New rules

This was an email from my friend Janet...she's a riot....and these new rules are right on the mark!


New rule: stop giving me that pop-up ad for classmates.com. There's a reason you don't talk to people for 25 years. Because you don't particularly like them! Besides, I already know what the captain of the football team is doing these days: mowing my lawn.
• New rule: ladies, leave your eyebrows alone. Here's how much men care about your eyebrows:
do you have two of them? Okay, we're done.
• New rule: there's no such thing as flavored water. There's a whole aisle of this stuff at the supermarket - water, but without that watery taste. Sorry, but flavored water is called a soft drink. You want flavored water? Pour some vodka/scotch/gin over ice and let it melt. that's your flavored water.
• New rule: stop messing with old people. Target is introducing a redesigned pill bottle that's square, with a bigger label. And the top is now the bottom. And by the time grandpa figures out how to open it, he will be in the morgue. Congratulations, Target, you just solved the social security crisis.
• New rule: the more complicated the Starbucks order, the bigger the jerk. If you walk into a Starbucks and order a "decaf grande half-soy, half-low fat, iced vanilla, double-shot, gingerbread cappuccino, extra dry, light ice, with one sweet-n'-low and one Nutrasweet," ooooohhhhhh, you're a huge jerk!
• New rule: I'm not the cashier! By the time I look up from sliding my card, entering my pin number, pressing "enter", verifying the amount, deciding, no, I don't want cash back and pressing "enter" again, the kid who is supposed to be ringing me up is standing there eating my almond joy.
• New rule: I don't need a bigger mega M & M. If I'm extra hungry for M & M's, I'll go nuts and eat two.
• New rule: no more gift registries. You know, it used to be just for weddings. Now it's for babies and new homes and graduations from rehab. Picking out the stuff you want and having other people buy it for you isn't gift giving, it's the white people version of looting.
• New rule: and this one is long overdue: no more bathroom attendants. After I zip up, some guy is offering me a towel and a mint like I just had sex with George Michael. I can't even tell if he's supposed to be there, or just some freak with a fetish. Don't want to be on your webcam, dude. I just want to wash my hands!
• New rule: when I ask how old your toddler is, I don't need to know in months. "27 months." "he's two," will do just fine. He's not a cheese. And I didn't really care in the first place.
• New rule: just because your tattoo has Chinese characters in it doesn't make you spiritual. It's right above your butt. and it translates to "beef with broccoli". The last time you did anything spiritual, you were praying to god you weren't pregnant. you're not spiritual. You're just high

September Lotto blocks

These are the Maple Leaf blocks I made for the September Lotto at Mailblocks. So pretty!

August Lotto winnings

These are my Flies in the Barndoor blocks that I won in the monthly lotto at Mailblocks. Pattern is adapted from pattern offered by Quilterscache.com.
I am so pleased with these, its as if everyone got together and chose a nice fall color scheme to work within. I still have to finish mine, I will probably make around 11 more so I have 30 blocks to start a nice quilt center.

The rest of Carol's challenge blocks

Letsee here, I did manage to get these done and in the mail by the 1st of October, close to the original guidelines at least. First is the balloons, the challenge fabric was used for the diamonds decorating the balloons. Pattern is from Pam Bono's book Big Book of Quick Rotary Cutter Quilts.








The next, the houses, it was a black and gray packages, and I used fabrics from my stash to hopefully pull out the teal and orange from the darkest fabric. The pattern is Happy Scrappy Houses from Quiltville.com













And the third is diamond panes from Judy Hopkins Around the Block Again book with purple sashing to make the blocks 12½".

Unconscious Mutterings 10/1

1. Taxes :: again


2. Hooray :: hip


3. Justification :: needed


4. Shocking :: discovery


5. Bureaucracy :: red tape


6. Porn :: star


7. Silly :: string


8. DJ :: record


9. Swing :: dance


10. Anti- :: climactic

Unconscious Mutterings 9/24

1. Bell :: Rung


2. Abuse :: Tell


3. Relief :: Stomach


4. List :: Pen


5. Concern ::frown


6. Absolute :: vodka


7. Cling :: wrap


8. Dump :: ground


9. Terminate :: end


10. Wine :: tasting

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Home from the retreat

I arrived home from the retreat yesterday afternoon, it was an awesome time! Lots of friends, fabulous quilts, tasty food and fabric shopping, what else could 18 quilty ladies ask for? Photo 1 is my retreat challenge from last year, we were all given a fabric panel to make something out of to bring back this year.











Photo 2 is the view from the deck from last year, I forgot to bring my camera this year, but the view is still spectacular. I marvel that I got any sewing done at all with that view from my machine.

Unconscious mutterings 9/10

1. True love :: never dies


2. Age ::old


3. Stern :: look


4. Elastic :: waistband


5. Rustic :: cabin


6. Enhance :: boob


7. Jackson :: again


8. Inherit :: the earth


9. Devious :: plot


10. Scapegoat :: caused

Luckily she archives previous weeks words :-)
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Unconscious mutterings 9/17

Running :: time
Alternative :: rock
Cope :: saw
Lots :: houses
Sympathetic ::empathetic
Barn :: door
Totally :: rad
Baby :: pink
Undeniable ::truth
Watermelon :: slice


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What's been consuming my time lately

This was a challenge from last year's retreat. We were all given fabric panels with the instructions that when we returned this year whatever we made was to be at least 36" finished and it must be complete. I wound up the the patriotic panel (I'm not complaining, there were MUCH worse! :-) All in all I dindt really mind it excepts for the dumpy looking doll section. Sooo....I decided that I wanted to put as much motion in the quilt as possible, so its very scrappy and made with a lot of busy RW&B prints to make the whole thing look busy and scrappy. I think I have succeeded! It still needs quilted, I am planning on random free motion stars in varigated RW&B thread.