Sunday, February 28, 2010

proud to be Canadian

Olympics

Oh, my stars.... I have been so deep into the Olympics..just a quick post til I download my pics.... WAY TO GO CANADIAN ATHLETES.....WOOO HOOOO.. record gold... and even if they didn't... I am proud to be a CANADIAN....Also way to go my USA friends... yous were great competitors and close friends.... border of no border ... all so proud......

Sunday, February 21, 2010

GIVEAWAY SPOTTED

Hurry, go over to Jandi in Stitches, she is moving to bloggers from wordpress and welcome her.... check it out... wow...here a peek...






love charm packs..good luck everyone...

STILL WATCHING THE OLYMPICS
WOOHOOO


GO CANADA GO

Friday, February 19, 2010

YEA!!!!

Yea!!! Friday...I'm almost done washing, drying and ironing and organizing and going through fabrics....PHEW.. last stretch... yea!!! anyhoot..as promise a few pic..but have to say made another farmers' tote (atkinson designs) and I have done just about everything LOLOL..have you ever gotten so involved that, well, my machine was clucking..and couldn't figure out what the... maybe the bobbin wasn't doing it's thing??? or oh no need to bring in to get fixed...LOLOL.. I stopped after a little meandering and wow... found where the clucking was coming from...and mrs fix it.. solved the mystery hehehehe except now stuck ,hummm check the picture out...lol... finished the bag and found another ufo that I'll finish and donate to a lady in our guild who is going to give the donated quilts to a gentle man (volunteer of the orphanages) who in turn will deliver it personally to one of the orphanages in Haiiti... not much of a spectacular quilt, but a quilt for a child... busting stash ...so Ciao, Salute, Adios, Night nite , Bonsoir mes ami...OH...Saturday a quilt day, we are doing bargello placemats, should be fun with the ladies from the guild..will take pics..ttyl..

JUST A FEW BRICKS
RENO BASEMENT

MY CLUCKING MYSTERY

HUMM THANK GODNESS

THE ENDING WAS READABLE... LOL

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THE FINISHED TOTE

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ANOTHER UFO

FOR THE OLYMPICS

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Thursday, February 18, 2010

WHAT A GREAT WEEK

Wow,,, what a great week woohoo.. I have been watching the Olympics..hope you are too....love sports.. and curling is my fav of all.. love it..GO CANADA GO... I've been a little busy so just wanted too put a little post here to let you know I'm still kicking...lol..I'll post some pic tomorrow with some of the sewing I've been doing..I also have been washing and ironing my out of control stash..:^( I had to , the closet I painted still the smell of stale smoke, the elderly lady who lived in this house was a very heavy smoker, I'm an ex smoker so that has made it weird.. I really wanted to think I wouldn't be one of those ex but,,,uggg... I have my fabrics in beautiful clear bins and though would be a great idea, but it turns out that the smell got into them and I couldn't figure out how come it that smell was still hanging.. holy cow she said LOL... I didn't realize the stash I have and found some fabric that I love over again...hummm I'll have to start busting and stop buying for a while.... except for some that you really really need to get cause you don't have that special color to add into the project your doing....hope I'm not the only fabriholic doing this ..I actually must have like a few cause I bought like 6 meters of it and wow,,, need to use.... anyhow hope you let me know if your stashing away and not remembering what you have like me hehehehehe... soo Ciao, Salute, Adios, Nighty nite, bonsoirs mes amis

Sunday, February 14, 2010

HAPPY VALENTINES

Just wishing everyone a very HAPPY VALENTINES.....





I'm working of finishing one of my UFO's..





oh.... have to share .. was visiting Pleasant Home (blog) and went to her link regarding V and Co. post ... you have to go read this..poor little Katie,,, I can so relate...... but laughed so hard I cried...




Now back to the games.... have a great day... Ciao, Adios, Salute, Night nite, Bonsoirs mes amis.....

Saturday, February 13, 2010

2010

.... AND THE GAMES BEGAN......


GO CANADA GO
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PS: DON'T FORGET OUR CHALLENGE
GO QUILTERS GO
WOOHOOOOOO

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

WNTER OLYMPIC CHALLENGE

OK.. I joined a challenge... see over at Pal Sloan's Corner, Camp Sloanies Winter Olympics Challenge (scroll down the page) this should fun, pick a UFO off your shelf, old or new, king or small, doesn't matter.. the quilter's Olympic challenge is to finish it between February 12 - February 28 (during the Olympics)..woohoo,, here's my UFO I will be working on...(yes I didn't finish it :( .....) Maybe another on also , but won't push my luck lololol.... She also has a great Swap... it's the Camp Sloanies' Spring Fling, On to One (scroll down the page) I've added myself in it.....yep... should keep me busy lolol.. the busier the better... sew... lol... click on the Camp Sloanie's above or click on the side bar logos.... Come lets have a little fun...woohoo...lets go Quilters..... Ciao, Adios, Salute, Night nite, Bonsoir mes amis...
FLIP FLOP
SUMMER FUN
IN THE SUN

Saturday, February 6, 2010

HURRAY!!!

Phew,,, can't stay still lolol... HURRAY for me!!!!!!... here are a few things that I'm working on.. I think I'll have to finish a few projects before starting new ones...what do you think LOLOLOL... In between sewing ,, I am doing a few reno's ... oh dear , again I have created myself more work ,,, but will so look nice once it's done even though my house is small and cute, I will have done some great updates (on a smaller scale) ..the bathroom is almost completed (again) I (mois ) put the blueboard in (cut it and screw on) , then the tiling (I did and also did the cuts) , then grout (I did) (just drying now)and all I did was watched a lot of DYI shows and youtube how to.... lol..just need to paint now..and put things back together... also want to remove the brick wall that was housing an old I call Chalet gas fireplace,,we think it was approximately put in in the late 60's... so... I have plans hehehe... we have an updated gas insert and wow.. have to sketch on paper to figure out what we need to build this.. Might be few months before that's done... also working on sewing projects... bag, runner, queen size quilt (cumberland), block lotto for the guild and few others... All week I have been watching the women's Scotts tournament of Hearts and wow... great teams ,,,now down to the nitty gritty... whomever wins tonight will be in the finals tomorrow against Jennifer Jones (Canada) team from Winnipeg... so will be shortening this blog to get myself in my curling armchair (lol) just kidding..but I am looking forward to this game.. soooooooo here are a few pics to share what I've been doing.... Ciao, Adios, Salute, Nighty Night, Bonsoirs mes amis...
BATHROOM RENO

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ALMOST THERE

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PUTTING THE CUMBERLAND QUILT TOP
TOGETHER
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MONTHLY TINNER ON THE LEFT

ON THE RIGHT, BLOCK LOTTO

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LEFT (FARMER'S TOTE BY ATKINSON DESIGN)
RIGHT (SWEET TREAT BAG, CLICK FOR FREE PATTERN)

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RUNNER

NEXT RENO... LOOK OUT

ITS COMING DOWN