

 

Material Girls chose Mother's Day as their theme. We all received crowns so we were Queens for a Day.

 

Are we ready for some football?! Cute idea from Quilt's Etc. They even had a tailgate party out back!

 

May Day from Sew Sweet. Very cute quilt and one I might have to make.

 

This quilt was from Village Dry Goods in Brigham City. You will really have to guess their celebration because I can't remember. I do remember there were pictures of old records on their floor with songs on them.

 

Cinco de Mayo was the festive theme from Quilter's Haven. I always enjoy visiting this shop.

 

Again, I can't remember Piper's celebration.

 

Elaine's chose New Year's Eve. This was also a great quilt. Loved the sparkly fabric in it!

 

One store, Quilt's Etc, was generous to give away a free pattern to make this cute bag.

 

Had a great time hopping from store to store! Of course I made some purchases. Will try to get those posted asap. Life is still so busy around here with my son home and family visiting. Have also been to our cabin at the lake for several days. Tomorrow I head to Girl's Camp with the girls from our Church. Busy, busy, busy....no sewing....but am having fun!

By the time you read this....

.....we will have picked up our son from his mission for our Church! This is a picture of my son 2 years ago right after he left.

 

While he's been gone, he has worn out not 1 but 3 pairs of shoes from walking door to door to share our Church's message about Jesus Christ.

 

The Honey and I are picking him up in Tennessee. But we are going to do some traveling and see the different areas where our son has lived. I am so excited that I get to visit Paducah, Kentucky! As you can see, our son served in that area and has already told me how much I am going to love it.

 

 

So now you know why I haven't been doing too much sewing or blogging! Getting ready for this boy to get home has taken lots of my time. Of course, I wouldn't have it any other way!

Kitchen Clothesline

Isn't that a great blog title?! My friend, Sally, recently started a blog and has opened an etsy shop to sell her goods online! Her blog is called Kitchen Clothesline. I hope you will check her out! In her etsy shop, she sells original aprons. They are so darling! I want them all!!!
Look at how cute this apron is with the bagels! Doesn't it make you want to go into the kitchen and whip something up?!

 

I notice the ones that I fell in love with are already sold. Hope you take a look.....Sally sells all summer at craft fairs too. Maybe you will run into her if you are ever in Washington state.

I-80

The Honey had a business trip in Loveland, Colorado this past week and asked if I wanted to go with him. If you have ever driven I-80 in Wyoming (or for that matter Nebraska) you know there isn't much along the route. We stopped in Rawlins to have dinner at an interesting restaurant. Sanford's. I have never seen so many tv's in a eating place! Before we left, I went into the bathroom and while there I had to take a picture. Here's a picture looking towards the toilet.

 

This is a picture looking toward the sink from the toilet. Can you see them???? This bathroom had 2 tv's in it! Made me laugh so I had to take a picture of it! Oh! The food was fantastic though! So stop, if you are ever in Rawlins. It's down on their old Main street.

 

Eastern Wyoming is always interesting. You never know what the weather will be like. Between Laramie and Cheyenne is some beautiful country but it can be foggy, windy (always), snowy, etc. There is one little spot with a gas station in the midst of it all. Ol' Buford, Wyoming. Population 1. I really don't believe the sign anymore and was afraid to comment on it because I didn't want to insult the man but you see other houses popping up in the area now. The Honey had to ask about Buford though. The owner of the gas station said that Buford use to be bigger than Cheyenne back in the 1800's but that now it was just him living there for the past 30 years. If you can read the other signs, they tell you that it is the highest town between San Francisco and NYC. Have to have a claim to fame out in the middle of nowhere I guess.

 

Some days you should just not sew!

Just walk away from the sewing machine and come back another day!

As you know, I am participating in the Jelly Roll Sampler. Nanette from Freda's Hive made this week's block. Let me say up front, she had very good directions and lots of pictures to follow. Should had been a easy, quick block to make.
This is how my block turned out on my first try. Ummmmm......not like that pattern at all. I first had trouble just cutting the fabric. I don't know where my mind was but let's just say I had to get more jelly roll strips out and recut. Then I STILL didn't cut everything correctly! After sewing the 4-patches wrong, I just decided to give up for the day and finish the block "Jana's way".

 

I was going to just leave it as is since this is a jelly roll sampler. Who would know that I sewed and cut the block wrong? No one but me. Yesterday I decided that the block wasn't going to get the best of me so I remade it. I even followed the directions correctly this time. Here is what the block should have looked like in the first place.

 

Goodies from HMQS

Of course I couldn't walk by the booths and not buy anything! I curbed my buying though by only purchasing these 2 "big" goodies. Was quite pleased with myself since I saw several other fun things I would have liked to have brought home with me.
Bought another quilt rack. This one I will take to the cabin to hang a quilt. I like these compression hangers alot. This one is a bit different from my other ones though. It used "clips" to hang the board onto the wall so I can easily take it down to switch quilts from time to time. With my other hangers, there has to be 2 people to switch a quilt and hope we don't pull the hanger off the wall while doing it! Made by Westenskow and Sons (435) 528-3155. No website.

 

Can you guess what this is? It's a ruler rack that will hang on the wall! I'm looking forward to getting it hung up and then having my rulers all in one place! Small mats or bigger rulers can slide through the back slots. Will try to remember to take a picture once I have it up. From RomWoodWorking.