Blogland waits for No one :)

I have been swimming in LIFE lately! :) It's a very good thing, but it has kept me from blogging about the sewing I love. Actually, it has kept me from the sewing I love too :) hehe! Anyway, I am getting back closer each day, so that is happy news!

This past month there were 3 birthdays in my dear little Zoo, not to mention the tail end of Christmas festivities, so keeping up has been a bit of a joke for me. But I am here and ready! I had better be getting wildly busy because I have 5, yes, count them, 1-2-3-4-5!!!, quilts to finish by June :). How's that for some needed motivation? I also want to play along with Jennifer on the Modern Mini Challenge, and I will start Swooning along soon too :) Gonna go for the gigantic swoon option!

I have still found a bit of time to thrift now and then and my vintage sheets are overflowing their shelves. This is only part of the one I have. Oh dear- gotta figure out something :). Cause there is no way to stop buying these amazing sheets. I just need to sell more pieces :) HA! Actually, it amazes me how many international customers I have had lately. It has been so cool to send these bits of vintage goodness all across the globe in the past few weeks!

And I grabbed a few new little goodies- who can resist a SALE??!!! I just *had* to buy it since it was on sale :)

And Aunt Edna, who can forget about her??! These are what my local Joann's had, and my dear friend Kaelin is sending me some gray dots from her neck of the woods :) YIPPEE!!!

Working on several quilt tops at the moment. I'll get photos as soon as they are pieced together! Until then, enjoy your sewing, and more importantly, ENJOY LIFE!!! It goes by too fast :) Sit back and bask in the sunshine! :)

Happy 2012

WOW! Just so much has been going on that I get bogged down in pressure about writing it all. Yup, I'm that kind :). I stress so bad about writing it all down that I avoid the Blogger Dashboard altogether :) HA! It helps it not build up too bad! But, now, since I'm here, I'll try to recap a few of the crafty things I have been working on lately.

I repaired a dear cousins quilt for her daughters- pink satin. I would have loved one of those growing up. It made me smile to make it usable again!

I have so many unfinished projects around here that this will be the year of finishing :) Love it!

I jumped on the One Little Word bandwagon and am loving it! I am NOT, and I repeat, NOT a scrapbooker in any way, shape or form. But this is something that really hit me, so I hope I can make it look fancy or at least a bit semi-pro! :) hehe! I chose the word "feel" for 2012. Well, actually, it chose me. As in feel joy, feel happiness, feel peace, feel calm, feel God, feel stronger. It's funny because I already "feel" those things, but I want to own them even deeper and understand them even more. I know that we are here to learn and grow, and part of that is for me to "feel" even more than what I already do. So that's why this word wouldn't stop nudging me :). I began my class over at Big Picture classes with Ali Edwards, and she's already amazing! I am excited for this experience- I think it's going to be really neat! Here's the self-portrait from the first page of the album we make from the class this year.

I also finished up my first year of Project 365 for my family- a picture a day, with a small journaling explaining the moment! Like I said, I am a terrible scrapper, but this I can do :). It's so fun to walk by my living room and see the book of memories and photos from 2011 looking at me! I have already gotten my binder for this year- waiting on the innards now :) hehe! If you haven't ever tried it, it's fun and becomes a habit taking a fun photo everyday. Messes and all :).

I got my Christmas gift fabric in the mail- all but one little piece :). I was able to get the whole line of Howell's Woodlands- oh, I could order bolts of it!!, some Domestic Bliss- the aqua flower and a few of the beads, my favorites from Half Moon Modern- chevrons, big dots, scissors, and another random print too. So I am set for a while- just to find the perfect project for them!

Have 2 trees left to take down from Christmas and then my house will be back to "normal"- ha! Life is NOT supposed to be normal- it's definitely not here :) And I love it that way!