Little Card, Big Thanks 2

Well here it is.  I said I was going to try this

and it's "okay".  

Nothing I am wild about.

I think I like the white and yellow better.

It would probably be good for a man.

What do you all think of it?

Little Card, Big Thanks

 Same basic design, just different colors

and different Washi tape.

 The center card is a cream base while the top and bottom

cards a white.

I used a different embossing folder

with each card.

I do like the washi tape in the horizontal

better than the vertical.

The square that the Washi tape is wrapped around

is thick cardboard.

The phrase is raised with my usual

flat pieces of paper egg cartons.

While I am not a big fan of bright yellow,

I just love the yellow card.

Next I want to try some with the phrase

printed on kraft paper card stock.

Still working on the particulars of that one.

Oh Baby!

Well, much to my shock, I am going to be a grandma.

Our daughter announced the first of August that

she was expecting.  This is a much desired and

planned for baby.  She is 37 and our unwed son

is 41, so we never expected to be grandparents.

Above is the quilt that I have been working of for the last month.

Had to take my trusty 39 year old Bernina 830 Record

to be cleaned as I had moved my sewing room to the basement

and then discovered that I absolutely hated working in the basement.

My son and husband helped me move the

oak sewing cabinet up to a spare bedroom.  I have been 

sewing like a maniac for the past month

with several other projects rattling

around in my mind.

(not all of them baby either)

I found these panels at Pat's Creative.  This is an amazing

quilt store that is way way out in the boonies.

There was no sample sheet, just the large panel

and the six little ones.  I spent nights pondering

just exactly how to make the perfect

little girl baby quilt.  

Forgot to mention this baby is

a girl, due the end of February.

My Life?

So in the middle of October we had this little doggie show

up at our place in the middle of the night.  

Now you have to realize that we are 20 miles from the

closest town and 6 miles from an oil road.

Our house half a mile off the gravel county road and

we do NOT have a yard light on at night.  

If you are out on this lonesome road in the middle

of the night we don't want you to know

that there is even a place here.

Pixie came through the cattle panel dog yard fence (she is

very slender) at 11:30 pm when my husband let the

Scottish Terrier, MacDuff out for his final potty break

of the day.

Pixie immediately began to "fatten" up and 

four weeks after her arrival had four puppies. 

One of them died shortly after birth, but

the rest as of today are double the size shown in last 

weeks picture.  They are keeping my husband

up at night and we have had to find somewhere 

to keep them with higher sides than the original box.
We don't want to have to crawl under the bed

to dig the little rascals out.  In about four to six weeks

the two males and one female will be up for adoption.

And shortly after that Pixie will be spayed.