Quilt Show~2

More random shots, mostly of things that caught my eye! Maybe next year I will be brave enough to enter something!

Quilt Show~1

This week our local Guild had their Show, the pictures aren't the greatest but at least there is a little idea of what some of the Ladies have been up to this year!

This grouping is the challenge quilts, they were pretty neat inventions/creations!

This here is this years opportunity quilt, the quilting is phenomenal and will try to remember to get some close ups tomorrow before helping break down.

The rest are just some random shots!


This one here is my favorite!

There is probably going to be a few posts of all the different shots that I was able to get before people started showing up.

Craft Fair Pics

This was my first time venturing into the world of selling my wares! It went great and was a good experience but if my Husband and Children hadn't been there I would have curled up in a corner and refused to come out until it was over! :0)

Talking with people is just the hardest thing for me, and what was nice is the people who were interested in quilts were generally the nicest to talk with! And the kids loved that bright wonky pinwheel that is on the corner there, would have loved to have had a few made up and just give one to each who were begging their Moms!

This gal was not the least bit afraid to mingle with the people!



It was a two day event and we tried to keep things rearranged for eye appeal and it was a matter of learning as we went!

More from the past

While shopping one day at a Fiddlesticks sale, Merry the owner asked if I would be interested in doing some quilting for her! I had to lift my jaw back into place because it was so totally out of the blue and I was completely honored that she would ask ME!

Here is one of the sample quilts that will hang in the shop, in the excitement of it all I forget the line of fabric that is being represented here.

And because she is such a sweetheart and she drummed up some more business for me! This is one of Rose's, she also pieces the shops samples and they were both an absolute dream to quilt!

So even though the blogging has taken back seat it has been extremely busy the past couple months, still have to get around to the photos from the craft fair, that was definately an experience and was talked into doing another show in November. That one makes my stomach hurt! It is way bigger and way more people to talk to! Yikes!

Sashy

This is our newest member of the family, as I was innocently making a bank deposit two of the kids happened upon a box of kittens that needed a home. How could I say no?! She is absolutely darling and can't wait to watch her grow up!

Here are the last of the photos for you Barb! The Log Cabin is one that she made for her own bed! And if I read her right it is the first one she has made for her self! It is huge and absolutely gorgeous, I have a 14ft frame and it about filled it edge to edge, the wedding ring is the backing to it and was thrilled with how it came out, the shot of it is folded in half, I used red on the top and a shade off of white for the backing and the pokies are all but non-existent!

Barb's 2

I am not a pink person but I tell you I fell in love with this quilt!

Forever and a Day

It seems since August things have just been super busy, here are some quilts that I have been slowly plugging away on for Barb! She makes quilts for various Cancer groups and a mulititude of others, it is amazing at what she accomplishes and it is such a blessing to me to be able to help her with the quilting end. There will be two post of these and my DH is going to deliver them to her on Thursday.

Outside pets~

Here is our little Pe-ew Pet! What is amazing is last summer the skunks in our area were many so we ended up trapping 6 that frequented our yard and relocating them. Talk about a smelly business but after the dogs getting sprayed two nights in a row it had to be done!

This little one managed to make itself at home under our wood box off the veranda, he/she would just cruise across the veranda and watch us in the living room and go about its business, and it didn't take long before Mandi, Dixon and Charlie let it! They learned to get along!

So since it has been cooling down so nicely in the evening I open up the doors and set the fans out to blow some of the cool air in, well apparently he/she knows we keep the dog and cat food behind the door and has been helping his/her self because Ki-Ki just stood there watching and Mandi just continued to lay under the table without a switch to her tail!

I grabbed the camera and the shot is of it walking out and heading down the steps to his happy abode!

This guy was greeting us this morning, and we seen her this evening!

These little piggies go through the food like crazy! We have gone through 50lbs of sugar so far this summer and the Orioles 6 jars of grape jelly, I have been trying to get some shots of them eating but they are a little on the flighty side!


We have 4 feeders up and in years past had another 3 out but figured with the cost of things we had to cut back a little, along with the bird seed it can get a little costly to feed the wildlife! But the pleasure we get in watching them is too much fun!

A few more~

We all gathered under the awning to cook our meals, it is always fun to put everything together and the meals are one of the absolute favorite parts of camping!

This is Timothy, he just month old and the mountain air just totally agreed with him!

Picking a bouget is a tradition, and this year William did the honors for me!

He is just such a Cutie-Patootie!

And when the heat got to be a little unbearable this is where I retreated to, this lovely scene was right behind our tent and I enjoyed working on some binding and flipping through a couple magazines!


And a pattern from the little local quilt shop in Williams!

Home away from Home

Yes, she is a goof ball!

Here we are all set up, it isn't the prettiest campground site but it is the biggest and it easily accomodates the three tents, we were down one from last year, Scottie wasn't able to make it, there is one site that I would love to get that overlooks a meadow and in the distance you can see the elk and deer grazing, one year it will be mine.........................~smile~

This is Little Man's first time out in a kayak and he did phenominal! His first time out he went to the other side of the lake and back, we were all impressed! Fishing wasn't so great though, it was on the hot side so they had fun collecting the crawdad's but decided to let them go instead of cooking them.

And Mandi was just a trooper the whole way! She allowed the fellow kiddy campers to walk her around on the leash only so far, she was not going to be taken out of sight of her people, and as soon as we pulled in it was a minor search for her leash as we knew she had to be on one and of course the campground hosts were right there to let us know that she would be picked up if we didn't get one on her asap! Since she would not go wandering from us I deemed her 'on a leash' so this is how she got around!

And once it was time to load back up and she was utterly pooped out and promptly plopped herself in the cool shade!

It was probably the most relaxed camping trip that we have taken, now that the kids are old enough to get around it made for an extra nice time, they would just hop on a quad and go to the lake or just ride around some of the trails that we know and enjoy the scenery, William wasn't to sure if he would be able to get around well on his dirtbike but he did just fine and was thrilled to be able to go with the big boys!

We did make a quick run into Flagstaff to Target, Levia decided she wanted a new tent and it just happened to be across the street from the Campus Coffee Shop and the Breve was just like I remembered! Delicious!!

Yay~

I am excited that blogger is allowing photos again! Here is Niki's quilt that she made for one of her Son's, hope they like it!

Now to go through and get my pictures sorted, I have a fun one of the skunk that lives in front of our house who has gotten really comfortable with living here amongst us all for the last year! This will definately be one of our most cherished memories!

Pooh!

I was hoping to get some shots uploaded of not only our camping trip but of a quilt I just finished up for Niki to see but blogger doesn't seem to want to play tonight! Sorry Nik, I will try again when I get home! ~Just had a brainstorm and sent some photos through the email for her!

The boy's are patiently waiting for me to finish up so we can head back out for a few days to Vegas, we went in after we got home from camping for a visit then DH is only working two days this week and he talked me into going again, my Parents are thrilled though, they love having the kids around to spoil!

So until Wednesday...............