Isis's Quilt

Well the top is done and quilted :) I finished up the last little bit of quilting on it today, I even got around to making the binding. Tomorrow I will sew the binding to the quilt and start hand stitching it down. She is going to be so happy - she's been waiting on me to finish this off for quite awhile now and I figured I had better get my butt in gear before she outgrows the darn thing LOL :)

Here you can see a close up of it. It looks so much better in person. As soon as I get it finished off it will be put back to go under the tree for Christmas. Christmas is going to be very slim this year so I hope that I can get a quilt finished for each of the kids as their big gift. In a couple of days I'll be pulling out Cheyenne's Sampler quilt and finishing that off. The string quilt will go to Wade and the Orphan Block Quilt will go to Phoenix. I don't know what else I'll give the kids this year but I'll figure something out :)

Here you can see the binding, I didn't have enough of one fabric so I made it scrappy. I hope it looks alright on the quilt, I didn't have any of the fabrics that I used in the top available so I just used some that I thought would look good with it. Well I have a bunch of homework to do and it's all due by the morning so I guess I better go get it done and quit playing on the computer.

I love the Fall

There is nothing that I enjoy more in the Fall then sitting in front of a nice warm fire on a chilly night ! I thought I would share a few photo's of the fire that we had last night. The kids had a blast roasting hotdogs and marshmellows.

Cheyenne's Progress

It took Cheyenne forever to pick out a pattern that she wanted to do. But in the end she choose a cute basket with flowers in it to applique.

We are using fusible web for this project.

I don't think either one of us realized just how many little pieces there were. Cheyenne didn't think she was ever going to get through tracing and cutting the pieces.

This girl loves to iron fabric :) Even when I am working on my projects Chey does all of the ironing for me . I will post some more of her progress in a couple of days. She wants to get a bit more done on it today as it's me day off and we are having a sewing fest LOL !! If we get a good bit done today I'll post progress pic later on tonight.

Worst Luck Ever

So I must have the worst luck ever with Ditial Camera's. I have had this one less than a year and tonight when I went to go upload the progress pic's on my Sunbonnet Sue's I realized that the darn thing was broken. Isis is the culprit I believe as the part that you plug into the computer looks as though it has been chewed on. So I'll be off to Walmart to spend only who knows how much on a new camera.Needless to say I am NOT impressed but where she is only 5 there's not much I can do about it other than to give her a stern talking to about touching things that don't belong to her :(

However on a much brighter note Cheyenne has decided to help me reduce my fabric stash. Today she pulled out a ton of fabric and announced that she was making a Wall quilt for her new room. She spent awhile hunting through my quilty mags and found a pattern that she liked ( with some tweeking of course ) . She spent the afternoon fusing, tracing, cutting and ironing ! She has 2 of the 4 needed blocks together but decided that the blocks were lacking something. It took her a wee while to figure out what it was, then she took a look at my Sue's and decided that she wanted Momma to add some buttonhole stitching to her blocks. So I guess I'll put my Sue's on hold for a couple of days to do the buttonhole stitching on her blocks. I will have some photo's of both mine and Cheyenne's progress for ya'll as soon as I get another camera up and going.I feel very lucky to have such a sweet and talented daughter like Cheyenne!!

Wade Painting

Delwin built me this Rabbit pen after one of my failed attempts at building LOL :) Me and Wade are hard at work getting it all painted up. My little man is growing up so fast , he will be 7 at the end of this month. My 2 male rabbits will go into this pen, however I need to finish painting it and get the top and doors on it. I will post more pics after I get the bunny's into it.

Cheyenne's Flower's

Cheyenne has been a busy little bee here the last few days. She had me go to WalMart where she picked out these flowers and also a couple of Rose bushes. I think she did a wonderful job on them and she is very proud of herself. These will look great in about a month or so when they all fill out! Not to bad for a girl of 11 :)

Sadie Girl

This our new baby Sadie girl . I bought her last Saturday , she is a 1/2 pound Chihuahua. Unknown to us she had a really bad case of pnemonia ( spellings probley off on that ! ) I have about lost her a few times now but I think she is finally on the mend. I'll post more pic's of this sweet little baby in a few day's . Y'all just please keep her in your thoughts that she is able to pull through this .

Cheyenne's 11th Birthday :)

Well all my big girl has turned 11 , ugg I'm feeling old now ! She had a wonderful day , she got a DS & a game with it , lots of jewerly & a few purses.

Here are some pic's from mine and Isis's trip to Maine back in April. Me & the little mouse had a blast. I was very surprised how well Isis took the 2 day car trip there and back. Though she did sleep most of the way. It was great to be able to see the family. Not much in Gardiner had changed , I had kinda expected things back home to be a little diffrent , Gardiner really hasn't grown much . I just heard today that my kid brother Corey is expecting another baby !!!!! Yeah , I hope that Isiah gets a little sister . BTW , Isiah just turned 1 year old last month . Corey Isiah Reeealy needs a baby sister !

Jazzy

Jazzy pitched and won the 2007 ASA Softball State Championship game 1-0. Jazzy pitched a three hitter & had a 14 strikeout game to win it all!

FYI history about Jazzy and her love for the game of SOFTBALL:

Since 2003, Jazzys' team have finished 12U States with runner up twice. In 2005 at 14U her team were State Champions.Her team only played one year at 14U. In 2006, they moved up to 16U and at the New England Regional Championships had a runner-up finish. This year they were the 2007 16U State champions, and a third place at the New England Regionals, held just this weekend. She is blessed to have been surrounded by a very talented group of kids in this area and they are only selected from this CAYSA league. Where as the teams that they face in States and at the Regionals are all-star teams selected from all over the states represented and not just from their respective leagues!!!!