Another Cute Baby

While, of course, Aurora is THE cutest baby in the whole entire world....this little one is pretty cute too. I took this photo of her yesterday, as she posed on the baby quilt I made for her. Her name is Caitlin.

Snow!

This is the view from my front door this morning. Oh yeah, sure...it's pretty...but this is FEBRUARY, people! I want springtime, not more winter! phoooey.


Taz has the right idea. Here she is, curled up in my sewing room. She likes to hang out there with me and found where I'd stuffed a piece of polar fleece. Cozy! Wonder if there's room for me in there?

Sewing Saturday

Tom finished the bathroom: Notice the sliding glass doors? He found those, new still in the box, on Craig's List for $20. At the hardware store, he saw the very same doors: $400. Needless to say, Tom's addiction to Craig's List has paid off again.

My day was spent in my quilting studio. I like to call it that, even though it shares space with the washer, dryer and freezer--and could just as easily be called the Laundry Room. HA! That just doesn't have the same appeal to me as Quilting Studio. Here is my new toy, a flat screen tv Tom got for me (not on Craig's List, oh well). I was watching my favorite PBS quilting show, with Fons and Porter.

And here is what is on my design wall. A WIP (work in progress)


I wish I had a bigger design wall. I can only put half a quilt up at a time. If I could only figure out how to get rid of doing laundry and storing frozen food, I'd have more space in my room and could put in a bigger design wall! sigh....

New floors

On Valentine's day Tom and I were painting the kitchen and the second bathroom---how romantic is that? We finished up in time for the new floors to be installed. Here is what the old kitchen floor looked like:


Apparently this floor was installed in 1968. I will not miss it.

Our house is only just starting to get back to normal. I have a lot of cleaning up to do. The refrigerator and stove had to be moved out and were in the diningroom! The fridge was still functional but we lived on left overs, heated in the microwave. Come to think of it, that's not really out of the ordinary...




Here is what the kitchen floor looks like now!




and the bathroom, before and after:

More Baby quilts

A couple of the cute kiddos in my class on Sunday, are soon going to have siblings! Not that I need an excuse to make a baby quilt---but this does seem like a good opportunity. On Sunday I sent Lena home with this one for her baby brother she'll be getting in a few weeks.

I have another one, ready for Sean's new baby sister but I don't want to post that photo yet, since I haven't given the quilt to him. His sister is due next week---so hopefully I can give him the quilt for her on Sunday. Shhh! It's a surprise!

Jennie Sherlock Quilt Challenge

In May 2008, my online quilt friend, Jennie Sherlock, lost her battle with breast cancer. Jennie was a very talented Australian quilter. I'd known her, between one online group and another, for probably about 15 years. I felt fortunate that I'd gotten to meet her at our quilt gathering in Conneticut in 2007. In April we'll be having another gathering---this time in my hometown. As hostess, I decided it would be sweet to have a quilt challenge, where we'd make quilts and donate them to local women fighting breast cancer. Here are the three I have so far.

This one was made by Joyce in Nevada:


Joan made this one:

Jennie loved bright colors! I think she'd like these!

Cats

! Here is a photo of our two outside cats. The orange tabby, named Spot after Data's cat in Star Trek, was adopted by Terrible (a.k.a. "Buttface"). Terrible (I refuse to call him Buttface...can you imagine at the vet's, getting called for our appointment? "Buttface can go in now!" Nope, they think his name is Ivan. Tom and I call him Terrible...it fits...) Anyway, Terrible got tossed out of our house on his furry backside because, when he is upset, he vents his wrath by inappropriate urinating. Ha! OUT WITH YOU! He also couldn't seem to resist items of clothing left on the floor, although he never peed on my clothes or worse yet, FABRIC in my sewing room. No, he kept that little surprise for Tom! He's been outside for several years now and one day, there was Spot. As you can see, they are good friends.