Wow how time flies!

I can't believe how time flies...but it has. I have so many things to catch up on. This is really a great place for me to put real life...because we all know how I forget what happens!

Here is the list to catch up on since my last visit.

The Nursery for TRACE
The Birth of Trace
My new favorite TV Shows
American Idol is about the start with the voting!
The upcoming Wedding (next weekend) that I am getting to be David Tutera!!
and tonight!! BON JOVI!!! How awesome
So you can tell Christmas was pretty good for me - Crickette gave me tickets to George Strait (this month!!), Paxston & Jordan gave me tickets to Bon Jovi and Amber ; Steven gave me the cutest Grandbaby!!
And I got a new camera and made sure I got an extra battery I am charged up and all ready to go!

See you tomorrow!! well maybe soon!

Update on blanket

Well that went better than expected, although I had to rip the seams out of one side that I sewed wrong. As you can tell it doesn't look like the pattern... So there were no directions to follow. Lots of adjustments but as Tim Gunn says...make it work!!

Now for the back and to make it quilted looking. I am hoping that this was the hardest part!

It's been 8 months since my last confession....

Seriously, I can't believe it has been that long since I have posted anything. With the memory that I have I will never be able to share all that I have missed!! But I will try somewhere along the way...

First - greatest thing that has happened since then is that I found out I am going to be a grandmother - I will be called Gigi. Very, very excited about this! So excited that I thought I could actually make the comforter set for his crib. Especially since they are wanting to do an Alabama theme for the nursery and the set that we found was $500. Since my mother always told me that both my grandmothers were extremely talented in sewing, I figured I could do this....

Got the pattern cut out over the weekend and yesterday I decided to cut the material out. We were having the new air-conditioning unit put it and I was going to be at home anyway, so I decided...why not today. And here is why it should not have been today...

The day had not started out like I had anticipated... the first post on Facebook went like this: Going ti ne a very busy week! May beed a coffee IV! I got several comments on that one. My fingers and the touch screen do not work well together.

Next FB post...  as the day progresses......we are getting an air-conditioner and furniture today...a truck pulls up and I go to the door. He ask me where I want it delivered and I told him the attic...he gives me this crazy look and says...the attic? Then I realized he was here with the furniture (early) not the air-conditioner (which was late). Guess they can laugh at me today too!

Then the next FB post... The day continues ... so excited about heating up my potato soup for lunch only to find out after stirring its chicken and dumplings...i don't eat chicken and dumplings...very glad there really was more potato soup.

the last post of the night... Let me just say that I should not have decided today would be a good day to start sewing on the baby's blanket. Surely its not because I am an Auburn fan trying to make an Alabama blanket. Only 40 minutes left in this day for me...I just may cut out more squares and that's it! I am not nearly as excited as I was 2 hours ago!!!

So about the blanket. I don't have a problem with instructions, (when I decided to follow them) but I was seriously giving it a try. The option that we love looks like the quilt in the picture above..with the patchwork.. This is option B...guess what, there are no instructions or true dimensions for the squares other than 15" x 16" remnants. I really don't want to tell you what I did, but anyway here goes... I thought the squares that were on the pattern were for the middle section, since it was part of the 1-4 sections on the quilt... well when you do put all 12 together they are smaller than the inside. So that is when my true point of realizing I was in trouble began. I laid the border pieces out on the floor and looked again at what I have to fill in. So I am rethinking that patchwork idea and will probably redo the center piece. I am so very thankful that we bought extra fabric! But I am sure with the other little projects, but those pieces can still be used!  I am thinking that tonight I will give it another try.

Today didn't start out on the best note when I got into a cold shower, but after going downstairs and turning the switch back to on in the fuse box (obviously turned off by the air-conditioner guys) and crawling back in the bed for time to heat up the water, things were just a little behind but seem to be going better.

Well it's a New Year!

I am on overload thinking of all the things to share with you, but I won't cram it all in tonight!

We had an awesome Christmas! Amber and Paxston were both at home during some part of Christmas and we had such a great time! The best time was had when Amber was down and we got Dance Central 3.

Talk about a workout!
Nothing makes a mom more happy than having her children near!

For Christmas we broke out of our traditional Chili dinner and had a real Christmas meal. We had ham, dressing, mashed potatoes, corn, green beans and macaroni & cheese. We also had great friends come to eat with us along with the boyfriend and girlfriend! After the meal we loaded up and headed to the movies. We saw We Bought A Zoo. I highly recommend seeing the movie!
When the movie was over Ethan says, "That was the best movie EVER! It was worth every dollar we paid to get in". Little did he know that Crickette and I gave blood to get 4 of the tickets. So if you haven't seen the movie, I suggest you go!

That's enough for today! See you tomorrow!

I really am alive....

But my body thinks it on it's way out! I am in my second week of working out again! The fun part is I am doing this with Crickette! So we are an encouragement (ha ha) to each other. We are working out with four other women, who have been at this for 6 weeks before us. Our trainer decided that instead of having to swap the weights back and forth, he would just start us out with the rest of them, and doing the same amount of reps as them too...so needless to say I am SORE!!!

I have to admit, things are crazy around here, but I realize everybody has crazy in their lives too!

This past Sunday I went to my first NFL game!! We have friends that go tickets for FREE and took us with them. Just so happened to be seeing the Carolina Panthers - and we know how I LOVE CAM NEWTON!! WOO HOO. I only took 210 pictures on Sunday. Here a few that I posted on FB. Will have to pull others off the camera and share. October is Breast Cancer awareness month and I think it is neat how the players wear pink too! I am supporting my pink streak again!! The firefighters holding the flag all had on pink t-shirts.

The weekend before I got to go to the Auburn/South Carolina Game! That was so much fun. Went with friends from Charlotte. It was a better time for me since Auburn won! You will notice all my friends are not Auburn fans!!

June 2

Ephesians 1:3 (NIV) Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ.

As Christians this verse should be very important to us. We should realized that we are blessed beyond measure, but do we act like it? We seem to get down in the mouth so very often about what we don't have but we don't take time to say - WOW - look at what I do have, and WHY we have what we do! First and foremost we are BLESSED because we have LIFE - God choose to let us wake up this morning and live! God knows what we need and when we need it, we may not have what everybody else does, but realize we if we had what everybody else did, we might also have their troubles! Today Thank God for what you have. Know that the greatest gift He has given us was His SON! Be thankful, somebody would love to just be in your shoes. What are you actions showing about how blessed you are?

Having fun with the Cricut!

Just thought I would post what I have been busy doing. I just love my Cricut and I am getting my monies worth out of it. I bought a new program - Cricut Design Studio that helps me in laying out everything and I love it too. But I am seeing that Sure-Cuts-Alot, is a much better program... maybe in the money I save in couponing I can get me one!

Being the Queen of Trying to be Frugal, I am sharing the price with you so that you can realize that you can do this too, without sinking lots of money in a project.

This is a coaster made from 4 x 4 tile. After finishing I put clearcoat on top of it. Price of tiles 24 cents at Lowes. Four of these stacked up are look awesome after finishing off with a ribbon. No need to box it up for a gift. These sell for $15 on Etsy, set of 4 - not sure how much shipping is.

This is on my wall in the kitchen. Not as happy as I should be with it, but for now it will stay. Was learning how to use my program and all the letters are not the same and yes it's hard putting it up even on the walls. I am sure I will get better in time!

This is just a plain plate and I added the letters. It's a wedding gift.

This is an experiment. It's suppose to be a trivet. 6 x 6 tile and then after putting letter on it, I have sprayed many layers of clearcoat on it. I will try it out on Thursday to see if setting something hot on it turns it or messes it up. After testing I will know how well it will be for a gift. I still got 3 more, and I just may have plain tiles for trivets but that will be okay too. Better than placing dish towels on the table and the price was only 48 cents a piece, just add felt to the bottom or you can get the little sticky felt circles or squares. Looks like just a 6 x 6 personalized tile on Etsy is $15 plus shipping.