Thursday March 18, 2010

The birds are in the yards singing, the sun has broke through and life is good. I have been spring cleaning, yesterday I worked for 5 hours in the washing room and put in a new chrome storage rake. I got most of the room reorganized, took some stuff to amvets and was totally exhausted.
I have not had a minute to sew all week. I just got this spring cleaning bug under my skin. Too much stuff in my house I never use. I think watching the Hoarders show on TV got to me. I am no way anywhere near to that, but my home could be alot nicer.
I got really inspired when I saw (scroll down).Bonnie Hunter's orphan block quilt I want to take all my blocks and do something like that also. You can believe me when I say I have more orphan blocks that I know what to do with. I had finished 10 quilts, well finished the tops and have been stacking them up so get quilted. If I had a house cleaner and a gardener and a pet sitter, a cook, and a personal assistant, I could just stay in the house all day and sew and sew. But I have to continue on with life's joys. The dogs want to go out and I have to get dressed. So I say to you, look at life as the glass is half full. Have a great day.




Nancy

Friday March 12, 2010 Lifes getting back to normal

Today is Friday. My life is getting back to normal. It has taken a lots of months to not feel so bad about Mr. Man. I always have to remind myself that if he needed something so much he had to steal, then let him have it and forget about it. "What goes around comes around"!. No more men in my life!. I have to be a lot more careful with these charmers. These Husserl's.....etc

I have been going out with my friends to dinner and doing lots of fun activity things also. I registered for a bridge class, met some nice ladies in the class. Today i have a job interview for a part time job. It is 21 miles away from where I live, but as my friend tells me, it is hard to hire a senior person who can only work part time. Also I have a income restriction from Social Security. They will only let me earn so much cash before they take away in SS benefits. I want to work part time to put a little normalness in my life and would like a little extra cash. It would be nice to find a job closer to home, but it has not worked out that way.
I have been sewing alot, and almost finished another 2 quilt tops. Yes I am still on the UFO Train.
I also got my finger nails fixed and my hands look and feel alot better.
Again I tell you "True friends are the ones who stay by your side when you are up or are down."
I have to run and get dressed. Have a great day.
Nancy

Monday Rainy Day March 8, 2010

Hi,
It is really pouring rain here and my animals again are hesitant to venture out into the world. I have not been a good blogger. I get busy with things and then let blogging go by the wayside.
I did however go on the San Diego quilt run on Saturday and spent way too much cash on material. Schick quilt buying quilt fabric when you do not need any needs to be started to us fabric addictions.

But Rosie's Quilt Shop in San Diego always has an employee stash sale during the San Diego Quilt run.
We here in San Diego Ca. are really blessed to have such a great quilt shop. She has about 10,000 bolts of fabric and the best employees working there. I have been trying to sew my self out of my quilt room for years and I think I am finally getting somewhere. Actually this is the first time in a very long time I have bought any large amount of fabric.
My new dell computer has been back in the shop again. I spend over an hour talking to dell on the phone this morning telling them I wanted to return the computer, but since it is paid for I will not get any of my money back. I will never buy another dell computer. I have to admit I used to like my old dell maybe it is the new operating s system, but I am over dell now!.

Compact computer is another bad one. I have a friend Mike at Central Sewing in El Cajon Ca.
He told me the next time I get ready to buy a computer to let him know and he will help me. Well it is 9:20 am here in San Diego Ca. and I still have not got dressed so I have to run along.
Nancy

Saturday Feb 27, 2010

I do not blog everyday like some of the quilting blogs. I have things that should get done everyday, like going to the apartment building and cleaning up trash around the building.
Everyday I do that and the next day it is back, like magic. I know I cannot complain, I am blessed to have the little extra income. It is work but I just cannot get why the people living there cannot pick up after their kids. Well that is the way it goes.
All week I have been crocheting a neck scarf to send to my niece in New York. I finished it last night and started another one in blue for her. No quilting last week. Now my friend just bought some curtains for his bedroom and wants me to come over and help him hem them. He was going to take them to the cleaners and pay them but does not feel he needs to do anything for me. Well he has been a friend for many years. but...........!

Today is the San Diego People of Color Quilt Show at 5145 Market sheet at the library there. Two of my girl friends have quilts in the show, so even if it is raining I have to go show support. Besides I donated a large bag of fabric for them to sale and make some $$ dollars for their guild.
It actually helped me, because I got to give away some fabric I probably will not use and they get to make a little money for their guild.

I put these antique blocks together last week but after I finished it I did not like that way it looks so today after I get home from the show, I am going to take them apart and do it different.

The dogs and cats in the house at looking out the door thinking what the heck is going on.
Why can we not go outside... oh.......it is raining. We are not going out in the wet, make it stop.

4 months and I still have not heard from Mr.Man, it really upset me, as I made him a great deal, paid him and he was suppost to come help me do something and then when I said OK come help me, he vaporized. That's men, or at least this one who tells me he is a good christian and reads the bible. Where in the bible does it say. "make a deal, get paid and then do not do what you said you would do...?" This is just how I feel now. So there it is.

I keep telling my self god has a plan for my life, so just keep trying over and over again.
Have a great week end.
Nancy

Saturday It is Raining

My wool scarf.
It is Saturday, Gretchen is coming over and we are going to sew and paint. It is always so quiet when it rains, not many people are out moving around. I took the dogs for a walk this morning, when there was a break, they were having a great time, but all off a sudden it started pouring, I ran home, but was drenched.
I picked up my niece from the airport last night, she came in from New York. She has grown into a beautiful lady. The first thing she wanted to do when she arrived in Southern California from New York City was go to A real Mexican restaurant. In New York the Mexican Restaurants are do not know how to make food like they do here in San Diego.

Saturday afternoon I worked more on my crocheting. I have been making a wool scarf.
I also found this great yarn at the thrift store, When I was at Jo Ann's I price it and it was much less expensive at the thrift store, so today I am going to go back and see if it is still there.
If I can not sleep I get up and crochet for a while and them I can go back to sleep.

Today I am suppost to go to dog park with the dogs. I am meeting my friend Dy there, she has a pug and I have little chi's.
I also tried to do a different layout on a quilt but it did not come out well, so today, this afternoon I am going to take it apart and start over. What a drag.
Well have a great day.
Nancy

Sunday January 31, 2010

Made alive, what happened to January....? I know it was just Christmas yesterday. Time flys by.
My little right finger is healing up nicely after being cut open by the rotary cutter. That really hurt.
I have been sewing, but only things already cut and waiting to be sewn. If I need any additional parts. I have to cut with scissors, No rotary cutters for me. Well not for awhile.
I refilled all the bird feeder, the rain has stopped for a time. The birds are all sworming the feeders, That is one of the pleasures of bird feeders. Seeing all the great birds enjoy the food.

Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right. Forget about the one's who don't. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a second chance, grab it with both hands. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would be worth it.

When if ever dell delivers my new computer I will have so many quilts to post on the Internet of what I have been doing everyone will think that is all I do, however, I have not been able to post a picture of one of my quilts for months.
Today after it warms up outside I get to go plant or rather re-plant the plum tree, my garden planted it but did a very bad job. And I paid him to do it.
Well it is almost 9:00 and I have to get running.
Go spend the day with someone you love and have fun.

Rotary cutter disaster at home

Tuesday night Jan 26, 2010 I was working away late at night and watching television, Not to be done while rotary cutter is in hand and .........your right cut right over my little finer into the nail bed. Can you believe how much blood there was.... alot.
Today is Thursday and I can finally look at it. I have been soaking it in warm water for two days and the pain has gone away a bit, but it still hurts.
Dell computer has yet again told me my computer is delayed. I called and they say apart is on the way to India from Japan, by sail boat... or something. Or maybe pony express, that will take a year.
Since it is paid for and Dell will not refund the money ... It has been almost 3 months since I order that computer, it was the day after Thanksgiving.....
I have been quilting but only sewing, no rotary cutter for me.... I have been sewing things already cut out, that just needs to be put together.

Mr. man has not talked to me for 3 months now.. since I called his Baby sister Consuelo..... the woman who started out as baby sister and I am sure has got into his................you fill in the blanks.
As I had said in the past it is hard loosing someone who you think is you friend especially when he works in the neighborhood where I live and we run into each other often.
Well who wrote "Braking up is hard to do" knew what they were singing.
I can only pray for him and hope that after he finished scamming me and hustling me he is happy with his life.
Yesterday I was at GTM at discount store for Costco and ran into a lady who was getting stuff for canning and asked her if she wanted to give me lessons to can. Now I think I have told you in the past my friend from Montana, Patty cans everything. I swear Patties ear must of been burning, because later that night she called me.
San Diego is really cold, there is snow up in the mountains and the cold air is blowing down to San Diego. It has not reached 70 degrees here in weeks. That is cold for San Diego.
Well got to get going, I am off to Rosies Quilt shop today, and then on to The Quilted Rose.
Have a great day, Sorry to dump so much on you in one day.

Saturday Jan 23, 2010

Saturday am, I made up my mind to get up early and start my chores. I posted my treadmil on the Craigs list, its gone!. I cleaned the Living room really well, done, Now I am going to go to Fresh and Easy and then come home and sew! I'll let you know how it went later.
Nancy

January 20, 2010 Wednesday

It has been pouring raining, raining and now it is going to rain more. I can only keep one room warn at a time, so I have been keeping the sewing room warmed up. Hopefully by the week end it will be warmer. Coldness is good in a way, it keeps you in the house and makes you bind all those quilts that you have no done before.
My handyman is coming over to help me dig a trench behind the garage to get the rain a water to drain away.
Yesterday I made a large pot of chicken soup, the dogs, and I really enjoyed it. It reminded me of when my mother was here and she always made great soups.
Since my return from Road to California I have had a head full of ideas, but as always I have to do maintenance on the apartments and houses and that takes away from sewing.
Well I have to get started on the things that I have to do. Hopefully this afternoon I will be able to sew some more.
Also yet again my computer has been delayed, it was supposed to arrive before Christmas, Now dell is saying maybe in February.

January 7, Thursday 2010

Thursday, 2 more days till the week end. Ya. Time goes by so fast, I can not believe it.
Yesterday I was watching a news cast and realized that 5 years has flown by since Toni Gynn retired from the Padres baseball team and it seamed just like just yesterday.
My tenants on Chalmers street need a new washing machine for their house, the old one which is only 2 years old broke. So there goes another (5) Five hundred dollars.
I finally got to go back to the ear doctor who said another month before I can get back into the pool and start swimming again.
However after the doctor appointment I went to lunch with Marilyn my friend across the street and then to the animal shelter and ended having a great day.
On the way to the animal shelter I drove down grove street, which has always been my short cut and Marilyn noticed that it was the street where my man works. Sorry that is the short cut way to the animal shelter.
I guess no more short cut, I may run into that bad person and that would not be good.
Today my plan was to get up and go work with the cats, but now I have to go look at washing machines and get a new one for the rental.
Plans can never be what you expected, that is why old Chinese saying "Flow with it".
Well have a great day try to accomplish something.
Nancy