Sunday, January 4, 2009

Sunday Quilting Upate


Well my first project I wanted to finish in 2009 is done!!! It is a late Hanukkah gift, better late than never. I'll take it to work tomorrow to give it to Glenda.
I haven't worked any more on the Mystery Quilt since New Year's Day. Too busy get re-organized after the Holidays and finishing my SW Frog. Jane Wilson is the original designer, but I did make some changes. Don't we always make changes in a pattern.


My husband finish organizing the food storage, boy talk about an improvement in that room. He did a awesome job! Thanks Honey!!! I finished taking down the tree and all the festive Christmas decorations are away for another year. It is time to get back into a normal routine, which is OK with me.

Saturday, January 3, 2009

Paint Test 2

Yesterday my husband and I looked at some paint chips and found two colors close to what we have. Today Richard painted it on the house around the new window in the bedroom. It is very close to what we had and we like it. I have always liked the colors of our house and have no imagination on what other colors I would want to use. So we will repaint it the same colors we have. Right now we are just painting the new room and around the new window. Later this year we will paint the rest of the house. We have red brick in front. Richard wants to build his work shop before he paints the whole house.

Look how close this is, the old paint is more than 16 years old. In Febuarary we will be in the house 16 years. You can see the first paint test in a post Our House from Dec 13th.


Bread Update

5 hours after placing the ingredients in the bread machine I have a loaf of raisin bread. If this had been white bread it would have come up to the top of the bread pan.


I ate a piece as soon as it came out with a little butter, the rest of the time I make toast and use honey on it. Sometimes I like peanut butter.

How we spent Friday & Saturday

We have one bedroom that has our food storage. Most of it has been piled almost to the ceiling in boxes that hold six cans. If I needed anything I would have to have Richard or Kinsen move boxes to get the one can I needed. I do have one can of all frequently used items in the kitchen, but they do run out and need to be replaced. So we found these really neat shelves on line but the price was prohibitive. At thanksgiving I received an add that they are 40% off. So we ordered one. Friday after work we put it together and loaded it up. It looks so nice and it is so easy to use. I have the smaller version of these in my kitchen pantry for small cans. We still have a lot to do to organize our food storage but this has really made me happy. I was able to get a can of flour this morning all by myself.
Here is the before picture.

Here is the after picture. Richard wants to build me some shevles but that might take a while. You know how guys and projects can be. This is the link to the sheves: http://www.shelfreliance.com/
Here are the 17 boxes we emptied.

Here are the boxes we still have to organize, at least they are in piles of wheat, rice, beans and etc.

This is the wheat grinder making flour out of my 6 grain mix: red wheat, white wheat, pinto beans, lentil beans, millet & barley.

The flour is nice and fine.

This is me making my bread.

I didn't want you to think I'm a superwomen!! Thanks Heavens for bread machines. I use it every other week.

Thursday, January 1, 2009

Goals Others Completed

Both Richard & Kierra finished some goals. They are starting off the new year with a bang! Kierra & Will finished painting their kitchen in their new house. Here is a picture of Kierra & Kinsen and her painted walls.

Richard reorganized the garage. He was able to move all his tools out of the center of the garage. He had all his tools in the middle of the garage to build the new room on our house. I mean big tools like saw tables and I don't know what, that is all guy stuff. With the tools out of the way, guess what I get to do? You got it park my car in the garage.

Quilt Goals 2009

Quilts Goals for 2009
Winter Wonderland 9 Patch Pizzazz (Binding only)
Festive Santa (Embellishments only left)
Dear Jane Boo Swap
Dear Jane Christmas Swap
Dear Jane Quilt
Dear Jane Nurses’ Swap
Horse for Krystal
Mystery Quilt
SW Frog
Valentine’s Mini
Other Minis
Sea Breeze
Blue Moon
SW Batik Stars
Mystical Horse my own Design
On Block Wonder
The Dear Jane Swaps I want to finish so I'll be ready to quilt my big Dear Jane Quilt. It is something I always wanted to do but didn't want to do under my little machine. The feather technique I learned today will work well in those plain triangles on the border. Here is the link to the original Dear Jane Quilt http://dearjane.com/ You can see more pictures of my Dear Jane Blocks at my webshots link on the right side bar.



New Year's Day Mystery Quilt 2009

Happy New Year to Every One.
I hope everyone has had a good start to the New Year. I wish you a year full of good health, safety and good stuff to come your way! And if it isn't all good stuff, the guts to deal with what ever life throws at you. Because you know sometimes life comes at you fast.
I have been working on the Mystery Quilt I signed up for at The Long Arm University
http://www.longarmuniversity.com/
I start it after work on Wednesday. Took a break to go to a little party. I sewed some more before going to bed.
I making progress and I have learned a lot. I'm so glad my quilting doesn't show very well, because I would have to rip it out. I can tell this is going to take some more practice. I'm still a beginner when it comes to frame quilting.
Here are the pictures of my progress so far.