Grandma

Well this has been a hard week.

My wonderful Grandmother passed  away in Aberdeen Scotland UK. She suffered a massive stroke and never regained concousness.    I talked to her 5-6 times a day  the last few  months. Her sister Lottie passed a few weeks before that. I have been  trying to keep myself busy so I  don't realize the passing of the time. I still find myself  reaching for the phone at certain times to check on her. I know this will get better as the months pass but at the moment it is still so hard.

I want to thank everyone for the well wishes we received. They have been greatly appreciated.

Saturday 7.13.2013

Can you believe July is nearly over already!! Where has this year gone.  I suddenly realized I am running out of time to get some projects completed!! 

Some of our  critter family are going to the vet on Tuesday to be spayed and  neutered so I will have a  week or so with out getting much done as I am sure they will need to be spoiled for awhile!! 

Gizmo taking the fresh air!!

I bought a new sewing machine the other week but had to send it back as I was having problems working the  computer part of it due to power surges at our house. I found If the electric flickered just a bit I would have to stop and re set the machine   not good when you are trying to  strip sew. if you didn't realize it happened you broke needles was too much bother and not relaxing to use. I will have to wait now until I get my refund for it then I can buy a simpler machine to use.  Hubby will look at my old one on Sunday and see if he can maybe fix it for me so we will see.Hubby installed the new dishwasher as well last week works great!!

I have been working on  a lot of hand applique this week getting  it ready for the weekend movies with Hubby.  I have the compass section of Esthers Love Entwined nearly ready to sew just placing and pinning today the next part comes out on Monday so I need to get a move on!!

flowers in front yard!

Well not much else happening here right now Hope you have a great weekend!!!

Morning everyone!!  the end of June already this month has flown by!!I have been working  this month on the Stocking swaps for Christmas so not many pictures to show as they are a surprise for my partner!!  I'll take pictures of each item as it is packed in her box then after Christmas I can post them all. I had a few glitches for some of the projects and had to go back and re- make parts but all in all not too bad!! I have two  gifts left to make for one  and  5 gifts left for the other one!.


I got my fat quarters in the mail the other day for my Aiming for Accuracy Quilt-Along 

today I hope to pick out my  contrast material and get the cutting done before the first lesson!! 

I think I will be going wiuth the solid lavender or a darker purple

but I haven't decided yet!  well I need to get a move on with my day. Hope you all have a good one.

Look what I won!!  

should be fun!!

autographed chart courtesy of Lori of La-D-Da Designs!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Saturday !!

Hi there

Everyone had gone to work already today and I have been cleaning the house up. Kyle is working until 12  today then off to a baby shower for his friend. Allen packed up the truck this morning so he can leave straight from work to day to go to his parents for Fathers Day he will come home sometime Sunday evening.

I'm going to make King Ranch Chicken for his Fathers Day meal for him coming home. It is one of his favorite dishes.




KING RANCH CHICKEN

1 CUP CHOPPED ONIONS        
 2 CANS CHICKEN CHUNKS
1 SMALL CAN CREAM OF MUSHROOM SOUP    
1 SMALL CAM CREAM OF CHICKEN SOUP
1 SMALL CAN ROTEL TOMATOS
2 CUPS CHICKEN STOCK
12 CORN TORTILLAS
GRATED CHEESE


PUT ONIONS,SOUPS,TOMATOS,CHICKEN AND STOCK IN POT AND SIMMER FOR A FEW MINUTES
LAYER TORTILLA,SAUCE AND CHEESE INA  13X9X2 CASOROLE AND BAKE  AT 350 FOR 30-45 MINUTES



Me, after I finish cleaning the whole house and getting the wash all done, I plan on cutting and sewing quilts all weekend while watching Die Hard marathon!  I have been  working on my Stocking Swaps for Christmas. I nearly have one set done then I will start on the gifts for the second one!

I have all the applique ready to go on the Bunny Hill Snowbound  quilt I have saved the patterns from her free bom for a long long time! so I am finally getting it done this year!.   Then I will try to make the Bunny Hill Heniretta  Whiskers quilt that I also have saved!!   So many projects I want to do and so little time!!!

Have all sorts of papers on the kitchen table to be sorted into binders this day as well so I don't lose any bom patterns. 

I put down the extra rug again today and Maggie has claimed it, the only problem is I now have to walk over her to get to the door!! Don't think it will last here long!!

Well I need to go and get a move on today. Hope you all have a great weekend.

Jennifer

PS sorry about the quality of pics I need a new camera

Half way through year!!

Hi everyone,

Can you believe we are halfway through the year already?  I have so much that I wanted to get done this year and not even made it part way through the lists.  and Yes I did mean lists!!

I have a list of crafts that are un finihsed objects (ufo's)   and another for crafts I want to do  and one for household chores and one last one for  christmas gifts to make!!

Today I decided I have to  be smarter and go through all my boxes and drawers and gather together ALL projects started and drag them to the living room so I can trip over them  maybe I will get them all done that way!!

I got tempted this morning to join another quilt along so I of course had to order some fabric for it then I started trying to get ready for another Christmas swap that I joined I need to come up with some more craft ideas for that one.

I did finish a few blocks and my sal for June

Over the weekend I worked on cutting out smaller projects  ( I nearly gave the christmas surprise away!!)  but I haven't managed to get to them today yet.
Well I had better get off of here and get some work done!  no more google today for me!!!

Hope you all have a great week!!

3.15.2013

Ranchers Daughters blocks done so far

Hi everyone,

I haven't been on here in a while so thought I'd take a min and play catch up!! I  have been busy  playing catch up on my sewing over the last few weeks.

 Here is the finished quilt top for my sister in laws lap quilt now away to quilters.

I treated myself to some goodies from Country Cottages!  decided to try my hand again at cross stitch.and then saw these cute magnets I'm still waiting for the material and thread for the witch one but hopefully it will be soon.

This is my calender sew along from A crafts Delight Sewing Group from the face book site it is January It is the first cross stitch one I have done since I was a kid many many years ago!! and then it wasn't counted cross stitch!!February is a heart  design I have it  set up to start hopefully this weekend

These are my next three Forget me knot blocks from http://www.estheraliu.blogspot.com/  I have one more block to applique then today the final part with  the borders and final settings was posted. It has been a wonderful mystery quilt to work on!

 

I also started a mystery sew along from Prairie Quilt Merchantile's on facebook.com  called plenty of fish mystery quilt. step one is done and now step two to catch up on.  !!

In between this my husband re did out living room floor now we just have the windows in here to replace and this room will be refurbished.!!

While we were working on these we decided(well I decided!!) to sort the furniture and belongings in here and get rid of clutter so of course that meant cleaning the room as we went along which led to having the rest of the house spring cleaned!!   My health lately hasn't been too good had problems with internal bleeding so couldn't do much bending and lifting and stretching. so I asked a friend to come and help clean the house  so she has been here a few evenings this past week and  will be back again on saturday to hopefully help finish it off.  I have been washing and dusting what I can  and she is doing the bending low and high reaching!! working out pretty good.  Hubby and son will do the stove, ceilings ,under beds and ceiling fans for us on sunday and that hopefully will be the house done. It already looks and smells so much better. I will be glad when it is done though so I can go back to sewing and my regular routine!!   Well I think that is most of my news caught up I need to go and get a move on and start on my next book shelve in my bedroom that will take awhile to get done ! I hope you all have a great week Jennifer,