My First Full Sized Quilt

I have been working on a quilt for Matt's room. He inherited our old blue comforter when we gave him the queen bed last year (or maybe two years ago?) It is getting pretty shabby so I decided to make him a quilt. I took him to Hobby Lobby and let him choose the colors. He picked out three shades of blues, greens, browns and red/oranges. It will have a tan border. I think it is going to be really pretty.  

Here I am cutting apart the pieces for the hourglass pieces.

Sewing the color borders to the center hourglass.

The finished blocks.

Here are the pieces all laid out on his bed so I could choose the block layout.

Here it is "finish-ed" with the tan border, laid over a chair.

Farmer Boy and Homemade Donuts

My niece and nephew have been here for a week and we have been having a ball. I have been reading Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder. They have been tortured by the delicious things the Wilders had to eat. One chapter was about the mother making donuts, and the kids wanted to make them. I had hoped that they had forgotten but Joe brought it up at breakfast yesterday. No, I didn't kick him under the table but I sure wanted to! I really did! ;) So this morning I got up early made the dough and waited for them to wake up.  I let them help putting them in the oil and then put the glaze and sprinkles on. Here they are...(the brown ones are not chocolate but a wee bit on the toasty side, ok a lot on the toasty side!)

Wadda Ya Think?

Well, I happened upon a blog tonight that had awesome dinner ideas, and noticed the "free background" stamp in the corner so I went to the site, didn't really like any of them googled free backgrounds and then spent about an hour tying them out til I decided on this one. So what do you think? I like the layering of colors. Also pink and chocolate brown are my next favorite colors after black and red. :)

Here is the the blog with dinner ideas.aroundthetablewithtami.blogspot.com Sorry but I can't make this stupid site add links. I have tried tons of things. It always worked before! GRRR! I like that she makes several meals at one and freezes them. Check out November 20th. Also Filler Up Fridays Now if only I could figure out what is in those spice mixes without buying them! hee hee!

I am Hittin the Kitchen Counters

I am joining the Battle for Order. I am hitting the end of the counter where all the papers and non dish things pile up. http://parentingconfessions.blogspot.com/2009/07/operation-organization-battle-for-order.html

Colors of Sumer

This salad is made from our garden stuff - everything except for the red onion. We got fresh peaches and black berries from the fruit stand. We ate peaches like crazy and I ended up making jam with the left overs. I put the black berries in too. This is all it made!

For Independence Day I made a cheese cake type dessert and made the design on top red white and "blue" with the berries. It was delish!

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. Marcus Aurelius

The quote came to me in an email and it really made me think. I hope it is a blessing to you as well.

Teenage Doubletake

Today I locked myself out of the house. I know, yay me, the big retard. In my defense, I did have my laptop bag over my shoulder. It, like my purse is black and so I thought I had it. SO while we waited for my poor husband to come home and let me in ( I never put the spare key back in the shed :/ ), Matt and I sat in the car as it was kinda sprinkling. He fished a small New Testament out and began to read Proverbs aloud. He read the first three chapters and then got tired of reading passed it off to me. I read chapters four and five. Then I got to these verses:

18 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

19 Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at
all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.

I didn't think he was really paying attention because he was fiddling around with the stuff in the glove compartment. But his double take was so sharp he almost snapped his neck off! I said I didn't think you were paying attention. He then asked me what chapter it was in (I was thinking he wanted to go read it again and see what it was all about) I told him it was in chapter five. "Well, I am never reading that chapter again !" he said. Thought you would enjoy this. :)