A bad day at the pond~

The boys have these cool remote control boats, and BC has this water park for activities such as these!

Here we have a tipped vessel, (red/cream), but here comes Will to the rescue!!!

After a few attempts he finally gets in a good position to push him to shore!

It was quite entertaining watching them~

Finally, the rescue is made! A few minor adjustments and he is back in action!

I love watching these guys, in BC, its boats, skateboards, bikes and scooters, at home, its quads, hiking, target shooting, bow hunting, and now handheld crossbows.....................blessed? Indeed!!

Been a busy couple days, dental appointments, quilting, and guild business meeting, and more quilting, not up to leaving but I look forward to delivering quilts, it's like watching kids opening up presents!

A Challenge accomplished!

Hehehe, just a funny shot I came across while looking at some pictures, this boy was out riding with his buddy, the mud was pretty slick and he just tipped right over! No harm was done to the bike~and obviously none to the rider either!

This quilt was quite the challenge, it was one of last months accomplishments and as I look back at the pictures it all comes rushing back!

I loved the design, it is one from Deb Geissler, love love love her stuff!

This was no little one either, you can see on the left how close it is to the end of the frame, I have a 14 ft table~

One of the challenges was how the quilt was growing from around the middle of the quilt towards the bottom, tried to get a shot of it but it was around 110 at the top and by the time I hit the bottom we were at 116 wide!

We knew the backing and batting were going to be close but man oh man............

Here is its full shot, it came out pretty even with all its quirks~

Here is a little closer look at the design, kokopelli's flittering around doing their thing! I gave it to her on a Wednesday and she had the binding on it and on her bed by the weekend!

Seems we go through spurts of quilts that bring us a little challenge, we did 5 bargello hearts that still cause me to wake up in a sweat in the middle of the night, they came out beautiful and that is what I try to focus on! Those babies are up next to share!

Catching up~

Wow, I am still amazed that we are already in June, I had a fun May and was sorry to see it end so quick!!

This customer is one of my favorites, she tells me exactly what she wants and that is just what she gets!

The pictures don't quite do the quilting justice............

She also had shams but didn't get pics of those.

Then this little guy, sigh, when you get a naggling feeling in the back of your mind it is always best to trust that niggle and double check those little things, especially when it involves your tension!! I got to the 4th row and seen the stitching from the 1st and my heart dropped clean to my toes, what took 15.5 minutes to stitch out ended up taking over 5 hours of unstitching. Big lesson learned!

Here we have T and K, they are two amazing quilters in our Guild, T, is showing her latest using silk ties that she has collected over the years, it is an amazing quilt to say the least!!

Since we have had rain, snow and sleet so late into the year, it is has brought out all the beautiful wild flowers, Court and Donnie brought the bouquet home for me and hopefully I will have a nice supply throughout the summer!

I am very excited to have gotten our classes scheduled for MQX West this morning, did that at 9am sharp, booked our room last week so we are set to go! From there we went and delivered a couple quilts then it was off to the dentist, poor Donnie spent over 3 hours in that chair, he takes after me in that we have a high pain tolerance so by the time we realize there is a problem it definitely has become one! One more visit and he is good to go, the Dentist gave him a prescription and I thought it was for an antibiotic but it turned out to be a pain killer, Vicadin to be exact! I about flipped on the pharmacist, actually I did, but it will be properly channeled to the bleeping dentist on the next visit, in the meantime he is doing just fine with the ibuprofen thank you very much!!

The machine is happily stitching along and I am trying to get some order put back into this studio............

Another one bites the dust~

Month that is! It is hard to believe June is already upon us, what has been sweet is the weather! it is a balmy 74 out and just perfect!

While Little Man D was hunting for some new shoes we headed to the camping section to check out what all was new, I am ever so tempted to get this chair for my King! It was a perfect fit!

Mothers Day was no different than any other day for me except the beautiful live plant was given along with this fabulous meal!

Which reminds me that I need to water it................

And last but not least, Spring Market in Salt Lake. Here are Merry, Kathy and Rose, they just finished up registering. I actually was the driver and we hit rain, sleet and snow the whole ride in! We were in my truck so just in case I had brought along huge black bags to protect our luggage from the elements...............oh was it a site!! Anyway, I dropped them at the door with twenty minutes to spare for early registering and as blessing would have it a car pulled away at just the right moment so I could hustle in!

We have just finished with a day of Schoolhouse and now are ready to hit Sample Spree! I planned on doing a little shopping for myself this time but I didn't push enough to get what I wanted and after 10 minutes things were sold out! I did get a couple new books and an awesome tote made out of Jo Morton fabrics along with the patterns on how to make one for yourself!

Then Friday Night, we headed to Moda's Party, it was a tasty meal but the fun part was when Michael showed up!!

It was fun to watch the dancers gather folks from the crowd............especially after they had take advantage of the open bar!!

Saturday was spent wandering the aisles and seeing all the neat new gadgets and pattern designs, I am still in awe at everything I seen, I did gather all kinds of info for future reference!

We topped the night of with a meal at the Original Red Iquana..........

Yummm, is all I can say about this! I love traditional Mexican food and their classic enchiladas did not disappoint a bit! I ate the whole plate, may have even licked a little.............

We headed out fairly early Sunday Morning, I spent a little while getting everything loaded up, I should have taken a picture of the madness, since I have the Mega Model there is a poop load of space behind the seat, so everything the 3 bought went there, I brought along my big suitcase so was able to pack all my goodies up into it and it went into the back of the truck with the other luggage, we also had a nifty cooler that sat between Rose and Kathy so cool drinks and snacks were just an arm reach away!

The ride home was horrid, it was the windiest I have ever driven in, my arms were cramping for 2 days from holding on so tight! Was it worth it? Oh yeah!! And on a funny note, since my truck was to big to go into the hotels parking garage it got front door parking for the full 4 days!

I have lost count all the quilts that have been worked on but I did manage to keep up with pictures so will now take some time to get them uploaded and shown!