Baby quilt top finished

So here's the top for the baby binkie I'm making for a lady that I work with. I hope she likes it! It's one of the blocks from the newest Fat Quarterly issue. I'm thinking of machine quilting it, since she's due in the next few weeks.

My kids are visiting family in Michigan until Tuesday, and gradma

sent me some fun pics of them with their cousin's llamas...

Last night I got to babysit my nephew/godson...isn't he a doll??

I've also started Texas Frecle's Hexagon Charm Quilt Piece-Along. I've never really liked hexagons, but she makes it look fun, and I like the simplicity of it. She's even got videos for people like me that are visual learners. I started last night and have 5 hexagons down, a zillion more to go. I would like to make this for Hannah as a graduation present. Since you don't repeat any fabrics, I'm needing about 1,100 fabrics, give or take a few hundred lol! If anyone is interested in a fabric swap for getting their hexies done too, let me know. Have a great Sunday!

I'm in love...

I'm in love with this new pattern! (Elephants on Parade by Tacha Bruecher...pattern available in this awesome eZine)



I'm in love with these surfin' monkeys for my nephew...


I'm in love with these fabrics for my new nephew...



I'm in love with this awesome dino fabric...


I'm in love with these too...

Elvis Tote for Hann

My sister made the most awesomest tote for Hann. She takes it everywhere...to the skate station, pool, beach, sleepovers...everywhere. She wanted a new one that was a little bit bigger, so my sister sent me this tutorial and man does she make it easy! I made mine a little taller and wider than the tute and think it turned out pretty good. Next time I'll use some stabilizer to give it some gusto, but all in all Hann loves it. Her friends have already requested ones, and since the fam will be vacationing until Tuesday, I think I'll whip them out while they're gone.

If you end up making one, I'd love to see a pic :)

My Frustrated Rant

Fat Quarterly's 2nd issue came out today and I got it!! You can get yours here (careful, their site is addicting!!)

I fell in L-O-V-E with the Elephants on Parade quilt pattern and decided to make one of the blocks. Since I'm needing to make 4 baby binkies STAT, I got my scraps together (including a new fabric I got in the mail last week that I'm geeked about using), ironed them and prepared to start cutting, wrote down the instructions and cutting measurements (my printer is out of ink) and lo and behold I don't have enough variations of the colors I picked, or any other color for that matter. 2 years ago I "took a break" from quilting and sold ALL of my fabric & tools. Last year I got back on the horse and am still trying to build a decent stash. Why on earth did I get rid of all of my stuff in the first place??

What is Marryoke?

I came across some fun Marryoke - which is the wedding party and/or guests lipsyncing to music. Here's a fun example. Be careful...it's addicting. :)

Our first try of doing a Lip Dub during a wedding from Positive Pictures on Vimeo.

My birthday

I had the most awesome group of peeps at my previous job! I miss them so much! Here they are in all of their awesomeness :)

All of the group

The Gang minus Mr. Roy

Mr. Roy

I had to throw this one in...work it Justin!!

Playing Catch Up

So....deep breath...here we go...


My sister, brother-in-law and niece & nephew came to visit us from Arizona a few weeks ago. We had a blast! We went on Ripley's Ghost train tour, which was as expected...cheesy but fun none the less. We didn't find any "apparitions" but it was fun watching my EMF (?) thingie going off when my cell phone would search for signal.





I thought the lady next to me was going to have a heart attack lol! I did get freaked out when we were in the Ripley museum (in pitch black) and I took this picture...remember it was pitch black and in a flash I see this image...



My mind thinks it looks like the pshycho scene where the reent reent reent song will begin at any moment lol! It's amazing how your mind can play tricks on you in the dark. I can't wait to develop our film from the tour, but knowing me it'll most likely be Christmas before I get around to it. After our tour we went to Kozmic Bluz in St. Augustine to eat. I have to say that they have the BEST cheese fries around and thanks to them I am totally hooked on Sangrias :)
Harry Potter closet at Kozmic Bluz

Eric & Jer Hammin it up
Me & Diana

We all loved Eric's flying story, but not as much as Diana! :)


And now for meanie faces:

An "I'm Grounded" poem by Hannah

The World Has Gone Dark
by Hannah Poli (copyright)

Oh the terrible woes that have befallen on my life
All because of thyself
The trees are not flourishing
The grass is not green
The birds have stopped thy beautiful song.

Oh the reminiscence of the days gone by
Of thyself on roller skates having fun in merriment.

I failed to calleth my parents
And received a punishment too terrible to mention.
All in the doing of thyself.

(Does anyone know the moral of this poem?)

Our (Almost) 48hr film project

Here are some pics from our 48hr film project. Tomorrow I'll go into details...I'm still lagging from 3 hours of sleep this whole weekend but it was fun :)

Michelle checking sound


Adam, Eve and God rehearsing

Quiet on the set!

Me & my helper

Our junior producer

God sleeps.

God loves root beer!

Nathan finally sleeps (for a little while at least)

Mary and her coffee

Nathan can't compete with my garden hose!

Nathan and Bethany rehearsing

Action (finally!)

We use what we can...

Action

God sleeping (again)
Nathan playing with our prop

Day 2 doing into Day 3

3am script writing Day 1 going into Day 2 while Nathan documents

48 Hour Film Festival

I'm sooo excited!!! Need I say more?