spending the night!

We had a great time with our 3 big boys this last weekend. They came on friday afternoon and got to spend the night. We walked/rode bikes around the corner to the neighborhood park and had a great time on the swings! Here is Aiden flying thru the air...

Garrett having a blast!
And Ethan hanging on with everything he's got!

Papa had them all 3 going, laughing and begging for more fun pushes!
Garrett here has the best balance for a 5 year old! He walked these walls several times, pretty soon he was running along them. After watching him all summer in the pool and then seeing this, he's got the best spatial awareness of his body, makes me wonder where and what he's going to be doing in the future!
So yep I'm admitting we had some fun "junk" before bed. I ran across this cool donut. Biggest one I've ever seen. I swear they put that stuff out there cuz they know Grandmothers will buy them! So this "Texas Donut" had to come home with me but it sure was fun for these 3 to eat.

Thornberries quilt meeting in November

We had our Thornberrie quilt group meeting for November and I had all my churn dash blocks ready to turn in. This has been an ongoing swap this summer and I've been getting mine done a bit at a time. I finally turned them all in this month. 7 people participated and they each got one of each color, so I made 7 of 7 varieties. They were alot of fun to do and since I can't count I still have parts for more floating around in the sewing room to finish up. I have a great pile of these now from everyone else, it's going to be fun to put this quilt together. Look at this great top that Lorene is working on. She brought it to get opinions on the border. Ahh it's going to be so pretty. Barb finished up this cute cat quilt she's donating to a group. Isn't it cute!
And here is Sue with her finished UFO for this month. OH MY GOSH isn't this amazing, Sue has been finishing so many big things this year. This group leaves me so inspired! Our Christmas party is next month at my house so everyone is finishing up their secret person's gift!

Happy Birthday Marcy!

This is my sister Marcy, today is her birthday! We got to celebrate her on Sunday going out to the Queen Creek Olive Mill. Here is her husband Vince and my folks, along with Ken and I, we drove out and had a wonderful lunch outside, it was a cool, cloudy day, with a few sprinkles here and there so we loved being out in the wonderful fall weather. By the time we left tho the sun was out and shining.
If you've never been it's a great stop, and boy was it packed! I've only been there during the weekdays for lunch but on Sunday's it's a hot spot! Here's the array of food we all ordered, it's all so tasty and good. I had that acorn squash soup, something new to try and the 3 baguettes/tapenades. It was fun to try them all since they are some of the ones they sell. What a great little store they have of their locally pressed olive oils and and olive bar to take some home, lots of interesting things to try out, so you always want to take something home to try.
My Mom brought some cupcakes ( apple cake of course) and we all enjoyed a very fun lunch and relaxing time together out there. So Happy Birthday dear sister, I'm glad we got to enjoy celebrating YOU!

Free!

I won a prize this weekend! Can you believe it! A local store was having a grand re-opening day and I won one of the door prizes. This floor sweeper. I was so surprised to get a call from them saying I'd won a prize! I've never had one of these but you can bet I"m going to use it! I wonder how it'll do with the remnants that Katie and Emma leave behind for me! I have no carpet in my house but it says it works on hard surfaces. So cat hair, threads and little boy crumbs here I come!

Apples and More Apples!

My parents have this cute little cabin up in the woods in Strawberry and they were just up there last weekend when it snowed and became winter in an instant! They had picked and picked Apples on this trip up the mountain and came home with an abundance for a fall harvest! I got to go over for the day recently and help them with several projects, one being all the apples! We started out in the garage with the big sorting adventure...They have several trees giving them 3 different varieties of apples. They love to share with all of us so we divided them all up into sacks and my car was loaded when I came home. It smelled so good in there after a while, I kept thinking someone was making apple something! I dropped off 3 bags at my sisters door since we live just a few blocks apart and another bag went to Bode's house and another bag went to 3 more of my favorite little boys. They are just right for little boys as you see....
Guess who likes eating apples! And what a perfect size for perfect little boys!
So apple recipes are everywhere! So far we had apple crisp warm from the oven for dinner, several go with us for lunches, boy are they sweet too! So thanks Mom and Dad for sharing your bountiful harvest with us all! I'm thinking apple butter might be nice and maybe some apple oatmeal raisin muffins!

Cute little Bag

Here's a sneak peek at our next Sew and Go project at Scrapbooks Etc. We'll have this project for you on tuesday Nov. 15th and 22nd. It's such a cute bag, It could be used for a gift bag, or it could be used to haul some cool stuff, or If I was a little girl I'd have it be my purse! SOOOO cute!

Time with Noah!

Noah and I had a great little visit today. Of course he was in Mississippi but thankyou to FACE TIME we had fun anyway! He was out in Jeremy's shop jumping in his little jumper and having the best time, squealing and jumping and watching his Daddy go by, then he'd look at me on the screen and back to jumping and squealing. We probably did this for an hour and it was so much fun. You can see me in the upper right corner on the phone screen taking the picture! It's not as good as being there but I love getting my little "fix" every few days with the help of technology!

New things Comin!!!!

Well, my brain has just been busting with all the new designs and classes bouncing around in there...YES there is a reason this is called my CRAZY LIFE! Lots of classes have been booked at Scrapbooks Etc. for the first of the year thru April and everyone better get their party shoes on cuz we are going to be having fun!!!! So the brain has been mulling all the classes, samples and ideas. Barb made a list of things we have to get done just for our classes we teach together and Sew and Go, then we have a couple new classes/events for the store we are facilitating besides the ones we always do. We have Lisa who cuts faithfully for us every moment she can while she's working the floor....I will have to take Lisa's photo and introduce you soon! Then we have Angie who now is also cutting things for us. So the lists go on and on as we stay ahead of them and all our students, and get things out there and organized so things can be ordered and ready for all our fun students. I'll tell you about some of the new events and fun coming soon, but for now here are 2 little teases. This is for my next Beyond Basics class I teach on Thursdays. Louise teaches the beginners and gets them going and learning to make their first basic quilts, mostly squares and simple things as there is alot to learn with quilting. So Beyond Basics takes you to the next level and we get into some angels and fun things that are just a tad more advanced. It's a 3 week series and basically I tell my students that Louise teaches you how to do everything the right and proper way and then I teach you how to kick it up a bit and add more variety to your quilts.... and "CHEAT".... as I will show you the ease and shortcuts to make it all simple!!!! So with that, here is a sneak peek at what is coming up in Jan. and Feb. in my Beyond Basics class..... Ahhhh I know it's just a quick peek but it'll be done soon and you'll get to see it all, but it involves this lucious line of" Ruby" fabric and that 60 degree ruler...hmmmm...It's spread all over our pool table ( isn't that what those are for?)and tends to get worked on between 5 and 6:00 AM!Now this next little sneak peek will entice you to come and see what the heck are they doing to Twister!!!! Louise and I have taught a Twister class 3 times this last quarter and we are kicking it up a notch with some new things added. And for those of you that know me I just can't ever seem to follow a pattern( like the puppy dog quilt class that is in process now looks NOTHING like the original pattern) So with that in mind I've been making these fun twister blocks and designing my own fun pattern with them. Lots of mulling over the blocks and moving things around and running back to Scrapbooks for more of the matching fabrics, it too was spread all over the pool table and is close to being ready for quilting....In the meantime here is a little bit of this fun!!!! It's getting prepped for a wee little boy with the first name that starts with a "B"....hmmmm so stay tuned, you'll be seeing it soon after I get it finished and ready to hang at Scrapbooks, and I think since there isn't a pattern for this one that you just might get the layout sizes when you come to our twister class next spring!
More teases to follow as this is ONLY THE BEGINNING!

2 Block of the Months!

So here are 2 more things bouncing around in my brain these days.... 2 different Block of the Months that Scrapbooks Etc. is offering next year. Both will start in Feb. of 2012. This one is a hoffman Batik quilt that is just beautiful. They are offering a great finishing incentive also for 2013 if you have it done your $25 registration fee will be applied towards your back! Our prep kit hasn't arrived yet but should soon and then Barb and I will be building this amazing quilt at work for the store. It's a nice big quilt too, 90"x 100" and out of these beautiful batiks.Here is the other one. Barb and I started pulling fabrics for these kits, it's so cute! We've gotten alot of organizing done on it and a couple blocks are now prepped and ready to sew up. And yes Lisa will be cutting parts thru December so we will have it ready for you to begin in Feb. We've got a tad bit of sewing to do to get these done and up! They'll be fun to do tho and with 2 of us doing them they'll go together pretty good. Be sure and stop in some time and take a peek as they'll be so cute when done. And stop by and say hi to Barb and I as we sit in the classroom sewing away on these great projects! The new calendar doesn't even come out until Dec. and we've got people already signing up. Spaces will be limited and I can see these selling out before we even get them up!

Cute little Bag class!

Here is the sample for our next Sew and Go Again class at Scrapbooks Etc. It's happening the last wed. night in November (30th) This cute little bag and this cute little posie will be fun for everyone to make!

Sew and Go November

Here's more of our cute spinning mat that we did at Sew and Go this week. Our second class is growing now that we do it each week repeating the project from the first week. We had 15 come today, that's not as many compared to the 32 we had last week, but lots of cute little mats went out the door again today!We did have one gal coming back to make another in a different color way. I think alot of people have figured out it's more fun and better to just come make it with us, visit with friends and help is just a moment away and you really can't put one of these together for $18, what a deal Sew and Go is! Thanks to Scrapbooks Etc. for allowing all these fun classes to exist at such a good price, they've allowed us to have alot of faithful followers who are learning so much as they come again and again every week!
We've got a great project for everyone for the 3rd and 4th Tuesdays in November so don't miss out on those. Then we take a break thru the month of December. You are all TO BUSY to come to classes and that gives us a month to play catch up before we kick it OFF BIG in Jan. The new schedule will be out so be sure and get signed up, you won't want to miss Sew and Go at Scrapbooks Etc.!

Halloween Fun!

We had a little halloween party this year at our house on the sunday before halloween ( I'm behind on posts can you tell!) I wanted to make sure I got to see all our special Halloween trick or treaters in their costumes this year so everyone came over for a lunch of chili and lots of yummies that everyone brought. And if you havn't ventured to Jamie and Jeremy's blog to see the updates on their lives I thought I'd share this picture of Noah all ready to go trick or treating in Mississippi! They were the 3 blind mice so here is Noah looking so cute! You should go see the photo's of the three of them all dressed as the 3 blind mice! Jamie said Noah went to his "school" in costume on monday too and of course they loved him! So here is our MOUSE...Here is Ethan just looking cute...you'll see him soon as SPIDER MAN!
I tried to catch them as they came in the door....Garrett....soon to be...
A transformer named BUMBLE BEE...
A VAMPIRE....as Aiden...
So we did get a picture of these 3... the door bell rings again and it's....
A puppy Dog....with Daddy filming right behind... it was so cute, him standing there waiting...
The cutest puppy dog on the block....otherwise known as BODE!
And since we would all run to the door as each came with our cameras ready we opened the door this time and it was this kitty cat with Alan otherwise known as my niece Alissa! They were good sports as there was a big crowd on the other side of the door waiting to see who was there!
Then this cute Kitty cat arrived...other wise known as Cailyn!
Here is little Landon, the cutest pumpkin on the block!
We did try our hardest to get a group shot....
one escapes and there goes another...
Fix the ears...there goes another...
It was almost as funny watching the crowd on the other side....paparazzi! Not a whole lot of success but we all had fun!