Quilts in review 2011

January/ Feb--

 I started of the year with a facebook challenge. 

"Pay it Forward 2011:

I promise to send something handmade to the first 4 people who leave a comment here. In turn, those first 4 people must repost this and send something handmade to the first 5 people who comment on their status.

(The only rules are that it must be handmade by you and it must be sent to your 4 people sometime in 2011....)"

#1 for Paula

# 2 for Leslie

# 3 for Kendra

#4 for Debb

#5 for Brittany

March--

I then tried my hand at free motion quilting but have not done it since

April--

I made a quilt for a friend for her baby shower

I made some mug rugs for my mom and her RV

May-- 

we got back from a road trip and did work in the garden over the long weekend.

June-- 

I sent off a baby quilt to some friends of ours in canada

I did a jelly roll quilt top

I was very excited to get my critter quilt done!

July-- 

We had a new google wife added to our midst who was also 8 months pregnant so we had a baby shower for her!

I finished my black and white jelly roll quilt (all hand quilted)

I also managed to get a quilt done in a day!

I made a pillow mattress following a friends lead and ended up having to fix it too! (this has been one of my most popular posts on my blog.)

August--

I made a quilt on the request of a friend and named it Frog Frenzy

September--

I made some his and hers quilts for a friends daughters for her wedding.

And that was just about the last of it since I announced being pregnant.

October- 

I finished a wall hanging that I just realized I never gave away this Christmas.

I did manage to give the finished quilt to Daves mom. That one had given me a lot of trouble.

here it is on her bed with the matching pillows she made for it. 

I also managed to refold my yardage onto comic book boards but that is as far as I have gotten with cleaning up the quilting. 

So that is all I have done this year. The year had a good amount of quilts but I wish I could have done more. 

I feel kinda lost without quilting at times but I have no umph to go and start a quilt. maybe that will change!

I have to move all my quilting stuff to the basement to make room in the guest room for Zeke to move into as we will be needing the nursery for the next one. 

Its a .....

squid!

no- not really :)
but that is our "code name" this time around (some of you may remember that Zeke was "cletus the fetus" when he was of unknown gender in utero.)

A couple weeks ago we had an ultrasound planned where we would get to find out the gender if we choose. We didnt decided to find out until about a week before the ultrasound.

Once we did decide that we were going to tell people the gender the next thing we decided was to not tell names and we would tell our parents at Christmas (about 2 weeks later)

I then had to decide how we were going to tell the parents. We actually managed to not even have them know if we knew or not. That was a bit tricky- especially when they came right out and asked us "so did you find out the gender?"

I went to the baby section in my local walmart and found some cute bibs and booties to wrap to give the parents as the last Christmas presents of the day.

Here are their reactions:

First my mom and sister

 then Daves mom and sister

This picture was followed by some giddy schoolgirl feet stomping with a gleeful "ohhh! now I can buy pink yarn!"

So if you havent guessed- we are having a GIRL!

I cant wait to get home and start pulling girly fabrics for a quilt!!
only one problem of having to move all my quilting stuff to the basement- I guess it will be my first project there! (motivation- right?)

we have some winners!!

Well I did the drawing and here are the winners!!

Here are your random numbers:

1
8
10

Timestamp: 2011-12-16 18:35:26 UTC

Debra said...1

Ilike to thrift shop then go out to dinner!

December 14, 2011 12:20 AM 

Stray Stitches (Linda G) said...8

I love to have dinner delivered to my house where I can have a nice quiet celebration with my hubby. Thanks for the opportunity to enter your great giveaway!

December 14, 2011 8:03 PM 

Christina said...9

Happy Birthday Debbie!

Dave, I love your answer!

For my birthday, I love more than anything to have dinner with my brothers, sisters, nephews, nieces, and my parents in San Antonio, TX. But now that I live away in North Carolina, I love to chat with them over the phone throughout the day and dinner with my hubby.

I hope I win. I'd love to start on a new hobby/ project ;)

December 15, 2011 12:30 AM 

I will be contacting you to find out which charm pack you want :)

Christmas lights and Birthday giveaway!

Good morning everyone!!

I wanted to show my Ikea lights in action:

Today (ok- so I posted this early- my birthday is Wendesday)  is my birthday...but even better than that - its my 30th birthday.

So I want to do a little giveaway. I have 3 charm packs that you can win.
I will use the Random number thing to pick 3 winners! First winner gets first choice, second winner gets to choose next... etc.

 The Bella Solids are 2 tones 

Contest is closed:
We have our winners :)




to Enter: Please leave a comment telling me what you like to do to celebrate your own birthday. 

Drawing will take place on Friday morning - giving you only a couple days to enter.
I think with these I can ship internationally.

good luck!

A Big Help!

Zeke has been a big help today.

first he brought his rolling back pack to church and brought in his own diaper and drink etc.

Our car was showing a low tire when we were heading home so Zeke helped daddy "fix it"

 We then went up the mountain to Blowing Rock where they had some snow on the ground

 We came home and after Zekes nap he helped daddy sort out the laundry.

By the way- my hubby is awesome to start laundry without me even knowing it took it downstairs!!

And this picture just makes me laugh out loud!

Zeke kept opening his mouth like he was going to bite you. I just looked in at his teeth but Dave got a tad "nervous" and so Zeke kept doing it and getting closer and closer.

We told him no biting so instead he decided licking was the way to go.....

Google Christmas Party 2011

So my husbands work has an annual Christmas Party.

Each year it has been in a different location and I think this was the best one by far.

We went to the Grove Park Inn in Asheville NC where we had dinner followed by a dueling piano bar, a stay overnight and a wonderful breakfast.

The Grove Park Inn hosts a gingerbread competition every year. Some of the requirements are that there must be gingerbread and everything must be editable. There was tons of gingerbread sculptures! even the youth ones were pretty amazing :) I dont think we got to see them all.

After breakfast we headed into Asheville and took a trolley tour and grabbed a couple geocaches (ask dave who found them!)

This was the very first time BOTH Dave and I have been away overnight away from Zeke. We had a good friend come and stay over with him and they had a blast together. Although I hear he was a little put off by us not coming to get him in the morning :)
Thank You very much Courtney!! We wouldnt have been able to go without you!


I hope you enjoy these photos our our mini vacation.

photos of new...

well this was not a typical day at all.

but I did get some great photos!

I also got a wisdom tooth removed right after these pictures were taken.

so that gives you a bit of what my day was like- both ups and downs :)

19 weeks