It's Monday

Welcom to Monday morning. Here's your list of things to do today:

Go grocery shopping
Go to the bank
Find and buy the specific binder that your 10 year old wants for school
Go drop off the blue shirt at the graphics store
Mail off some orders (Yahoo!) at the Mail Room
Try and work on your quilt blocks for the block swap that are due this next MONDAY!
Nurse a baby
Feed a toddler
Change diapers
Finish up the laundry that you didn't finish over the weekend
Don't forget to buy stamps!!!
Read The Very Hungry Caterpillar, for the 1000th time
Dig up the carrots from the garden to get ready to can tomorrow morning
Pick your 10 year old up EARLY from school- don't forget!!
Work on the books for your husbands business
Pay some bills

And so on.............

Here's hoping that you get it all done and have a great time doing it! :)
Good luck.

Trunk Show!

The Quiltsy team from Etsy is putting on a virtual trunk show!

When: September 22, 2008 - 4pm PST, 7pm EST

Where: Etsy Virtual Labs Treehouse

What is a virtual trunk show?

If you love quilts, bags, and quilted home decor, this show is for you! Over fifteen talented quilters and fabric artists from the Quiltsy Team on Etsy will be presenting their work for sale, as well as sharing some of their creative process.

You will be eligible to win fabulous handmade door prizes from this talented group of artists just for attending the show.

In addition, a grand prize will be awarded to one lucky attendee who purchases from any one of the quilters anytime during the show.

Come get a head start on your holiday shopping!

Here are just a few samples of the beautifully handmade items that will be for sale!

So mark your calendar and come join us!

Wordless Wednesday

A friend of mine used to have a feature on her blog called "Wordless Wednesday." It was a day that she would post a picture that spoke for itself, without a typed entry. I always liked looking at it. Sometimes it was pretty, sometimes it was funny.

Anywhoo, I decided to add it to my blog as well. Just because I recently seem to have quite a few pictures that say enough all by themselves.

So here goes my first Wordless Wednesday. And yes, I realize that this one technically isn't "Wordless" since I just wrote out that whole explanation, but you get the picture!

Progress

Yesterday was a family work day at the homestead. We had Mom and Dad, Uncle Rocky, Auntie Shanna and Grandma and Grandpa all here working! The men worked in the back clearing the ground, making room for the new garden and adding more room to our backyard. Aunt Shanna and Timber worked in the yard cleaning up areas that had been long neglected. Mom and I canned corn. Mom had made a roast to bring over for lunch. Grandma had baked a chocolate cake for dessert. I provided the sweet tea.

I am soooooo excited about this new area in the back! It is going to allow for one heck of a garden next year. I was originally planning on a space about 16x20 but now that we have all this room I'm gonna go for broke and see just how big I can make it before Gavin says, "Uh, honey- that's big enough!" Besides, he's going to be the one fencing it so that the deer and chickens don't completely ruin it, so I guess he has some say in it's size!

I took a few pictures yesterday to share. I obviously couldn't get a better shot of Gavin topping the tree because the best place to take the shot was where the top was going to fall. I did what I could. Hope that you enjoy them!

The Two Newbies

Here are the two new quilts listed in my shop! I guess I could technically say that I got them listed this weekend since today still counts as part of the holiday weekend! :) Hope that you enjoy them! I'll be adding a Christmas quilt next week and then Fall Splendor and my 1930's tumbler in the next 2 weeks!

Oh, and by the way, I desperately need a new camera! Does anyone have any suggestions on a good one?