Stitching Angel Hint ;-)

Awesome!
I have to say that my stitching angel I have been assigned to send to is an AWESOME stitcher and quilter!
Her work is outstanding!!! Just beautiful! Whomever receives from her will be so LUCKY!!
I sure hope she is not too disappointed with my efforts on her behave.
Hint Hint…she is located in Australia!
So I will be sending her 3 gifts all at one time…will also add a few extra treats!!
Make it worth her wait at least!!!

I just adore ‘some’ of the sewing accessories from Nancy Halvorsen’s
Easy Does It For Friends Book fromArt to Heart….;-)

You can get most if not all of the Easy Does It/ Art to Heart books from Erica’s.
I can recommend Erica’s as I have had wonderful service from them over the years.

Stop Me!

Oh my word!!!
No more. I will not buy anymore Candy Corn this year!
I do not know what is wrong with me…I never used to even like it that much.
Would buy it for Mama as she loved it. I would never eat any!
I bought a mix of the reg CC, some with choc on it along with the pretty lil sugar 24000000000 calories punkins in it.
I think Fall Mix was on the rather large bag I bought at Wal-Mart maybe 2 weeks ago to put in the vintage candy dishes.
I had also planned to fix up cute lil treat bags.
It is almost gone!
I am munching on it like nuts!!!! Which makes me nutzo!
All this time trying to eat low cal….warped I tell ya…. I am warped!!!

Well here is a stitchery I did with NO CALORIES candy corn!!!;-)

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Got Punkins!

Got my punkins. Yes!
3..1-lge(to me) 1-med ,1-small..did not get a load this year. ha!!
Put small one on the mantle.

Will use the others for my steps to be Jacks come the 31st.
Yes I know I could buy one of the fake forever kind, all ready cut out and with a light to plug in but hey I am just a traditionalist!! Maybe one day when I no longer can carve one without harming myself or others.. haaa!!!
I love cutting that top off, digging out those seeds and the guts as my kids used to call it!!
Set my lil candle inside in its cup…it flickers and glows just as it should…also that smell of that burning inside…well just part of the fun Fall holiday to me.
Same as at Christmas… yes I use some fake greenery and trees but will bring in fresh pine, cedar and holly for the week of Christmas!! Smells like Christmas along with the baked gingerbread.

The Great Punkin...

Off today to find our Great Punk'in... ha!!

Well it will be a great one to us anyway.

May pick up a couple along with some gourds. Don't know about any corn stalks.

Did not raise any this year and a lot of the local corn is already picked.

Hope everyone is having a FUN FALL DAY!!!

Check out this Quilter...

So Awesome ! Nancy is a trucker along with her lil fur pal Foxy!

Does her quilting/sewing in her rig's sleeper.

Gee...I whine about my small room at least I have a ROOM and it is not moving !! Ha!

Now I do hit the road some and sew but then again we are in a Class A motor home towing a car! So still not as small as a her space.

I am betting NANCY also gets more done then some of us do as well!!!

Now the up side is she gets to travel from one coast to another ...think of all the quilt shops she can pop into... well at least the ones where she can park!!!

Thanks batty for helping us all get to know the Truckin Quilter!!!

Fall Giveaway Alert

Be sure to pop on over to Sunny’s blog, Seam2BSewing and sign up for

her Fall Into Fall Giveaway!
If this link don’t work use one on my side bar.
She is doing 3 gifties!
Super things !!!
You will enjoy her blog too!!
So scoot on over and sign up today!!!

Check out all the quilty bloggers doing the Fall into Fall Giveaways !!!
Loads of cool stuff in the giveaways!!!

You can sign up if you want to do a giveaway on your blog and Debi will enter you in for a drawing too!!

Good luck and have fun!!!

The Quilter's Horoscope

The Quilter's Horoscope by Pauline Rogers
A humorous compilation of character traits of quilters according to their zodiac signs. Compiled by a quilting tutor with over twenty years experience teaching patchwork and quilting and zero years writing horoscopes.

Check it out and see what you are!

Just too funny! Here is mine:
Scorpio - October 24 to November 22 Being passionate Scorpios can be excellent quilters. When they rely on their natural intuition, they excel at choosing color and pattern combinations. Sometimes their compulsive nature can cause problems, as they leave projects unfinished in their quest to have the latest and greatest. When they stick with a project they produce supreme work. They always must have the most up-to-minute supplies or tools and tend to be jealous of others who may possess anything more recent. They have been known to sulk if they get frustrated in their aim to be unsurpassed. Nevertheless, their desire to have the best is what drives them to produce exceptional quality work. As they possess abundant energy they can do a large amount of quilting without even needing a break for a cuppa.

• Okay now let me see…excellent is NOT a word I would use describing myself.

• I AM compulsive though around fabric, patterns and mags…BUY TOO MUCH

• I don’t have to have ALL the latest widgets and gadget but sure would LOVE to HAVE the SR on my Bernina!!

• Sulk…well yeah I can do that too but NOT because my work was surpassed!

• ABUNDANT ENERGY???????? ‘cuse me… come again…me?? I don’t think so. Ha!!!!!

• Never miss my cuppa or 2 of afternoon tea ..no no no. ;-)
  
  Maybe I should read them all and make up my own… haaaaaa!!

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Cute Fun Halloween Giveaway.

Mary Ellen is having such a cute Oct 6th giveaway on her blog.
It is non sewing or quilting related but still fun!
Hurry on over check it out and sign up.
Tell her I sent ya!;-)

Great Magazine and new author to check out...

I was loaned some Cooking with Paula Deen magazines to look through.
Wow Paula has gotten more and more glamours lookin ! Haa!
I do enjoy her mag a lot.
Some of the recipes I know I will try at some point, others well maybe not.;-)
This mag not only has recipes in it also many neat articles to read and photos to see.
Check it out ! A year subscription would make a nice Christmas Gift.

Well in the July/August 2008 copy I came across an article about author Gail Fraser.
She writes a series of books called the Lumby book series.
Oh my the art work on them, which is done by her husband, Art Poulin, caught my eye!!
Then as I read about her books I have become intrigued by them. Lumby is a small town.
So looked them up online. Check her and the books out here.

I plan to go to my local library site next to see if they have a copy of Lumby Lines the first one.

Here available from Barnes and Nobles Online.

Boo!

My niece D was over Sunday and we came across some cheese cloth.
I was telling her about these ghosts I had made from it before.
Here are a couple pics.
Easy to do. Using the fabric stiffener.
You wet the cheese cloth then drape it as you want it over a balloon stuck onto a bottle or boss size soda.
Has to dry a while. Add the eye holes then made from black felt.
Then you can move them as you want.
Now I know I saved the ones I made that year but they seem to have VANISHED!!!
So be sure to enjoy them while they are around as they just may disappear as ghosts are known to do!!!!