Pincushion arrival

My pincushion arrived yesterday all the way from the U.K.!!!! Thank you to Linda for hosting this fun swap!! It was my first but definitely not last!! I love how it's the Royal Mail...
Look at the cute fabric she wrapped it inand another cute layer. Can you see the cats on this fabric too?Karol-Ann did a great job--didn't she? It's a little ginger cat pincushion :) Also included was a cute little tin (with a kitty) of some yummy candy. I forgot to take a picture of his backside...he has a little patchwork hiney. Too cute!
Lemon thinks it 's his... he put up quite a fuss when I took it away. Please don't look at the carpet...I've been doing some cutting but absolutely no vacuuming. I have no excuse either as I just bought a brand new vacuum. Thank you so much Karol-Ann...I love it :)
I'm editing this to add that Karol-Ann has posted the cute backside on her blog so go take a peek over there! I finished my pincushion the other night but I have to pick up a couple little tidbits to include . I'm going to pick up Janine right now for her Birthday lunch /party and hopefully she'll be up for some shopping after so I can get my package out tomorrow! HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Janine and Michele and Kim 3 good friends who all have birthdays this week!!! I love you guys (even though you never leave comments lol!!!) As soon as I mail it it's on to the cupcake swap over at Sharon's, fun, fun, fun!!!!

Woo Hoo!!!!

He did it!!!! Or should I say we did it! Now I'm going to go crash for about a week lol!! This was quite the exciting/busy week. Jonathan turned 16 on Thursday and Daniel graduated yesterday and may I just say that although it was all good and wonderful I am pretty thrilled that the week is now behind me! Here are some photo's of the big day.
Playing Piano for the prelude:they have a time in the middle of the ceremony where the graduates bring their mom a rose :) family photo:Senior photo board:Can't forget the Birthday boy!I made the yummiest white chocolate raspberry truffle ice cream cake for Jonathan's B-day...I think it had about 5,000 calories per slice and they all showed up on my hips just in time for graduation lol!I did start a new top...hey a girl's gotta de-stress right? This is with "Isn't Christmas Jolly?" It's just blocks right now and I've been playing with them on my design wall. I'm off to catch up on some blog and e-mail reading, I pretty much haven't even seen my computer for the last week! Have a great rest of the weekend! I'm planning on just trying to stay cool...did I mention that it's been well over a 100 degrees for the last week? Last night it was still 90 at midnight!! I know thats no big deal for some of you living on the surface of the sun...(Darlene) but I'm not used to it!! As long as the power doesn't go out and my a/c keeps kickin' out the chilled air I guess I'll survive :)

Beach Day Quilt

Every Summer we have a beach day on Tuesdays in Del Mar. Last year I would bring a quilt and put it on the grass and no sooner would I lay it down than someone would start giving me grief saying "oh you just can't put that beautiful quilt on the ground!" So this year I decided to make a special quilt just for Beach Day. Specially made to put on the ground.I have been having trouble with Blogger not sending me all my comments. I get about 3 out of 4 grrrr. I really appreciate and love all your comments and I like to respond but I know I have been missing some of you and I just want to say sorry and I'm not ignoring you! I'm hoping it will resolve soon. Of course some of you are no-reply and then I can't ever respond : ( If you are no-reply and don't want to be just go to your profile page and make sure your e-mail is listed and the box is checked.
Gratuitous kitten picture...yup he's in a purse.I changed a few things on my sidebar...did anyone notice that I had the Thirteenth Tale in "on my nightstand" for oh about 4 months??? Nope not a mistake, I just finished it night before last. It was a good book I just haven't been reading as much as usual, too much quilting I guess. (Is that even possible lol?) So I have decided to be more disciplined about turning off the light in the sewing room and getting in bed and spending some time with a cup of tea and a good book! I started The Friday Night Knitting Club last night and so far so good. The next trick is being disciplined enough to turn off my bedroom light and get some sleep. Here is what's on my nightstand now:
Now for some proud mama stuff. See the favorite music up there? That's Daniel's myspace music spot. Unfortunately myspace has horrible sound but if you download it-it sounds way better. Anyway that's his music...his senior project is producing a CD of original music. So I figured I should put a link here to promote his music...right? (how many times can I use the word "music" in a paragraph? A lot of times lol) O.k. off to do a little more in my sewing room before it gets too late! I'm using my Hopscotch Charm packs...finally! I love this line! Here's a sneak peek....of course it could change :)And I still can't decide on what to do with Cherry Baby...
Have a great week-hopefully with lots of time to sew :)

Easy Peasy Purse

I'm just popping in real quick to show you guys the easiest purse in the world!!! Really. I wouldn't lie to you. Janine came over yesterday afternoon to sew and we made these purses
from this magazine:(Which just came out so if you don't have it yet you can still get it!) In fact some stores still have the older one...it's that new :) We sat and sewed for oh about 5 minutes and kind of looked at each other like "no way, can it really be this easy?" It can. It was. 30 maybe 45 minutes tops you'll go from ordinary kitchen towelsto this:Total cost: 3.99 for 3 kitchen towels from Ross 4.19 for bag handles from Joannes (30% off right now) Pretty cool huh?
O.k. today's kitten picture is a bit graphic so if you have a weak stomach just move on to the next blog now. To the rest of you this is a picture of when we still had all 3 babies. First thing every morning when we woke them up they would all hop in the "yucky box" and have a little group potty together...pretty disgusting really...and yet somehow sweet at the same time. Hey I warned you!
Wish me luck I'm off to drive the giant truck for the Registrar of Voters again tonight!

Remember me?

Hi! My name is Tammy ("Hi Tammy") and it's been 13 days since my last post :) Is there a 12 step program for bloggers? There should be...I know there's one for quilters...I'm in it.
It may have been quiet on my blog but it hasn't been quiet in my sewing room! (By the way, all of you who are only here for the kitten? He's at the bottom...go ahead go...it's o.k...sniff...really.) I am doing the happy dance because I have finally finished 2 quilt tops (both made with patterns out of this book by Carrie Nelson) that have been nagging at me all year...Tag Sale made with Heather Bailey's Fresh Cut line (that's my neighbors front yard and there she is poking her head out...Hi Cindy!)and Amadeus made with Sanctuary by Moda. I will try to get some better pictures later of this one...the wind is not cooperating today!I also made this little twisted nine patch for my mom out of Fresh Squeezed by Moda. I'm regretting not getting a couple more charm packs of this 'cause it's going to be hard to part with! The one on the bottom (of that pile up there) is All Stars by Cozy Quilts made with a jelly roll of Fresh Air by Moda. Again I'll have to get a better picture later...also I'm cheating having this one in the finished pile-it still lacks a top and bottom border. Here it is still on the design wall before any borders were sewn.There would be 5 in that pile but the fifth one was a gift and my sweet son accidentally erased the picture of it before I could load it and after it had gone to it's new home. So again with the design wall picture :( I like this one so much I may make it again for me. The UPS man just left...I love him. He brought me the pin cushion book that I saw on Linda's blog and decided I must have in order to more fully participate in the fun pin cushion swap she's hosting. (The cute little button bag and tiny box are from last Friday's Brown Bag class with Jo Anne...I love her too !) And speaking of books...every now and then I plan a class for one of the kid's that I just can't wait to start. I have been looking around the internet for quite some time looking for the perfect Home-Ec curriculum for Sarah to take in her high school years. (I can't believe my baby starts high school next year.) I finally decided to just put one together myself and settled on these two books (more like tomes...I know). I've had the Home Comforts for a long time and I love it. I just got the one by Martha Stewart and have barely flipped through it but I know it's gotta be good.O.k., o.k. I know you really just want to see Lemon so here he (turns out "she's" a "he") is. No back sleeping, today it's tub sleeping. And no, the lid wasn't on...see? Although at times it's tempting. Nah...not really :) I have to run now. My oldest son has been in Kentucky since Friday at a New Attitude conference and he is due home any minute! He was supposed to be here yesterday but his flight was canceled due to bad weather in Dallas..needless to say I'm relieved to know he's safely back in San Diego! Hope everyone is having a great week!

Kitten update

Many of you have been asking me for news on the kitten front so here is a final update...well final on 2 of them anyway. Something tells me there may still be the occasional Lemon story :) Scottie and Carmel went to their new homes yesterday!
Daniel and Sarah took them to the local Vons and sold them for $20 each--quite the little capitalists huh? The first family was looking specifically for an orange kitty for their son. The second couple was looking for a kitten for their daughter (who has diabetes) whose beloved cat had gotten lost when they moved. They brought Scottie home to surprise her :) So two happy endings for those little kitties.
And Lemon....remains happily (although apparently with some sleeping position issues) ensconced in our home. Does anyone else have a cat who prefers to sleep on it's back? Weird.

But cute.
I promise to be back with quilty stuff next time :)

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day to all you Moms out there. I hope you have a wonderful day!! I'm going to spend the day with my favorite people in the world. And luckily for me that one in the back with the black hat? He wants to be a chef. The dinner we were eating here was amazing and he made up the recipe. He has informed me he will be cooking all meals tomorrow and I noticed filet mignon in the fridge so I think it's going to be a good day!

My computer has been running so slow I haven't really been able to post...I've tried but it freezes and won't load pictures grrr. Same when I try to comment on blogs. I took some stuff off of it today and it seems better and my son is going to do more to it tomorrow so hopefully I can do a real post soon. I'm afraid to do to much right now for fear of freezing it again. Maybe I'll get a new one for Mother's day :)