Monday, January 3, 2011

Life On The Farm and a little sewing!

I had such plans for today but seems like I just could not get my butt in gear. :( Hunter went back to school today and Richard left early to help some friends do some stuff so I had so many plans for today since it would just be me. First off, I planned on jumping in and cleaning up the house and sort through this pile of fabrics. But that never happened. This pile has a few blocks in it, fabrics pulled for various projects, some fabrics that just haven't been put away yet and lots of scraps! I guess I will just have to save this for another day. The bad part is.....this isn't the only pile of this that I have. Everything is just a mess.

So my day went pretty much like this...Got Hunter and Richard up early, fixed breakfast and got them both out the door. Took a few minutes to feel sorry for myself because I was alone, got a shower, watched some tv, took a nap, washed a few dishes, did 2 loads of laundry, took another nap, started supper, and that was pretty much it!!! Nothing that I had planned really got done. Oh well, I guess life goes on.

I did do a few more triangles while I watched tv this morning. Still working on those 600 needed for Bonnie's Mystery. I'm really liking this quilt!

I snapped this little photo of Smokey after our nap, he really needs a haircut! :)
Oh and I kept forgetting to post a photo of Cocoa the milk goat! I took these while I had the dogs out to pee. I didn't really get any good photos of her. She is such a sweet little thing and has the best goat's milk. Some goat's milk has a real strong taste to it but not hers. Can't really tell a difference between it and store bought whole milk. I haven't bought milk since we have had her. Now that the holidays are over and my hip is not as bad as it was, I plan on making some butter, cheese and maybe some soap! I'm kind of excited about that. Anyway she is a Lamancha goat, we are planning on having her bred soon.
Her utters are not big right now because we are trying to dry her up until we have her bred. But usually they almost drag the ground.
Richard and Hunter are already in the bed so I took some time to sew this block. Barbara Brackman has started a new blog called Civil War Quilts. She is doing a free sampler that will have something like 52 blocks, one a week. I'm really loving this too!
Tomorrow morning, mom has physical therapy so I will be taking her for that. So that will tie my morning up but I can't think of a better way to spend it....spending time with momma!!! I really need to get some small projects gathered up to work on while she is having her therapy and I am waiting on her. May have to dig those up this week.
Well, I guess I'm off to bed....it's 9:20PM :)
Kristie

Sunday, January 2, 2011

Well, Heck Ole Betsy!

Yep! "Heck Ole Betsy" is something that I say all of the time when I get excited! :) Anyway, I was thumbing through the channels on the tv and I think it was on the PBS channel or something, I ran onto a show called "America Sews with Sue Hausmann" Now I have never watched this so I watched it as I was cleaning the living room. I know that I need another project like I need another hole in my head but I thought this was the neatest thing!

A Patchwork Rug!!!! So I got on the internet and looked up her show and found the exact directions to post on here. Maybe some of you all would like to have the directions too! I will certainly be making some of these for my new house!!!!
Kristie

Just Pondering...

This post may jump around alot but my mind is rolling this morning. You see...I'm really not sure if it will happen or not but we are hoping to get in our new house by MID-SUMMER! I would like to be in it by our 10th Anniversary which is May 12th, but if not then at least before cooler weather hits in the Fall of 2011. At this point, Richard says that he doesn't really see why we can't be moved in by May! But the thing is....the house will be NOWHERE near finished when we do move in. I know it is so hard to live in something and still working on it but I just can't stand it any longer!!! So we have agreed to move in as soon as it is livable! Now I'm talking bare minimal living here! I know that when we move in we will still have plywood floors and I'm sure all of the walls will not be painted, all of the trim will not be done but I'm just shooting for drywall on the walls, electric and water, oh and my kitchen has to be "cookable" Actually I don't think "cookable" is a word but it is in my world!

My mind is saying "I want!, I want!, I want!, but our wallet is saying "Can't!, Can't!, Can't! So as I sit here typing this post I am looking around our current place to see what I will take and what I will get rid of. There are so many things that we need but alot that we can live without. For one thing....I will need a zillion curtains and none that I have right now will fit the windows. So I may end up making most of them until I can buy what I really want. Also alot of the pictures that I have hanging on the walls in here, I don't want to use in the house so that will leave me with blank walls. I do have several things stored outside in the outbuilding but everything has been there so long that I don't even remember what is in there. Some things in the building are new, some are antiques and some I will not use. But I do have a few new things boxed up in here that I know of, like......a new set of Paula Deen cookware, several of the odds and ends that go with the Paula Deen cookware, like the roasting pan, big skillet and stock pot....all in ORANGE! I also have a new kitchen aid food processor, and new down comforter set for one of the kids rooms and several little things like that! Okay I guess I have bored you all enough with this stuff so on to quilting!


I'm still puttering along on Bonnie's mystery quilt! Here are some photos so far.Here is a pile of pieces and blocks piled on my ironing board that needs pressed.

Oh and right now, I am working on the 600 half square triangles I think I have about 150 of them done right now. (they are not all shown in this photo)
Here is a photo of big butt Donkey as he fell through a box that I was packing up. I had these boxes sitting by the door waiting for Richard to take them out to the building and Donkey decided to sleep on one of them and fell through!
And lastly....my little Hunter as he slept this morning. I let him sleep in because he has to start back to school in the morning. I will sure miss him.
Back to working on these million triangles!!!!
Kristie