A Halloween Pillow

Hi all,
I have a Halloween finish to show you. I originally made this into a wall hanging, but just didn't like the look of it, so yesterday I ripped it apart and made it into a pillow. I like it alot better.

I have almost finished making Austin's tooth fairy pillow. Just need to finish the cording which I hope to do today. So no picture until it's done. I haven't work on Grandmother's Flower Garden this week. I have been stitching on R is For Rabbit. I'm not too far from finishing it.

I really need to start considering the 2 ornaments that I need to do for this year. One for our SWANS Christmas exchange, and the other one for Austin. I have plenty of patterns to choose from but really would like to see the 2010 Just X Stitch Ornament book first.
Thursday I stopped by an estate garage sale and picked up several pieces of fabric at a very good price.


I also bought several quilting magazines and 3 hardback quilting books.
While I was busy in my sewing room yesterday, the little girls and boy were catching up on some sleep on a quilt I have in there to repair. As you see Molly is her unsociable self, sleeping under my machine.

Sage was asleep in the livingroom, preferring the couch, as usual.
The summer is rapidly coming to an end and even though I love summer, I'm sure looking forward to cooler temps. I haven't been outside much at all this year. It's just soooo humid on top of high temperatures.
Here's a pic of Molly and Buddy. Molly has always been a loner when it comes to the other dogs, so as you see, she doesn't think much of Buddy rutting his way into her bed. She tolerated him, but the minute he got out of the bed, she headed for her usual sleeping spot under the antique kitchen cabinet.

Buddy has adjusted to his new home well, but hasn't figured out how the program works yet. He has been guarding the food bowls, which is a no-no and Molly let him know it a time or two. And his personality has been showing more each day. The first three weeks or so, he never bothered anything, or played with any toys. Now he has decided to drag the toys out just like the girls do. And gets into things. Let's see, he knock the covered candy dish off the end table in the basement and M&M went everywhere. Luckily I heard it crash and quickly scooped them up and threw them away.
When I've been cleaning in my sewing room he would try to sneek out with a skein of floss or two when I had them out on the floor sorting the numbers. Friday, I picked up a large can of pellets for the fish. I set them on the floor by the steps thinking I'd take them to the basement next time I head down. As I was coming out of the sewing room, here came Buddy carrying the can by the lip on the can. It's not all that light weight but he managed to drag in along.
And the funny one was last weekend, I was downstairs painting the bathroom, when I came up stairs, Mr.Buddy had pulled everything out of Steve's lunchbox that he leaves sitting in the floor under the cabinet in the kitchen. There was(and I do mean WAS and in past tense) a zip lock bag of granola bars, a bag of chocolate covered coffee beans, (that I got to clean up later with the rug shampooer) along with paper plates, fork, a tube of lotion. The chocolate cover coffee beans really scared me. I didn't even know he ate them until he got sick. Chocolate can be deadly to dogs not to mention what the coffee beans could do. Anyway,needless to say, even after upchucking the chocolate, he was wired for the evening. Now Steve has to find a new place to keep his lunchbox.
It looks like rain this morning, but not too hot, I think I'll go see if I can set outside and stitch a bit now.
Have a good week.
Deana

Here's What's Been Going On In My Life.

Good Morning to all,
It's Sat. and I haven't decided what I want or need to do today, but I wanted post some pics of what have been going on this last month or 2. Steve had his motorcycle custom painted with the Maltese cross of the fire dept. he belongs to. It really turned out nice. Here's the pic of the gas tank. The 202 is his fire dept number.


A couple of weeks ago we all got together for my birthday July 7th, Sabrina's birthday July 18th and would you believe Fathers Day. We haven't been able to get it together lately so just combined all 3 in 1.
Here's the pic of Sab's and my cake Angie made. If you have read and seen past pics on my blog, you know Angie is the "Official Cake Baker" for all events in our family. She carved the sunflower from a round cake. It was a lemon poppy seed cake and she added the blueberries to the center. Very good.

Last weekend we had Austin's 6th birthday party at their house. Again, Angie made the cake. Angie has made every birthday cake for Austin. She always lets him pick the theme and this year he wanted camouflage and army men. I'm always amazed at what Angie comes up with.


On the stitching front, here's a pic of Mermaids by Little House Needleworks. I started it last weekend.

Prairie Schooler R is for Rabbit has only been stitched on during our Swan stitching nights. The green cabbage on the left was a rip out this Thurs. night. I stitched most of it in the wrong color (brown) before realizing it was wrong. I didn't pay attention to it, thought it was a bush, not a cabbage.

I have been cutting hexagon templates this last couple of weeks. I want to make a table runner for Ang and Sab with fabrics that belonged to mom. I thought this Christmas would be nice but that's probably pushing it considering all that is going on. I still haven't chose an ornament for our Swan exchange or Austin's ornament for this year. I have been plugging along on the Grandmothers Flower Garden, and am making great headway.

And before I end, I have to post a pic of the new fridge I finally got after 4 months of dealing with Lowe's. After all the screw ups they made, I got it for half price. They managed to even screw things up right down to the delivery. They brought the wrong truck and my fridge was in the "other truck." They didn't tell me until I had emptied the old fridge out (FOR THE SECOND TIME)When I went out to the truck to tell them I was ready for them to bring it in was when they told me. So, after my explosion out at the truck, they went back to Columbia and brought the right one.
I would never order anything again from Lowes. After the long wait, I am glad I did get the fridge on the bottom and ice and water in the door.

I leave you with a pic of Austin and Buddy.

It's going to be another scorcher today, so I'll be inside working or stitching.
Have a good weekend.
Deana