One More Thing Tonight

My husband was reading my blog tonight. He loves his 1969 Plymouth Fury. Right now it is covered up and put to sleep for the winter. It doesn't even go out in the rain. He wasn't happy with the little picture of his car. He wanted it BIGGER. So here honey, just for you.

My New Design Wall Is Up

It turned out great! My darling husband mounted it to the wall with screws and washers. Well that just wouldn't do. I couldn't have those screws showing so I glued large wooden buttons over the screw heads. Now it looks great. I wasn't sure how big of a design wall I needed, but hubby says you may as well go all the way. That's why I love him. It measures 8 feet by 4 feet.

I also have been busy making little stockings and mitts for the Christmas Tree. We have six grandchildren and so I thought to make them more personal, I would embroider their names on them. And of course put a little surprise in them. I just finished them last night. Here is a picture of three of them. I think they turned out quite well.

Here are a couple of quilts I haven't shown yet. Have a great weekend.

My New Design Wall

This in going to be my new design wall for my quilting room. It measures 4 feet by 8 feet. It doesn't look like much now but I know its going to be so handy. It took some time to figure out where to hang it. There is lots of room in our rec room, but I really need it where I do my quilting. I will post a picture of it after it is hung, but for now I need to get my costume ready for halloween tomorrow. Have a great day.

Well I finished Maria's stocking.I did it in cross stitch and it will probably be the last one I do. My poor eyes had a difficult time with it. Hope she likes it.

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Our computer was eight years old and things like the cd drive would not work so I mentioned this to my darling husband. Well next thing you know, we came home with a new one. He is so good to me. We did have windows XP but know we have Vista. So here goes the learning curve.

Should be fun. Have a great weekend.

Our Thanksgiving Weekend

We started our weekend by having dinner at our daughter Steph's home. What a great time we had. Steph prepared a great meal and it was yummo. We had lots of fun with the kids. Her husband, Bob was feeling a bit under the weather and I hope he is feeling better.

We are so thankful for our family. We miss the rest of the family but Christmas is coming and we can't wait to have them altogether. That reminds me, I still have shopping to do.

I did get some quilting done this weekend. I finished a Christmas stocking for my daughter Maria. I will post a picture on my next post. It also felt good to finish another Christmas runner. The applique is all cut out and now its just a case of machine appliquing it down. Here is a picture of one I made for my husbands brother Art and his wife Phylis.

I will leave you with one last picture. This is the evening sky at the end of the weekend. Like little polka dots. Our world is amazing!

On our holidays we went to visit my husbands brother and his wife, in Picton. What a beautiful area. We had such a nice time visiting and reconnecting that I miss them already. They took such good care of us and made us feel right at home.

August 18,2008

Well, I'm back. We have been so busy with the move and getting our new home in order, that I haven't had time. My sewing machine is at summer camp (sewing machine hospital) right now and I can't wait till she gets home. So for now I will just enjoy our gardens.