Friday...already!

The week sure has flown by.  What they say is true "time flies when you're having fun!"

It's been a hot, fun filled week.  Tomorrow is the quilt show in Eureka then we head for home on Sunday.  I sure hope I can pack my purchases so they don't take up the whole truck bed!  LOL. It's raining today which is a nice reprieve from the heat but I'm sure the quilt show organizers are a bit nervous.  I sure hope it's nice tomorrow!!!!!  It's so dry down here I'm thinking some people are happy to see the rain.

I seemed to be on a bit of a fall/Halloween kick.  The top I've completed is Halloween fabrics.  The pattern is a free one that Marla brought.  Each block is made with a fat quarter:

Then I bought this fabric for a pattern in the book Loose Change where you use a special ruler for cutting:

But then I bought these shoes which got me out of the fall mode:

They are so comfortable...I wore them yesterday when we went to Missoula.  In Missoula we went to three quilt shops.  I only bought at one!  This is one of the shops we went to...very unique with drapery fabrics, oil cloth, linens, quilt cotton and more:

And I am working on a quilt with these fabrics from the Lario line so not everything has been fall:

Today we have to run back into Kalispel....I bought a ring at the jewelry store that I had sized and Corinne is picking up her fabrics for her big quilt.  It's a good stay in and sew kind of day!!

Montana!!

On vacation in Montana and having a wonderful time!!!!!!!!  The weather is beautiful....not too hot....the quilt shops are plentiful!!!  We are having a sewing day in the condo. My friend Marla has been cutting out some of our project purchases and Corrine and I have been sewing!  Hope to have a picture of a finished top in the near future....I'm doing a Halloween one.  I should be getting caught up on my POF mystery quilt since all the instructions are out and the ones finished look awesome!!!! It's only Tuesday!
There is a Farmers Market here in Whitefish this afternoon.  We will be sure to go there and can walk from where we are staying.  I think we are to get up to 27C this morning.  Hubby told me it was only +3C at home this morning!!!!!  It is July right?????????

Some purchases:

My pals and I love Duck Dynasty so we couldn't resist taking a picture with Willy!  Lol

When my Dad came to visit he brought us a very generous gift from a hardware store in High Prairie. POPS Home Hardware gave us a generous gift of $250 to help us out with our situation resulting from the flood. Words cannot express the gratitude those unexpected generous acts make us feel!  A huge thank you to everyone from POPS.  :-)

Friends

Have I mentioned lately that I have GREAT friends?!?!?!?  I am so very blessed.  Right now I am sitting in Kalispel, Montana with two of them.  Spur of the moment trip for me...the stars aligned and I was able to escape reality for a week....and we will head to our rental tomorrow and will set up our sewing supplies.  Yesterday they arrived in High River for the night.  And they came bearing gifts.  I had lost all of my cookbooks (except one or two) in the flood.  They brought me a cookbook I just about ordered, 2-$100 gift cards to the Home Depot, a cool card and some joke "pills"!!  This gift was all from four of my besties:  Marla, Corinne, Karen and Judy.  What awesome friends!!!!!!

We've stopped in quilt shops in Coleman, AB, Fernie, BC and then Whitefish Quilts in Whitefish, Montana where our rental is.  We came to Joann's Fabrics and Crafts here in Kalispel so we've already added a few bags to the truck!!  It will be an awesome week!!!!!!!!

Stay tuned for pictures of fun, quilt shops and sewing!!!!

Holy Hail!!!!!

We have had hail in Northern Alberta.....but I have never seen anything like we had here this afternoon!!!!!!  I laughed because I kept wondering what more could we get??  

Absolute craziness!!!!!!!!!!!!!  My planter flowers are beaten to a pulp....there were purple petunias, a red and pink geraniums, among smaller flowers.  We will see if they will come back.  My perennials look okay....a few beaten leaves but not bad.

Our security guy came today and got our system up and running again.  The plumber came and did more work.  The adjuster is to be here at 9 tomorrow morning.  And I went to Curves this morning and did a workout!!!!  Felt great!!!!!!!!!  Hope to make it back tomorrow.  Errands in Okotoks and we desperately need groceries!!!!!!!  I will fill my day tomorrow.

Felt like a busy one....

Seemed like a busy, noisy, bustling kind of day.  Accountant visit, plumbers showed up, another promise of the adjuster showing up but she didn't...again.  Telus guy showed up and got the tv in Amy's room working and our internet!!!!!!  Wish I had some baking to give him....he had a trailer in an area of town that didn't fair so well so, as he put it, he's "outta here".  So sad and my heart broke for him.  I hope he moves on to a better place and can find some happy.  Security company tech called and will be here tomorrow and I have an appointment with my Curves coach at 10 am.....Lord, the scale will not be kind to me but it will be nice to get a workout in!!!!!!!  They reopened today but since we were waiting for the adjuster.............Thursday the new headboard should arrive.

I checked Amazon and Chapters for some of the cookbooks I remembered having.......I didn't even look for any of the decorating books or the books on menopause (hahaha) or even all the cookbooks, and it tallied up to just over $1000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Didn't take long!!  I worked on pricing other contents we lost in the flood as well.  I didn't bother with all the little things.  Now my head hurts.  Day two with absolutely no mail......strange but I guess that means no bills!  :-)

The thunder is rolling outside and it seems a bit muggy.  The area has tornado warnings....Calgary, Cochrane even Okotoks.  They can stay away from here....we really don't need another natural disaster.

Just wanted to add this.....I need this reminder all the time!

Sewing Sunday!!!!!

Yep, I said the "s" word!!!!!!!!  I touched my sewing machine today and got the binding on the quilt I had in the guest room.  Now, I made a mess of it because I had two kittens 'helping' me (that's my story and I'm sticking to it!!  Hahaha) but its done!

I bought this pair of snips at Cotton Candy in Grande Prairie when I was there the end of May.  $1.99 and they work GREAT!!  

Yesterday we removed the flooring in the basement.  Here's what it looks like now:

We have our plumber ready to start tomorrow....but our insurance gal didn't show up yesterday so we don't know what to do.....we want it done!  I'm sure it's okay to go ahead.....I guess we will find out!

Front garden and back yard

My Dad has a beautiful yard.....him and my Mom always did have.  He spends many hours mowing and other than perennials, mostly has baskets and pots now but he has quite a few.  So yard work is not something new to him.  We also had a beautiful yard when we lived in the country in High Prairie.  So we try here as well.  The flood did a lot of damage to the yard but most especially the back.  It's coming, and it will be fine one day but Dad bought a rake thing for the lawn mower and went over the backyard grass trying to get through the mud.  It does look better:

Looks like we have sand back there!!!!!  

I had mentioned in an earlier post that I had bought a bunch of perennials for the front flower bed.  Here's the before:

And here's the after....which looks so much better in person!  I can't wait for the plants to grow and bush out!

I can't wait for both sides to get back to normal........for everything to be normal again!!!!!!