The good and bad of waiting on a Slow Sunday...

Hello - well it has been a discombobulated week here... I'm writing this on Friday evening because I will be occupied watching Elliott on Saturday and I'm not sure how the day will go... or how tired I'll be by the evening... so waiting may have a bad outcome for the blog... I'll explain in a bit...

I'll start with a situation where waiting was a good thing... remember the Giant Disappearing 9 Patch quilt I started 2 weeks ago... and I had it waiting on my design wall last week as I wanted to see how this purple fabric would look in the quilt...

and my opinion is it looks FABULOUS!! and I'm so glad I waited to finish up the quilt top... here's the top...

and some close ups of the fabrics....

I think that the purple and the teal are a great additions to the Fall colors and make all the colors look richer... I'm not a big fan of purple but it sure does a great job here... I'm even going to bind this one with that purple fabric when I get it back from my long armer Delinda at  The T-Shirt Quilt Company... I'm going to have her use a thread with variegated Fall colors... and I'm sure she have a pretty Fall panto for the quilting...

Now a situation where waiting wasn't such a good thing... I putzed around this week and kept putting off fully finishing all the cross stitch pieces I showed last week... in my defense I went downstairs on Thursday with every intention to FFO them but instead got sidetracked by the GD9P quilt and spent hours sewing on it.  I did do the 2 pieces I was planning on framing... Autumn Quaker by Primrose Cottage fit nicely in this 6" square frame I got from Amazon. I did make it more reddish with a Copic  marker... 

and this piece is Give Thanks from Threadwork Primitive... it didn't come out a size that fit into a standard frame so my solution was to add some fabric to the  bottom to fill it out...

I know in the picture the purple fabric kinda blends into the frame but in real life it looks fine... 

As for the 2 houses from Pinker n Punkin this is as far as I got... cut them to size and added some woven fusible to the back... need to sew them and stuff  them and add some trim... I think I have some chenille that will work and I'm loving the polka dot grunge for the backs. 

And the Harvest Tiny Town is still sitting on my cutting table ... sigh... maybe tomorrow I can finish it... maybe.

I use posting on the blog on Sunday as a motivator to get stuff done so I have something somewhat interesting to share... and this week I waited too long to get the stuff done that I planned... the bad side of waiting... 

I do have a little more decor to share...I've rearranged some of the cross stitch I had out before Halloween and added a couple of Thanksgiving pieces. I love getting out my Jim Shore Thanksgiving  stuff .. several pieces are gifts from Nick and I cherish them.  I know lots of f people start decorating for Christmas right after Halloween... I was driving past Chik Fil A the other night and they have a huge tree all lit up inside... and there is a house I pass by that is all decorated ... looks like a gingerbread house with all the colorful lights... and that is fine... but I'm happy to wait till December to decorate for Christmas... the good side of waiting as far as I'm concerned. 

Here's the small shelf display...

Two Jim Shore pieces and a cornucopia  snippet from a Prairie Schooler Autumn Sampler.

Mini white pumpkin quilt with beloved Sandy Gervais prints and  Welcome Autumn by The Drawn Thread.

On the top I Love Fall by the Calico Confectionary flanked by 2 pumkin headed cuties from Pineberry Lane's Cats & Jacks.

On the bottom  Bittersweet September by Blackbird Designs and Autumn from LIzzie Kate's Autumn Smalls.

Up top on the right side is Gather from Pineberry Lane  and a turkey I don't remember where it came from... sorry....

Below a better show of the Lizzie Kate Autumn and Pinker n Punkin's  Pumpkin & Bittersweet.

and this is the tier table... 

I tucked in those little Prairie Schooler Fall pieces to keep that Jim Shore turkey company.

On the lower tier I have  WTN&T Holiday Hoopla Thanksgiving turkey... and cute salt & pepper set of autumn bounty and Fall from Prairie Schooler. 

And I want to have the shelf unit out on the sunroom porch redone for next week... 

The weather has been a bit gray and we got some much needed rain but the temperatures are still pretty nice... in fact I think it is unseasonably warm and here's an example...

this is a dahlia that I cut back to the ground about 5 weeks ago... we haven't had hardly any rain till this week but plenty of  warm temperatures and look at the this plant...can you see the budding bloom at the top??  The plant is  about a foot tall and incredibly healthy looking  and if this was March I'd be thrilled... but it is mid November... and this isn't the only dahlia I have that looks this way... the yard is filled with them and they all look just as healthy as this one...  I'm not sure what to do... I usually have the beds mulched by late November, but so far we haven't had a frost, much less a freeze and all these plants need to be gone before things can be mulched. I did hear the S word (snow) mentioned for this coming week, but the forecast I just looked at has some precipitation for mid week but the lowest temp I saw was 34 degrees... that ain't going make any snow... my sweet gum trees are the last to turn and they only have a couple of red leaves... and the redbud tree in my front yard is simultaneously dropping leaves and budding... what's going on here...can you see the pink buds in the middle of the dead leaves?

And here's a pic of the wildlife around here... this trio of garden destroyers was resting in my next door neighbors yard when I went outside Wednesday morning around 10 am...

and they were still there at 3pm when I returned... probably annoyed that what I do have growing in my yard isn't their preferred snack material... they decimated all the mums I bought this year... they've never touched them before so I'm mad at them about that... 

Looking ahead to next week... so far there is dinner with friends on Monday night, Elliott on Tuesday, Nick has a dentist appointment Wednesday morning and I'm getting together with the quilty ladies for lunch on Wednesday at noon, and Thursday I have an appointment to get my hair done... again there does appear to be time to get some stuff done... but it doesn't always work out that way.  

I'm itching to do a bit of Santa stitching... I dyed some fabric and went through my stash of Prairie Schoolers and found a couple I'd like to add to my displays this year... and I painted some fabric for the Blackbird Designs Christmas Rose Sampler...

 you can find the chart here... and this is my linen... I got a little bit of the border in...

It is a rich gold. I mixed Rit dye Golden Yellow with a glug of Cocoa Brown...not sure that this will be a finish for this year, but that's okay... 

As for why I'm watching Elliott on Saturday, I've alluded to the fact that there were health issues that members of my daughter-in-law's family was dealing with... and one was her 95 year old grandmother... Mary Ann was a very sweet woman and she passed on Wednesday and her funeral was Saturday.  I accompanied my son and Elliott for him to make a brief appearance and then I whisked him away to spend the day with me so the rest of the family could attend the visitation, service, burial and a reception without dealing with a rambunctious 5 year old... better for everyone I think. We put together a dynamite Lego set...

I'll link up with Kathy's Quilts and Quilting is More Fun than Housework today... and I'll wait to see what next week brings...

happy stitching,

carol fun 

Some adult supervision was probably needed on a Slow Sunday...

Hello - well there was very little on my calendar last week ...lots of time to be productive... but in the end what I have to show for myself was more shopping related than crafty... I stayed up waaaaay too late on Tuesday night and as a result wasn't very focused on Wednesday...surfing the web was mindless... and FUN!... and a little costly...LOL... and I 'llshow you what I found and you can understand why some adult supervision was probably needed... remember you can't help getting older but you don't have to grow up!!  

So let me confess my transgressions right up front... first I wandered over to eBay... haven't been there in a while and there is probably a very good reason for that... some how I get in trouble over there as I find older items I wish I had gotten when they were new and I've lucked into some bargains... to begin you know my love for Debbie Mumm.... both her fabrics and her knickknacks... and you know I LOVE snowmen... so Debbie Mumm snowmen are doubly irresistible as evidenced here...

The bigger guy is missing a broom... I'm sure I can find or  make one for him before January... and I've never seen the skiing snowmen salt and pepper shakers... too stinking cute!

And there was this purchase which is crafty related... I didn't work on my Sandy Gervais GIANT Disappearing  9 patch as I determined that I needed to add something besides the teal to the mix... now Sandy also did some lovely purple Fall fabrics, and I've used them in almost every quilt I've made with her stuff... but all I have left is some scraps... nothing large enough to cut a 5 x 10 piece from... so I searched all over Etsy and then checked out eBay and found 2 yards of this print...

Love the leaves, can't get more Fall than that and this is a more dusty subtle purple ... I think it will go well in the quilt... I hope to play with it tomorrow.  And in thinking about the GIANT Disappearing 9 Patch I found that I had made another quilt with it.... you can see it here... as I recall this was just 1 layer cake and  some yardage for the 5" square to make a lap size quilt. 

Oh I was asked about the construction of this pattern... for a double bed sized quilt I use 2 layers cakes and it takes about 3/4 yds of another fabric for the 5" corner.... So you start by selecting your favorite 10" squares that you don't want to cut up ... you need 36... then you cut another 36 10" fabrics into 5" x 10" rectangles and add a 5" square to complete the block... 

Does that make sense?  The first time I tried this I sewed 9 10" squares together... yikes... that "block" was bigger than my cutting table  and I quickly realized I had to cut stuff smaller before I sewed it together. 

And while I had lots of fun on eBay I also moseyed on over to Amazon where an item I've looked at several times kept popping up as it is a seasonal Thanksgiving piece... and since I switched credit cards a couple of months ago from Discover to Amazon Prime I've accumulated a nice stash of "free money".. and well ... it just jumped into my cart and was paid for with the "free money" and is now living at my house... 

Yep a rather large resin turkey... according to the description he's 10"D x 11.5"W x 12.5"H... very handsome... and it is very evident that no adult supervision was involved in this purchase... LOL... I'm very happy with Tom... I was going to put him on the dining room table but the scale was wrong so he's sitting a stack of quilts in the living room... you'll see a bigger picture farther down.

And that certainly should have been enough  online shopping... but it wasn't there was one more item that I've been thinking about for  a while... and I really tried to talk myself out of it... really I did... but I'm weak and there is no adult here to keep me off my laptop AND it was on sale... so I bought it..

A 96" tall chicken dressed up for Christmas!!!  Wait, how tall is 96"???... 96 divided by 12... OMG... she's 8 FEET TALL!! ROFLMAO.... this is gonna be crazy... I'm going to put here in the small section of grass by the garage and patio... the neighbors dogs are gonna freak out... and my older son may suggest a mental health evaluation... he has told me several times that I am crazy, but it isn't the kind of crazy he can commit me for......... yet........ he's waiting for the right time...LOL   OH if you'd like a GIANT chicken in your yard you can find her here at Tractor Supply... you know you want one.... 

As you can see it was definitely a retail oriented week... no sewing was done, a bit of knitting occurred, and a new cross stitch piece was started.  I began what will be my 6th house from Pinker N Punkin...

on the right, this is the Thanksgiving House.... you can find it here... and I think it pairs nicely with Turkey Creek Manor....which you can see here... 

Now I did get my Halloween decor put away and my Thanksgiving stuff out... here's the living room with the Grungy Gourds quilt on the wall... and look closely in the bottom right corner and you'll see Tom...

The quilt is my version of the Pumpkins pattern from Cluck Cluck Sew all done in Moda Grunge fabrics... I modified a couple of the pumpkins to put my spin on it... 

The tier tray has a great turkey piece from Stone Street Stitch Works and tiny turkey pillow from Bent Creek on the top tier....

and below in the bed of the truck is a Pineberry Lane piece... I think the chart is Fruits of our Labor... 

sorry I'm not linking all the cross stitch today... I'm typing this very late on Saturday and I'm tired and want to go to bed and I'm having a hell of a time adding pictures and trying to fix the spacing... please bear with me...

Over on the right side of the TV cabinet I have another small tier tray with more stitched turkeys... the one on top is from Prairie Schooler and as I remember the bottom one was a freebie I found on Pinterest...and I have some cute turkey knickknacks...

On the left side I have my November monthly from Hands on Designs and more Thanksgiving knickknacks... love animals that have clothes on ... LOL

I'll show more decor next week as I have plans for an updated display out on the porch... but first I need to FFO of these...

I'm planning on giving the little shelf unit on the porch a makeover from squirrels to turkeys and these will be included.  I definitely need to be productive this week. So far I'll I've got on my calendar is Elliott on Tuesday, dinner with a friend on Wednesday and a mammogram on Friday... don't know about you but I'm still adjusting to the time change... it isn't as bad as Spring forward but I'm still a bit off... staying up late on Tuesday didn't help the situation. I did see on X where Thomas Massie called for the bill to come to the floor and stop changing the clocks twice a year... that would be soooo good... and maybe he can make it happen... he is one of those characters who gets attention. 

I'll link up with Kathy's Quilts today... and I'll leave you with my personal Macy's Day Parade display... further evidence that there should be more adult supervision in my life...LOL

the turkeys and the Pilgrim boy with the Costco sized pumpkin pie are 6 ft tall and they light up at night!  and yes my neighbors think I'm crazy!!!

hope your week ahead is a good one!!

happy stitching!

carol fun 

Looking for Tranquility on a Slow Sunday...

 Hello - well last week was jam packed...an appointment or engagement every day...and while none of them took up the entire day, by the time I got home I was pooped and not very motivated to get stuff done... so I didn't. Still dealing with family members health issues and saying prayers that things resolve themselves... and I'll admit to being anxious about the upcoming election... so I decided to look for some tranquility... and it turns out,  it was both a literal and a figurative search... 

Trying to stay off social media to improve my mental health and be more tranquil... BUT I spent a lot of time online shopping which may have dented my finances... oh well... 

How it started... I was making my bed Monday morning and thinking I LOVE this Fall quilt with Sandy Gervais fabrics...

BUT it has been on my bed since September 1 and wouldn't it be nice to have another bed size Fall quilt with Sandy Gervais fabrics? ... of course it would!

It has to be simple, and I want it to show off the fabrics and what popped into my head was the quilts I've made with the GIANT Disappearing 9 Patch pattern done with layer cakes.  So far I've made 3 of them.... 

However, the first  didn't use a layer cake. This one I made for Nick with woven plaids left over from a quilt I made for his brother, Chris, when he went off to college... when asked, Chris will reply that his favorite color is plaid.. I know it makes no sense but we just go with it.... this is Nick's quilt.

Next I made myself one using a hoarded layer cake of my favorite collection from American Jane, Potluck... I love that I didn't have to cut up those chickens and tape measure prints....

Then I made one with another hoarded layer cake of my favorite collection from Momo, Wonderland... I love the prints with the scissors and the birds...

And now I want to make this quilt with a layer cake of my favorite Fall collection from Sandy Gervais... as far as I can tell it was printed in 2008 and I've used up most of what I had from the collection in other quilts  like my Fall bird quilt...

and this table runner...

and the quilt that is on my bed right now.

The collection is called...wait for it... Tranquility... so I went online searching to see if I could find any fabric from this 16 year old line ... and lo and behold I did!!!  I found a layer cake of Tranquility and Hello Fall (I have no clue when that one was printed) from the same seller on eBay and she only wanted $39 each for them, which I pretty sure was the going price when they first came out... so that was a deal...I know Tranquility is an old old collection because Moda now uses the style of the label on the Hello Fall layer cake for all their packaging. 

But before I found Tranquility I also saw a newer Fall collection ...Sandy Gervais  has moved from Moda to Riley Blake and this one is called Fall's in Town... and it jumped into my cart...LOL... you can see it here. As of typing this on Saturday it hasn't hit my mailbox...

Then while I was trying to research the print date of Tranquility I found ANOTHER seller with a layer cake of it, again at a reasonable price... so I bought it too... for someone who is trying to use up at least a fraction of the fabric she has in her stash, I am not doing a very good job... deep sigh ... I just can't resist some of the older collections ... there were just SO GOOD!   and they make me HAPPY!!  They are cheaper than mental health therapy and I have something to show for my money ... right? right?

Soooo with my new/old goodies I went to my sewing studio (the basement) and started laying out  a Sandy Gervais Fall GIANT Disappearing Nine Patch... and so far I'm LOVING it !! I need to cut some more of the 5' x 10" pieces and I'm hoping the second Tranquility layer cake I purchase comes on Monday. I'm also using some fabrics from the Adel in Autumn  and the Hello Fall collections and stuff in my stash that I have no clue what collection they were from. 

Have half of a top tentatively arranged here... definitely want to see the other layer cakes I ordered as I'd like to add more of the teal and more oranges and use as many different fabrics as I can.  Now even though I can probably get this sewn together pretty quickly, I know that it will take Delinda a couple of weeks to get it quilted, so it isn't going to grace my bed this year... but I also got to thinking about a Christmas quilt with the GIANT Disappearing 9 Patch done with my stash of Basic Grey Christmas collections... I have 4 layer cakes here, 2 of Peppermint Bark  and 1 each of Winter Village and BerryMerry ... I also have a good size bin of partially used FQs from the Jolly Good collection so I have a lot of fabric to work with... 

Perhaps I should play with these first as there is a chance I could get it sewn and quilted before Christmas... decisions, decisions....a quilt dilemma... and to add to my dithering I just saw a video from FQS that gave me another idea for the layer cakes... you can see it here. They did this with fat quarters but I think it could be adapted to layer cakes. 

Meanwhile, I only got a a little stitching done on  WTNT Every Opening Flower...

Those flowers have lots of stitches in them...I  love Brenda Gervais' cross stitch style and her newest Christmas patterns popped into my mailbox yesterday...

And I've seen a couple of new releases from other designers that are Christmasy  and  they are enticing me to move on to Santa stitching... one can never have too much Christmas decor in my opinion. 

The upcoming week looks much quieter than last week, but you never know what will happen... right now I just have Elliott on Tuesday and a meeting with a lawyer/financial guy to hash out some issues on Friday... should have lots of time to sew and stitch... fingers crossed.

The weather has been lovely... temps in the 70's and sunny... we did have a bit of rain on Halloween evening, of course. But we still had a decent amount of trick or treaters. I got  2 BIG bags of candy at Costco and we went through all of one and half of the other. I wasn't paying close attention when I bought the candy, and  was disappointed that there were no Almond Joys or Mounds in either bag... was reduced to eating Twix... such a sacrifice...LOL... weather pattern should continue next week and it is having repercussions for my garden beds. Remember I cleaned them all out in September, and we've have virtually no rain for weeks and weeks... however my dahlias that I cut back to the ground have somehow decided that it is March, not November and they are growing again...ackk!! They are up about 10 to 12 inches... I'm going to have to cut them back again before I can get Dan to mulch which he usually does for me in November. A good hard freeze would make the job easier but we haven't even had a bit of frost yet... Mother Nature is annoying me... 

And another issue that is annoying me is the semi-annual time change...did you think I forgot??  Fall back one hour starting this morning... and while this is easier to deal with than the Spring forward one I still HATE it!!! Leave the clock alone... I've signed petitions to stop the time changing but like so much of the federal government no progress has been made on the issue. Many tell me to just roll with it... and I should... that would make me more tranquil... but it ain't happening to this old gal...

I'll link up with Kathy's Quilts today and with Quilting is More Fun than Housework... hope your week ahead is a good one... and that you find tranquility too in this crazy world. 

happy stitching-

carol fun 

Counting issues and a lack of direction on a Slow Sunday...

Hello - hope you all had a good week... mine had some  unexpected events but everything got worked out so far... took care of Elliot several days as my daughter-in-law's family is experiencing medical issues with differing degrees of severity... they are in my thoughts and prayers as they are facing some difficult times.

The weather has been lovely ... sunny, temps in the 60's and 70's... doesn't sound like I have anything to complain about... but I always find something...  we could really use some rain... it sprinkled on Friday ... we need a nice day of gentle rain. Forecast if for maybe some precipitation on Thursday... which  is Halloween... hope it doesn't rain from 6 -8 pm.  Last several years have been crappy weather on Halloween night... cold  or rain or both... yuck... I'm not buying my candy till Wednesday when I have a better handle on the weather. A good night will bring me lots and lots and lots of trick or treaters... my neighborhood is great for it... sidewalks on both sides of the street and houses close together... it is fun to see the little ones in costume and there are always some adults who are quite imaginative with their outfits too. 

As for me... I got  a little crafty stuff done and I'm happy with my Halloween decor, but looking forward to bringing out my Thanksgiving stuff. Hopefully I'll be motivated next weekend. 

So, I finished stitching Harvest Tiny Town and didn't know what I wanted to do next... I'm lacking direction... I wasn't feeling a new start so thought I'd be virtuous and picked up a WIP sampler... as there are plenty of them in my stash. The Noel Sampler by WTN&T  was sitting my by chair and I was happy to work on it... for a while... according to my notes I started this July 1 for Christmas in July stitching ... it was originally one of my "7 for my 70th" extravaganza that went down in flames... well last week I got the BIG house outlined and the little copse of trees and a start on the alphabet... not bad... but, but, but and this is a big BUT... something is off...  

to start  the trees are 2 stitches too close to the house and about 2 stitches lower than the should be ...  they don't line up with the bottom of the house...

I can shorten the tree trunks and I can live with the distance between the trees and the house... however I counted everything below the trees off of the trees which are in the wrong spot... BUT somehow the bottom of the crown that I counted off from the trees,  lines up with the border ... and the letter K is counted off of the crown and is just fine... and the J is lining up with the K but it is two stitches too far down from the house.... ARGGHHH... so I'm okay in one direction but not the other and I'm not sure how to fudge it because there is no way on God's green earth I'm relocating the house, which does line up with the top border... and I vaguely remember that when I got the border done I'm off a stitch down at the bottom...and oh carp... I just counted the house and I can see I made an error on the placement of the windows... there should be 5 stitches between the top and bottom windows ... I only have 4 so the house is one stitch short ... I could fix that by adding a row at the bottom and making the door longer ... but I think I'm still one stitch off ... the more I think about this and the more I try to FIX it the more confused I get... 

Deep breath, deep breath... so I'll add a row to the bottom of the house ... and I'll shorten the trees and then I'll get the letters to line up with the side borders... I think that will get me sort of back on track... but this has  drained me of my mojo for it... and its going back into it's plastic storage bag for the moment.... sigh... 

I moved on and  I picked up another leftover from the "7 for my 70th" ... also from With they Needle & Thread... Every Opening Flower... I think this one is BEAUTIFUL... only worked on it Saturday but did add some leaves to the GIANT pot of flowers in the bottom right corner... 

Now I  should be thinking ahead for what I want to do for Christmas stitching... and it should probably be on the small side... I'm waiting on some new patterns from WTN&T... noticing a trend here?  I'm definitely on a WTN&T kick... oh you can see the 4 new patterns here... scroll down to Featured Products...  perhaps one of the angels would fit into this frame I picked up the other day at Home Goods...

I wandered into the store with the idea that I NEED NOTHING for Christmas... and I strolled out with the bell  picture frame, another gingerbread guy cookie jar, a gingerbread rug for the kitchen and a snowflake rug for the back hallway... telling myself you gotta start early as the good stuff won't be there after Thanksgiving... 

I would like to check out the Christmas decor at Micheals as I saw a couple of YouTube videos and there was some cute stuff  I want to see in person...perhaps that kind of shopping would help me focus on Christmas stitching... perhaps... but I'm not betting on it ...LOL.. I'm just in a bit of a funk... I know what I should be doing...making some choices and getting prepped for December... but I'm dragging my feet... I tell myself there is plenty of time till Christmas, but the reality is there are 59 days from today...  sigh... I'll think about this later...

Let's look at stuff I have done... as for the Halloween decor... I got 4 little pillows FFO'd  for a dining room table display... and I made a new runner for the table too! These little gals and the pumpkin are from the Teresa Kogut's Happy Halloween book... 

And here they are in the little tray...

I finish these little pillows with a slit up the back, so this time I covered it up with a witch hat!

The table runner is a disappearing 9 Patch done with Sandy Gervais Beggar's Night collection.

I'm very happy with how it all  looks on the table. 

The tray is from Walmart... you can find it here... this is the 3rd one I bought... I've got it in white and blue ... it is the perfect scale for my table and easy to pick up and move when we eat there. 

I've got a couple of small vignettes on the TV cabinet...first is October from Hands on Designs "A Year of Celebrations"... 

on the other end is a mini tier tray with lots of cross stitch... 

Trick or Treat and the pumpkin headed gal and the skeleton cat are snippets from Prairie Schooler No. 188 Trick or Treat  and the Halloween on the bottom is from The Drawn Thread's Little Bits of Halloween.

In the middle section of the TV cabinet  my giant mercury glass pumpkin and two smalls from Pineberry Lane's Fancey Blackett's Little Fancies.  

On the the big display ...

Here a bit closer of the top...

and the bottom...

from the top... Bent Creek's Spooky Row ...

moving down from left to right... Matilda  Hornbuckle  from  Not Forgotten Farms..

 and Prairie Schooler No. 188 Trick or Treat... I think this my favorite Halloween piece!

Next shelf has Boo to You from WTN& T and the little Spooky pillow is from Lizzie Kate... I think it was a freebie but I can't find it now... 

 and on the other side is  and in the truck bed another  small from Pineberry Lane, Three Little Witches.  

Finishing up with another pumpkin headed lady from WTN&T Tricks & Treats...

and  from Notforgotten Farms Halloween Queen...

I  wasn't aware of my obvious affinity for pumpkin headed ladies ...who knew?  LOL

So plans for next week... gotta get my teeth cleaned on Monday and Nick and I are having dinner with friends, Elliott on Tuesday, a dermatology appointment on Wednesday to get some spots on my face zapped, going to a Halloween parade at Elliot's kindergarten on Thursday and hopefully will have lots of trick or  treaters that evening... that's a pretty full week... I want to work in some stitching and some sewing... I've been trying to do a couple of blocks a day at my upstairs machine and I have a Christmas quilt I want to do... lap sized ... one layer cake... easy pattern I've done before... Still trying to motivate myself for more cleaning out and rearranging... gonna take more energy than I have at the moment... such is life... 

Hope you have a good night for Trick or Treat...unfortunately the time change I detest will be next Sunday... a rant will ensue as it always does...  I'll link up with Kathy's Quilts today... have a birthday lunch to attend today and then my plans are to return to my stitching chair on the porch... 

happy stitching-

carol fun