I visited 2nd Cup of Coffees blog and found this quiz:

You Are Pumpkin Pie

Even when people are full - they make room for you. Good or bad, your smell is most likely to arouse a man.

What Part of Thanksgiving Are You?

just for fun

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HAPPY DOT!!

We received our DOT prize in the mail!! It was filled with quilt fabrics (doggie prints of course), snacks for mom, stickers and treats for the kids which they LOOOVVEEEE!! Thank you Paula and Elise!!











Look at that mug!













No not her...take a pic of me me me

DOT - Cookie Baking

The pups and I (with supervision from one annoyed cat) made Breath Bustin' doggie cookies. It gave me some practice for Christmas cookie baking too although the dough is a little more elastic like bread. I pulled out the angel, gingerbread man and star cookie cutters and we went to work.






Here they are ready to bake.















Finished cookies cooling on the plate.














Puppies anxiously waiting for a treat.














Nom, nom, nom...














Cannot believe she's making cookies for those stoopid puppies.



















Fine, I'll just lay on the table and annoy her.














The cookie jar is filled once again and all is right in the world *sigh*

Nieces

My sister Misty sent me these pics of the girls. Kylie is in kindergarten this year!! I remember when she was only a couple of weeks old at Christmas and I wanted her to be my present...time flies and she is such a big girl now. Tory is 6 months old in these pictures so they were taken at the end of July. I can't believe she is already walking with toys and will probably be running by the time I get to see her next at Christmas!! It makes me want to cry to think I am missing so much of them growing up without me there to see it. Kylie does like to talk on the phone and we keep up with each other regularly. That's the advantage to the grandsons being old enough to carry on conversations too but with wee little ones it's just not the same. I'll be leaving early for Christmas and staying for a long 2 weeks so as to take advantage of as much baby time as possible.

DOT

Not a whole lot going on here. Charlotte has good days and bad days with the hip but it's warmed up a bit so there have been more good days. Both pups have been helping me quilt this week. Wilbur ate his toy ball bone in half so now he thinks he has two toys (I'm thinking a boy trying to take it away from him may have been involved in the breakage but have no proof of the event). He's such a goofball. Also Charlotte continues to be camera shy where Wilbur is always at the ready for a photo opportunity.

Seaside Socks

I finished the 2nd pair of seaside socks (these are for moi) by Sara Morris (aka fyberduck). I used Regia yarn and ran short on the last couple rows of the 2nd sock but grabbed some non matching blue to finish up. Oh well you wouldn't really notice unless I pointed it out and well they are for my feet so I don't really care anyway.

Lancaster Season

This year our quilt guild, Pieceful Hearts Quild guild in N. Augusta, SC is doing Kim Shaefer's Lancaster Season as a block of the month (BOM). I volunteered to do the demos of the quilt as we go along.

The quilt is a great Christmassy quilt but by changing the center medallion you could adapt it to any season you like. I'm using fabrics that I already have in my stash. Since the focal point of this quilt was a pointsettia I chose a bronzy colored pointsettia print as my color inspiration and for the final border fabric. Some of the fabrics have metallic gold in them also and hopefully will add a glow to the finished quilt. I'm really excited to see how this finishes up. We are having our quilt show in October 2009 so I'm hoping those of us who are making this will have them finished in time to hang by then.

The central block is made on a 15 1/2 inch piece of fabric. The pattern uses machine applique technique so I traced the individual pieces onto freezer paper first then pressed them onto the fabric I was using. Since I didn't want a stiff appliqued piece I used Misty Fuse instead of one of the other products available. Misty Fuse is much lighter and still gives you a bendable product when you are finished and I would highly recommend it especially when layering of fabrics is involved. Cutting out individual pieces AFTER you have add the fusible web is much easier than precutting and trying to follow around the piece, it also avoids the jagged edges and leaves a much cleaner cut. Doing a preliminary layout before adhering any of the pieces is suggested just to be sure everything will fit properly then iron away! I shortened my zig zag stitch on the machine to 2.0 and .45 and stitched around each of the individual pieces in coordinating threads. Amazingly the little gold centers were not a bugger to stitch either!! I had forgotten to take a pic of the final finished block before giving it to Marie to take to the morning meeting next week...oh well I'll catch it on the next installment....