HocusPocusVille and an April Block

I finished my 4th Hocus Pocus Ville block.  Well.... sort of.  I don't know how to fill in the bats yet.  So I am going to think on it for a little while before I do. 

Below is block #4 in full.  I'm adding a bit of orange to every block because orange makes me smile. And every quilt needs orange in it.

Below is block #3

Below is Block #1

Below is Block #2

Another start, ha haha. I seem to start a lot of projects and feel like I don't finish much.  But here is 'April', the patterns are from 'Little House Needleworks' and was a BOM from 2010.  I saw this photo and fell in love.  I've email the stitcher, Edgar of Blacksheep's bit of the web and he helped me get started. Thank you Edgar.

I have changed some of the colors a tiny bit.  I love orange much more then yellow, so the boarder and the sun are more orange in this block.  I only have 2 more days of school left this semester and then a 2 week break before the Summer semester starts so I am hoping to get lots of stitching in those 2 weeks. :o) 

Jolly Holiday with Mary

I finished up my two Christmas ornaments. My first two ever. I can't wait to add to my collection every year.

And I can't wait to hang them at Christmas time. :o) Or even hand them for the whole Winter season. They look very handmade, but super cute I think.

Today I stitched on some boarders while watching one of my favorite movies..... Mary Poppins.

I added the boarders to my Heather Ross fabric quilt.

And here is a look at my "George Lassos the Moon" stitchery. I'm not sure yet if I will make this into a little pillow or frame it.

EveryBus 2012

Have I told you lately that I love to camp? I bet I have. :o) EveryBus was this weekend!! The start of the 2012 camping season. Blog post on my camping blog~ Campin~Amy.

Octopus With a Head

Sewing retreat at my local quilt shop (Quilting Adventures) last Saturday. Six hours of uninterrupted sewing. I got almost a whole top finished.

These are coin stacks from my Heather Ross stash. And I don't know when I'll get time to work on it again.

I laid it out when I got home and my husband says "Is that octopus supposed to have a head?". I didn't even notice it. LOL But how funny!!!
For Easter my daughter and one of her best friends made a cake. They wouldn't let me see it until it was done. Look how cute it turned out...

It's a bunny stuck in a tree stump hole. The cake was delicious too.

Stitchy Goodness and A Proud Mama

Hello all my sweet stitchy friends. I finally put a back on one of my ornaments. I haven't stuffed him yet, but he is one step closer to being ready to hang when Christmas gets here. ( Have I told you lately how much I miss Christmas?)


But for right now, I am loving Spring. Here is my Christmasy back....

I received a new ornament pattern in the mail yesterday. I love this one and can't wait to start it.

I've been able to work on my HocusPocus Ville Block 4 a little bit. Here is the prOgress. I want to finish it soon so I can concentrate on some cross stitch patterns I've been wanting to do. Like the one above. :o)

So proud of my daughter. She applied for an award and won runner up. Over 1200 girls applied. It is an award of women in aspirations of computing. If you didn't know, my baby girl is a programmer and gamer. She is the one that helps program the robot for her robotics team. :o)
~~(she drew the dinosaur on her name tag~teehee hee). This picture is at the awards ceremony.

Her high school also had an award celebration. There were 3 girls from her school that won awards. NCWIT~National Center for Women & Information Technology

Here is my mom (her Mimi) and she at the award celebration.

I don't know if I am more proud of her winning or for her just applying. She applied and didn't even tell me until she asked if we could go to an award ceremony about 2 hours away. She said she was getting some award. I said "Heck Yes we can go!!" :o)

Well, back to studying hemostasis this week. This platelets are going to be the death of me. LOL

Few Word Thursday

PrOgress on my cross-stitch.

Making bat houses. We have a few bats every year in the neighborhood.

Here they are finished and they are hanging 15 feet in a tree. :o)

My sweet plants growing.

PrOgress on the Thing.

Our 'Rusty' under my favorite tree.

Spring Break

Wow, I need a break from my Spring Break. A break.... it seriously wasn't. I ran the whole Spring Break and really don't know how I got it all done. First off, the most wonderful news.... The FIRST robotics team that my daughter is on, Sparky Team 384 WON the Virginal Regional this week/weekend and is going to World's in St. Louis in April.

The competition was AMAZING! The team did so great it is just hard to explain, you'd had to see it to believe it.

Here we are in the stands.

Here is their incredible robot Sparky 384. Notice the bumpers.... made by myself and the hubs.

My daughter in the stands. She is one of the programmers for the robot. ( and that is her boyfriend beside her, not sure what he is doing to her back, lol)

My little guy has been sick ALL weekend. I had to pick him up from school Friday morning with a fever of 100. He has kept a fever anywhere from 100 to 103. The doctor says the strep is negative and it is just a virus. It may even be the flu. Last night (Monday) he still had a temp of 101. :o( He got to the robots competition on Saturday , but only for about an hour and 1/2. I had to get him back home and fill him with meds.

Also this week, my husbands hero passed away. His Uncle Harvey had a heart attack. He was battling cancer and was very weak. Uncle Harvey was an amazing man. He was an Air Force pilot for 28 years and flew 100 missions in the Korean and Vietnam War.

My husband has always wanted to be a pilot and Uncle Harvey was his idol.

In Between the robotics competition, family, viewings and funeral, and a sick boy.... my husband took me to see my very favorite singer/piano player ever. ELTON JOHN! This is only my 4th time seeing him in person and he is still amazing.

All 4 times that I have seen him , he plays for 3 straight hours..... non stop. My hubs bought the Elton John tickets for my birthday this year. Thank you Babe!! It was perfect!

Absolutely no stitching happened on Spring Break... I seriously had no time to stitch a stitch.