Man Cave Update

The wood of the roof is finally all in place. The next thing to do is cover it with tar paper. If I know my husband, he will try and do a little of that each evening. It's too bad it gets dark here so early about 5:45 so that doesn't leave a lot of time after working until 5 to get any thing done. Hopefully the rains we have had for two weeks will be done for awhile so he can keep working. He worked so hard yesterday he was in bed and asleep by 7 PM.

Week Four Personal Goal

Well it has been a good week, eating has been in control even with a very stressful day at work. I didn't meet my step goal every day but went over a couple of days so it all evens out in the end. I journaled my food every day. I lost another one pound this week for a total of 7.2 pounds. Since this is the four week mark I averaged out my weight lost which is 1.8/week. That is pretty darn good. I checked my measurements no change in my arm, no surprise their I haven't been doing my arm exercises. Waist is down an inch, this I could tell this week as my belt felt loose. Hips down .25 inch, not a lot but a start. I'm still doing my walking up and down the stairs at work. I going to the gym tomorrow and do all over strengthening exercise. I need to start working on those arms. I'm not worried about getting my steps in tomorrow I'm going to a Quilt, Sew & Craft Expo.

Here is to Health!!

My Genealogy Blog

I'm not sure how many of you are also into Genealogy but I'm starting to get there. This Arizona Family Expo I went to over the weekend really has be all excited again. It has given me something new to learn and work on. Which is a good thing. I have created my own Genealogy blog called me and my ancestors. Check it out if you would like, here. I also placed it on the side arm under Genealogy links.

It is just getting started and I'm sure it will be changing weekly. As I work on finding more out about my family.

Quilting Update

This is the left side border for the Washington Medallion quilt.


This is going to be short, I need to be off to bed. I did some sewing this week but I also went to the Arizona Family Expo so I didn't have two evenings for sewing. Today I also worked on my Family Tree and did some double checking. I also started a second blog for my Genealogy. Check it out here, I named it me and my ancestors.


Here are the Farmer's Wife Blocks I finished this week.

Night all!!

On line Shop

One of my friends has opened a little on line store, please check it out.
Berryvine Quilts.

Week Three Personal Goal

It has been a hard week. It has been stressful at work and I'm a stress eater. Not a good combination. Even with that I only went 200 to 250 calories over my calories allotment most days, not every day. But those extra calories add up. I did journal every day what I ate so I knew what I was doing. Now to get control of that bad habit. I did keep up with my core exercises and my stair climbing. I made close to 6,000 or over 6,000 steps every day. Well a couple of days my pocket pedometer reset to 0000000 so I'm not sure on the exact of steps I took. I'm going to put it in a plastic sleeve to prevent it from reset it. I just came up with that idea. I did lose 1 pound.


I have spent all day at the Arizona Family History Expo, boy did I learned a lot and now I need to do the things I learned. I have to go look and decide what classes I will attend tomorrow. I stayed for the Banquet dinner and we had a live Genealogy Gem Podcast. It was really fun to be envolved with the first live podcast. It was very informative and fun.

No Man Cave update tomorrow, it has been raining all week and we even had tornado warnings last night. Northern AZ had 12 feet of snow. Out backyard is flooded and more rain is coming. I sure hope this rain fills up all our lakes. It sure feels like winter here this week.

Sunday Quilting Upate

Where do I start??
Thursday night I spent the evening filling out the entry forms for the AQG (Arizona Quilter's Guild) Quilt Show which will be in March. I entered two of my quilts for this judged show. I'm entry my Dear Jane Boo Swap Quilt which is now titled BOO It Is Halloween and my Dear Jane Christmas Quilt. I'm a little frustrated with the application because of some of their definitions. I couldn't say it was a first time entry because I had been in a small show before and to use that you had to never had a quilt in any show. This is the first time I have entered a quilt in this state wide show. The second was because I have been compensated for my quilting I am a professional quilter. Well I still think my frame quilting as very amateurish. I don't consider myself one of those very skilled and talented professional long arm quilters. I have a long way to go to get to that level. I hope no one looks at my less than perfect quilting and say Yuck she is a professional. I might have to make a suggestion to have a third category, something between amateur and professional. I also had to take new photos and measure the quilts, width, length and perimeter. I mailed the entries Friday morning. I would have sent it electronically but that wasn't possible. Here is hoping the judges will be somewhat positive. I have never been in a judged show before and I'm a little nervous. My friends and I will enjoy seeing my quilts there. Of course I have also over heard some people's comments on seeing a quilt. Matter of fact I can remember saying one very rude comment myself and after opening mouth and inserting foot, I prayed the quilter wasn't around me. It was a truly ugly quilt and it had Judges Choice ribbon. Obviously I have different tastes than those judges. Oh Well it will be what it will be and I still like my quilts no matter what anyone says.

I guess that was a bit of a rant.


I did make progress on my borders for the Washington Medallion. These are the top and bottom borders and I have my baskets going the right way!!
Next on to the side borders. Between these borders and the center I have 3 floating borders to do. All that measuring and math, yuck.


I also made some progress on my Farmer's Wife Sampler and made six blocks all today. OK 5 of them were easy ones. I'm on the Yahoo list for this and 3 more blocks and I will be caught up with the Block of the Week list. I'm sure liking my fabrics I'm using for this.

Well I really need to go to bed, Mondays sure come to fast.