Memorable Quotes

Though we can never leave life without experiencing some measure of loss, grief, and pain, misery is optional--as is happiness.

Beverly Campbell

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything you gave me."

Erma Bombeck

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

So many giveaways are going on but I'm only posting about the one from imjustaguywhoquilts. Love his blog title and love all the fun things he has to give away.


This is just one of the items. Go check it out!

Monday, July 6, 2009

My good friend, Regena, at Quilt n Quilt Things asked me to help her with a round robin. I said no...I had too much going on. She was very persistent. I told her if she asked again I really wasn't going to do it! She waited...not too patiently...and asked me about a month later. I relented since I was out of school. You need to understand that she is a type AAA personality. I must say I think she is now a type AA personality. I still love her like a sister no matter how much grief she gives me for being a ZZZ personality. Anyway....she brought the center of the top over and I had it ready to give back to her in about four days! Boy, was she surprised.

The colors aren't quite true in this photo. The red is really more of a rust color. This will end up being a king size when we are finished. It is a donation quilt for our church.

Another great Weekend! Our son and his family came to stay with us for a few days. They had a wedding on Friday. Saturday morning my daughter-in-law and I went over to longarm. She took pictures but I forgot to download them to my computer. When we arrived back home we discovered that the engineers had been busy. Our son brought a water slide over since it was going to be hot. It just didn't look long enough for my husband, the engineer, so this is what we found when we came back home:


They had added about 3o feet of black industrial plastic to the slide. The boys were already having fun. Now some of the adults were ready to try it.

Several different techniques were tried.


Some just kept flying over the edge.


Some were more successful than others.


When the boys got tired they played in the "pirate ship" for awhile and then went back for more fun on the water slide.


Later in the day our other son and family came. New techniques were introduced.



Some were very creative.



Some needed a little extra effort to make it to the end.


We had a delicious bbq and then headed up to Sandy to watch the fireworks. It was a great show. The adults in the above escapades are very sore to this day. I was smart enough to take pictures.

Monday, June 29, 2009

We had a fun weekend. Saturday we invited our son and his family over for a bbq. Our daughter and her hubby had planned to go to friends for a bbq but instead we invited them over here. We had a good time visiting. The kids had fun playing on the hammock and playing Guitar Hero. Family and friends are the best!

I finished my quilt challenge quilt! It is definitely titled "WILD!"


I didn't have enough money to go buy backing so I used leftovers. I'm very pleased with the outcome.


After I finished longarming my friend's grandson saw the quilt. He decided he needed to have it. Sorry, Gabe.....you'll have to get grandma to make you another one! I had fun on the longarm and experimented with my quilting. I'm getting braver. One of these times I'll try some pantographs. Until then just call me free hand Sheri.

Friday, June 26, 2009

Finally...a new post. I have overwhelmed myself again but I'm back on Project Probation and making headway! Summer is here and, at last, I'm finished with work. I had two days training on how to use the new web provider for school. We had an excellent trainer but now I have so much to do. I just put it out of my mind until the end of August.

Look what I won!


Sarah at House of Krom had a give away. I could choose between this placemat and a wonky house placemat. It was a tough choice but.....our first house had orange kitchen counters and apple green bathroom counters. I love those counters to this day so I had to choose this one. It is on top of my mother-in-law's treadle sewing machine that I keep in my living room. Thank you, Sarah!

I've been busy with the quilt challenge from Old Red Barn Co. I quilted the top on the Gammill yesterday.


I just need to bind it tonight and I'll be finished. You'll have to come back to see the backing. I didn't have any money to buy backing fabic so I created my own. I'm please with the way it turned out. I think this quilt should entitled "WILD!"