Today is, well...busy. Mark and Steven are in Oceanside helping a friend on his house. I am on my 3rd load of laundry, 2 more to go. Dishwashers going, working on my quilt from last night at Quilters Cottage. (Not the one shown). Changed the sheets, flipped the mattress (haven't done that in a while) I still have to get outside and do my yard work. (next door's also!) It's a rental and I keep it up for the owner. And then I decided to post on my blog. Whew! Finished the quilt up in the picture about a week ago. Got the idea from a little, little picture I saw in a magazine. Found the block directions and made my own quilt up. LOVE IT! It looks so old fashioned. The blue green material is from American Jane. Bought some, not enough, the Cottage ran out and it took me like 4 months to find more to finish the quilt.

Off to do yards now!

Saturday drive....

Started the day with the hubby going to the Ramona Quilt Show. Small show, but it was hoppin' with peoples.. Lots of ideas. Cute quilts.

Then we went on ahead to Julian. (The one picture is the little Julian jail.)It was apple pickin' season, we didn't stop for those we parked and went shopping. TONS of people had the same idea! The line to get a fresh pie was unbeleivable. Like a block long. If I liked pies, I would have waited.















All I wanted to do was pick out a pumpkin! I figured since it was the time of year, surely someone would have some. Nope! had to go ALL the way back to Ramona. Stopped at the one place we passed earlier in the day and got one. They also had a GIANT corn maze.I didn't do it, I'm too cheap! Kids were having fun though.

Fall...

Here are a couple of new things I just finished. My girlfriend Marian created this idea for a table runner. She did the middle part of the pumpkins and I did the borders and the stitching on it. Cute, cute, cute!



The quilt was one I had did on our weekend retreat from the cottage last month. Just finished quilting it last week or so.

give aways,....

Go visit Rue's blog http://ruespeanutbutterandjellylife.blogspot.com and take a look at her new kitchen! It's A-DOR-A-ABLE!!!!
then go to visit Cathy at http://romantichome.blogspot.com/ she's has a list of friends who are doing more giveaways.

I'm in the paper!!

Just had to share. Check out this article in the local newspaper.. Whoo-hoo...

http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/menifee/article_97ba1f42-3e32-5123-8ff7-458552e26b6e.html


They did an article on all my quilt displays that have I hanging in my library.
I don't know why, but it looks like you have to copy and paste the web address. Grrr...

FREEE!!!!!!

Everybody loves free stuff!


First....There is a new online quilting magazine and you can get it if you like.


http://www.quiltposium.com/


Second.... If you go to http://www.bhg.com/holidays/halloween/pumpkin-carving/pumpkin-carving-stencils-of-favorite-dogs/ and vote for your favorite breed of dog then you can download a stencil so you can make your Halloween pumpkin.

quilt show

Well, started off with going to the San Diego Quilt Show. small but nice. I'm used to Long Beach or Road. Wanted to spend money, but only 1 vendor was lucky. The Quilted Rose. Started talking and then we ended up driving to her store in downtown. Bought 2 pantographs and thread. The Quilted Rose was next door to Rosie's, so we had to stop in and see if there was anything I just couldn't live without. Couldn't find anything, well yes there was stuff, but I had no idea what to buy. All my projects were in my car, which we didn't take or at home. I wasn't gonna buy just anything.

Only took a picture of 1 quilt, none just said "WOW" to me. Took this because Michele I know is a Peanuts fan.

more displays...

So here are a couple more ways to put your quilts around the house. You can put them anywhere and everywhere. New ones and old ones!.

How do you display your quilts??

Here are just some of the ways my quilts are displayed in my house. I have many more, but I could only upload 5 pictures for some reason.

I know I dissapeared for a while, back to work, a funeral, company from out of state, projects, my back yard is getting renovated, and then of course FACEBOOK! I find myself on there quite a bit playing games trying to catch up to Kelly and then my sister's scores. Then I have my quilts, quilt guild, friendship group, etc. the list goes on.

Just finished a quilt last night called Fairfax County. LOVE IT!! Civil War materials. I wasn't so fond of it half way through, so many dang 2 1/2 " pieces, AHHHH! I'm glad it's done and can't wait to do the quilting on it.