From the archives.....
I always want to know the stories these old places could tell. At one time they have made someone so happy....now they are falling down.

I don't have much to say, but thought I would post a couple more pictures from my files. Near the end of October....they were taken in nearby Parke County, Indiana. It is famous for its covered bridges, 31 of them the last I heard. Every October, starting the second Friday in October there is a Covered Bridge Festival. Crafters and vendors set up in every little town in the county....there is food galore. People come from miles and miles to visit. I think the estimate is in the millions. I know one couple that come up from Missouri every year to go...she buys a lot of her Christmas gifts then.

And all roads for miles around are lined with yard sales...if you had the time you could find almost anything you every wanted...the key word here being time. I think I like the yard sales as much as the crafter's and vendor's booths. And I for sure don't have much luck with the food, though there are a couple places I always have good luck with. It is just when I decide to try something new that I make my mistakes.

The bridge picture above is older--it is a photo scanned in. In 2005, an arsonist burned it down. The people decided to rebuilt it, and with lots of donations of time and supplies, that feat has since been accomplished.

It came today!!! That was fast!
And it has the KTCA seal....that is Kitty Tested, Cat Approved.


This is the small quilt I won for posting over on Jane's blog...thank you Jane for picking my name out of the hat!

I have had a totally frustrating day...looking for some papers. But in the process I came across this newspaper clipping that shows me picking apples. This was taken in the fall of 2004 or 2005...it seems like a lifetime ago. We did have a lot of fun...I miss the people I worked with and for. (Notice who took the picture....not me!)

I really do not know if it is my age or what, but every time I turn around I am having to hunt for something. I feel like I am slowly going insane....I was going to list some of the things I have had to hunt for recently but am too embarrassed.

And my body's thermostat is totally messed up....one hour I am freezing and the next my internal child is playing with matches. I will feel hot enough to heat up the whole outdoors. This is not fun.

I think I have decided how to do one of the baby quilts....it will be colorful I can almost promise you that. My younger daughter decided she wanted me to use the same fabric as my older daughter chose. So to get myself calmed down and farther design it in Quilt pro...it shouldn't be hard.

Not sure when I will get to it...I want to get up tomorrow and do something in this house. And I have got to start on the retirement papers for my husband. I cannot delay too long on that. So, guess I better hush here and think about settling myself down till I can sleep!

A little bit of fabric

Let the games begin....or should I say sewing?
These are the new fabrics I bought to work around for making baby quilts...click on pictures to enlarge them. Next, just to come to the decision how I want to use them...that is the hard part for me. The second one down is the one that my daughter wants me to use for her secretary. I got enough of it to do two baby quilts. I think the scenes on it are just about, but not quite 7 inches square.

The top one is going to be harder...I haven't measured them but they are big--about 9 1/2 inches by 12 inches...I wish I had had my camera to take a picture of the top the store had made from it. It was quite interesting...

Now the jungle animal one I thought to lay a ruler on it so you can kind of get an idea...and even two of the others have their own tape measure printed with them, just not sure if you can read it in the enlarged picture.




And this bottom one--these are small squares. I can use a 4 inch ruler and it will give seam allowance without cutting into the picture if I remember correctly. They are the perfect size to use as the center of a log cabin....or I can see using them in a 9-patch.

I know I only have two baby quilts I want to make, but I thought I better take advantage and buy more than I needed...good things like this don't come along every day. Each one had a good feel to the fabric and that made them even more hard to resist....

BTW, it is STILL raining...it has not totally stopped all day. Sometimes it rains harder than others but never actually stopped.