A LIght Unto All

http://youtu.be/PxKas2Mcjg4

Wow!

Now that's the way to have an auction.  The only one left is the chicken bag.  Thanks gals. I will e- you with particulars.

Leftover Bags

Free for the asking, these are the bags that did not sell at the Grantsville Boutique on Nov. 19th this year.  (I only sold 2) So if you see something you like, post your request and I'll get it/them to you.
All bags are large enough for a 3" binder or equivalent.  Most have inside +/or outside pockets/pencil slots and additional coin purse. Details with pictures.

 Black & White- gone

11"wide x10.5" tall x 4" deep
Large red ric rac and flower accent
White webbing double shoulder straps 26"


Inside pockets and 5" x 4" coin purse with spring snap closure

Peace & Love gone
11w x 10.5h x 4d
Bright Colors w/ button accents and top zipper
Plenty of inside storage and deep pocket

Reinforced fabric shoulder straps 26"
8" x 6.5" coin purse with spring snap closure

Romantic Taupe & Pink gone
12w x 10h x 3d
inside zippered deep pocket
Hidden outide pocket
extra long 33" straps (can be shortened) of reinforced matching fabric.
5.5" x 5.5" coin purse with spring snap closure

 Country Rooster
11.75"w x 11.25"h x 3"d
Reinforced matching fabric shoulder straps 26"
Outside pocket with pencil slots
inside zipper pocket
8" x 6.5" coin purse w/ zipper closure

 

 

 Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? gone

Do you recognize this fabric from the Brown Bear collection based on the favorite child's book?
With coordinating watercolor batik trim and black fabric shoulder straps
pencil and cell phone pockets on one outside
More pockets of all sizes on the inside.
Matching coin purse 4.5 x 5 with zip closure

I Love Horses- gone
This bag is plenty big: 12.25"w x 15.5"h x 5"d
Wide fabric shoulder straps.
 No pockets or coin purse at present.  Could be if you request.

My new theme song

The music-only link was broken so I found this U-Tube vid with my song.

Big Harvest

It was time to gather all the almonds today.  I picked 2 ice cream buckets of the peach-like fruits, split them and set out the almonds to dry for a few days. There may be enough for one batch of almond toffee.

Quilting Update

Our Quilt Guild did a Block of the Month using the same pattern.  Mine isn't quilted yet, but here is a preview:

Then our QG challenge this year is to make a quilt measuring at least 100"sq. with a star on it.  Those were the only requirements.  Last fall at the Shop Hop (I'll explain some other time) I bought a kit for a one-block wall hanging.  It hung on the shelf all year until this challenge.  It is now the upper left block of this wall hanging:

It is also unfinished.  Both need to be done by our December 6th luncheon.

Wow! Really?!

It has been 4 months since I even looked at this site.  Time for a little catch-up.

So here goes:
Backing up a ways - Dad took a week off to install sprinklers in the back yard.  Uncle Bob came over to help with the trencher.  Here is what we have today:

Maybe next year

One reason the sprinklers didn't get finished is because Dad got excited about another project.  He wanted to paint the kitchen.  It is beautiful.

This Wednesday I chopped down all the raspberries and got several bites on my face (spider, I think) and scratches on my arms.  Should have worn long sleeves.  Ah, me.  But the job is only half over.  Our last trip to the dump was so heavy that it bowed out the bed and was rubbing on the tire causing the rubber to melt.  Bad.  Before we can make another run to the landfill Dad needs to take care of that little problem.  So you can imagine all the piles of weeds and rubbish around the yard. (sigh)

HAZELNUTS- This year our bushes produced, even after moving them.  I am so happy.  Here is our first crop:

Cute little things.  Too small to even crack.

 FIGS- And here is one of the 2 figs on the tree this year.  They are as small as my baby fingernail.  I don't imagine they have time to get any bigger.

ALMONDS- I haven't cracked any of the almonds yet this year, but looks like we may have a bowlful.  Here is one about ready to drop.

The late freeze we had this spring killed back the walnut pretty severely.  It is still alive but not thriving.  It may have something to do with the gophers from last year also.  Darn those vermin.
While chopping down hollyhocks and weeds this week in the side yard, I discovered another fresh gopher hole.  I set a trap but haven't caught it yet.  It may be the same one that dug down and then up into one of our window wells and dug extensively around the corner of the house that caused our basement flooding last month.  I really need to get rid of that thing.

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What's the Dealio?

Wow, I didn't realize it has been so long since I'd been online.  I just spent 3 HOURS catching up on friends' blogs.  Very entertaining, but as I sit here looking at the project I intended to work on when I first sat down, and now realizing my time block is up, (housework calls) I am a bit sad.  How wonderful if we could just stop time for an hour or two now and again.
I am hoping life's demands will lessen in a couple of weeks so I can journal all of my recent projects, new life-directions and adventures. 
So, this little blurb will just have to serve as a bookmark in the pages of this blog.

The Ready Store - Emergency Preparedness, Food Storage, MRE's, and Freeze Dried Food!

The Ready Store - Emergency Preparedness, Food Storage, MRE's, and Freeze Dried Food!
Here is another resource to check out and compare to the myriad others.

Finally done

I got the pattern for this quilt in 2008 and had hoped to have it done by '09.  Not even close.  Then I had my "lost year," 2010, and got the blocks finished and the top sewn together, but not in time to quilt it and hang it in the fall, so it laid in a pile until January came along.  I had to show something for quilt guild and just had the tops of several quilts.  That gave me incentive to finally finish this behemoth  and get it out of my hair.  Funny thing - once I finished hand sewing the binding on the back side and looked at it - I liked it.  I vowed at the time I was 1/2 into making the blocks that I would never want to make another quilt with so much applique.  Ha ha We'll see.

making pets