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I have been working on some older projects and some newer projects.  I was able to give my oldest daughter a quilt this week that I finished awhile ago. She will be sending it off to a friend that recently lost her dad.  Feels good to help others.  I had the meeting with the genetics counselor today.  I will be moving forward with some genetic screening.  Will keep you all posted but that info

I woke up on Christmas morning and made myself this amazing cup of coffee.  It was so yummy.Chris had been busy working on these electronic luminaries.  They turned out so well!Chris and I exchanged gifts and we each got great gifts from the cats.  They each got us a mug!Our daughter gave us a wool pod for the cats and this is what my son did with it. He brought Pepper over to celebrate with us

We have been in NC since we left Ohio.  We have spent lots of time with Avery and his parents.  I am trying really hard to be choosey about which photos I share of him as his parents don't want too many photos out on the internet.This is our set up at the campground.  As you can see we have added a screened in porch.  I'm pretty excited about that.  We put the boys in there but it doesn't have a

We have been on the road again, hence the lack of posting.First we spent 10 days in Berlin, Ohio.Our friend Kailie was camping there and so were her folks, so we got to meet and hang out!Chris and I went to the local garden center.  They have the cutest fairy garden things!Kailie's mom and I hung out one day and went to several quilt shops.It was so much fun to find yet another quilty friend!We

We got to hang out with Avery and his folks.  We had such a great time!  We are only able to see him on the weekends since his folks want to keep to his regular schedule during the week.  So we have been trying to find some things to keep us occupied.  I have read 2 books already!  The other night we were out walking and saw 2 Great Horned Owls.  I was not able to ID them until I looked up the

I'm just popping in for a quick minute to say Happy Caturday from me and the boys!Cole was helping me with the nap blankets.Tomorrow is day 84 of observation!Cole approved, Debbie!I caught Finny chattering to the birds.It was so cute!I did finish three more nap blankets to bring the total to 20 blankets finished.That means I moved out 40 yards of fabric!!!Today I am trying to psyche myself up to

I know it has been quite a long time since I have posted anything.  I have been being kept quite busy with Avery!  On top of that I contracted Covid.  My daughter and son-in-law got it and shared the love with me.  Luckily we all had pretty mild cases of it and the only thing I have left over now is that I can't smell anything and some congestion that is causing me to cough.  We treated the baby

Now that I have finished all my animals (oh wait, I haven't shared the procupines have I?)  OK, so here are the porcupines.  The spikes are not how they are supposed to be and where they join up to the head unit isn't perfect but DONE is better than perfect, right?So my porcupines have rogue spikes.  Real life porcupines aren't perfectly symmetrical are they?I'm just happy that I can move on

I have been doing some more sewing and am so anxious to finish up these blocks.  I now have just one last block to make and I will have all the blocks for the Canada quilt finished.  Then I will need to assemble the quilt.  I need to see if I can use the 2 rulers I have to make the porcupine's back so we shall see.  Here is what I have done now.For some reason these raccoons reminded me of the

The RV Quilter's group put together the Sew Together Retreats.  As I said before I would go over and look in the window to say "hi".  It was the socially distant thing to do.  One time I took Cole and Debbie took our picture.  LOL, I borrowed Finny's cat sling to take Cole out for a walk.The group "roadies" do a project and they had one left over so we got to buy it!  They left it on our picnic

I have finished all the numbers and am now beginning the letters.   They take a LOT more time!   Patterns are by Quiet Play.  It is a great alphabet! Notice the I (heart) you ? And the "adore" on this one. I always seem to make quite a mess when I paper piece. These two don't seem to mind. In fact this was the view while I was trying to sew. Finn loves to be

I did a few more numbers last night.  I had BOTH boys "helping" me. This was my view from my machine. This one is the biggest PITA.   He wants to be to the left of my machine, which is were I do my cutting! This is the good boy. He goes right to the "cat quilt" to lay down and keep me company. I got the following numbers finished, 5, 10, and 12. Still need to do

This morning I got up at 5am like I usually do.   I had just put on my underware when I heard a VERY frantic meowing coming from outside.   It *sounded* like Finny.   How could that be though?   Both cats were in when I went to bed.   Hubby heard it too and bolted awake, "That's Finny and he's outside!"   We both ran downstairs.   I got to the back door first and ran outside (in my

Cole wants you all to know that at our house every day is Caturday! ~XOP~

Just a quick note, many of you know my family history but if not, briefly, my older sister was born developmentally delayed with cataracts on both eyes.   They removed the cataracts but did not implant a lens (it was before they did that, I guess).   She developed Schizophrenia and Bi-Polar at age 13.   She currently lives in an AFC home with really good people.   That being said, she fell

Hi friends!  I am so sorry that I have not posted in awhile.   Sometimes life just gets busy.   I have not been in the mood to sew of late so there has not been much to show.   I know I talk about my life too but nothing very exciting has been happening there either, LOL. I needed to make a pillow cover for my friend, Traci's, quilt shop (Something Quilty).   I made the Tribute Star

I had a really great weekend.   I got a lot of cleaning and meal prep done in the house on Saturday.   I spent most of the morning cleaning out the canned good pantry.   I took everything out of the cupboard, cleaned all the shelves, tossed out all expired food and put everything back inside grouped by what they were.   I also used a marker to put the expiration on all the canned goods.

I have a little bit of this and a little bit of that to catch you up with.   We are all settling back into a normal routine now that Finn is home.   He and Cole and he and Chris are setting in to their old routines. On top of this, I trimmed up the Shooting Stars quilt, with some help of course. I don't think I have shared this quilt yet either.   I need to get the binding on

On Saturday, 5 days after he went missing, our Finn is finally home.   I got up on Saturday am feeling very depressed.   I went to the crazy cat house at the end of our street hoping maybe Finn had found his way to that house since she leaves out food and water and shelters for our local stray cat population.   No luck.   Later in the morning, a man called.   He was walking his dog and

We went off camping last week  (likely our last outing for the year).   I packed up the boys and Chris got the camper.   This is how Finny rode the entire way  ( almost 3 hours). While Cole just relaxed in the passenger seat on "his" pillow.   It is a half yard of fleece filled up with my teeny tiny scraps and  batting cut offs that I can't use for anything.   I thought