Finally Finished!

I told my good friend Amber that I'd make her a baby quilt for her newest child. (This will be her #3 and another girl.) I felt bad I never made a quilt for Amber, so this one had to be special. I agonized over what to make of the quilt(pattern and such) and I finally decided on a 9 patch, seeing as I'm almost an expert on making that pattern. I've made a couple other quilts before, but never quite made the whole thing. I always had to get my mom to do the binding, but I even did the binding on this quilt. I've been working on the quilt for quite some time and I finally finished it! I used a really pretty butterfly fabric and 12 solid colors and I embroidered crowns and butterflies into the solid colors. I found a pretty yellow for the inner border, I used the same yellow for the binding. I just love the color combination! I quilted(yes hand quilted) the butterfly squares and the yellow border. I actually just traced the patterns of flowers from the back fabric(Hello Kitty) with the thread. It's beautiful, and I hope Amber likes it. :) I can't wait to see what she'll say!

To the Zoo!

My doll Jess and her friend Mackenzie got to go to the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo today. Jess was super excited. (A little too intense if you ask me. Seriously, once you get her going...) Jess is totally a mischief maker and Mackenzie is so quiet. I felt kinda bad for Mackenzie today, she couldn't keep up with Jess even though Jess only had 3 hours of sleep last night! Jess got new pants to wear to the zoo, hence her staying up all night.(I think they turned out gorgeously!) I stayed up until 5 am just working on those pants. (It's a Liberty Jane pattern and it's fantastic!)

Zoo Pix 5-25-10

Motivation by midnight

I swear that every time I decide I want to do something it's after 8pm. I rearranged my sock drawer at 9pm, I want to sew something it's 10pm, I finally opened my new LPS - it's 10:30...
Of course I don't really have the time to complete everything I want to do when it gets so late. I start watching a movie at 1am!

Speaking of new LPS:
(Just don't mind Jess' legs in the pic)
7 new single pets from Target. I know, I know I said I hate the flat eyes, but at least these guys aren't doing anything funky with their flat eyes. The swan and hermit crab have normal eyes, not flat eyes. I had to get the cute LE purple swan, I mean, it is limited. Although the only limited I have yet to get(that I've found in the store) is the ugly dog with it's ugly flat eyes.(Shown in a former pic.) I really debated getting these guys but the eyes just don't freak me out like a lot of the others. The chinchilla though... I don't know why but it looks like it's been living on the street and hasn't had time to shave! I think it needs a little hobo pack and it'll be complete.(Hence me naming him Hobo.)

Standing behind the pets are Elizabeth and Jess - they are American Girl dolls. You can't see Tempe, but she's next to them. Tempe is the pretty blue-haired girl in my profile. I also have Samantha, but she resides in the other room.
I love making clothes for my dolls! I just found a pattern book of Edwardian women's clothes at the library. I'm gonna copy a bunch of patterns and try to make them... of course this is what I was taling about earlier - wanting to sew at midnight! I want to do it now, but I know I'll never finish it tonight so I'll wait 'til tomorrow... of course I'm such a procrastinator that I'll go through this exact speech tomorrow night!

Oh yea! **Update**
My niece is doing a lot better so I'm quite relieved!

Hospitals...

Yesterday my hubby and I went to his parents house for a 'birthday' dinner. His birthday was on Wednesday and we couldn't really see anyone during the week since he works all night. My in-laws live about 40 minutes away from us in Woodland Park. They made tacos and we were there til 9 o'clock when his mom got a phone call from Billy(my hubby's oldest brother) saying his daughter Sarah needed to go to the hospital. Now the distance from my in-law's to Billy's house is quite far, it's almost a 2 hour drive. My mother in law has horrible night vision and as it was quite dark she was afraid to drive that far. Billy had to be to work so he needed us to get her to the hospital. My hubby and I drove his mom down there and we took the kids to the hospital. (Sarah's brother had to accompany us of course.) At this time it was close to midnight. Sarah has a rash covering her entire body, she spiked a fever of 101 and her legs were swelling a bit. She had to be given an I.V. and my mother-in-law couldn't look at the needle. She was kinda squeamish so my husband and I both went in there with Sarah(she had to have an adult present) while the nurse tried to administer the I.V., we ended up having to hold Sarah down because she wouldn't stop moving and freaking out. She got the needle in and finally calmed down. She had to be given several antibiotics, including Benadryl, which made her sleepy of course. We were there at the hospital until almost 4am when we were finally told they didn't know what was wrong, it could be an allergic reaction, but they didn't know to what. They did however, tell us it wasn't an infection which is good. She was given a couple of prescriptions and we took everyone back to Billy's. We left my mother-in-law with the kids at their house and my hubby and I headed home. It was almost 6am when we got home. I hope Sarah's doing better, I haven't heard from anyone today.

You gotta start somewhere...

Obsess: (b-ss, b-)

v. ob·sessed, ob·sess·ing, ob·sess·es

v.tr.To preoccupy the mind of excessively.

v.intr. To have the mind excessively preoccupied with a single emotion or topic.

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I think I get it from my mother. Please don't ask for details of anything from the TV show Supernatural from her, she can tell you all about it. Then there's her mermaids and her writing...yea, gotta be where I get it from. I've got a few obsessions, they go in waves really. Right now I'm all about American Girl dolls and gift cards. 2 months ago you couldn't pry me away from Facebook if you tried. There's also the anime, the manga, the video games, the Littlest Pet Shop toys... Of course Hasbro's the one that turned me from LPS for the time being. It's those ugly flat eyes!! Sadly I must admit I've bought a few new ones with the flat eyes, but I wish they would just put them back to normal.Notice how cute the sea turtle is - but look at the messed up eyes on the dog and the panda - the flat eyes suck. And besides, that panda just plain freaks me out!

Earlier I mentioned gift cards. Yea, that's right I collect gift cards - so does my BFF. We've got thousand of cards, I haven't counted them up in forever! The problem is Ebay has more gift cards... I just bought 60 cards from Canada. ::sigh:: I'm such a dork!





Will it ever end? I kinda hope not...