School Vacation

Sometimes, I love school vacation. When it requires relaxing, reading, sewing, and enjoying time with family and friends..

But this vacation required a lot more work. A doctor's appointment, some basketball games, some cleaning, and some organizing.

I attempted to clean and re-organize gram's closet. Yes RE- organize. I feel like twice a year I embark on this adventure. I have all the plastic bins labeled as to whether the material pieces are large or small and then as to what color they are. I did this to make it a bit easier for gram when she is looking for material so that she doesn't have to go through every bin.

The two lower bins on the far left are all kits that she has bought over the years and hasn't yet attempted. I must say I made my way home with a few of these also.

Then Gram and I spent one day together working on our block of the month.

I am really enjoying this quilt. Yes I only do it a block at a time but I just love the colors in these blocks and this quilt.

So now I have two blocks put together and hung up in the closet and can't wait to keep adding to them!

My new toys!

I went shopping a while ago and saw these neat little toys that I just had to buy.

I was able to put them to use when I had these pillows that I needed to get sewn shut.

These poor pillows have been sitting on my couch since about mid July and they have been open just like this!
So I decided to use in my new purchase "wonder clips", and use them in order to hold the pillow shut so I could work on sewing it.

Needless to say I have gotten all four pillows sewn shut and they are now on my couch being shown off without the stuffing being shown anymore!

What to do on a Lonely Sunday!

So Sunday Ryan took off and decided he was taking the dog with him so I was sitting at home wondering what I could be doing. I turned the music up loud, did some baking then ventured around the house taking on other tasks.

I have been wanting to try this pattern forever. I bought this as a kid in a blue and brown colorway. And what a better time to work on something like this besides waiting any longer.

We inherited this hutch from Ryan's parents last week. They are busy packing and moving so we were lucky enough to get this piece of furniture and it fits perfect in my kitchen or in my dining room.

It is a bit empty in this picture though and has been sitting in it's place for about 5 days. So I figured, maybe it was time to start adding some things to it to make it start looking like it is used.

So I added some things to it that we also inherited in Ryan's parents moving efforts. But I added some of out own things also. But atleast now it looks like it is home and looks like it has a place where it belongs.

Then I ventured into the garage to check on my pet fish. Okay so they aren't really pet fish and they aren't really mine. Ryan has stocked most of his bait at his dad's new house this year but for some reason he has decided to leave a little stash at our house. So I got sick of looking at how dirty it was so I decided I would clean out their tank.

So after emptying out all the fish and refreshing the water. I was able to get the air filter back in and return the fish back to their home.

They were very happy to have a new clean home to spend time in. They are just so excited to have a clean tank!

Then I even got some time in my sewing room. I was able to spend a couple hours and work on that pattern I have been wanting to do.

And I must say I am in love with it!

The bottom of the panel is supposed to say bless this baby but I have decided maybe I will wait and sew a name on it in the future.

A mini date

Last Saturday although I wasn't feeling well I felt like I really needed to go on a date.

So I headed up the stairs, turned the heat up a bit, plugged the iron in and turned the music on, and sat and enjoyed the company of my sewing machine.

I sewed up these cute little Valentine bags. I was given this free pattern from a local quilt shop and decided I would try it out.

I also worked on getting some blocks together that have been sitting in a drawer for some time. So I got a couple blocks done and laid them out on my quilt wall.

And this would be all the quilt blocks that I have put together but they are all awaiting some sort of hand sewing. So I took most of them downstairs with all my hand sewing equipment and put them by my spot on the couch to work on while I was sick and while I am sitting on the couch in the evening with the hubster watching television (I prefer not to watch the hunting shows so I sew)!