Ahhh a new month

Well I am not sure how the ground hog is going to see his shadow if he even manages to pop his head up out of the hole tomorrow! We have so much snow and I just heard on the radio no travel advised in SW Mn so called my daughter in college to make sure she had food ect LOL.

I spent two nights at work so was a blessing to get home today and can maybe get a good sleep in tonight then work again tomorrow, sounds like the wind is up and the snow is blowing... I will share photos of that later in a different blog.,,,but for now I wanted to bring an updated list of my successes....recall at the new yr I posted 25 goals.....well I am not going to re-post the goals but I am going to update ONLY what I have worked on in those goals and where I am at!

1. Learn to knit (scarf or dish cloth) I am proud to say I am over half done on my scarf although not perfect, it is not too bad, and still consider myself learning and loving this!!

5. Make 36 ATC cards (3 for each month and what the month resembled)
Well I did make a few ATC's and such fun they were......I did like five of them instead of three :)

10. Crochet 2 backpacks.....got one in the making for a co-worker

11. Lose 25 -50 pounds............. For January I am down 5 pounds.....it is a start right?

12. Eat at least 1 piece of fruit each day...doing great on this one!!


18. Do more with my angel cards. Pulled them for meditations five times in January!


19. Organize at least two things a month, room or drawers.....Good start on this for graduation....I got several of the drawers done in our bedroom and also some old OLD photo boxes sorted!

24. Graduation scrap books.......... Still in basket ball season....but it is caught up to date
I got all of last years news paper articles in order in a journal for her!

25. Make over in sewing studio...... Well not a total make over but I did out up several new shelves and need to do some sorting and and revamping.....my creative space is NEVER tidy! *Sighs*



Well guys that's about it for now.......school is now 2 hours late for the kids....lucky them and I think it is time for some hot tea a dog in my lap and some stitching time......so until next time have a great week what is left of it!!

busy is good right?

I love the camera I got that can capture these action shots!! I will be frantically soon putting the end touches on the basketball scrap book....
I never knew how many faces she can pose in a game LOL so serious looking! #34 in black
Contemplating!! The team came out now with two more wins, we are tied with three other teams for second place in our conference, Tomorrow night we travel south to Montevideo so I hope we can beat them!!
I have been busy in between basketball, and work doing some crafting.......created some collage felt pins
buttons and lace and beads

Then I took buttons and silk flowers and began creating more pins,
This one is my favorite....
They are super fast and easy to do.....not sure if I will give them as gifts or stick them in etsy
either way I am sure they will be bound to find a good home!


The photos below are for someone to peek at that is interested in looking at the John Deere fabric that I listed in Etsy,...will be taken down soon as I know she peeked at it....









Thanks for stopping by and hope all of you have a great week!!

Getting things done!

Well I FINALLY got caught up on that new addition hubby worked so hard on...I for the life of myself could not find just the RIGHT furniture.....or the RIGHT rug and about drove all of the family nuts to get this room completed but here it is for now any how :)
Looking into the room from the bay window
rug and floor....the floor is actually a wood laminate
Chancer loves to sit out there when i am working on my projects....I LOVE those windows and now I must decide on window coverings and can not seem to come to an agreement with hubby LOL
I got a new toy!! Hubby bought me anew digital camera.....Nikon D3100 and I can just aim and shoot and it managed to get some awesome action shots!
almost got it
You would think for 6 feet tall that girl would have a bigger stride LOL
ahhhhh got it!
Lets go team!


and away we go....believe it or not this particular game we play at KMS last week and we lost by 1 point they got a basket as the buzzer rang grrrrr...


Tis a great thing we have basketball to keep us busy in the winter....got a few makeup games, been so cold, right now as I work on this we show a -17 and the other day when I got off of work it was - 23. School has closed early.....canceled..... and not even opened this winter, Been a few years since it was this harsh on us...

I have been going through boxes in the basement, you know the ones we try not to look at... but I figure with graduation coming I best hop to it and get some things done......hopefully in a few days I will show some progress of things I have been working on!

So until then.....Have a Blessed safe weekend!


Reba~

Snow snow snow

Well slow goes it even on snow storm days......I love the pattern of this scarf,...my first knitted project and ya I know the stitches are not all perfect but they are coming along great!!...Will be nice when I can do a project like this in a weekend rather than a week or *coughs* two *laughs*

We have had a few good snows, I quit counting now, we have blown open the driveway at least two times a week, so far, school has been 2 hrs late all week so far, But I have made it to work!!

Nothing more happening here, Just staying warm and taking one day at a time, so until next time.........................................



Reba~

First week of activities

Right before New Years I got the honor to puppy sit again for a friends lil man, His name is Boo, Is he not adorable!? Boo and my lil Chancer have play dates while mt friend and I sit and visit, or get creative, do journals and angel cards, No better way to spend a day with a friend!
Told Boo to Smile for the camera and this is the best he gave me!!
He spent a few days bonding with Becky, who actually thinks this puppy stage is fun!! He really was a good little guy! No accidents in the house so who am I to complain??
Well so far this week I did spend a few hours learning to cast on....and worked on the knit stitch.... tore it apart and did it again working on the perl stitch, Or is that spelled Purl? Hmmm I will have to look into that!
Any how now I am trying my hand at a scarf....again trying to get the right tension down,I cast on 20 and then did 4 knit and 4 perl, alternating to the end, kind of a fun design....hopefully at the week's end I will have a few more rows added on...slow process for me for sure but a fun one!!

Hope you all have a great weekend!!


Reba~

Happy New Year

HAPPY NEW YEAR

I love new Beginnings, Not just a new year, but think of all as a new beginning, a new birth, a new day, new weeks and new months, perhaps a new relationship, new friendship, Oh the list could go on and on..... I always have believed that everything new in our life appears for a reason, not long it might perhaps become an "old" in our life but some times if we take the time to quiet the mind and sit and reflect how we felt when things were NEW, it brings back that spark or the calm we seek to begin fresh,.

I spent some time catching up in blogs that I love to read, and as I read a few of them found myself inspired, in awe, amazed and last but not least totally blessed to have these connections and friends! I truly have been blessed and wanted to say THANK YOU for being in this part of my life.

Last week I created a list of things I want to accomplish in 2011...no particular rhyme or reason to it... but thought I would share some of them here...



1. Learn to knit (scarf or dishcloths)

2. Complete 3 water color paintings,

3. Complete 3 collages

4. Participate in 3 ATC swaps

5. Make 36 ATC cards (3 for each month and what the month resembled)

6. 3 Orphanage quilts

7. Learn some new embroidery stitches.

8. Learn to do a thread sketch

9. Crochet an afghan

10. Crochet 2 backpacks

11. Lose 25 -50 pounds

12. Eat at least 1 piece of fruit each day

13. Make 2 doilies

14. Crochet 1 filet hanging

15. Sew some gift bags with draw strings

16. Add more flowers to the Reiki Garden

17. Take 1 college course. ( not sure what at this time)

18. Do more with my angel cards.

19. Organize at least two things a month, room or drawers

20. Work on the book my sister and I began writing 6 years ago.

21. Create 3 small art quilts

22. Create a home made journal

23. Take a photo and get made into a print

24. Graduation scrap books

25. Make over in sewing studio


I could keep going and going but this is a small start and one I can be accountable for here and share as I go.....

So with that I will close and wish you all a Blessed New Year!

Merry Christmas

Not much has been happening here, well o.k. so a lot has been happening but more so just a busy time of the year than normal I guess, but just take one day at a time and try to breathe deep and relax and I know the rest will fall into place right!? Uhhh ya right something like that................... I did manage to start to get the village set up in the above photo on a day that we ended up with close to eight inches of snow and four feet of drifts by the doors and garage, Not a fun way to begin the winter
Becky did the Christmas tree this year.....she always does such a great job I just let her go!
I did start a scrap book for the basketball games, so far so good. I am only behind one game as of right now, so not too worried...easy layouts and more of just a memory book for her , Still time consuming but so worth it in the end.
Well here it is.....recall the friend I mentioned many posts ago that wanted to do a quilt for her mom who is undergoing chemo...well we had started the process a few mos ago and she never wanted to work on the blocks and finally now..UGH 2 days a go she thinks this process is going to be done for Cmas! Ok Reba take a HUGE DEEP BREATH here and smile and say sure comeon over we can work on a few rows ect// she gets here and says to me......: I have26 blocks so we do not have to use all of them so after 4 hours of her laying them out and looking at them......this is what we got to work on
Nice blocks and she did design all of them....the deal of this was I would HELP her sew them in rows and basically do the top the rest is up to her! But I will help where needed but HONESTLY....a week before Christmas??? Ok take another deep breath Reba and move forward this can work out fine!

We spent 2 hours on cutting the sashings which she wanted 1 inch finished so I cut them at 1.5......and proceeded to sew the rows and she loved the look as did I.......we did manage to get four of the rows completed and decided to work on the rest today.....she shows up at my house and says I changed my mind I want to do it another way......... By this time I am not smiling she decided she wants to change the entire layout...and I was not smiling or in any mood to mess with this person who has n idea how to quilt let alone know how much work it entails...

she had some photo blocks printed off at a photo place that was supposed to be on cotton poly and was almost like a nylon......they frayed so bad we could not use them well we can but I know she will not be happy with them so I decided not to even venture there, I guess her husband thinks he can do that which I am very grateful for!!! The two people that were doing some cross stitch blocks for her to place in the quilt are not even close to being done but yet I am supposed to have this done for cmas!

So I instead gathered up all of my supplies , scissors, seam ripper, I cut all the sashings they need,....I gave a very basic demo on how to tie a quilt and also how to sew the binding on.......and sent her on her way home..... not even caring now if I get the stuff back as I was so frustrated she even did this expecting this much stuff on short notice when we ALL summer and most of the fall to work on it but she didn't realize HOW MUCH WORK this was...>Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr



Ok got that issue handled and now onto making some goodies for Christmas as I have to work the weekend and oldest daughter will only be home Thurs night late and Friday so celebrating early house is needing some much tender love and cleaning which I may get to tonight along with a ton of laundry to complete!.

How come no one ever told us growing up life was going to be this way!???

All in all life is good...we are all healthy and have so much to be thankful for!!

I wanted to not grumble but take some time and wish all of you a very Blessed Merry Christmas!



Reba~