A Cat, Kids and Quilting!

Hello and Happy Thursday!  It's a beautiful sunny day and a day off for me...a non scheduled work day I should say.  Tomorrow is supposed to be one too but I have to go to a course.  I'm picking up Miss Lyla today for the night and Poppa is going to grandparent tomorrow while I'm gone and then we will take her back to Calgary since it's her Dad's weekend to keep her and Daughter1 is moving.  We also get Gordon...the dog.  hahaha

Here is Molly....all grown up but still wants to sleep on my face!  This was taken a couple/few weeks ago and thought it was kind of funny so here you go!

I've been spending quite a bit of time in my sewing room (woot woot!)  I finished this stitchery and then had to paint and antique it.  I was so scared I would ruin it but I love how it turned out.....now to frame it.  It has since been pressed and the colors are much better than in this pic:

I also made this lap quilt.  Again, the fabric is nicer than it looks....bought that fabric in Slave Lake BEFORE we moved to High River!!!!!  It's a fast and easy quilt pattern....and too big for my new frame to quilt it.  After Christmas I will extend the frame....after shuffling a few things around, because it's quite useless at 5 feet.  Small stuff I am more comfortable doing on my regular machine.

Got a bunch of mug mats done for the gals at work:

And we had a dump of snow last Friday!  It's gone now......we even had +14C weather on Monday!  It's a bit slick on the driveway but the roads are wonderful!!

Finished an advent calendar for Mr Jude (binding is now done!).....Miss Lyla's is in the mail...to me to be done!  I didn't like the other one I have.  Must get to filling them before I hand them over....by the end of next week!!!!!  😳

On Sunday we popped up to St Albert to pick my quilts up that Kim dropped off (she did such an amazing job quilting them!!!!!!!  Now for a binding marathon!!) and I got to visit this little guy and his parents!  We brought Daughter1 and Lyla with us as well. 

Love seeing this busy little boy!  This is a rare photo of him standing still!  😃  He gets excited when company comes......LOVE him with my whole heart......both of these kiddos fill my heart to the brim! Needless to say Poppa and I were tired Sunday night!!!!

Well I have Christmas tunes playing and should continue with laundry.....want to spend some time in the sewing area before I leave for Calgary!  

Enjoy your day!!

PS:  Weight loss is going GREAT!!!!!!!!  Just over 16 lbs gone!!!!

Goodbye October....Already!

The month of October has come and gone.  Thankful for some mild weather for the last couple of weeks.  Thankful for family.  Thankful for our good health.  Thankful for the beauty around us.

This picture was just taken with my cell phone so doesn't show the great colours and details or the field with mountains in the background and the chinook ridge (clouds) coming last week. 

My latest funky nails:

Last weekend a few fellow quilters and I, went to a sale at Beaver Creek Mercantile.  It was a fun trip!!

I made a mug rug and bought this mug for Diane (in the above picture holding the bag).  It's her birthday tomorrow....she's a fellow EA at the school I am working at and yes, she has chickens! It looks very wonky in the pic and kind of ripply but it's not....weird!

Soooooooo I did another rearrange in my sewing room.......to make space for......

this!  My friend Sue gave it to me because she got a long arm machine.  This set up was given to her so she passed it on to me!  How lucky eh???  We drove to High River last Sunday and came home and set it up....except I didn't have the power cord for the sewing machine!!!!  Sue has popped it in the mail so I will have to wait to play with it.  She had trouble with the tension so I will have to take a look and clean and oil it to see if I can get it working okay.  Nice to keep it at five feet instead of ten as ten would never fit.  I can't wait to quilt the pile of small projects I have waiting!

Halloween was this week.....two Halloween days at school....gotta love kindergarten!  I was happy when Wednesday was over!  Here are two adorable trick or treaters!!!!!.....

Not so adorable but the EAs all dressed up as "Things" from Dr Seuss.  Not very figure flattering but it was fun!

It tried to snow today but didn't amount to much!  I hope it doesn't either!!!  I know it's that time of year (September was way too early!) but I can't say that I am ready to drive in it, or shovel it........

Well off to bed!  Hope I can fit in more stitching tomorrow.  Son2 is here for the weekend.  Nice Hubby will have company when he goes in the coffee in the morning!  hahaha