ouch

so i’ve self diagnosed my heel with plantar fasciitis.  yes, even tho i have a family full of medical people, i don’t typically go to the doctor unless i am too sick to get myself there.  so the internet is a terrific tool for determining what you got.  and i got plantar fasciitis.  (fasciitis, that’s just a fun word to spell no?).  and man alive bob!  it hurts.

and my “naughty finger” on both hands hurt.  one because i was digging in the back of the silverware drawer and can you say SLICE?  yep.  the grater blade bit me.  and the other finger has a hole in it from the back of a needle.  i’m binding on my 3rd quilt in as many weeks.  i’ve needled a hole in my finger.  yipes that hurts too!

and my tushie hurts.  wind + snow usually equals ice around here.  and ice + me usually equals a fall.  funny how the heaviest part of my body tends to land first.  ouch.  twice.

what?  you didn’t come to this blog for a list of my owies?

well, dang!  now my feelings are hurt.

i’m out of tin foil

no,  i’m not making and freezing meals for scott to eat while i lounge on some beach covered in white sand (the beach not me) as i sip a tropical adult beverage served with a pretty little umbrella in it.

no i’m not wrapping my body in it for some new miracle fat melting technique.  don’t get me wrong, i WOULD if there was such a technique but there’s not.  is there?  did you check?

i am not adding tin foil to the antenna that is now required for me to tune in a couple of tv stations.  (ps thank you big brother for screwing up my tv viewing.  digital my patootie.  i no longer remember what i’m missing, but i do know i’m missing something!)

i am not putting tin foil on all the upstairs windows so i can grow happy plants.  i just had new windows put in for crying in the soup.  i’m not covering them up with curtains even, i’m definitely not putting tin foil on them~

and no, i’m not making a triple thick tin foil hat to keep the aliens and/or government from reading my thoughts.  they are welcome to them.  send me the report after you’ve documented and interpreted them, i’m interested in some explanations.

no.  none of the above.  if anyone had called me tonight to be social, i would have had to say “no.  i have to do my hair tonight”.

funny, i can’t keep a thot in my head right now…….

still nothin’.  wait!  a vague thot….yes!  i remember someone recently asking me if i’d had botox.  i haven’t but look between the brows!  i think i could use some.  i bet those lines come from giving people the stink eye.  and OMG is that a mustache?!?!  maybe it’s just the lighting……

and we’re done.  just in time to go to bed.  and yes, i think it was the lighting.  DO NOT disabuse me of this thinking.   who do you know with this much excitement in her life?!?!

nana care in 3-d!

the “art box” was on the table before the kids even left for work. busy busy busy. in the box, i found a book that had been gifted to the boys. toy story in 3-d. we tried the paper glasses but they had no “bows” and were just supposed to sit on your nose. didn’t work so good. HEY! remember the movie i went to last weekend? 3-d glasses still in my purse! 2 pairs/2 boys. perfect!

notice kaiden’s toe curls

we baked a teddy bear cake! i got the recipe from this mama cooks

blog. i get loads of good cooking things from there.

how cute is that?

and we played with the fun factory!

and here’s a little “series” of kaiden playing with the playdough (cans).

and we ate the cake too!

not a new yoga pose….it’s very important to get exactly the “right” bite!

frosty the

“stay home from work girl”…….super icy this am.  i called in chicken.  will see what light and sand brings in a couple of hours.

the good news is that i had time to download the frosty pix from yesterday:

i didn’t alter the color in any way.  it was a seriously grey day.

so we hung out at home all day.  we managed some fun……

let me be serious for a minute

i’m in the middle of watching an oprah episode.  it’s about cell phones and driving.  distracted driving.  i can honestly say i NEVER text while driving.  but i have made calls and answered calls while driving.  for the last time.

my life list now contains:

i will not make calls while driving.

i will not answer calls while driving.

please don’t answer if i call while you are driving.

please don’t call me while you are driving.

i really really want this to be on your life list too.

what a weekend!

boy oh friday do i feel productive!!! i had a super weekend. did you? i got sew much done (that’s a clue, did you pick up on it?)

i finished piecing my new years day quilt. yes i did!  it’s not even the end of january and it’s DONE.

and this is where it will live once it’s quilted and bound:

i set it 3×5 and the width (5) is just perfect for the back of my bench in the dining room.  it’s a little long (3) so i’m thinking on something fairly dense for the quilting so it will suck up a bit.  still have to figure out backing and binding.

i also got started on my february postcards.  you’ll never in a million years guess what color they are.  uh.  how did you ever guess they would be PINK?  just because it’s me, and it’s valentines month, and i won a bunch of new pink stuff?  yes, they’ll be pink.

and carin and i had a quilting session.  she wrapped up practicing a new pattern and we (as in she) quilted my NOT my new years day quilt.  and got the binding sewn on!! uh huh!  i took pictures but i’ll do a separate post on that so the non quilters can just by-pass it.  besides i have a self-imposed 10 picture limit on my posts (i tend to get snap happy.  remember the hat post?  yeah, i had to chose just 10 snaps out of 52.  who takes 52 snaps of hats?  me i guess.)  ((and just so you know, wordpress has a new feature where i can actually HEAR your thots as you read my blog and i don’t think your most recent thot was very nice))  so far i think my january fabric usage is around 16 yards!  go me.

AND i got 2 baby quilts cut out.  one blue and one green.  hopefully they’ll be done before silas and quinn start preschool (they’re only months old now (2ish?).

i also pulled fabrics for a flower quilt that karen g and i are both making.  she’s been waiting on me for months (years?) to get my act together.  i pulled all but 1 piece from my stash.  i just need 1 more red piece.   maybe i’ll go shopping in karen’s stash!

and i talked scott into a movie.  now this is no mean feat i tell you.  he doesn’t do well sitting for an extended period of time.  he prefers to watch movies at home where he can stretch out on the couch and/or get up periodically and move about.  so not only did i talk him into a movie, but into AVATAR.  a 2 hour and 40 minute movie.  i think actually the fact that emmett was coming along was the deciding factor rather than my skills of persuasion but i’m not fussy, as long as we got to the movie!

that’s right.  3-d glasses and all.  great flick to see in the theater in 3-d.  serious fun.

and oh yeah, scott and i played his new wii game…cabella’s big hunter….comes with a gun and everything.  the kids gave it to scott for his birthday.  scott is so not about computers or video games.  pretty sure he played for an hour.  and i didn’t actually get a turn even.  whatever.  it was hilarious watching him.

so, that was my weekend.  whadidyoudo?

yea me!

here is the beautiful yummy scarf that kris gifted to me. very kewl.

delicious colors.

and all our wishin’ and hopin’ paid off. i was the big weiner on vicki’s blog and just LOOK at my prize package!

can’t you just smell the pinkness?

there is fabrics and yarns and fibers. oh MY!

and buttons! glorious pink buttons!

yea me. thank you kris! thank you VICKI

hats off

so my sister kris made hats for the boys for christmas.  she KNITTED them.  so stinkin’ cute they are.  and kris requested pictures of the boys in their hats.

the boys were not cooperative.  so i improvised.

yea!  some cooperation!

another helper steps up!

group shot!

i got bug eyed!

even thomas loves hats!

finally!

and i’m spent…

happy 50th scott (finally!)

so last summer we had a pre-50th b-day party for scott with volleyball etc.   it wasn’t until this month that he actually TURNED!  so we had a little family party saturday night.

yeah, i told him i wanted a real smile.  one with teeth.  smart a$$.

and now we’re annoyed.

even the D O G was giving me lip

fine, i’m gonna eat cake then.

not new years day quilt

and the new years day quilt!

first the not.  after much deliberation and wine,  i decided not to combine the butterfly blocks and the pink and brown contemporary fabrics.  i had a limited amount of the fabrics so i decided to just go ahead and piece the blocks into a small quilt.  not sure what i’ll do with it.  maybe a charity quilt maybe ….who knows.

hmmm seems a bit faded in the picture.  oh well, it’s done!!  i thought about adding a border but decided against it for now.

and here’s 6 of the new years day blocks:

again, they look a bit faded.  i rarely have the “too much natural light” problem but apparently i do today.  anyway, i decided that the butterflies were too well done to put them in a quilt that just didn’t seem right.  so i’m using some civil wars.  the tan fabric is really quite beautiful.  i think it’s called “brown bag” or something like that.  it doesn’t show in the picture but there is loads of texture in that fabric.  anyway, i felt that putting that in each block would “tie it together” and then i wouldn’t lose the butterflies.

whoever said that using my favorite fabrics might help the butterflies grow on me was right.  i am starting to like this and i think it was “mum” that said, even putting it out on special times (mother’s day or easter) will make me glad i went the extra mile in the blocks.

so thanks everyone for your opinions.  it wasn’t so much the choice you made that helped me, but the reasons behind the choices that you made that got me thinkin’!