So I am back to landscaping...

I have no obligations for a while. Nothing to finish, so I need to finish what I started. And it is this quilt. I have added more stuff since I took this picture this morning. I am ready to start sewing it down now & then maybe I will be done with it. Ready to start another.

I am taking a Miniture Landscape Quilt class from Quilt University that starts on Sat. I am happy because then I can make some small quilts for our quilt club's quilt show in February.

You can find out info at www.quiltersworkshop.org.

And I will learn how to perfect my perspective, etc. I have been purchasing fabrics to make more quilts. It is really fun.

Missing my friends

My friend Rae is gone. She done gone & left me. I will never see her again this side of heaven.

My friend Virgina flits in and out of my life, like a butterfly. Or the dolphins I ellude to in the layout above. Once in a while I hear from her. But not like before. Maybe I will call her one day. Maybe not. I really do miss her

Another day at the beach

Hi, hope you had a wonderful Mother's Day. For some reason my is rarely spent with my children. This year when it was resolved the kids weren't taking me anywhere, Jeff & I drove out to Anna Maria Island. I wanted to go down to Sanibel, but with the price of gas I was happy with Anna Maria. Anyway, we ate at the City Pier on the Intercoastal side. Not crazy about it, I would rather eat at The Sandbar on the Gulf side. After that we drove over to Coquina Beach and I walked around and got a few pictures. I thought this little guy was cute. Shortly after this pix, he demolished the castle!

When I came home it was hurry hurry, and finish some blocks I committed to making for the Quilting Guild meeting on Wed. First was a Dr. Cat (will post later) and also a block of Tara. I haven't finished that, but I am close. Then I did some digital scrapbooking. Also learning Scott Kelby's 7 best Photoshop Tricks. GREAT book.

So you see, as always, so much too do - so little time. My favorite scrapbook page is here

What's been happening

What a week. My 80gb hard drive (where I only have an operating system & program files) got bogged down to only having 7% available. So for a while I was deleting. Then last night I bought a 500 gb hard drive & Jeff installed it this morning (internally). So now today I have spent all day migrating & backing up and I have gotten nothing done. I am still working on Kaitlyn's book. I thought I would have had it done by now but it was way too slow to do anything.

Here is are pictures of Hope's jean jacket I made for her. Now I still have to make Kylie's - I am going to needle punch it!



I used a store bought jean jacket, lopped off the arms, faced the arm holes w/bias binding and used one of the arms to make a little purse. The flowers are from Smartneedle.com. I used a lime green rayon from Madera for the decorative stitches from my machine. I stitched around the flower design with metallic Sulky Hollosheer. The collar and was made by placing a bunch of threads and yarns on a pieces of heavy Solvy, then I placed a light weight Sovly on the top and sewed it all down , FME with Hollowsheer. Then I washed out the solving, cut it up & bling bling!



I used a store bought jean jacket, lopped off the arms, faced the arm holes w/bias binding. The collar fabric was made by placing a bunch of threads and yarns on a pieces of heavy Solvy, then I placed a light weight Sovly on the top and sewed it all down , FME with Hollowsheer. Then I washed out the solving, cut it up & bling bling!

Been so busy - but I didn't forget about you

I bought the Adobe Vlog program the other day, as soon as I get it together I am going to become a Vlogger but for now.

Been really really active. My birthday was 4/16. Hope (my granddaughter's) was 4/20. So we went to Disney on 4/12 to Bibbidi Bobbidi Salon and Hopey became Princess Jasmine. I made her a Shutterfly book. It is so cute and she was beautiful. That night we ate dinner with Prince Charming & Cinderella. What a nice day we had.

Then on Sunday, my daughter, Nicole & I went to Epcot for the International Flower & Garden Festival.

Then last weekend My son Danny, his daughter Kaitlyn, 6 & I went to Canveral National Seashore for a Jr. Ranger Program. I am working on digital scrapbooking pages for Kaitlyn's book now. Here is one of them.



I will post the links for the different elements, papers when I get home tonight. They came from ScrapGirls & Digital Freebies mostly.

We are leaving shortly to go to Lakeland & have dinner with my in-laws. I was going to make her a cell phone purse today but then I found out my iron burned out & so I abandoned the project. I will mail it to her. They are going back up to Michigan next week. The reason the iron burned out is the other day I was sewing and embroidering something. For some reason I didn't put the iron up - guess I just thought I would be a second - and went to tend to the embroidery machine. Low & below I started smelling burnt - the ironing board pad was burning. So anyway, no I can get the iron I want. Funny how it works that way.

Here is one thing I made recently. This is Kaitlyn's: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2153/2425214109_8ac004b142.jpg and http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3183/2425215279_52e81335d7.jpg. I have finished Hope's also, but I forgot to take pictures and I can not for the life of me get Nicole too. Hopefully I will go by there tonight and get a few.

Alright, better go, Jeff will be here in a minute & we will need to head on out. TTYS - I promise! Peace KB

OH - I ordered a new camera - it will be here Monday. An Olympus SW790 - I can't wait!