Long beach International Quilt Show returned home safe

Hi,
I have returned from the Long Beach International Quilt show safe. The dogs have had a vacation at the Bark Park kennels, They cannot wait to go back. I was told they played all day until they finally dropped at night and went to sleep. So now I know I can go away and not worry about Freddie and Ginger. They cats were also well looked after by my neighbor...
I know everyone is hot to know how much I spent... not much. I bought a new ruler called The Binding tool . It makes binding the two ends together perfectly easy.
I also invested in some chicken fabric, I cannot resist a good chicken fabric.
There were so many vendors there with so much to see and look at, it is a bit overwhelming.

Top 10 Reasons To Try A BOM (Block-of-the-Month) Project:

If you've never tried a block-of-the-month quilting project, this is a great time to consider one! BOM's, as they're called, are popular for lots of reasons, and I have them here for those who need a little extra encouragement! The project is broken down into smaller, more attainable goals, so you'll enjoy a feeling of accomplishment each month. Some shops offer pay-as-you-go pricing, so you can more easily budget for a major creative project. You'll enjoy the camaraderie of those with similar quilting interests. You can avoid the stress of last-minute marathons sessions at your machine. It's another fun excuse to visit your favorite quilt shop on a regular basis! Many BOM quilts are designed with a variety of block styles, so you can master different ones and expand your overall quilting knowledge. By working gradually, you'll be able to control the usual sewing room clutter when working on a project all at once. Blocks & cut pieces can be stored in clean pizza boxes, plastic zipper bags, or other methods. The month-to-month pace of the project allows you to immerse yourself in each section and focus on it differently than you would when you make an entire quilt at once. The chances of ending up with yet another UFO are lessened because you can see your progress - a BOM quilt project has a beginning, a middle and foreseeable end! Marcus has lots more BOM's in the works for 2010 - at least one is sure to suit your style and your schedule! So who is ready to start a block of the month project with me? Nancy

July 24th Sunday

Hello,
It is early Sunday, I spent a heavenly day yesterday with Diane, we went to see a movie "Super 8 " at the El Cajon Parkway Plaza. It was actually fun sitting in a cool theater watching the movie.

I have 2 quilts ready to go to get quilted, one is a cat quilt, Disappearing 9 patch, here is the picture of part of it.
For years and years now, more than I would like to tell, I have been collecting cat fabric and now I have every cat fabric ever made....That is how the disappearing nine patch quilt came about.
The other one is a star quilt, with no name, I just made up the pattern really just started making stars and put them all together.

Quite a while back I noticed that a large number of persons use their blog to complain about life in general, but i promised I would not do that, but in all blogs that i read some of it comes out.
I need a wife, well a good house keeper would do just fine. A cook, someone to run all my errands around town, pick up and drop off things.
Bath the dogs, comb the cats, water the yard... Oh well.
Here is a picture of my cat Lucie, she was a Ferrell cat, however now is the sweetest cat, who only wants neck rubs.

The Dogs in my house are going a bit crazy, there is a motor cycle group gathering up in Jamul area and the noise from the motor cycles going down Campo Road is making everyone in the house act strange.
The Blue Jays outside are chasing a cat around the yard. They probably have a nest out there up in one of the trees. It must be the motorcycles making so much noise on highway 94 going east....

Well I have had enough fun with notes for today. Have a wonderful day. If you are in The southern California area, go to The International Quilt Show in Long beach CA. It starts July 28th 2011.
There will be a bunch of vendors, wonderful quilts.... So many nice things to look at... But no cats or dogs to see and pet and play with. As my day goes on I may be back with more stores.

June 26, 2011

Today I feel like I have been beat up, then hammered. Yesterday my good friend Charlie came over and helped me cut down a palm tree in my upper yard. I used muscles that I never knew that I had. My shoulders hurt, my back hurts, my lower leg hurts. When I finally told him I had to stop I had done enough, he still wanted to work for another 2 hours. Thankfully to day is Sunday, After I return home from church I am going to go straight to my sewing room, and I am locking the door.
I have so many projects I just cannot be sure where I am going to start.

My little dogs had so much fun outside yesterday helping cut down the tree, they were both knocked out dead to the world by 7:30 pm....and today they are sleeping again.

Well I have to get going so this is just a short little blur on the way out the door.
Have a great day.

Monday, May 23, 2011

2 Days and Counting

I have been in Paralegal classes since last August 2010..The program at Cuyamaca College is very time consuming, There is always home work, reading and research to be done, in addition keeping up with the new laws and legal happenings both locally and national. 2 Days until finals are over. I can start blogging again, I can go into the quilting room again. I can start working in the yard again and clean the house. Only minor house keeping has been taking place recently. It will be in tune to to getting out of jail. Do not misunderstand me I have really enjoyed the experience.

I have about 30 quilts in my head that I want to work on, 25 quilts that are waiting to be quilted, and probably another 15 that are partly finished that need to be done. Any volunteers to come help. The newest fashion is for older quilters to have a stash sale, I have been thinking about that also. I have so much material I could open my own fabric store..
I have not taken any new pictures of quilts, as I had not been doing any quilts. So I'll say bye for now and go back to studying for finals.
Have a wonderful blessed day.
Nancy

March 21, 2011

I never can believe that time goes by so fast. It was just yesterday that I went to the Imperial Valley, Ca, desert quilters quilt show and had a great time looking at those quilts.
We also went over to calexico swap meet and walked around. That was very interesting.
To arrive in the Imperial desert you have to drive 8 east from San Diego over the top of the mountain. It was 65 when we left my house but up top of the hill it was 23 deg. that's right, cold as ice cubes.
Large 18 wheelers were parked up top waiting for it to warm up so they could be on the way. They were covered with snow, it was quit a site.
Here is a picture of Ginger the most wonderful dog out running in the desert which by the way was a blistering 72 degrees. If only you could see her smile. Dogs and cats do smile... I see it all the time on my animals.
After I got back I went to memory lane Quilt shop they have moved so contact them before you go see them.
My paralegal glasses are coming along-it is a lot of work, but I have learned so much.
Mr. man and I are back to talking to each other, life is easier with a pal, only 16 months since we have spoken. Way to long.
Well I have a date at the library, so I have to run along, Have a great day, go sew a quilt together and then donate it to the people in china that have lost everything.

Nancy

Feb 21, 2011 Imperial County Desert Quilters guild

Sunday a.m. it is 5:03 am I am up and all ready to head over the mountain towards El Centro California, otherwise known as Imperial County in the California desert. The sunrise over the mountains was beautiful. When you live in the city and often do not get up early you forget what a beautiful sunrise looks like. The roads were iced and we were driving slow so we got to see things.
The sky out in the desert was so big, I could see forever.
We also wondered over to Calexico near El Centro and went to a swap meet. No one spoke English, all Spanish speakers..I stopped at a gas station and asked directions and even the gas station person did not speak English.... well that is life near a boarder town.

The Quilt show was nice with some very well done quilts. Not very big but fun to go to.
The best part is going for the drive down to El Centro and seeing what you can see.
Now it is Monday and I have to get back to the books. The house needs a little cleaning.
Have a great day.
Nancy

February 30, 2011 Sunday

Hello,
I cannot believe time has passed so fast. The holidays have come and gone, The new year has come and gone also. School at Cuyamaca College has again started and I am not ready. there is so much to do. It is amazing that so many students remember you from the last semester.
Freddie the dog,

See that is him, he just escaped and decided to go to Faith Chapel Church fortunately there was a nice man who called and told me Freddie wanted to attend church, and asked me to come get him. A few months ago I bought all the animals name tags with my telephone number on them. If the screen door is not shut all the way out he goes.

One thing that did happen over the holidays is that I got alot of quilt projects finished. I got to spend alot of time with my friend Gretchen.
I did alot of house cleaning, yard cleaning, and mental cleaning. Mr. Man the swindler is totally gone. I have not seen him for months. It is very clear when someone has departed how the truth will come forward, at which point you can then see clearly what was really involved in that relationship.
I all most always have so many quilt ideas flying around in my head it is hard to think, but with school I now have to concentrate on the law. I am in a class with Judge sturgeon's from El Cajon, Ca. called Civil Litigation. We are required to draft a Complaint, an Answers and then a Interrogatory. That is alot of work for one semester.

Well Freddie is barking again at a cat, better go rescue the cat.
Have a great Sunday.
Nancy

El Paso - Marty Robbins

Marty Robbons, what a great singer and voice he had. I always enjoy sewing with him playing.

Judy Laquidara

I was reading Judy Laquidara's patchwork blog this morning about how the tote bags are multiplying.
I looked in my closet and in the quilt room and she is right, We have more tote bags than I could ever use. I used to keep a bunch in the back of the vehicle so when I go to the grocery store I would have bags, but then the back of the 4 runner always looked so messy and I returned then to the closet. I think that I could stand outside the grocery store for a week and hand out free tote bags and still have a bunch left over. Most of my friends are in the same position also.
Many cites are are now banning plastic bags, so I think it would be a great idea for all of us quilters to hand out all of our extra tote bags we have stored in the spaces around our homes.
We could call it the Quilters tote bag give away.
I have been sewing up a storm in between school semesters and have finished 5 UFO's that stand for unfinished objects. It is actually quilt squares that I started and never finished. I am going to try to sell those quilts at the San Diego Quilt show this august.

My bad cold is finally getting better. I have had it since 3 days before Christmas and have been
home now for 10 days with this bad cold. Oh Well everyone else has it also. Even one of my cats had to go to the Vet as she was sick. Nothing to do but keep her in the house and warm.
Well today is the first week of the new year and I really have to get something done today.
Have a great week.
Nancy

Wednesday December 8, 2010

I believe that I have told you, I was going to a Junior College in Rancho San Diego, called Cuyamaca College. I have been enrolled in the Paralegal program and just turned in the last paper. What a relief to be done. The only other thing to do is to go turn in some borrowed equipment.
To celebrate, yesterday I went a friend to a quilt shop in Chula Vista, Ca, that is south of San Diego. It was fun to just look around and enjoy other quilters works. I think I am ready to just go sit in my quilting room and sew for a week with no interruptions.
The other thing I am going to do today is go to the gym and swim the the pool.
I have been so stressed everyday thinking about what is due next for school.
There are so many quilt patterns floating around in my head that need to be sewn it is hard to think of what to do first. Maybe I should just spend a week finishing UFO'S, ( unfinished objects)

Everyone else in the neighbor hood already has their Christmas decorations up on their homes, but not me, I like to be the last one.
I have to make a run to the metal recyclers to take some metal stuff from the apartments.
Spray the back yard with weed killer, around the base of the house. Clean up the upper driveway, and throw a bunch of junk into the dumpster. I would like to do a big clean of the quilt room, and donate some stuff that I will never used to the goodwill, or salvation army..
and do not forget to clean out the back of the vehicles. Well I guess that is the end of that semester break. I forgot about Christmas cards, they all have to go out.

I would like to go put a Christmas reef on my mother grave, and one on my favorite cats grave, Goldmine. There is only 17 days until christmas, so I better put myself into high gear or overdrive and go for it.
Have a wonderful Christmas, and a happy new year.
Nancy