Owl Love You Forever

I have successfully stippled my first quilt.





And free motion quilted my first quilt!






Then I bound them and washed them! I'm pleased as punch with how they turned out!








Aunt Maggie came up with the best name for these two quilts: Owl Love You Forever
So sweet!

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Call Me a Sucker

but my mom raised me a candy snob. Our Easter baskets had See's bordeaux eggs and their traditional lolly pops were one of her choice driving treats. (She also taught us how to snap our gum real loud on the many trips to visit Grandpa in SanDiego too. My students are constantly impressed by my mad skill.) Any way. Root beer was one of her favorite flavors(nostalgia she said) and therefore ours too(no way we'd turn down sweets as a kid.) We, Mom, me and Val, were all so excited when Sees came out with root beer suckers! And so disappointed when they were gone. But I have good news...


They're baaaa-aaaack!
Now on my drive to CO this weekend I can SPLIT my time between See's suckers and gum snapping. (Yep it's a solo drive.)


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One In Every Color-Geometry

My mom gave this toy/game to me one year for Christmas or birthday or something. I loooooved it. I don't think it was because I liked making shapes fit...(tangrams were my nightmare)


I think I made the shapes fit because they came in every color!!!! This fun toy went to a family with a farm today (dog speak for the church rummage sale on Saturday) but I'll always remember it with fondness.

A Drink By Any Other Name

would taste just as delicious and might be out there...but we think we made it up. And we call it:

The Jolly Quilter

because it tastes like a Jolly Rancher...and we drink it on quilting nights when we have something to celebrate...or would like to celebrate our work....or we're really not that thrilled with our work.... or we wish to celebrate each other.

They're served in darling antique juice glasses. Each person needs a different one. To tell them apart.

The words "Hey! That's my glass!" have been known to be exclaimed from time to time.

They are one part Sparkling Apple-Cranberry and one part peach schnapps.

They must be earned by piecing, stippling, assembling binding, label making, finishing binding...QUILTING!

See I'm hard at work in the background of the photo above doing the final stippling on a VIQ (Very Important Quilt!)

These hooligans are ?binding?

They MUST be enjoyed by JOLLY QUILTERS!

Do we look jolly?

Clockwise from bottom right: Me, Sister Valerie, Cousin Tanya,Cousin Kim, Aunt Maggie.

Cheers! A toast to quilting!

Ps. Don't cha just love Val's every color included Little Miss Matched socks?

Right up my alley!

That'll Do Doggie, That'll Do

Remember how Kaylee the dog has taken over the cat bed?


It seems that the cat has found a sufficient replacement. When went over to Aunt Maggie's this is where she was, completely unbothered by the car we pulled up in!
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7 Joys

I borrowed a prompt from Two Adults given by JohnJennifer. Too good to pass up.


1.)Clean sheets and clean towels. Luke thinks I'm a nut. We're working through it.
2.)A phone call with good timing from the man who thinks I'm a nut.
What this means: a time thats good for both of us, and we're both smiling, you can hear it, usually around bedtime so we're winding down and enjoying each other's company.
Take tonight for example. I was babysitting and kind of bummed because we'd missed each other. He worked late, I was putting kids to bed, then he was in bed so he could get to work at the crack of dawn. I had even had the thought, "Poop, we keep missing each other, it's been a while since we've had a good chat." Then on my way home late late late who would call me but Luke. He had woken up to close the window (cold, can you believe it?) and thought to call me before he headed back to sleep. One of the best 3 minute conversations. Made me smile from the inside out.
3.) When a kid I'm working with has an AHA moment. I live for those, they make my day.
4.) Holding up a finished product. AND showing it off. Yep, I made that.
5.)Reading with Luke. Basking in each other's presence and not even needing our own words.
6.) Sunshine.It makes me glow from the inside out. Ill sit on the floor in the middle of the living room if it means I get in the sun's way. (Whats a word for the inverse of a shadow?)
7.)Fresh of the tree, Fresno flavored fruit (strawberries, peaches, plums, apricots, nectarines, grapes, oranges, the occasional fig, and Bowser Applesauce) as well as fresh off the plant sun warmed tomatoes.

Germs and Dawgs

I've been spending a lot of time in the school computer lab. Apparently so has everyone else because the keyboards are dirty. Gross dirty. I can't afford to get sick right now and I DEF-inately don't want to touch that grossness so I unplugged the keyboard and went to work with a "wet one." Look at what came off on the wipe after cleaning 1/3 of the keyboard!


Ok maybe I'm. Bit much but I'm still not sick. Allergies are a different story.
Last weekend I hung out with "my dawg" (implying he's my homie an not my dog) Priest.


He likes hanging out with his peeps so a car ride makes him happy as long as he is with people.


He wants to be sooo near people that he puts his paws on the center console and sticks his head through as far as he can. Boy was I surprised when he got my shoulder with his tongue. Dude. I'm married.


Priest in fact loves people so much that he denied my aunt and uncles dog Kaylee Waffle any interest in playing. (ok they played a little but not as much as the puppy who runs 6 miles a day on the treadmill would have liked.) Poor Kaylee.


She was still pooped enough to squeeze herself into her stolen cat bed. If that's not funny I don't know what is!

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Professional Knitter

I guess I've been a professional knitter for a while, but this project kind of "made it real."
I was commissioned by a woman in San Francisco, who I'd never met, to make a sweater for a baby who was going to be born. She sent me the yarn she wanted used, and a check, and we talked about what she wanted.
Size: Three Month, Cardigan, Cables would be great, She wanted to ad buttons.
Here's what I came up with!

I'm pleased as punch! I also love this making up patterns with the top down method. The only thing I have to seam is the underside of the sleeve!

One In Every Color- Dorm Room Edition

On our visit to Cal Poly we took a tour of the dorms. These were some girls after my own heart!


They were celebrating all of their April birthdays!


These girls only used one color and I LOVE what they did for Christmas! I can't blame them for not taking it down. I wouldn't have!





And in their rooms:


Can you tell what it's made of?





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One in Every Color- M&M's and Mustangs

Val and I had a snack while Jay was at the Pre BBQ mixer.


And Cal Poly has sheep! And the sheep had babies! But sheep are still dumb and scardie pants so I still want alpaca.


Now I have boots so the transition to alpaca farming should be as smooth as a lake in a calm day. Ha.


Val says I'm a poser.
Major disappointment of the day: finding out the "Farm Shop" isn't a store shop with products from the farm it's a farm shop for tractors as in like an Auto Shop. Sigh no cheese, ice-cream and veggies for me.
Here's Val outside the farm shop.


Ok maybe we are posers.
Jay with his other Wine and Viticulture majors:


We got an awesome personal tour from Will! We were stragglers to the housing display on campus and sort missed the boat, but Will answered all our questions AND took us to various buildings AND accompanied us through on our tours and explained some things we didn't all hear from the back!


Shout out to Will! Now you're famous! Thanks for an awesome tour!
At one point in the day John got a megaphone. Several times he contemplated throwing it away but then he'd think, nah I got this far.... The megaphone (and John) survived the day, we'll need a follow up blog to see what happens to it.


The dilemma, which one of us was going to be the "token student" when Jay was off with his new friends!


They had a flower display/ competition in the library, here are some of my favorites:








We started Beth's Bachelorette Beach Weekend in Cayucos, but the dancing opportunity was primarily reggae and we weren't so much feelin' it. So we went back to San Luis Obispo. While we were there we soooo accidentally walked by the bubblegum wall. We had all wondered where it was and when we realized we were standing right next to it, the exclamations were probably hears for a block. I had pink bubblegum so we left a tribute to Beth and Alex. We all chewed a piece.


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One in Every Color- I'm Gonna Let it Shine

Ok these little lights or candles aren't actually mine but I saw them... And took a picture...So they'd have a chance to shine in the spotlight!


They're at Cost Plus World Market. They come in a tea light and votive set. I think I'd get both sets when I become a grown up and have a real live living room to decorate. I'd put them in my grayscale living room that I intend to spice up with a splash of new color every season.
Christmas- winter green
New Years- navy blue
V-day- pink
St Pattys Day- lime green Spring- purples
Summer- aqua blue
Fall- burnt oranges and maroon

These candles would be great accents on the coffee table or mantle.

Meet Matthew

His dad Chris is in my teaching credential program cohort. Chris and I were talking about projects and hobbies and he showed me this:


It's a "Good Night Moon" room, and he made it for Matthew! Matthews favorite book is Goodnight Moon.
Here's the thing, Matthew had Autism. Because he has Autism he has problems pointing to objects...but Chris says that "with Goodnight Moon, he was a pointing machine. I wanted to make something he could explore and interact with.

My mom made the bunnies. Everything else was me. On a negative note, he's pretty much destroyed everything that wasn't glued down!"



This Saturday is World Autism Awareness Day and Chris has decided to do a "One Man Bike-a-thon" to raise financial support for the Central California Autism Center where Matthew goes for therapy. I have visited his blog here and pledged to support Chris fir the amount that I spend at the MCC sale f





This Saturday is World Autism Awareness Day and Chris has decided to do a "One Man Bike-a-thon" to raise financial support for the Central California Autism Center where Matthew goes for therapy. I have visited his blog here and pledged to support Chris with the amount that I spend at the MCC sale. I encourage you to check out his site ( http://tinyurl.com/4mz7rpl )and make a pledge too!