Bulletin

Knowing my husband is going to laugh at me I am posting this anyway...because I WANT to!! In our basement on the wall above our computer desk is a electric box. I never liked looking at the ugly gray thing so I made new bulletin board to hide all that ugliness.
When I was all done hanging it to the wall Nathan said "Oh yeah another thing for you to blog about huh!!" and then laying it on thick he said "Oh, man (sarcasm very present) you should have done before and after pictures for everyone to see!" This probably concluded in me smacking him across the chest or something. Probably a bad habit of mine that I tend to do whenever he teases me, but hey he is my very capable man of the house so he can take a small smack every now and then.


I spent $2.00 for the boards and used scrapbook paper that I had on hand!!I did this one first because I needed somewhere to put all those little papers that seem to accumulate around the computer and I never have to look for my phone list again, they will be stuck right on the board!!

Cowboy Quilting

Here is the quilt I have been working on. I have to say I enjoyed it and for my first pieced quilt done completely by myself it looks pretty darn good!!!
Here's my blocks that I am moving back and forth to see which way takes to my liking. The process took a little longer than I thought. he he he he
The top quilt all done with two borders and all!! The borders were tricky because I didn't buy separate fabric to make the borders I used what math skills I have left and pieced my extra pieces of fabric together.

Now all I have to do is Batting, Attach backing fabric, Quilt, and then finally bind. Yeah I'll let ya know when I get all THAT DONE!!
I had to add this because it was one of those "That works perfect" moments. I had found this fleece at Joann's at only $3.50/yd!! Add that to a fleece throw I bought at Osco on my discount for only $1.50 and that makes an awesome little blanket. But what is cool is that it matches how I pieced my quilt and all the colors I had picked out perfectly. SWEET!!

If you can tell I added fringe to the top fabric and the store throw I bought had thread stitching around the edge so it made the blanket that much more cowboy style.

Stick EM UP!!

We have COWBOY FEVER around here. I told Nate that if we had another boy I was going to change the baby room into a COWBOY room. So since we are ( having another boy) I have put up a wall paper border and am working on a pieced quilt with lots of fun cowboy material to it. I'll have to post some pictures on those things later.

So what to dress my boys up in for Halloween . . . COWBOYS!! My mom had made them Real Leather Chaps the last time we were in Idaho. Combine that with a hat and guns to holster I had them sold!!

This is my good friend Melissa and her fun boys Ethan and little Blake!! Ethan was an awesome BATMAN and Blake is the cutest Lobster I have ever seen!! I told Melissa we should give him a stick of butter to hold!! We went trick or treating around my neighborhood. The boys had a blast and the decorations at the different houses were so creative. One house had you walk through their own cemetery and Hayden kept picking up the bones stuck in the ground and Ethan was the sharp shooter, gunning down anything that looked suspicious.



Hayden totally looks like Tony Stark from IRON MAN!! Watch out Robert Downey Jr. here comes your understudy!!