My Favorite Quilt

Hello everyone! So, this is a post about my favorite quilt. I have posted photos of some of my other quilts but I don't think I have posted any photos of this one.
The top photo is the top of the quilt and the other photo has a corner of the quilt folded over that shows the backing. The top is a Double Irish Chain. This is a special quilt for me because it is the very first one I made. My mom is a quilter and she had been trying to convince me to try it. I was hesitant because I wasn't confident in my sewing skills. I was afraid that after a whole lot of work, I'd be disappointed with the end result. Then I found the backing fabric while browsing at the fabric store and loved it and decided I "needed" a quilt with it. My mom helped me strip piece the top, piece together the backing (including adding the border around the edges and mitering the corners!) and hand quilt it. When it was done I was AMAZED! I was proud that I had done it and happily surprised at how well it turned out. I was also hooked on quilting! That was the beginning of a new obsession for me. I have made quite a few quilts since but my first quilt is still being used. I had it on my own bed for a long time and right now it is on my son's bed (under his more boy-style comforter, more for warmth than looks LOL). So, that is my favorite quilt. My very first quilt. Thanks Mom for getting me hooked! Oh, and if you want to check out more quilts in the Fall 2009 Bloggers Quilt Festival please check it out here. Thanks for reading!

Happy October all! I just had to share something very cool with you. I just got my own font! It's my own handwriting and I'm very excited. Some of you may ask, "How do I get MY handwriting made into a font?" Well, check out this blog to find out.
I downloaded and printed the template, filled it in, emailed it and the next day I got an email containing MY OWN FONT! So cool! And for those of you who love collecting fonts as much as I do, you can download several FREE fonts at their site Sugar Frog Fonts.
I seem to be of the persuasion that one can never have too many fonts. Every time I think I probably have enough, I find new ones that I "need." LOL Hey, we all have our obsessions, right? So, here's a sample of my font!
Alright, I better get going and get to my to do list. Love to all!

Hello. Many of you know that yesterday was MoMo's 5th birthday. I can hardly believe she's 5 already! So, to celebrate we went to Chuck E Cheese last weekend. Had pizza and played games. Since I had signed up for the Chuck E Cheese email list, we got coupons and MoMo got a coupon for 20 free tokens for her birthday. If you plan on going to CEC then it's worth it to sign up for their email. I have a few pictures from CEC to share.
That last one is outside with the inflatable wand she picked out with the tickets she won.
Then yesterday was the day we did cake and presents. She got to take cupcakes to share with her class at school. After school, she wanted to decorate her cake herself so she spread the frosting and added some of her Littlest Pet Shop toys to decorate. She wanted a Littlest Pet Shop theme fr her birthday but unfortunately the party store didn't carry it. Instead we picked out an array of purple and pink supplies, which are her favorite colors. And she decorated the cake with LPS.






After the spaghetti she chose for her birthday dinner we had cake and ice cream (both vanilla flavor).
Here are some pics of her opening presents. This year she wanted Littlest Pet Shop and Polly Pocket things and that's mostly what she got! Lots of teeny, tiny pieces.
So, that pretty much covers it. Oh, except that Mom made MoMo her annual birthday dress. I don't have a photo yet so I'll post it later. Ok, then, guess I better go. Bye!

Hi all! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. We made another trip to pan camp and pan for gold. Left Saturday morning and got back yesterday evening. We couldn't leave until Saturday morning since Hubby has been working nights the last week. And that was nearly a problem since the campsites are offered on a first-come-first-served basis. We arrived and all the campsites were full! Apparently the Gold Prospector's Association of America was having one of their outings there. But luckily there was a group of people there who were leaving so we were able to snag that spot. And we had a productive time! This time instead of fishing out every small bit of gold from each panful, we'd pan it down to the black sand and gold then dump all of that into a bucket to bring home. Now we can just work the concentrates in that bucket and take our time to get the gold out. That way we we could process more material while we were there and just bring home the good stuff instead of lugging home a heavy bucket of dirt. It worked out well. I think we more than doubled our stash of gold. But I don't know for sure as we still have to process the concentrate we brought home. We bought a few more gold pans so we all had one. Both of the kids do a really good job panning on their own. Born miners! LOL And now I know why the old prospectors were all haggard and hunch-backed. All that bending over to pan sure isn't easy on the back. But we had a lot of fun and found some treasure!
On another note, I just wanted to share with you this picture. All of this cost just $6! Woo hoo! That is one box of Capri Sun, 4 boxes fruit snacks and 4 bags of granola clusters. I love a great deal! Well, camping always generates a ton of laundry so I've got to go get that all done. So until next time...

Hello everyone! I just got back from a grocery shopping trip. I'm pretty excited about the super deals I got at Safeway and I wanted to share. I found out about the Nature Valley Granola Clusters deal here. I ended up having at least 8 $1.00 off coupons after printing plus another that I received with a free sample I got at Target. AND I signed up for Cellfire and AOL Shortcuts and got more coupons added to my Safeway Club Card. If you don't know about Cellfire or Shortcuts, they are digital coupons that you can add to your club cards and when you check out and use your club card the coupon is automatically applied to your purchase. No cutting out necessary! Pretty cool. And you can't forget to take your coupons with you to the store! (I do that all the time) Anyhow, apparently some people have had problems with their Safeway accepting the coupons but I got 4 bags of the granola clusters AND once I was there, next to the granola they had fruit snacks with a similar deal. Buy 4 and get them at $1.50 each. I decided to get those as well, even though I knew I had coupons (at home) for them. Well, when I checked out, I had forgotten that I had also gotten coupons for those at Cellfire or Shortcuts (can't remember which right now) which were on my Club Card! Yay! Sooooo...I got the 4 bags of granola clusters and 4 boxes of fruit snacks for just $5.70!!! AND a Catalina coupon printed for a free box of Capri Sun!!!!!!!!!! That's what I call a deal. I wasn't sure after reading that some people weren't able to use their coupons if I would get mine so I just started with 4 granola clusters. But I'm totally going back to use the rest of my coupons now. And hopefully remember my fruit snack ones as well so I can get more of those, too. If you haven't had the granola clusters yet, I can for sure recommend the honey roasted peanut variety. Super yummy! So, there you go. Get some super yummy, super cheap granola clusters! And fruit snacks, if you like.
On another note, I wanted to show you a really cool thing I got at Walgreens. I had to take MoMo to the doctor as I was concerned she may have a UTI. The dip test came back negative but that's not the most accurate test in the world and they were going to do a culture as well to be thorough. But until the results came back they went ahead and put her on antibiotics to be safe. Of course, they LOST the sample and/or results but that's another story. Anyway, I went to Walgreens to get the prescription and it is a liquid. Normally we get a syringe to measure it out but you have to stick it in the bottle and when the level gets down some it's near impossible to reach the liquid with the syringe and it's a hassle. But the pharmacist at Walgreens gave me a system that uses a syringe plus a special cap to put on the bottle which makes it so much easier to dispense the medicine! Pics...and I apologize for their quality but you should get the idea.
I just thought that I'd pass this along in case any of you need to administer medicine to your little ones. Hopefully you won't, but just in case you might want to check out Walgreens and pick up one of their nifty medicine dispensers.
Well, that's all I've got. Talk atcha later!