worth moo-tioning...

Happy 70 years to our Grandpa!  :-)

i'll be back soon...

I just told Rick this morning that I'm starting to feel a bit bored and a bit more energetic.  The troops have been busy while I am convalescing -- so I need to get busy taking some updated photos of the basement project.  In the meantime -- here is a photo from 2003.  This photo was taken during the renovation in our old house.  Everyone helps during a renovation -- even little Sofia who is only 2 years old in this photo!

next...

Insulation is done.  The "work crew" is looking pretty happy about this!  Note:  Sofia did not participate in the insulation part of the project -- I just thought she might make the photo a bit cuter! 

Rick is definitely getting better at calculating how much we need of certain supplies.  There are only some remnants left over from the insulation.  I'm certain that this part of the basement is better insulated than the rest of our house.

Let's see how he does at calculating sheet rock :-)

have you ever had this nightmare...

Oh, my gosh...  This is one of the scariest real life photos that I have ever seen.  I have had this nightmare -- mostly when I'm feeling overwhelmed.  Where do you run when something like this happens?

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/03/11/massive-7-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-japan/

when you're 10 years old...

You dress up in a birthday outfit that you picked out at the store all by yourself...

You eat your favorite pizza for birthday dinner...

You listen to everyone singing an out of tune rendition of "Happy Birthday to you" while holding your new Blythe doll...

You fall asleep on a special rainbow birthday pillowcase and dream about all the good things that happened to you today...

Happy Birthday and sweet dreams to my baby!  :-)

this is what I'm up to...

There were some free listing days over on the "evil bay" -- so I dug through the piles of stuff -- and found a few things to list -- and they found new homes :-)  The "piles" are really not smaller, so, I am hoping for a few more free listing days... In the meantime, I am taking these over to the post office and picking up tomorrow's birthday girl at school.  :-)

another project...

Here is the beginning of a project that I started this weekend.  To continue with my "use what you have" for March, I decided to dig way down in my stash...  These are fabrics that I purchased before Sofia was born --   now that would be going on 10 years.  If you're wondering about the colors -- they are supposed to represent  the colors in Nicholas' Lego Bionicle collection.  I was going to make him a quilt -- but then Sofia happened... :-)  Anyhow, I found a pattern over at the ModaBakeShop blog courtesy of KarrieLyne from freckledwhimsy.com (such a cute name).  The pattern is easy, but makes a big visual impact -- so I thought I would give it a try.

Here are the fabric strips that I cut.

This small square is made up of 15 separate pieces sewn together.

And, of course, something for Nicholas just wouldn't be right if it didn't have a little bit of red added to it!

It doesn't look like much, yet, but I only gave myself 2 hours on Saturday afternoon to play with this.  Now, that I have the idea in my head, I think the rest of it will go a bit more quickly.  This will eventually be a pillow.   I would like to also make a matching quilt for Nicholas -- but that will have to wait until after the quilt for my bed.

to be cont'd...