First and foremost, A very happy new year to you all! May 2014 be your best year so far with each future year being better than the last. Next, I know I've been lax in visiting your blogs and answering your wonderful comments. I apologize. These last couple of weeks has been really strange. Allergies that usually kick my butt in April and August are hitting me with hurricane force. This brings me to last night while exchanging New Year wishes along with jokes and puns with family and friends, one of my friends said something that I questioned. Jules (yes, our Jules from trying to get over the rainbow) e-mailed me this as part of her message. So spend the day doing something you want to all year because that part I know is true. To which I replied, with both jokes and apprehension. Did you mean whatever I do tomorrow, I'll do all year? (insert gmail laughing head and another comment which was personal). Several more exchanges were made and I passed the conversation on to family and friends who had laughs and their own set of comments. Come on, guys, you know me. The Tart is my idol. Use your imaginations. We can't start the year with me spelling everything out for you. Anyway, this morning I awoke with allergy eyes. The ones that are still running but glued shut. They popped open rather suddenly, taking a few eyelashes along, when I greeted the world with a loud obnoxious sneeze. As I type this both my eyes and nose are running faster than an Indy car. If this is what I'll be doing the next twelve months all I can say is "Acho! Please pass the tissue". Oh yeah, You might want to buy stock in companies that produce tissue. I'm not brand sensitive only nose sensitive. Happy New Year! Do something on this first day you really love repeating.
Max Factor Max Effect Nail Varnish - Orange Varnish
In 09. This colour is screaming to be worn at the beach! Its such a bright orange colour it just makes me feel summery! I never in a million years would wear orange a year ago but now I love it! Its available from most drugstores like boots and superdrug and even Asda. I have the mini one so mines really lickle but it is really lasting. This one definitely does have the lasting effect as I had this on when I went into hospital and it stayed on in spite of me being poked and prodded, lol. I will be taking all three of these with me on holiday this year! They are gorgeous!
This Quilting Momma is Happy!
As I said this quilting momma is very happy! I no longer have to brows the online stores to search or try to coordinate fabrics that I half way completed projects for. I seriously took in all of your suggestions from when I asked what you think what borders would look best with the Ms. Ray quilt top. I went on Fabric.com and used their design board and played around with all the colorways even the ones you thought would look best too! Here is what I came up with using the two greens and it is some what of what I had in mind. I just did not have the leaf print in mind for the main border but I am not going to complain. I went to both of my LQS's today and this is what they had to offer. I rather buy local than to buy online any day but I will buy online when I am desperate enough to do so. So what do you think? The green stripe is the binding, the orange is the main border and the green with dots will be used as the accent the main border. I even switched the greens around a bit but we'll see what happen in the end when I get to working on it. I also had another quilt top that I had conflicting issues with of what I wanted to put it all together with and I found these two color ways from the Pom Pom de Paris collection to go with that patchwork charm pack top that I made a while back.
Well it is not going to be a patchwork quilt too much longer because I bought this little guy about a week ago. Do to the fact that I have all that Lily & Will fabric from my mom and I had no idea what to do with it until I saw a quilt done up using this little guy. I do want the big brother to this little guy too. I could have gotten him today but had to make that awful choice of buying fabric or the tool. I will get the big guy another day. But I am going to use the little guy on the patchwork for practice and for bragging rights I am now finally a proud owner of my very own copy of Moda Bake Shop's Fresh Fabric Treats book. Not a bad little book to own. Yes, it too is a LQS find! And it was on sale too! What's been in the works? Well, not much! I have taken two left over charm squares and paired them up with some left over solid scraps and this is what I came up with. Its a 5.5 in x 7in block. It was pretty easy to do and it would be a great start to a new quilt pattern or another mug rug. More likely a mug rug. Lastly, I have been slowly working on the pot pinchers . I have two more sets to do then I am finished with them for now. I can not give these ones up, I have the thread catchers to match.! Well, that is what has been going on in my neck of the woods lately! Hope everyone is doing well out there!
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