Priorities

I sometimes need to remind myself of all the blessings in  my life. Also, I need to remind myself of what's important. Sometimes in my schedule with 2 small kids, a fulltime job and trying to keep a somewhat decent house - I get a little lost.

And....nomatter how much I think about this, there really is only one thing that is truly important to me, and that is my family. My kids.

Laundry has not been a priority this week, quilts are the "stand-in" for the dirty couch-cover

Obviously there are many other things in my life there are important, and that take up a lot of my time. My job, keeping our home nice and clean, cooking dinners, doing laundry.....all that stuff we all do every day.
But sometimes I need to tell myself, that if I can only choose one thing, I choose my family. They are the only truly irreplaceables.

Scraps

I'm sick :(
And I missed blogging yesterday. I can't really sit up and sew, not being able to keep food down for 2 days is quite tiring ;)
But I am starting to feel better, and tonight I cut the pieces for another grocery bag. They are so fun to make, and this way I have it ready when I find a moment to sew it.

And another great thing about cutting is, that it generates more scraps!

Another WIP

I bought a bunch of FQ's from Katy a while back (2 years ago...pretty much to the date), and I have had several different plans with them. Many ideas and plans later, I have finally cut into them over these past few days, and I have made a beginning

The colors are not very good in this picture, they are more subtle. Later I will get a picture in daylight. That's going to be much better!
I really like this weave-type pattern for these prints. I wanted something that would show off the prints, and I think this will be just right.
The finished quilt will have a lot more variety, I have 16 different quilts in all - this is just how much I have done at the moment.
I would love to finish this in time for Christmas.....but I have other sewing jobs to finish first, so we'll see!
This quest for my sewing mojo is working, but not as quickly as I would like. I'm not a very process-oriented person. I like results!

How did I get this tired?

WARNING: This post is just my tired mumblings......

Look what Charles gave me today! A new Moomin mug!

 

I love this little treasure hunter :)

I am so tired this evening, I had a long day at the office. I had hoped to sew a bit this evening, but I am just too tired. Getting up at 5:30AM does that to me ;)

You'll see all the pictures are taken with my cell while I'm sitting on the couch - I'm too tired and too lazy to get up. So you'll have to excuse the poor quality of the pictures....

I am blogging, watching some Ms Marple on tv, and playing Mario on Miss V's Nintendo. And that's about all I can do this evening ;)

I absolutely understand why these are so popular with the kids!! Little A wants one too - a blue one ;) But at 3 years old, I think he is still a little young. Maybe this Christmas....or when he turns 4 in spring. We'll see.

Also I want to share a comment he made this evening that made me laugh. He wanted to try on my shoes - not my sneakers but my work shoes...I want him to not break his ancle, so I said no.

He then looked at the shoes...looked up at me with a frown and said "These are like little slides mom!"

 

And I guess he is right!

A very productive day!

Hmmm...it feels like today has been a productive day, but really all I have done is get the laundry under control, and clean my house.

One good thing about a clean home is, that I get to decorate a little.

Miss V chose these yesterday on the way to the movies :) She has wanted to get some of these for a really long time. And now I can actually put them out somewhere, without having to either move a pile of stuff or put them on top of it!

I have also been thinking of what to do about curtains in our living room. We need to be able to close some curtains duing the middle of the day ;) Right now we don't have any. I want to sew some, but I am not sure what kind - any ideas?

I have also been thinking about Christmas sewing...nothing like dreaming of future sewing projects while folding laundry, right?

These 2 patterns are on my list of bags I want to sew. I absolutely love Keyka Lous patterns. The one I have here is the "Foldover Clutch". The other one is Amy Butlers "Blossom Handbag".
Amy Butlers pattern will be a challenge, but I am going to give it a try....sometime!

Fall is here!

Look...fall is here. Miss V and I took this picture yesterday afternoon...

The kids and I were home alone last night, it was a bit of a logistic nightmare. Miss V had a swimming class, and I can't bring A when he can't go in the water.....he would scream from we arrived until we left again. I can deal with that, but the other kids and parents who don't love him unconditionally like I do - unlikely!!
So A was picked up by his uncle, V and I went to the pool, we were all home at 6PM - and had a picnic in the living room :)

I had ordered pizza - my kids' fave is margharita with 3 x olives :) They usually remember us at the pizza-place.

Since I have already made the commitment to blog everyday of October, I figured I may as well join the Blogtoberfest - the name alone makes it all worth it!

 

This should be fun! 

I am working on a list of Christmas sewing - and a list of sewing to do before I can start my Christmas sewing!

Christmas preparations

I have wanted to try this tutorial since I first saw it last year. 

Like so many other things, I have been thinking about it, but haven't actually tried it until now! I found an old magazine that was going to be thrown out, and I started...

I was sure it was going to be impossible, but it wasn't that bad! I cut my strips a little too wide, and so I didn't have room for the 3rd layer - but hey! Who said I can't just leave that 3rd layer out and leave it as it is?!
That's what I did...I made a mistake by cutting the strips of paper too wide, but I made it work ;)
Now I just need to find some fancier paper - I am thinking the Christmas adds will be nice - and then I have to make some more, so we can have beautifully wrapped presents without having to spend money on the wrapping. Cool, huh?!