Finishes...

Finished my BOM from Laundry Basket.. “Super Bloom”. It was a 12 month program. 

I machine appliquéd everything on. Picture was taken at night so lighting is not that great. 


Glad to have this one done.  It’s beautiful but it was a beast!

One of the guilds I am in, has a what they call a ‘brown bag’ every month. Basically, whoever signs up, picks a block that they want everyone to do. When it’s your month, you make a copy of directions  for each person that signed up. You can include background fabric or main fabric or nothing at all. I wanted all my blocks to have same background so I included it in with the directions. 

Love the backing... love the quilting... even all the variety of fabrics from each person turned out cute. 

I have always wanted to do a chicken quilt. Have no idea why, but thought it would be a cute quilt. 


I can now say I have done it. It’s super cute, but what the he** am I gonna do with a damn chicken quilt! So...... my co worker from CA that just moved to Texas... that wrote a book on chickens... that LOVES chickens..... she gets it! Making a label today is on the agenda.... in between QOV this am and quilt guild meeting tonight. 

Merry Christmas in February Bonnie!

Cow corner...

How many of you have a ‘cow corner’ where you live?

This is on the corner I turn on to get to my way to my nephews house.

I have to pull over and say hello whenever they are out. They just stand there  and listen. 

Kelly wants to make a little sign that sits over this one, “Cow Corner” @ Oak Grove Farm

In between the 2 houses... we have “Cactus Alley” (endless acres of cactus)... ‘donkey pond’ (4 donkeys that graze around a tank all day)... and “cow corner”(hundreds of cows)

I am so loving living here in the country!

Hobby Lobby...

Have you seen this... so sad 

Bummer. Big time. 

Picture test...

UPDATE.....

It works! Yahoo!

Gonna see if this blog works for pictures..

Little re vamp of the front bathroom...

When we moved in , I made it livable until I could do more. 


I had the time now, so I went for it. If it blog pictures works, I’ll come back and update with details.

Ok!..... new paint all around... Sherwin Williams “Allibaster”... got rid of the southwestern green/blue. fixtures were rotted out and in order to update and replace we had to take wall surround down to get to plumbing. So we replaced the surround, it was all yellowed anyways and needed to be replaced. Tub is in good shape, we kept that. New Pfister fixtures... I gave Mark a picture of board and batten I wanted and he came through. I painted it with Heirloom Traditions paint (which I LOVE) for this project. I wanted the wall a light gray and cabinet darker.  Light was too light so I made a mixture, didn’t make enough first time around and it came out darker 2nd time.  So wall is darker than I wanted because I kept ‘fixing’ it. New shower curtain from Target, some hooks for new towels. I painted the shower curtain pole to match. Made a little board to put across and stained it.  presto.... it’s done!

Busy bees....

UPDATE>>>>> for some reason... program has said I reached my limit of pictures.... sorry about this... I’ll work on it later...What apps do my followers use for blogs?? And has anyone had this issue yet? Every January 1st, I have issues.. every year!

We’ve been so busy here at the house.

My nephews girls... asked me to show them how to quilt. Oh boy... sure...let’s just say it was a blast! They loved it, jumped in with all they had, conquered and asked for more!

Their first project was a quilt for each of them. They picked same pattern, but a little different fabrics 

This is Madeline’s...

And this is Grace’s..

Then they wanted to make a Christmas quilt for their brother... ok! They picked the pattern out, I took them to store to pick fabrics and they had a blast! Here is Isaac after opening it on Christmas Day.

Then... they wanted to make one for Dad... so they wanted a deer panel, went shopping for a panel and for backing,  couldn't find the exact one they were looking for so we ordered it but was delayed, of course just like everything else in the world and then dug thru my fabrics. We started the 23rd, the day it came in and got about 98% done till we had to stop for dinner. Then sickness came...

So it WILL get finished soon! Pictures to come.

Then.... MOM needed one... she had eyed one of mine.. commented every time she walked by... so I whipped one up that was identical to mine... and.... I forgot to take a picture.

Here is mine, hers is a little different.

Then....... if that wasn’t enough... they wanted to make rice bags for EVERYONE! So we made about 6 of them..... THEN........... I took them shopping so they could get presents for family. Accomplished that! Wrapping happened and presents delivered. 

I made a quilt for Kelly also... but forgot to take a picture of that also.

So.... there is more but we’ll save that for another post..

Happy New Year everyone!

Garden ready....

I have a wonderful winter garden going this year. We had a couple of low temps at night for a few days and it  made me get a head start on getting the garden ready for winter.

I have 3 short beds, spring mix, baby carrots, kale, broccoli, 3 types of lettuce, cucumbers, butternut squash, spinach and strawberries with a dwarf pomegranate tree at end. All of this is on this side.


This side has 2 tomatoes and yellow onions and then in the back bed, which I don’t have a picture has 6 different peppers, a different/another type of broccoli and  2 ‘visitor’ tomatoes. 

I used PVC pipe and this plastic drop cloths, which are a little heavier and all the clamps I could find to hold them on.

I still need to find something to cover my Manderine Orange tree until it gets accustomed to the weather out here. Most likely just for this winter. 

I have the greenhouse all ready to go just have to put the heater in when needed. So pretty much all plants have been taken care of. They are all loving this cooler weather for sure.

Retreat time...

Found a retreat here in Texas and talked a friend into going with me. They cut the # of people in attendance in half.  We were seated every other booth and had to wear our masks if we got up and walked around. They went above and beyond to keep us safe.  

First off... look at this iron! It’s a heavy duty sucker... works awesome... AND.... it has my maiden name on it! ‘KNAPP’.... and Monarch... when I went to High School... I was a Monarch! They had these at every ironing station... they are not cheap either!

View out the back patio.

Fourth of July quilt done.

Christmas quilt finished.

This one with the X’s...I picked up at an estate sale.. I finished it up. 



Finished the little one up and gave it away to Charity group. Out sewing bee has been extra busy the last couple months. We have finished over 50 quilts. We have done walker bags, bibs, marble mazes, baby quilts, 35 pillowcases  just to name a few things. Sandy and I  distribute these to various places on each Wednesday. Busy, busy.. we only started keeping track of these since around September. 

Halloween...

Tried some Pinterest ideas this year. Spider web pillows. 

Little Frankenstein pillows... this was actually a Pinterest fail.. turned out nothing like the picture.

Little Halloween quilts made just for the swing... with a little spider sewn on. 

Take a look at this dinosaur. Found him in someone’s front yard.. I really LIKE him!


Then we took my nephews family to pumpkin patch. 

So much fun!

They just moved here to Texas a couple weeks ago... it is just so exciting to have Family here.... just need more of them to follow!

Well.....

It has been a long time....

I have been quite busy here in Texas... I am just going to jump back into October. There is a lot that i will skip over but Here are some more QOV. I will try to get you caught up. I am up to 50 now that I have either sewn up and or quilted for QOV. 

There are a couple more I didn’t show you, but it could take a while. We were told at our last meeting that are area is all caught up on honorings. Which is wonderful news. There was a long list of people on the waiting list, but our area is all caught up. We are working on helping surrounding areas up now. Still over 500 people waiting in the state of Texas. 

I was also the lucky recipient to Kim Diehl’s cleaning of the closet. I am honored to be the lucky person to receive it. 2 huge boxes came in the mail a couple weeks ago with like 45 yards of fabric! This is going to help out tremendously. She also got in touch with Henry Glass and they are sending me 2 bolts of 108” backing. Can you yell YAHOO with me!

So this is all for today, I will try to post tomm and get you caught up some more.