Harbor Springs Michigan Oct 2012

After a long day of cleaning, a bit of grocery shopping, some football watching and eating treats, I can say without question... I am tired.

Hoping my energy and strenth come back soon. I have to start getting serious about making Christmas presents. I also have some customer quilts coming.

Lets's get through Frankenstorm and Halloween first!

I love pinterest

I am finding that is is easy to spend hours searching through pinterest. It is an addicting phenomenon. You can speed through thousands of pictures with linked sites to hone in on what you are looking for! Here is a collection of projects I have pinned on my boards. I have included the linked websites when available. I think they are all very inspirational as well as something I would do. If you haven't looked at Pinterest, you really should there is more there than crafts. Travel, fashion, makeup.... it is endless. Of course, my favorites are the jokes.

http://www.freepatterns.com/detail.html?code=FQ00481&cat_id=432

The little addition of the triangle between the star points give this quilt a extra punch...

http://www.etsy.com/listing/59800644/in-bloom-ankle-corsets-tatted-lace

I always thought that henna tattoos looked like tatting, and I could make a tatted design and wear it, hmmmm....


easy and what a great fall table decor! maybe Thanksgiving.





I have made several animals that need faces to be finished and I see these in my future. They are so cute!!!

Watch for some interesting future projects.

Thursday

OK, what do these pictures have in common? Only the road trip in which they were taken on . I was being followed by the SWAT van on the highway. I was nervous until I realized it was a flooring company!!

I have exercised twice this week and had better work outs each time. No inhaler use and during the activity it was fine. Not so fine during the night. Lesson learned. I must use an inhaler for a while after having pneumonia to not have breathing problems. I haven't weighed myself but I feel that a bit of weight is going down. I need to get more off so I feel better and have improved health.

I have been doing lots of stuff but not a ton of things to photograph. I think I need to get  focused and follow my projects all the way to the end to have a feeling of accomplishment. I have a stack of UFO's and WIPs laying around and it is starting to get on my nerves. I also have a bit of organizing that needs to get done too. I am scampering around a lot lately.

I also am feeling the need to throw out all the old stuff lying around to get streamlined and organized. But then I would have nothing usable and I am not in a position to replace everything I would toss. I guess I need to evaluate if I really need to keep it around. Stacks of that kind of thing. 

 It is a weird dilemma, I feel like everything is worn out and dated. I think it is me, and the fall, and a squirrel like need to prepare for the winter that's coming.

Wednesday

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I am learning how to use Microsoft Publisher, my photo programs and EQ. I am really woefully primitive on using them. I need to use them more but I am impatient. It takes lots of TIME to learn how to do these things. I just want them to magically jump into my projects.

Here is a photo of my back yard. The leaves are finally starting to fall and need to be raked. They are gone everywhere else. Guess what I am going to be doing this weekend, :)

Day 30

Last Day of the Pic of the Day Face book meme

 Picture of Someone you miss

This was a bit sad. I couldn't bring myself to sift through pictures of relatives I miss. I couldn't bring myself to publish a picture of me as a tweener. (I do miss that person and would like to capture that feeling again of wonder and awe in the world.)

The person I miss the most is the one pictured below:

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I would love to see him many times this year. He doesn't stop by often enough!!!

Scarf is finished

I made a scrap yarn scarf that was to be a weather diary. It was for the most part. Some days the weather changed so much I had several colors represent one day. I crocheted a single crochet around the edge to give a polished finish. It is made from all wool scraps.

I love to knit and crochet in addition to my quilting. I am making amigurumi stuffed animals. They are very cool and I wanted to make some a couple of years ago. I thought that I had to have a reason to and what would I do with them? I have tons a little scrap yarns and they are all single crochet.

I showed my sister some patterns on pinterest and we are both making them now. I have made the Pig from angry birds, a freehand turtle and now I am working on a Koala. I need to buy some eyes and then sculpt the faces before I can show them off. I don't need a reason more than I wanted to make them and I have yarn scraps and old batting to stuff them! I may keep most of them just because. :)

I have started working out after my pneumonia. It was a bit rough. I had to slow way down and lower my weights. I am back on a diet. Seriously. Gotta get a grip on that.....

How about you? I have several projects going with quilting too. Catch up on BOM, finish a quilt for another pattern I am writing and the Super Mario quilt along.

My day job may be a bit slow and underwhelming but not my evenings and after hours!!

Day 29 and Design Wall Monday

Today and tomorrow are the last pic a day on this meme. I may continue it in November because it is so much fun, and I am doing a different one on Face book.

a Picture that can always make you smile

Quilting makes me smile. Always. I enjoy everything about picking the fabrics, designing the pattern, piecing and the quilting. The top quilt is my latest fall scrap quilt. The lower is a secret quilt that will be unveiled soon. With a pattern!

That really makes me smile.

For a weekend up date and some pics of the fall trees, see yesterday's post.