Meet My Little Friend.

We have a little friend that graces us with its presence in the shower at all times of the day, both morning and night. It always makes me chuckle a tiny.

When we moved into our apartment, we found this rust stain that Fred couldn't get out. It has caused many conversations as to whose ghost this rust stain is. Konrad always calls him "Daddy". I don't exactly know about that, but my mom says he is Mussolini. Perhaps. I like to think that if it really is someone gracing us with their presence from the grave that it would not be a cruel dictator, you know?

My sister, Julie, on the other hand believes that our little friend is Baby Cakes (I am the World... and a wizard). I can kinda see that one.

I happen to think he's a dead ringer for Alfred Hitchcock.You decide.

Obsession

Obsession, as sung by my idol Annie Lennox in the song "Love is a Stranger".

Okay, I might be obsessed with fabric. I got just a few more 1/2 yards for my quilt. I am making a king sized quilt so I do need lots of fabric. I keep telling myself that I just need a little bit more. Thing is, I do need a little bit more. But I am taking a fabric buying break for now and am gonna replace it with actually cutting and sewing my quilt.

Also, I would like to thank Autumn, my lovely cousin/friend that inspired me to finish my ruffle necklaces. We lurk the same blogs evidently which for those of you that have the unbelievable pleasure of knowing us, is not all that unlikely. We share DNA, you know? Anyhowzit, here are my ruffle necklaces. I found the chiffon for $2/yard at my ghetto JOANN. Not too shabby (speaking of the find...not the Joann). The tree fabric is a scrap left over from my quilt. It might also be my favorite. Only b/c chiffon frays A LOT!! So I had to "heat-treat" it, meaning that I held a lighter close enough to the fabric to not light it on fire, which I did like a million times, but close enough to melt it. Yes folks, chiffon melts. I really like them. I think they are pretty excellent.

Kind Of Awesome

I just made this Valentime's tag. I am really excited about it b/c I have been thinking about it forever and I finally did it. The signature is a digital stamp of my name with my actual signature. Kind of awesome? No, extremely awesome. If you are lucky you will get this tag in the mail with something even more awesome attached to said tag.

By the By... I am even more awesome b/c I did this even after my Flexoral has kicked in. I might be sluring my words, but my neck feels awesome! And I made something cool.

Peace.

Chickety Check Ya'self

That's right! I am checking off one of me aforementioned projects. Granted it was the one that required the least amount of time, but I thought it seemed logical to start with the easy then make my way to the harder projects (that's what she said). See for yourself.

While you are already here, let me tell you about my day. How about another list?

1. Konrad ate Buddy's dog food all morning. How did I know? I a)watched him do it and b) smelled it on his breath. Sickening.

2. Konrad emptied out an ENTIRE box of CheezIts on the floor. The entire box. Nada one survived.

3. Konrad pulled off his own poopie diaper and attempted to change himself. Unfortunately unsuccessful.

4. I caught Konrad eating dough from the Butterflake Orange rolls I was making. The oven was heating, I was changing Rodney's diaper (elbow deep in doodoo, obviously) and he pulled up a chair to the counter and started eating dough.

5. Ate black beans and cheese and looked like he had been eating poop.

6. My little bro stabbed hissssself with a knife in the foot. If you don't like blood or get queasy, look away. Now. Oops, too late.

Perhaps I need to feed the kid more. Perhaps he is just hungry. Hopefully he won't eat his poopie diaper. That would be disgusting.

To all yuz out there, good night.

I Am Going To Kill It

I loathe New Year's resolutions. I mean, we (not me, I don't believe in them) make them while knowing full well that we really have no intention to follow through with them. Who is still trying to "lose that last 10 lbs" for the last 10 years? Not me.
I do, however, make lists. I love lists. It makes me feel useful. I especially like checking things off lists. I tend to get overwhelmed with things I need to do and it makes me feel a ton better to make a list. The list is usually never as long as it seems in my head. And the best part? Checking things off!! How many times in one paragraph can I say list? Lots....
I just celebrated my 29th birthday, which is Jan. 8, so I guess I make lists and goals around my bday. I guess you could argue that my BDay list is a NYR. Whatever. Just read my list.
1. Going to Beautify my life. If I had to sum up what I want to accomplish this year in one word, it would be Beautify. Please see numbers 2-10.
2. Finish hand stitching the binding on my quilt. Sidenote: I have approximately 25 more minutes to spend stitching till I am done. I am sure this will be checked off this list by sundown Saturday night.
3. Ruffle necklaces. CHECK!!! I will post pix later.
4. Wedding quilt. I am not gonna say who this is for, but it might be for a sister. That is getting married in May. Her name starts with a J.
5. Civil War quilt for Mom. She loves Americana, I have tons of Civil War fabric. Seems to be the logical thing to do.
6. April's quilt entitled "Lady Madonna" by Abby Lane Quilts. Pattern and fabric in hand. Time to follow.
7. Camera straps using my FAIL quilt blocks. Unfortunately I have plenty of them. Hey, I am a beginner, albeit an ADVANCED beginner. I have two awesome people in mind who will be recieving these gems. ONe of said people lurks my blog all the time and also happens to live above me. The other one is related to me.
8. Scripture cases for neighbor and for sister. Perhaps one for myself.
9. Christmas scrapbook. Today I got all the pix edited and filed. Now I just have to print and glue.
10. Start quilt for 10th anniversary. I will need all the time I can get. I do have the fabric and a design in mind. I am going to do the frienship braid quilt with scattered various star blocks that I am learning to make in said ADVANCED beginner quilt class.
11. Write letters to all of the people in my life, past and present that I love. You know those people you meet that you just, you know, LOVE? Those special peep's you are certain you knew in another life? I also have a running list of those people. I really do love listicles. I also love adding "isticles" to anything with a "st". It just makes me laugh.
12. Abby Lane purse. It is just awesome. AWESOME.
13. Make a patchwork bag for Apypoo. This one'll be easy. Hopefully.
14. Felty robot for Konrad. Again, fabric/pattern in hand. Now all I need is time and maybe two more hands.
15. Grow two, maybe three more hands.
16. Keep running. That's not really a goal. Gotta lose those "last 10 lbs" (see what I did there? I can be witty). Maybe I'll sign up at a gym. I am only kidding, of course. It's annoying those people who would sign up at the gym and come for 3 weeks then give up...and pay the gym $40 per month. Yet still get fatter and fatter.

17. Make felty picnic set for kiddies. They will love it!

Enough listicles for now. I obviously have a lot of work to do.

Good night moon and spies.

Quilt Numero Dos

Firstly, I am about three hours away from finishing the first quilt. I am in the process (the incredibly slow process) of hand blind stitching the binding. Almost there. I can feel it!

Tuesday night was the first night of my ADVANCED beginner quilting class. Read that? ADVANCED!! I know... it says "beginner" right after that, but still! Sue is teaching us two different blocks per class, which is four per month. Last night we did the double tulip and the market basket. It is going to be awesome when we are done.

To top it off, I got my new fabric in the mail today. What is better than getting a package full of THIS in the mail?

I will tell you. Absolutely nothing!!

I will post the final pix of my first quilt when I am done stitching it.

For now, good night!

We Made it to Two

Konrad had his second Birthday on Sunday. I hate it when people say they can't believe that fill-in-the-blank-kid is name-the-age. At first it seems like the past two years have flown by but when I go back and remember all that has happened it hasn't gone all that fast. In fact, sometimes I wish it would move faster, especially when it is -12 outside and snowing like crazy. All in all, Rad is a pretty good kiddo. He loves Cars, the movie, along with tractors, airplanes and choo choo's. He likes eating cookies, cottage cheese and bananas and watching life size Elmo in HD. I love watching him grow and learn. He cracks me up on a daily basis. He is the sweetest!

Chrissy Card Reject

I had two options for our Chrissy Card this year. I ended up sending out the elves because they are awesome. What else can I say?? Here is the other option that I made. I love this option, maybe next year. I really do love how they turned out, but what can compete with elves? That's right, nothing.

Also, we had our family pix taken by Mollie Elise Photography. I played around with the originals a bit and here is what I came up with.

Christmas was good, but we are glad to be home. I will post some more pix later. We got home last night, ahem, this morning at 3am. I am going to bed.

Peace.

Three Months Old

I can't believe that Rodney Jones is 3 months old! What is it they say, "Time flies when you are having fun"? I think that's it. Rodney's favorite things to do are to watch Konrad play and be silly. He smiles at Rad all the time. He loves laughing, especially when being tickled by daddy. He is such a little chatter box. I was kind of hoping that he would be a little bit more reserved than Konrad, but he is so noisy. He talks all the time. If you coo at him it really gets him going. He is such a good sleeper. He sleeps from 10- 6 or 7 every night, except if it gets too cold, as I am finding out happens here more often than not. He is such a sweet baby. His smile just melts my heart.

We Wish You a Fugly Christmas!!

Tonight we had our Ward Christmas Party. We are "new" in town so I thought it would be a good idea to see if there was anybody really cool in our ward. There are actually lots of pretty awesome people, but I am talking about REALLY cool people. Like the people with unspoken coolness. Firstly, I wanted to see if anyone else would don their gayest apparel for the Holiday season. We spent a ridiculous amount of time/money at the Goodwill searching for the perfect sweaters. Rad's was definitely the coolest because whoever owned this sweet gem added a stocking to the "Beary Christmas" sweat shirt, complete with mock turtle neck. Speaking of mock turtle necks, check out Brian. His outfit was just incredible. Not only was it a mock turtleneck, it had reindeer on front and a little reindeer friend on back. And I found it in the Plus Size section at the Goodwill. All I have to say is WIN. The sad thing? Nobody else was wearing any sweetness. Except for our neighbors. I alread knew that they are cool.

The other fun this week is this: I got a TREADMILL!!! I no longer have to be tough. I can run inside whilst it is snowing and icing outside. It was good timing b/c it only got to 15 degrees today. Not okay for running. Santa is good, Santa is good.

And then there is our little Santa. I could not resist dressing the poor child up as Santa. He's gonna have issues regardless, so why not dress him up, you know? I know, then I will post it on my blog for all the world to see, because, you know, the world is my audience. I am kind of awesome. And special. And wonderful.