I finished my cute little stitchery from Bareroots. I put batting and a backing on it so it's a little quilt. I am going to hang it on my sewing room wall. And it says "SEWING". Although that 'W' really doesn't look like a 'W'.

Park City Girl , is having a Blogger's quilt festival. Hope over to her blog and read about it. It sounds really fun. It will be April 17 - 24th.

I'll be sending off my siggy blocks this week. Working on finishing up my tiny trailer quilt. And starting a new quilt top for a work challenge. The work challenge quilt top needs to be done by June. So I have to get my tail in gear. Oh I also need to start my son's school teacher's end of the year quilt and start my row for a row robin I am in. goodness, goodness I need to get sewing. :o)

I've been out of town.

Hubby and I drove to Ohio from Virginia to pick up my new toy, my teardrop trailer. We were gone for 2 days. I saw a bunch of quilts ( not real quilts) hanging on barns but this one is the only one I could get a photo of.

Here she is in our back yard, My daughter named her "squirt" after the turtle in Nemo. We are going to paint her to look more vintage. Hubby and I camped in her on the way home from Ohio. We actually parked in a Wal-mart parking lot and stayed the night. :o) But we slept great.
The day after I got back from Ohio, I drove to NC. A 6 hour drive to go visit my in-laws. Who are the sweetest people you'll ever meet. I just love them to death. We visited this waterfall while we were out there. It is only 10 minutes from their house. This is a photo of the cousins / grand children together oldest to youngest.
Here in the waterfall with my son, Jonah at the base of it. It was awesome. I just love nature.
No sewing this week. Just traveling. I didn't even hand sew in the car. I was too busy looking at all the sights. Have a great rest of the week. Happy sewing.

ears and legs

My baseballs grew ears and legs overnight. :o)

A little snap shot of the spider web progress.....

Busy as a Beaver.

Here is how far I have come along on my "sewing" stitchery.

Today... Cheryl and I got together and sewed. She is working on a quilt . I was working on PJ pants and my kitchen curtains finally. Here are my son's new PJ pants.
And one curtain in my kitchen. Please ignore the backyard, that is my husbands area and it looks like a junk car yard. I haven't hung the other curtain up yet because hubby has to hang the rod for me first.
Here is something new I am working on. They look like baseballs but they aren't. I am not going to tell you what they are yet. They are much brighter in person, the photo is dulling them out.
Joyce, if you read this.... This one isn't the shop sample unless you want it to be.

our camping trip to Washington D.C.

Was absolutely fabulous. We had the best time. We got to see where the president lives. :o)

and see him take off in his helicopter.
My children in the blooming cherry blossom trees.
We camped in MD @ Greenbelt state park. It was beautiful and peaceful.
We went up and saw Lincoln in he chair. :0) And went to a few of the Smithsonians. They were awesome. I kept thinking.... I can't believe this is free.
And on another note.... here is the other wall in Jonah's room where he drew his prehistory sea monsters and I painted them in. He even spelled out "sea - monsters" and wanted me to paint that too. My sweet boy.

this week.

Some new fabric for a new project. I am going to make a 'sort-of' I Spy quilt. But I am going to use my son's drawings and magnify glasses.

Here are his little drawings and they are all over the house. He draws all the time. ( the big smiling lizard is my drawing.) :o)
Easter gifts for the kids..... travel pillows and cases for when we go camping.
I don't know if I ever showed a photo of my finished "flower quilt". Here it is , very hard to see the detailed embroidery work on it. This quilt is on it's way to NC, to Chihuahua Rescue and Transport. They are having raffles to raise money and I donated this quilt.
And here is my new toy... my new teardrop trailer. Hubby and I will be going to pick her up next weekend. I can't wait to make curtains and a quilt to go inside. :o)

just have to paint

Sometimes I just have to paint. I think it's another creative outlet for me. I get this urge and I have to paint something. My house pays for it.
Jonah and I saw this kids magazine , it's a boys room with dinosaurs painted on the walls. We both loved it.
Here is one of Jonah's walls now. He drew out the dinosaurs and I did the paintings.
The only dinosaur I drew was the flying one, I don't know how to spell the name of that thing.
One another wall we are going to do the ocean with prehistoric sea creatures in it.