Sauder Village 2010

Okay, so I'm a little behind. Finals and all that. I snagged this picture off of Ruth's blog just because I wanted to have a record of our annual trip to Sauder Village. It is always such a great day.

My sister drafted and appliqued a mallard duck block for Deb's block exchange bird quilt. Chris, I thought you might enjoy seeing these geese.

I loved this folk art applique quilt. See the rooster in the bottom row? One of his relatives may find his way into my "chicken quilt". I've been gathering fabric and several ideas have been incubating since December. Black, white, yellow and red polka dots. Stay tuned.

This Piece-O-Cake-esque applique just seemed so fresh to me. Ideas for wool applique maybe?

Herding Cats

Ever try to get a handful of 3 year olds to all do the same thing at the same time? Not the easiest task for sure. Cubby had his second soccer game on Saturday. They ran back and forth and practiced kicking but never actually got around to playing a game. Their opponent, the Green Team was on the other side of the field but it was picture day and there was more chaos than usual. Cubby had his own agenda and had more fun tackling one of his teammates - maybe he thought he was playing rugby?

It was quite the blustery morning but at least the rain had stopped by gametime. After the game we went to the playground at Post Oak (Eileen, we saw Costas and Thomas roaming the neighborhood) and then played hide-n-seek with Gennie. The little ball of energy finally took a 30 minute snooze around 6pm and then was up and ready for more! Gamma and Gennie crawled into bed early Saturday night.

Block of the Month

This is the third (March) block of the month from Country Stitches. Unfortunately, I didn't complete it in time to get the next one free so I had to pay $6 for the April block. I actually kind of like the navy flowered print - what? me? navy blue with flowers?

Only two more weeks of classes and then maybe I can finish some of the quilt projects I have started. I played in my quilt room last night for about and hour and a half after block exchange and it was good to be in the studio again. Gennie even curled up on her comforter and caught a few zzzzzzzs. 

Medical abbrieviations test tonight. Only 3 more exams after this.

 

National Library Week

Happy National Library Week everyone!  Here's a photo of my sister in California and her two collies, Matthew and Timmy supporting the Burbank Public Library.

I was at a jobs networking meeting last week and a woman said that she's always been interested in being a librarian. An IT geek said something negative about books being on their way out.... so I told him there is SO MUCH more going on at libraries than just books.

Check out your local library this week!

Spring Nesting Season

I had a strange visitor to my backyard picnic table last week.  Perhaps migrating back from a warmer climate? Maybe Irene and Jan gave him a heads up on a good place to camp out for the summer. He's very trusting. Cubby thought we should help him build a nest and went around finding twigs and leaves in the yard while carefully avoiding the Gennie land mines. I wonder when the Mrs will arrive at her summer home?

We go on 'CATION?

This week was Spring Break at LCC.  It would have been fun to travel to some exotic, warm, tropical climate but alas that was not to be.  We did make an overnight excursion to Shipshewana, IN, where we spent the night at Splash Universe. Cubby had an absolute ball! The blue area in the front of the picture is the entrance to the toddler pool - 8" deep. Not for Cubby! He wanted to go down the yellow, blue and orange slides. Even the blue slide being a closed tunnel didn't phase him. Claire would go with him to the top, make sure the slide was clear and send him down. I'd be at the bottom and pull him out. Then we would wait for mom to come down. After awhile, he wanted mom and gamma gamma to change places. Yes, another one of those things you only do for your grandkids. Gamma gamma went down the slides too.

The next morning we spent another couple of hours at the pool and then on to Yoder's and Lolly's. I found some new Ricky Tim's fabric that I hadn't seen before and a $5.00 bag of really nice batik scraps. I kept telling myself to exercise restraint because Chicago was only a month away.

Friday was also my dad's birthday so we stopped in Kzoo for presents and Happy Birthday Quality Dairy doughnuts. Now it's back job hunting and homework but it was a good mini vacation

Fifty Degrees Tomorrow!!!

Can you guess what this is?

A doggie snow angel of course!

Gennie and I are certainly enjoying this break in the winter weather. This week is also going to be Spring Break at LCC. Not exactly Florida or Mexico but Lansing shouldn't be too bad this week. Enjoying the sunshine but it sure shows the dirt on the windows.