Lisa Ann Writes

Just read this book the other day….loved it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

also, decided on this book to recommend for next years book club…..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Can’t wait for the next list of books!

This is my next project.

http://usaapp.husqvarnaviking.com/education/pdf/907.pdf

 

The melon square. I am planning on making a few just for practice. We will see how this goes. I got the template- and the directions- time and fabric…. you just never know- I might surprise myself!

At the end of 2008 , I think, our litle church group started a book club.  These are some of the books I remember reading from this year. Not sure Igot them all-

Last October-(I think) we read

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then I remember reading

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Christmas Carol. (This is a picture of the books original cover. Wish I had that copy!)

Then I am pretty sure we did some Dr. Seuss. I missed that one because I was traveling at the time. BUT- strange enough on my layover in the airport I found some paintings of his book covers that I would have LOVED to get to hang up in my grandbaby’s room- but wayyyyy toooooooo much money!  At this book club meeting they all picked their favorite Dr. Seuss boook to share and we had to explain why it was our favorite. Sorry to have missed that one.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The next few might be out of order- but we read

I really enjoyed this book. I don’t think I would have ever picked it up to read if it hadn’t been for book club. I didn’t think I was a scify fan. But, because I read it and enjoyed it so much I realized there are a bunch of Science Fiction stuff I like. When I took a trip to WA this past spring I made it a point to go to the Science Fiction Museum in Seattle WA. That was such a cool place.

 

 

 

 

We also read…..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 and…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and….

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 and……

The Graveyard Book. I found two different book jackets- I know from watching a video of Neil Gaiman that in England they published the book in both and “adult” version and a “children’s” version. I guess this is an example of the two different covers.

 

 

 

 

The last book we will be reading for this years Book Club is…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hinds Feet in High Places. I have not read this one yet- but I have some time. In December our book club will be meeting to set the list for this upcoming year. I am hoping to get some great books on the list!

This is it! The quilt top from my friend “R”- the picture does not do it justice! The purple was incredible!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

so…side by side here are the two of the four.  When friend “W” and friend “C” sends me their finished ones I will add them on.

But I just find it so amazing that we started with the same fabrics and added others we liked and the quilts are so different looking.

Next I might try the same fabrics with the same pattern and see how they would look different! I am sure they still would!

Well, thanks to friends… R, W, and C for playing the lets make a quilt game!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

so, got a picture from my friend “C” This is her pile of fabrics that will be used in the quilt that the four friends are making. I don’t think she mentioned what pattern she will be using.

 

I still need to get a picture of  my friend “R”’s quilt top. She has finished the top using the pieces the four of us sent and I can’t wait to see it. I have today off, so maybe sometime I can catch up with  her.

My friend “W” sent a picture of the wedding quilt she made for her son and his bride. Beautiful isn’t it! I am sure she will get to the frienship quilt soon, but I love the pattern and colors of the wedding quilt and it gives me new ideas as well.

I am going to the quilt shop today- if I ever get myself out of bed. I have some ideas for my next project and want to get more done on it. I am thinking…shapes……

Also, today would have been my sister’s BD and I miss her so I thought I would just get my mind into  a happier place and go play around with fabrics.  So today I will pick out fabrics for an Oct 13th quilt and maybe by her bd next year I will have it done. Well, off I go..

These are the fabrics the four of us decided to use.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is what I made…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think I will find out what the others did and try to add them on here too! This was “fun” but I didn’t like the final quilt. I loved the fabrics, I just didn’t like to HAVE to get it done.  Guess deadlines stifle my creative side.

Last April I had an idea to make the quilt.  I have worked on and off on the project for the past six months and realizing that the time was here to be finished- I am finished. I wonder how the other girls did? So, now I will try to figure out how to add pictures of mine. But, I will post this first, cuz I don’t want to lose this while trying to figure out how to insert the photos….. to be continued…

So, I decided to throw in a quick load of clothes to wash after I got home from work today. I was going through the pile and wondering if the black and white shirt should go in the darks or lights when all of the sudden I see a dead mouse. Not just a dead mouse- but a dead mouse in a trap! It took everything in me not to scream – I really was going to- but I thought of how the baby was trying to go to bed and the fact that Erin and John didn’t even know I was in house and it would freak them out. So I just ran. I dropped everything and ran. I went into the computer room where Jim was hard at rest and said “so…if you think that a fake dead mouse in a mouse trap in the laundry is funny it is not.” Meanwhile my legs are shaking cuz I think I am going to pass out. “What? A dead mouse?” then he remembers. “Oh ya, the bug guy put some mouse traps on the basement ledges”

- it caught one and it fell down in to my laundry. I think I will just pass out later.

I don’t like finding dead things in my laundry….or anywhere for that matter.

I still remember my friend that had nine kids and the strange things that she would find in her laundry. They  could fill a book. I guess I got off lucky!

So, I just wrote this amazingly long blog all about what I have been thinking and doing and why I have been so busy….I posted it- then went to the site to check it out. I tried to edit a word I had put in by accident and poof… like bad magic it was all gone. So I hit “refresh”- really bad move. I don’t know where in the WWW all my ponderings have landed but I don’t want to write it all over again. He is the condensed version.

Been really busy at work- was promoted to “sales lead” or “part time assistant manager” which ever you want to call it.   I really like retail- I like helping people and enjoy learning new things – like how to fill a dumpster in ten minutes or less….

I have been looking forward to the up coming book club meeting next week. We read The Hunger Games and I really enjoyed it. I liked it so much that I bought the set for my son- my favorite son- I sent him Hunger Games and the second in the series Catching fire. He read them both- loved them both- and I did too. Can’t wait for that group meeting!

Also…. my friendship quilt is just about done and is supposed to be completed by the first weekend of October. I have to check in with the three other friends that are working with the same fabrics to see if they are close to done. I hope I finish it on time….since it was my idea.

Yah…. I think that was about it. I just hope that this gets posted and not sent off into the great can’t find that post.

Oh- one more thing. I do want to try to blog more often.  I miss it. And I miss the comments I had been getting. So keep checking again….

 

I am back!

It has been some time since I have written on my blog. I think I will make it a goal to try harder at this. I enjoy doing it- it is just finding the time. Since I started to work in sales I have been keeping very busy. I love the job! That is surprising to me! I am good at it and I love helping people with things they need. It may sound silly- but when someone comes into the store and hasn’t been able to find jeans that fit and I can help them, or an outfit that makes them look great for a special event they will be attending- I just love it. There are those occasional people that are cranky or hard to deal with- but I can just let them go out of my mind as soon as they are out of the store. Keep moving forward. I have been putting in more hours than when I first started because I was promoted to sales lead or part time assistant manager. Which ever one you want to call it. I love learning new things and it has been fun for me to learn the ins and outs for retail. Like today- I learned the outs…..how to take out so many boxes I filled the dumpster. All very exciting.

I have still had time to look forward to book club coming up. We will be talking about The Hunger Games this time around. Everyone in the group seems very excited about this meeting. I really enjoyed the book and have read the second in the series. Catching Fire. I loved them so much I bought my son a set of his own and mailed them off. He texted me to say he read them both and really loved them.

I also have a quilt to finish up! Remember back in April I posted about a friendship quilt- I have mine all done- the goal was to finish them be the first weekend of October- I just need to put the binding on. I need to check in with my three other friends to see where they are with theirs and hope for pictures to post soon.

I have been enjoying work and spending time with family and just keeping busy.

This past weekend was Camper’s first birthday! That grandbaby of mine is just growing so fast. I can’t believe how fast the time goes by when you have little ones around. It never seemed like that when I was the mom taking care of the “little ones.”

I think that is all I can think to write about right now. I really hope to do better with this blog of mine!