I realize I just posted how gloomy it was but that is the benefit of living in Chicago, wait a few hours the weather will change, sometime 2-3 times a day!
today was just beautiful! Bright, sunny, & Warm! I wish I could have been out in it. I was content watching it from the windows..
my crazy quilt piece is coming along I haven't had much time to work on it but its starting to look like a project & not a reject.
Progress reports came out today for two of my kiddies, great for 1, not so great for the other. What are you going to do? I'd love to rattle his cadge, except that hasn't worked all the other times I tried it either.
I have been embroidering for as long as I can remember and have always had a fascination with history, clothing and textiles I am the empty nested Mother of three lovely, fun, crazymaking children. Gardner, mad hobbyist, Self-employed crazy quilter, rogue beader and at times just plain crazy!
Friday, March 10, 2006
Wednesday, March 8, 2006
What is it about February & march that just make one want to crawl back under the covers & sleep until April?
all this grey overcast & lets face it gloomy weather is bogging me down. I can't seem to get anything going, nor can I seem to finish anything. It's depressing! Bitch , whine , complain !
now that I've gotten that out of the way maybe I can produce something pretty to remind me spring is around the corner.
all this grey overcast & lets face it gloomy weather is bogging me down. I can't seem to get anything going, nor can I seem to finish anything. It's depressing! Bitch , whine , complain !
now that I've gotten that out of the way maybe I can produce something pretty to remind me spring is around the corner.
Monday, February 13, 2006
Short attention span theater
I'm having a bad case of short attention span theater this week.
I let the boy cook breakfast Saturday morning & he almost burned it.
the resulting smoke wafting through the house was awfully! Needless to say Richi,
Being all Firemanly was upset with me, so I made banana bread & beef stew to
make the house smell good again!
I also started another project before finishing the last 3. The ufo I found,
I pieced & layered at my quilting group Wednesday night, the yellow & blue mariners compass hasn't been touched for a while . ( bad Quilter! Bad!)
the new piece is a crazy patch piece to put with the one I started on a whim 2 years ago. I like the layout of this one better, the 1st was too blocky. I used squares & didn't like it so I cut them into smaller squares & rectangles but its still blocky. Anhh! Its a practice piece. It doesn't have to be put in anything!
I started to mark out the outlines for embroidery on it. I love\hate it when I'm boiling over with idea's.
love because its very creative, Hate because some very good ones get lost before I can Wright them down or put them to use. Very annoying!
I can't wait to see what it will look like!
Momma Bear
Saturday, January 14, 2006
Sunday, January 8, 2006
I Hate being sick!
I have been down with the flu, for the past 4 days & am getting very cranky!
You know when you've got it bad when you can't peel an orange!
blah! humbug!! grumble, fuss, fuss, fuss!
the children have been wonderful since I've been down.
they bring me food, drink & an occasional hug. When I'm not chasing them out with
admonishments of "I'm sick!" or " you don't want this!" .
the husbands been good too. Reminding me to eat & getting me out to watch
"sleepless in Seattle" last night on TV. He takes such good care of me!
On the brighter side my room is almost clean. Yeay! I found my sewing machine
& as soon as I can climb stairs again I plan to disappear in to it & maybe finish all
the UFO'S I found while cleaning! It is truly amazing how those things collect.
I found them stuffed in corners of the drawers & boxes I must have stuffed them in
when the piece became to frustrating to deal with.
Now,that some time has passed, I can see where a piece can be improved upon,
or where the mistake lies, & I can fix them. There is hope for them yet, to pull them
out of the UFO pile & make something from them
bearly there, Momma Bear
You know when you've got it bad when you can't peel an orange!
blah! humbug!! grumble, fuss, fuss, fuss!
the children have been wonderful since I've been down.
they bring me food, drink & an occasional hug. When I'm not chasing them out with
admonishments of "I'm sick!" or " you don't want this!" .
the husbands been good too. Reminding me to eat & getting me out to watch
"sleepless in Seattle" last night on TV. He takes such good care of me!
On the brighter side my room is almost clean. Yeay! I found my sewing machine
& as soon as I can climb stairs again I plan to disappear in to it & maybe finish all
the UFO'S I found while cleaning! It is truly amazing how those things collect.
I found them stuffed in corners of the drawers & boxes I must have stuffed them in
when the piece became to frustrating to deal with.
Now,that some time has passed, I can see where a piece can be improved upon,
or where the mistake lies, & I can fix them. There is hope for them yet, to pull them
out of the UFO pile & make something from them
bearly there, Momma Bear
Sunday, January 1, 2006
Happy new year, to every one out there in blog land.
I hope your Christmas was every thing it should be.
I am in the throws of rearranging my sewing room- yet again .
it has been in a total state of disrepair for the last year or so, since
It has moved to 3 different rooms in the house 4 separate times.
Playing musical rooms, is not conducive to creativity.
All my stuff is in boxes or piles & I can't seem to find the most basic
things like needles or thread, It's very annoying.
I can't even find the table to put my sewing machine on right now.
on the other hand I found some really great deals on fabric!
one doesn't need organization to collect, just a spot to stuff it!
I have this week off so I have plenty of time to organize & straighten.
maby by this time next week I'll have found time to sew something fun!
I hope your Christmas was every thing it should be.
I am in the throws of rearranging my sewing room- yet again .
it has been in a total state of disrepair for the last year or so, since
It has moved to 3 different rooms in the house 4 separate times.
Playing musical rooms, is not conducive to creativity.
All my stuff is in boxes or piles & I can't seem to find the most basic
things like needles or thread, It's very annoying.
I can't even find the table to put my sewing machine on right now.
on the other hand I found some really great deals on fabric!
one doesn't need organization to collect, just a spot to stuff it!
I have this week off so I have plenty of time to organize & straighten.
maby by this time next week I'll have found time to sew something fun!
Wednesday, December 21, 2005
I am so behind in my Christmasing it's not even funny!
I still haven't manage to get all our gifts &
I haven't even gotten out my Christmas cards yet.
so if your expecting one from me, you're not getting it till Newyears.
as for anything else I may have forgotten, I probably won't remember it till spring!
Happy Hannukchritmakwanzidon!!
I still haven't manage to get all our gifts &
I haven't even gotten out my Christmas cards yet.
so if your expecting one from me, you're not getting it till Newyears.
as for anything else I may have forgotten, I probably won't remember it till spring!
Happy Hannukchritmakwanzidon!!
Wednesday, November 23, 2005
No time to Quilt
Turkey, Turkey, Turkey!
I am up to my ears in thanksgiving day preparations!
we're having friends over & I'm doin' all the cooking.
I started yesterday with the 3 bean salad, cranberry sauce, sweet potato crunch & green bean casserole.
I'm supposed to be cleaning the house but I'm distracted. I might get to it later.
typing is going to be problematic at best for a day or so, I sliced the tip of my finger, while making the taters.
I caught my self but not soon enough, so forgive the brevity & thank god for spell check!
Happy Thanks Giving to All!
& to all expanding waist bands!!
I am up to my ears in thanksgiving day preparations!
we're having friends over & I'm doin' all the cooking.
I started yesterday with the 3 bean salad, cranberry sauce, sweet potato crunch & green bean casserole.
I'm supposed to be cleaning the house but I'm distracted. I might get to it later.
typing is going to be problematic at best for a day or so, I sliced the tip of my finger, while making the taters.
I caught my self but not soon enough, so forgive the brevity & thank god for spell check!
Happy Thanks Giving to All!
& to all expanding waist bands!!
Momma Bear
Saturday, November 19, 2005
Breaking the cherry
This is my first posting on my first blog so bear with me if I gibber. I just got through reading the "Elephants child" blog loved her easy way of wrighting & 20 things about me seems an appropriate place to start.
so here goes whatever.
1. I am a mother of three, so if I sometimes don't make much sense it's because I don't have the time!
2. I've been married to the same man for 15 years & We've known each other for 25, since my freshman year in H.S.He's a Chicago Fireman & I am inordinately proud of him!
3. I love being at home with my family, which is good because we never go anywhere,anyway!
4. I love fabric. Touching, felling, looking, sorting, buying, sewing, cutting, pant, pant!
5. I have come to the conclusion that I have to many projects/hobbies & not enough time,& I just started this, hmm those ufo's are starting to look good...
6. I hate working, I just started working again,last year, after being a stay at home mom for 13 years, & I wanna go back!! I Hate retail, Whine, Crab, B*%ch, Moan, Pout!
& yet I still seem to, not only be able to, but be required to, do all the stuff I did when I wasn't working. How's that WORK???
7. I love to garden,around march 1st I start to get that Its almost spring feeling & in spring you will find me in dirt up to my elbows, I love the feeling of grass between my toes & freshly turned dirt!
8. i love it when it rains, that could just be because I was born during a May thunder storm. Chicago has great thunder storms! Where the sky just opens up & god comes to earth in liquid form! The street gets so full of rain water it will sometimes overflow into the front yard & the air is super charged with energy.
9. I live, as you may have guessed in Chicago. I can't imagine living in any other city. & windy politics aside, this is a great town!
10. I love Food, though i'm an indifferent cook, I love to bake bread though. Go figure I can't make a decent meat loaf but I can bake great bread!
11. I like to shovel snow ( most times) It's like trying to get the children to take their showers, you nag & push & yell, & then you can't get them out! It takes me a while to get out there but once I've gotten going I've shoveled out Mr. & Mrs, next door &my girl friend in the corner house.
12. I love going for walks in the snow. When it's falling, the gentle whisper of it & the crisp in the air, the spangled expanse in the park before every one & their dog has romped through it. The Downey blankets over everything, making the city look clean & postcard perfect. Knowing there is hot chocolate & a warm radiator waiting for me at home!
13. I love quiet family nights in front of the TV , each child under his or her quilt making a warm lump on the floor or couch, my husband at one end of the couch & me at the other, with a quilt on my lap & one over my toes, watching a movie or a show, our favorite show lately is "my name is Earl" its a little twisted but it has a good heart & morals, good gosh who'd a thunk it morals on tv!
14. I love Music, any kind, classical, jazz, blues, rock, soul, alternative, rap,country, Indy, opera, anything. I once had dreams of becoming a singer & I thought if you want to make it you need every influence you can get. & I just kept on listening to everything.
15. I was the school librarian for my children's parochial school for 9 years, before someone else took over. It's all volunteer work so I WA glad to have a break.
I love to read, Sci-fi/fantasy & mysteries mostly. Chicago history & quilting/embroidery books. Lois McMaster-Boujold, Mercedes Lackey, Ann McCaffrey, Ann Perry , Jeffrey Deevers, Janet Evanovitch & Dick Francis are some of my favorites.
16. I like to look at astronomy, Its just fascinating what's out there in our universe.http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html this is my favorite site to see what's out there.
17. i like being alone when everyone is home. i can't explain how comforting it is to just be by myself, whith everyone busy in some other part of the house, but it is. Conversely i hate being at home alone. Go figure.
18. I want a dog. i don't see it happening any time soon though. my youngest has allergies to anything with fur or feathers so a dog would not be agood idea. What makes this hard is she wants a dog too & I don't think there is anything like a hypo-allergenic dog that isn't, a poodle(blah! no offence to you poodle lovers) I want a boxer or a pug
I love their faces! Only a mother could love those faces!
19. one day i would love to travel. I've been to a few places my dad lived in Lacrosse WI. The children's god parents live in Missouri, my husbands family comes from Michigan City In. & I've been to Germany, France & Luxembourg, whith friends. & I want to travel more. See more & go where I've never been before. Hey if Will shatner can do it so can I, Denny Craine!
20. I want to share some of this stuff with whoever's out there, get some feedback & maybe get some stuff done. Looking at some of yours blogs out there have made me feel like a slug!! Time to kick this pig & get going, finishing one of my many projects would be a great start!
these are the closest to completion.
no names for them beyond who they're for, I'm still not sure about binding the mariners compass in red, & like a dunder head I forgot to pre-wash the dark blue batik, before, cutting & sewing & as a result the humidity got to one corner of it & made the blue bleed into the yellow over the summer.
I wonder if washing it will help or just make a mess.
so here goes whatever.
1. I am a mother of three, so if I sometimes don't make much sense it's because I don't have the time!
2. I've been married to the same man for 15 years & We've known each other for 25, since my freshman year in H.S.He's a Chicago Fireman & I am inordinately proud of him!
3. I love being at home with my family, which is good because we never go anywhere,anyway!
4. I love fabric. Touching, felling, looking, sorting, buying, sewing, cutting, pant, pant!
5. I have come to the conclusion that I have to many projects/hobbies & not enough time,& I just started this, hmm those ufo's are starting to look good...
6. I hate working, I just started working again,last year, after being a stay at home mom for 13 years, & I wanna go back!! I Hate retail, Whine, Crab, B*%ch, Moan, Pout!
& yet I still seem to, not only be able to, but be required to, do all the stuff I did when I wasn't working. How's that WORK???
7. I love to garden,around march 1st I start to get that Its almost spring feeling & in spring you will find me in dirt up to my elbows, I love the feeling of grass between my toes & freshly turned dirt!
8. i love it when it rains, that could just be because I was born during a May thunder storm. Chicago has great thunder storms! Where the sky just opens up & god comes to earth in liquid form! The street gets so full of rain water it will sometimes overflow into the front yard & the air is super charged with energy.
9. I live, as you may have guessed in Chicago. I can't imagine living in any other city. & windy politics aside, this is a great town!
10. I love Food, though i'm an indifferent cook, I love to bake bread though. Go figure I can't make a decent meat loaf but I can bake great bread!
11. I like to shovel snow ( most times) It's like trying to get the children to take their showers, you nag & push & yell, & then you can't get them out! It takes me a while to get out there but once I've gotten going I've shoveled out Mr. & Mrs, next door &my girl friend in the corner house.
12. I love going for walks in the snow. When it's falling, the gentle whisper of it & the crisp in the air, the spangled expanse in the park before every one & their dog has romped through it. The Downey blankets over everything, making the city look clean & postcard perfect. Knowing there is hot chocolate & a warm radiator waiting for me at home!
13. I love quiet family nights in front of the TV , each child under his or her quilt making a warm lump on the floor or couch, my husband at one end of the couch & me at the other, with a quilt on my lap & one over my toes, watching a movie or a show, our favorite show lately is "my name is Earl" its a little twisted but it has a good heart & morals, good gosh who'd a thunk it morals on tv!
14. I love Music, any kind, classical, jazz, blues, rock, soul, alternative, rap,country, Indy, opera, anything. I once had dreams of becoming a singer & I thought if you want to make it you need every influence you can get. & I just kept on listening to everything.
15. I was the school librarian for my children's parochial school for 9 years, before someone else took over. It's all volunteer work so I WA glad to have a break.
I love to read, Sci-fi/fantasy & mysteries mostly. Chicago history & quilting/embroidery books. Lois McMaster-Boujold, Mercedes Lackey, Ann McCaffrey, Ann Perry , Jeffrey Deevers, Janet Evanovitch & Dick Francis are some of my favorites.
16. I like to look at astronomy, Its just fascinating what's out there in our universe.http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html this is my favorite site to see what's out there.
17. i like being alone when everyone is home. i can't explain how comforting it is to just be by myself, whith everyone busy in some other part of the house, but it is. Conversely i hate being at home alone. Go figure.
18. I want a dog. i don't see it happening any time soon though. my youngest has allergies to anything with fur or feathers so a dog would not be agood idea. What makes this hard is she wants a dog too & I don't think there is anything like a hypo-allergenic dog that isn't, a poodle(blah! no offence to you poodle lovers) I want a boxer or a pug
I love their faces! Only a mother could love those faces!
19. one day i would love to travel. I've been to a few places my dad lived in Lacrosse WI. The children's god parents live in Missouri, my husbands family comes from Michigan City In. & I've been to Germany, France & Luxembourg, whith friends. & I want to travel more. See more & go where I've never been before. Hey if Will shatner can do it so can I, Denny Craine!
20. I want to share some of this stuff with whoever's out there, get some feedback & maybe get some stuff done. Looking at some of yours blogs out there have made me feel like a slug!! Time to kick this pig & get going, finishing one of my many projects would be a great start!
these are the closest to completion.
no names for them beyond who they're for, I'm still not sure about binding the mariners compass in red, & like a dunder head I forgot to pre-wash the dark blue batik, before, cutting & sewing & as a result the humidity got to one corner of it & made the blue bleed into the yellow over the summer.
I wonder if washing it will help or just make a mess.
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