Mare's nest: New laptop, and no real pictures!

Friday, October 24, 2008

New laptop, and no real pictures!

I'm getting used to my new lap top, which is why it's been a while since I posted. Another issue is that my "Flintstones" digital camera isn't able to connect to my new computer and I really hate to post without pictures, that's sort of boring. See these pies? I made 2 pumpkin and one apple pie today for Jim to take to work tomorrow for treats. Luckily for me it's su

per easy to find pictures on the Internet so I could download pictures of any pie I wanted! I should however, warn you that if you are going to do a search for "pictures of pie" you will certainly find some pictures that are not acceptable to post on a blog mainly dedicated to quilting............ enough said? yeah, you get the picture- well, no you didn't because I didn't think they were appropriate.

My other happy news is that my sewing machine is back home where she belongs! I tried to find a picture of her online, but the Viking site skipped right from the model 435 to model 535 and my sweet baby is a 500. Well, a copied picture wouldn't do my baby justice anyway since she has a lot of stickers from when Miss V was very small and stickers were the ultimate compliment from her. Fortunately I was given a loaner sewing machine, however it only came with ONE bobbin! Pretty much a pain for changing thread colors.

Meanwhile Miss V's high school is putting on Jesus Christ Superstar. Our oldest daughter is stage manager so for the first time in their lives they are in the same school together! Jes is 25 and Miss V is 14 so they haven't had much bonding time since V was a toddler and obviously so adorable that no one could set her down! ;-)

Hopefully soon we will figure out a way to patch my camera in here and I can do some show and tell on bags and quilts and costumes! I really am getting a few things done in my sewing room!

2 comments:

Susan Freebery said...: I am soooo glad you got your sewing machine back. I know the pain of being without your baby. Our machines become an extension of ourselves - we can almost make them work without even looking.

I can't wait to see photos of the costume (s?). Does your camera have a memory card? Let me know if it does and I will tell you exactly what you have to do.

Oh, and one bobbin? That is like trying to bake a pie with one arm! Geeze.

Jesus Christ Superstar? THAT will be incredible! I hope to see lots of photos of THAT show when it happens. Totally cool.; October 25, 2008 at 10:14 PM
Quilter Kathy said...: Don't you just hate technology issues?!? Hope your camera finds a way to resolve it's conflicts with the computer!
What costumes have you been making?!?!; November 2, 2008 at 8:51 PM

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Three pennies a day

I have been trying to give my three cents worth lately. I read about this movement to change the world by 3 pennies.
What you do is, every morning you put three pennies in your left pocket. During the course of the day if you do something nice for someone you move one penny to your right pocket. So, it can be something big and nice, something unexpected and nice or even something small and nice like opening the door for a stranger. Then at the end of the day your goal is to have the three pennies in your right pocket.
Kind of neat huh? Just a little pocket reminder to be nice to people and go out of your way a bit. I also tell myself sometimes, "ooo that wasn't a nice thought, I should have to move my penny back!" ;-)
I hope whoever reads this has a three penny day.

Up date on one of the Worlds Smallest Quilt Guilds

Our membership is now officially 50% bigger than previously noted! My good friend Susan from Florida is now an official member of the guild. Initiation took place at the International Quilt Festival in Chicago. Flori, as she is lovingly called in our guild brings a special imitable style to our most exclusive guild. She hob-nobs with Alex Anderson, rubs elbows with Pink Flamingos and knows me! Guess that last part wasn't too humble now was it? ;p Flori is our official Officer in Charge of Coffee and she did her job remarkably well at the festival, finding coffee for us when the situation was getting quite desperate. She also found coffee fabric which was quite the feather in her cap. Well, it would be if she was wearing one. Good job new officer!

History of One of the wolds smallest quilt guilds

I once believed I belonged to THE worlds smallest quilt guild, 2 people- my favorite cousin and myself. Then Mary Stori came to my local guild as speaker and she pointed out that she and a fellow quilt friend were the worlds smallest quilt guild. So, I had to revise my thinking. ONE of the worlds smallest quilt guilds consists of myself and my favorite cousin, we don't have regular meetings as the distance is a bit far for either of us to commit to on a regular basis. She lives in gorgeous Colorado, with a spectacular view of Pikes Peak, I live in lovely Wisconsin, within a short drive of beautiful Lake Michigan.
As a guild however, we are working on 2 or more round robbins. I say 2 or more because I forget exactly where we are with them. I have 2 at my house, and if I remember correctly she has 1 at her house. When we get together, usually in CO, we do a lot of quilt retreating as she has a longarm machine. We don't pay dues, and we haven't decided yet which of us is president, but I think I'm going to run for that office this year. I'm pretty sure I will win as she is awfully busy homeschooling 5 kids, taking care of a baby and running her longarm machine daily. She does most of the charity quilts, quilting donations on her longarm, though we have done several prayer quilts together for people we have heard about.
Now for a name for our little group........ I'm thinking, there will be more on this in my ramblings