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Meet Skittles

April 24, 2015 by Angie 8 Comments

My picture today is the new addition to our family … meet Skittles. Isn’t she so cute?

She is a YELLOWSIDE GREEN CHEEK and she was born/hatched on February 25th.

Chase and his friends are taking a road trip tomorrow to pick her up … I wish I felt well enough to make that trip!

Technically it’s Chase’s bird … but … all animals love me and I love them …. I’m calling myself her 2nd mommy.

We have been getting weekly pictures of her since we was just a wee thing … I’ll have to share those pictures with you!!

Gotta run ….. See ya!

p.s. We know what we’re getting into….we’ve owned birds before. Chase’s first pet (in first grade or was it 2nd?) was a fourteen dollar parakeet named Chirpy …. he talked up a storm …. we loved him so much and we still miss him!!

Royals Baseball

April 22, 2015 by Angie 1 Comment

I’m sharing a few pictures from the Royals game on Sunday.

It was a very exciting game to watch … especially in person!!

Our players are really good this year and the stadium is packed!!

We bought a half season of season tickets ….. which means I get to watch 20 more games. I think our family is going to be fighting over who gets the tickets … next year we may need to buy four seats!

Brooke and I have watched them play two nights in a row …. right from our living room (counting the game in person on Sunday that makes three games) they’ve won all three!

Here’s a picture of us on Sunday ….

The next picture is the fight that almost happen after Cain was struck on the foot in the first inning.

Ambleside Quilt WIP

The only progress I’ve made to the Ambleside Quilt is I added a row vertically and horizontally. That means it has six rectangles across and six down. I will use a white Jelly Row for the sashing (you can see a few of them on the board).

Time Warner Cable is coming out again today … I spent half of yesterday without internet (last night too) … keeping my fingers crossed it gets fixed … I will admit there was a period last night where I was about to panic. I follow the same routine every night and it hit me that without internet that couldn’t happen.

Doctors appointment and chiropractor today ….. gotta run.

See ya!

Pincushion

April 21, 2015 by Angie 2 Comments

OMG … isn’t this pincushion darling?

I LOVE buying things for my house …. so much so that I stay away from stores that carry items like this.

I’ve bought one knick knack for the new lake house and Dave had to remind me this week that….. we need furniture, bedding …. well pretty much everything since we sold our previous lake house with everything in it…. in other words lay off buying knick knacks.

Sorry about the lane swerve there ….. and back to the turtle. I do most of my sewing in our dining room …and saying it’s an eyesore is an understatement ….buying this darling pin cushion in my mind just cleans up the place (I can see Dave shaking his head at my logic.) Now if only I had a sewing machine that matched my house ….distressed, looks antique…but doesn’t operate like one.

See ya!

p.s. I almost forgot to say … I found the turtle pin cushion on Amazon 🙂

Ambleside Quilt WIP

April 19, 2015 by Angie 2 Comments

I worked all day yesterday creating and filming projects … two for Chic n Scratch and two for Chic n Clique …. since I reached my goal for the day I decided to reward myself with some sewing/quilting.

I didn’t make a lot of progress …. but I’m happy with the results I have so far.

Here’s the details ….

When I was at Prairie Point Quilt Shop I bought two Fat Quarter bundles of the Ambleside Fabric. My thoughts were ….. I would make a quilt with the first bundle and then offer a quilt along for the 2nd.

I do not have a pattern …. I decided that I will design this one myself and we’ll keep our fingers crossed it turns out okay. My first instinct is to make a Ambleside Jelly Roll Quilt ….but …. I need to learn and grow as a quilter.

The Fat Quarter Bundle included 8 fat quarters of the same fabric line ….. I choose five of them to start with and I cut 5 rectangles that measure 5 x 10 out of each fat quarter.

Next I placed them on my design wall … and proceeded to move them around until I found a pattern I liked.

Next up ….. I need to decide if I want to make the quilt larger … or keep it on the small side. I have enough fabric to add a sixth row … but will I? And I have the other three fat quarters that I could use to make it wider as well … decisions!!

Next … I need to decide what size sashing to use … I could go easy on myself and use a Jelly Roll and I’m leaning towards that. But I wish there were larger precuts because by the time you sew the 2-1/2 strip on … it’s only 2″. I’d like it to be 3″ 🙂

The last decision I need to make is … do I make the sashing larger on the top, bottom and sides? Again the Jelly Roll strips are easy but I would like a big border (like four or five inches).

Here’s the pattern so far …

Brooke and I are headed to our first Royals game of the Season … lets pray the rain and thunderstorms hold off until after the game (and we’re hoping for win!!).

See ya!

p.s. WIP means work in progress

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