santa was gooooood to me!

i was a good girl last year cause santa was very good to me. skip, courtney, and riley got me a kindle and river, koty, cash and angela got me my very first authentic coach purse. no knock off's for this chick. i can't wait to go to starbucks and hang my new purse on the chair and sit and read my kindle. how cool will i be. ha ha ha

couldn't post without adding pictures of my sweet babies. i'm hopeless. there is nothing sweeter than a sleeping baby.

damn snow

i just thought i was going to okc today. everything was going good until i slowed down to make sure no one was coming from either side, that's when the trouble started. in other words "i ain't goin nowhere". now i have no excuse not to work on those pesky miters. damnit!!!

"don't fence me in"

it may no be much to anyone but me but at my guild for me to win a challenge that is something. the majority of my guild is very traditional and that ain't bad but it ain't me. i love the strange and unusual. when pam announced that i had won first place i was really surprised.

the challenge was "Go Green". everything was supposed to be recycled. nothing bought except your thread. i used old clothes that i had intended for a class at houston. for some reason that i can't explain i save the underwires from my bras. when i buy a new one i always take the underwires out. hate 'em. it just came to me one night while i was trying to shut down and go to sleep. i thought of the wires as horrible fences that keep things in. then the old song title "don't fence me in" came in my head. breasts come in all shapes and sizes as in mountains, so i made the mountains look like breasts with nipples as the mountain tops. i didn't show it to any of my sewing group since the judging was supposed to be anonymous. some of them said they knew it was me when they saw it.

to make things even better the gift certificate is from the shop where i work. i know just what i want. merry christmas to me!

i made new purse

went to norman saturday and took a class from ann gaines on how to make a grommet purse. it was an indigo junction pattern but she has changed it enough, and may i add simplified, that it is a different pattern now. we all added out little changes. it turned out great, i love it and everyone that sees it loves it. can't wait to make another one.

my sewing group wants to make one so i guess we are all going to have new purses. it is so roomy inside with pockets of all sizes. the purse would make a good diaper bag.

had a great day at gail's yesterday. that place is busy and crazy all day long. i love it.....

halloween 2009

another successful run for the candy...
river was a US Marine, koty was a zombie cowboy, cash was a mummy, and riley was Derek Jeter #2.

i made caramel chocolate covered apples with m&m's and toffee bits. wouldn't want to make those for a living. i bought a big bag of the good chocolate candy and we had 0 trick or treaters so i proceeded to eat most of the candy. save me from myself.

angela did a good job with the boys costumes. they are easy to please and very authentic. thank goodness i just had to mess with one costume.

riley and i spend the day before looking for his since the plan his mom had for his didn't work out. courtney had to work and skip didn't have a clue so it fell in my lap. we had fun. couldn't afford to go to very many stores looking for stuff since riley thinks he gets a prize every time we walk through a new door. anyway we found everything we needed in walmart. what would we do without it. i hate it but end up there regardless. skip got the right font for me and we fused and stitched him some numbers and all was happy. he was more proud of the numbers than anything else.

foot in mouth

angela (ex dil) came into the house last week and asked me why koty was digging holes in the side yard. i busted outside to really scold him for digging yet another useless hole, when i came around the corner his uncle skip was digging by this time. i asked, with hands on hips, what are you doing??? koty looked up with his never ending jaggedy smile and said i am putting this wooden cross up that i made so every day when river and me get off the bus we can say a prayer for uncle cody in iraq.

hands on hips pulled foot out of her mouth turned and quietly went back in the house wiping tears. i couldn't have loved him more at this minute.

i need duct tape!!!

i will in the future be carrying a roll of duct tape with me where ever i go. why do i feel like i have to volunteer for everything that comes along before anyone has even asked for help? good grief charlie brown save me from myself. my bffs know what i am referring to. they try to to save me from myself but one of them can't always be near. when i am left to my own devices i will surely get myself in trouble.

the dye workshop i taught was a success. everyone had great results. i surprised myself, didn't know i had it in me.

guild garage sale was another success. everyone turned out and worked hard. couldn't ask for more. looking forward to announcing to the guild what we made.

on to more funner things... got a new computer this week. haven't transfered my files and things so no pictures. going to get a new camera this weekend so i can shoot till i drop in houston. the convoy starts tuesday morning. can't wait.

on a scale of 1-10 things are pretty much at a 9. i try to be a glass half full person my sidekick is a glass half empty. guess that is why we make a good pair. when i get too full of myself she lets me know and when she is almost empty i fill her back up. as a matter of fact all the people in our group compliment each other. what are the odds in a random group of people thrown together by chance getting along so well. my parents didn't give me sisters but as usual fate stepped in and gave me these women. i couldn't be happier.