Baby in the house

I am officially babysitting! It seems weird, but fun, but tiring, by amazing to have a 3 month old around the house again. His mommy has done really well about going back to work, even if she didn't want too. Now my schedule is built around bottles, diaper changes and nap time. V holding her nephew T!

Oh, there is baby right now...so much for posting...talk to you later!

Baby on the way!

E went to the Doctor yesterday afternoon, and he says baby is on the way! Yeah! She'll go up to the Hospital at 6pm (after Office hours) to get things medically moving. Double Yeah! V has an orthodontist appt this afternoon...we'll wait for a call after that to see if E wants us to come up to the Hospital. I really want to be there just so I know, as her Mom, she is okay, but she doesn't really want anyone there at all, except B. I completely understand not wanting to be mobbed by well meaning family/friends, but then the Mom part of me wants to take care of her and watch over her! My baby is having a baby!!!!!

Also, I way over did it yesterday! I always get pumped up on starting to lose weight and do too much and get discouraged. I'm not discouraged, but sore all through my legs. I needed a good night sleep, but Hubby was snoring like crazy last night!

I've got a to-do-list a mile long today....I'll check in later!

Baby Tayge Birthday...March ? 2008!

I changed my mind

I posted a while back about my scripture quilt with the four seasons background represented by strips of solid fabric. I got the background all done and put it away for a couple days, so I could think about my next move. Well, I've thought about it, and the bakground is ALL wrong...too colorful and distracting!

New plan-an all white on white background of strips of various width quilted with the colors of the seasons. I think this will work so much better with the women appliqued in colorful clothing of their time. It will still show the seasons of a womens life without distracting from the women of my family.

I guess the background that is already made is going towards another art quilt I had been thinking about doing....it might just work. I'll let you know with some photos later.

I visited mommy-to-be today with her Easter basket and Grandma Sugar cookies. She has a doctor appt. tomorrow. I'm keeping my fingers (toes, legs, eyes) crossed he sends her right over to the hospital to get this baby boy into the World.

I got to sing in my Ward (Church) choir today. I love singing! For the past couple of years I haven't been able to: (1)always got sick around performance or (2)It was my Sunday to take care of Dad. My brother R switched Sunday's with me (thank you!) a few months ago, so now I can occassionally sing. I switched to alto after my Mom's death 7 years ago, and it has been interesting re-learning songs I have sung all my life. We are singing again next week.

I had a wonderful Easter surprise today. Son M, DIL C and granddaughters K & H showed up unexpectantly. I love my grandbabies! They don't usually just show up, since it is a 5 hour roundtrip drive from their house to ours. I sure miss my kids that live so far away. I hope I got enough hugs and kisses to last me a few weeks. What am I saying....I can never get enough loves from my girls!

E's baby shower photos...finally!

Cloth diaper cake-prettier than the photo

E at 8.5 months pregnant

Sisters V & E at E's baby shower (given by V)

Hubby & mommy-to-be E

E with Aunt S

It was a great baby shower!

Lots of gifts...

Lots of gabbing...

Lots of great food....

Lots of love!

I gotta go...the Girl Scout Cookies just arrived!!!!

Goals and learning new things

Devils Gate, Wyoming

Completed Sept 2007

I decided to try and get my quilting projects/goals done off of my "to-do" list right from the start, instead of always letting them drop to bottom and not getting done. I received the vintage row quilt #2 directions of Tuesday and got it done of Wednesday. I think it looks pretty good. I've never done pinwheels before. The photo with this post is a 8" X 11" wallhanging I did in a night class last September at the Utah Annual Quilt Fest. I made the goal to have it done immediately, and I did...hand appliqued and machine quilted in 2 days. I loved the class!

No baby yet...poor mommy-to-be, but it's better he stays in there for the fullest time instead of coming out too early!

I played on the computer this week and went to quilting.about.com to their art quilt forum. I found out what "discharging" is....basically, removing the color from the fabric. I also watched a TV show yesterday (unusally for me) called "Quilting Arts" with pokey somebody (didn't catch her last name) and saw the technique of adding fibers and adding colored foil to your work. I had seen both at the art quilt T and I went to last week, but didn't know how to do it. Of course, now I am ready to jump in and try all these fun procedures. One poster of quilting.about.com said she was going to make a list of all the new techniques she wanted to try and then pick one each week to experiment with...I may just try that too!

T and I were suppose to go somewhere today and do something quilt related to celebrate National Quilting Day (one day early) but she got too busy-she's a VERY busy woman! I may spend this evening or part of tomorrow doing something quilt related. I have kept up on my "10 minutes a day of quilting" goal from Quilting Diva.

Postcards:I received cards from Paris (France), Bristol (England?), Pennsylvania (USA) and Vancouver B.C.(Canada). I sent a card to the Netherlands to a girl named Suzanne....to Suzanne from Suzanne!

Suzanne

Warm weather and lots got done

I think I do better with Daylight Savings Time. The warmer weather today combined with the time changed seemed to have energized me today. I got alot of things done!

I worked on a new quilt project that I have had in mind for a year now. It's a wallhanging based on the scripture Ecclesiastes 3:1-8..."to every thing there is a season and a time to every purpose under heaven". The background will be the solid colors of the seasons, starting with Spring pastels, moving into brighter Summer, then cooler Fall and ending with Winter. I then plan to applique different women from my family to represent the different seasons of the scripture. I did some research, and each woman will be shown in the clothing style when she was about 20 years old. I think I will do plain faces. The women will be connected by a gold ribbon running thru the quilt. Sounds great on paper, huh! It will propablly take me another year to do it. I did get as far as the Spring background being appliqued on today.

No baby, yet! Poor mommy-to-be!

For Family Home Evening, we had our annual Spring poop scoop of the backyard. We have two large dogs and try to keep up on the scooping, but with the snow (especially heavy this year) we are still finding some treasures in melting snow/ice piles. Yucky job, but somebodies gotta do it.

Monthly quilt meeting is tomorrow...yeah! I get the second row of the vintage quilt, plus get to see lots of show n' tell. We are having a sew-in...flannel quilt tops for QOV.

What a wonderful day!

I have had such a great day! This was one for the records!

E made it thru her baby shower. Lots of folks came, lots of great visiting and she got tons of things. I even got the baby boy boat blankie quilted. I'm not completely happy with the quilting, but she loves it, so that's what counts, right! I hope I got a good photo of it. I'll post it soon. She actually got alot of handmade gifts....blankets, burp clothes, and bibs. I usually give a handmade gift at baby showers and people are so surprised. Her husbands family has some very creative women. Her FIL made some great food too. My SIL S took some photos for their family website so the cousins could see everyone (maybe they got a photo of the blankie!). I did take lots of photos of the cloth diaper cake centerpiece. It turned out beautiful....but I never want to do another one again...too much work. I can now take the boat blankie off the UFO list....yeah!

I guess you get what you ask for...I've been talking about getting a digital camera, and Hubby spent his coaching money and bought a camera, along with a printer, today. I feel like a little kid with a new toy!

Yesterday, T and I went to a art quilt show at the Brigham City Museum. It was fantastic! My personal favorite was "Water Flow" (2003) by Anonymous. It was a landscape of water and mountains and sky.....multi fabrics with amazing colored quilting. If I did something so great, I would proudly put my name on it. T like "Scattering Leaves" (2003) by Barbara Frey. She pieced a long wallhanging, then stamped small squares, then appliqued leaves, then beautifully quilted the whole thing. If it had been for sale, T would definitely had bought it. The whole exhibit was great. We did have a funny moment-we were looking at one piece, saying it reminded us of flowers and flowing lines and nature. We then read the artist statement-it was her interpretation of the female body. What we thought were flowers were nipples of the breast! We got kind of giggly...the museum worker gave us funny looks! What amazing work quilters are doing out there. We did see two terms of construction we did not know....Discharge and Procion. Anyone know what procedures these are?

I'm looking forward to a nice quiet evening of a bubble bath and setting the clocks back. Happy Daylights Saving Time!

End of a great day

I know I already posted today, but thought I would quickly update you.

E went to her Doctor, and he says baby boy could be making an appearance any time now. I know she's ready him to be here! He due date is in 3 weeks, but the Doctor says he doesn't think she'll make more than another week......yeah!

I think I have finally figured out the tension problem on my new machine (Viking Sapphire 830). I adjusted the stitch length the computer suggested, but used a universal need instead of a quilting needle, and the stitches are looking great. I guess I better really hurry and get this baby boy boat blankie done if he may be making an early appearance!

I got my catalog for the Home Machine quilting show in Salt Lake City (May). I was thinking of taking a class, but none of the ones still open that fit my schedule really thrill me. I will be volunteer part of one day for the QOV booth. I've never been to this show before (5th anniversary this year), so I am looking forward to visiting all the booths and seeing the quilt show. Actually, there will be a quilt show plus too smaller exhibit by Utah quilt groups. Maybe I will have enough saved up by then to purchase a digital camera....oh, the photos I could take!

I quilted for 1 hour today, between dentist visits and phone calls to a very preggo daughter.

Trying something new

I was again greeted this morning by a beautiful sunrise, and it was up to a balmy 34 degrees! At this rate, we'll be in swimsuits by next Christmas!

I signed up to be part of Quilt Studio after I notice the few other quilter blogs I liked to read were part of that webring. I also joined a challenge by one of the QS members to try and sew 10 minutes a day. Doesn't sound like alot, right? Well, I did not make my 10 minutes today....maybe I can do 20 tomorrow?

I also wanted to mention the cute little lambs the local farmer released out into the field today. I love watching the little black lambs with their mommies exploring their new World. They would run around together, kicking up their heels, then stopping when they thought they got too far from Mom. Too cute!

A few more days to the baby shower...still don't have baby boy boat blankie (try saying that 3 times fast!) quilted. I tried with my new machine yesterday, but had troubles with the tension and un-sewed everything I had done. Plan to try again tomorrow.

Suzanne

Saturday is a special day!

I still remember singing the song "Saturday is a special day" when I was a kid. Okay, I sing it as an adult too!

"Saturday is a special day,
It's the day we get ready for Sunday;
We clean the house and we shop at the store,
so we won't have to work until Monday;
We brush our clothes and we shine our shoes,
And we call it our"get-the-work-done" day;
Then we trim our nails and we shampoo our hair,
so we can be ready for Sunday!"

Music by Chester W Hill
Lyrics by Rita S Robinson


Saturday's are always so busy, trying to get ready for the Sabbath and the upcoming week.

Hubby did tons of laundry and some Spring clean up outside (if Spring ever comes). Meanwhile, I ran errands: gave out the rest of the invites for E's baby shower, meet E at BabysRUs for some supplies, filled up the gas tank (pump shock!) and purchased the quilting/stipling foot for my new Viking Sapphrie 830 (sewing machine). We've had a hard time finding cloth diapers (my eco-friendly daughter!) that are good/thick/useful....I may have to make some-yuck!

I also got a new postcard from Australia-Kookaburra Bird card for my bird card exchange on sawp-bots.com. I mailed out 5 pc's for the "people" card exchange-used up my Minerva Teichert painting cards of pioneer women.

I use to blog alot on a weight lose site for about a year.....didn't lose much weight, but figured out alot of things/situations that had been bothering me with some relationships and situations.

Looking forward to a productive week of sewing/quilting and the upcoming baby shower. I can't believe E is going to be a mommy! My baby is having a baby in just a few weeks! She is sticking out pretty good and I think she is ready to have that baby in her arms and out of her body. I remember those feelings, even if it was a billion years ago.......