Entries from April 2008

April 30, 2008

Safe & Sound

Well we made it back from our trip to Laughlin safely. We saw a lot of wonderful looking bikes. This was a Greatful Dead bike. It was pretty cool lots of detail. The weather was pretty decent except for the wind. We had a nice visit with the family also.
When [...]

April 25, 2008

TGIF!!!!!!!!!

I’m off for a fun filled weekend!!! It’s the Laughlin River Run - It’s the West Coast Largest Motorcycle Event On the Banks of the Colorado River. In Laughlin Nevada. It’s been fun watching all the motorcycles heading that way. I don’t think that we have gone for the last five years. [...]

April 17, 2008

Oh My Gosh!!!!!!!!!!

This is really something that I did not need to stumble upon. A month or so ago my son brought me a couple of books that a friend of his was taking over to Bookman’s. Bookman’s is a used book store here in Tucson. Anyways he had a couple of craft books [...]

April 16, 2008

Where did last week go!

I was busy, busy, busy, last week. It was employee recognition week at work and I’m on the committee. We had the kick off on Monday, Service Award Banquet on Tuesday evening, Ice cream social on Wednesday afternoon, the boss took us out for lunch on Thursday, and the grand finally was a [...]

April 5, 2008

Thrift Store Finds & A Couple of Aprons

Yesterday after work I stopped by the Speedway Outlet.  Look at what I found!
 
I saw this cat fabric in a bag with these other fabrics. 

and thought ….I could use these in a couple of projects ……. I have no idea who this cat is ……. but it looked like fun childrens print.  I could see these other [...]

April 2, 2008

Noah’s Ark

Wow - I can’t believe that I haven’t posted a picture of my finished Noah’s Ark Block that Lynnette Anderson designed. This block is called The rabbits. The block is still available as of today. She will post a new block each month for the next year. Lynnette doesn’t say when she [...]

April 1, 2008

Weekend Projects - Baby Blankets!!

Here is the baby blanket that I was going to tie. I tried the machine satin stitch that I saw in the Patchwork and Quilted Gifts book. I really like the way that it turned out. It was super easy and really fast. It helped that I already had it sewn together. I am going [...]