Recipe Card Swap

Look at these cut little swirls I made with my Slice machine. They're for my recipe card swap.

 A few times a year my favorite pals at  Craft sayings have a recipe card swap. This time the theme is Soup.  You make pretty cards with your favorite recipe and laminate them and send them to the organizer and then in a little while the mail lady brings you an envelope with a bunch of new recipe cards to try out!

This is the most layering I've done on recipe cards. They look good I think. And,my favorite thing right now, is I used what I had.

BTW Did you notice the big hands free Slice cutting board that my DD got me for Christmas, along with the cool tool kit? I thought the board was kind of silly, "gee it's too hard to hold the Slice in place for a few seconds?"  but man I love that thing. That little spatula dealio is also pretty darn handy!

Assembly, it was kind of complicated for a simple mind like mine. I glued the blue card to the back of the yellow recipe then glued the polka dot layered strip to that then stuck the whole thing on the gray polka dot back.

 All ready to laminate and get in the mail.

American Idol 10

So  you already know I'm a FAN, ANd I gotta say I LOVE Steven Tyler & Jennifer Lopez teaming up with good Ol' Randy & Ryan!

I thought Steven Tyler was a crazy choice when I 1st heard it. But WOW he's really a kind judge and seems to like the job! It's really fun to watch him and his funny, slightly colorful comments.   FOX bleeped out his reply about his little top hat-"you know what a little hat's good for? It's good for a little head!"

I also enjoy when he gets into the music, drumming on the desk, singing harmony,and looking absolutely dreamy at some of the better singers. I think he probably had a little "work" done because his face looks great. Obviously he's ready to take the public by storm and be accepted as a respected judge. Yay for Steven Tyler!

Word-e-ness

 So, you know I really love words. Never numbers, just words. So I just laughed when I saw this list in my Spousal Unit's  AARP magazine.  Scary to think that I've used more than a few of these words-and c'mon, really I've had Gal Pal in my vocab for YEARS!

1. automagically adv. Automatically in a way that seems magical.
2. bargainous adj. Costing less than expected.
3. big media n. Primary mass communication sources, e.g., TV and the press.
4. bromance n. Close platonic male friendship.
5. buzzkill n. Person or thing that has a depressing effect.
6. carbon credit n. Permit allowing a certain amount of carbon dioxide emissions.
7. carbon offsetting n. Counteraction of CO2 emissions with a corresponding reduction.
8. catastrophize v. To present a situation as worse than it is.
9. cheeseball adj. Lacking taste or style.
10. chillax v. To calm down and relax.
11. cool hunter n. One who predicts new styles and trends.
12. cougar n. Older woman who dates younger men.
13. eggcorn n. Logical swap of words with similar sounds (from “egg corn” for “acorn”).
14. exit strategy n. Planned means of extricating oneself from a situation.
15. flash mob n. Brief gathering for a common purpose, announced by e-mail or text.
16. flyover states n. [derogatory] Central regions of the U.S.
17. frenemy n. Friend with whom one has frequent conflict.
18. friend v. To add to a list of personal associates on a website.
19. gal pal n. Female friend.
20. green audit n. Analysis of a business’ environmental impact.
21. green-collar adj. Of or relating to workers in the environmentalist business sector.
22. hater n. Negative person.
23. heart v. To like very much; love.
24. homeshoring n. Moving jobs to employees’ homes (from “offshoring”).
25. hypermiling n. Altering a car to maximize its fuel economy.
26. LBD n. Little black dress.
27. locavore n. One who primarily eats locally grown food.
28. matchy-matchy adj. Excessively color-coordinated.
29. megachurch n. Huge church congregation, typically evangelical Christian.
30. meme n. Image, video or phrase passed electronically on the Internet.
31. microblog v. To post very short entries on a blog.
32. overleveraged adj. Having taken on too much debt.
33. own v. To utterly defeat or humiliate.
34. paywall n. Arrangement whereby website access is restricted to paying users only.
35. pimp v. To make something more showy or impressive.
36. riff v. To expound on a particular subject.
37. rock v. To do something in a confident, flamboyant way.
38. sheeple n. Unquestioning followers (from “sheep” + “people”).
39. social media n. Websites and applications used for social networking.
40. soft skills n. Attributes that enable someone to interact harmoniously with others.
41. staycation n. Vacation spent at home.
42. toxic debt n. Debt that has a high risk of default.
43. truthiness n. Quality of seeming true.
44. turducken n. Roast of a chicken inside a duck inside a turkey.
45. tweet n. Posting made on the social networking site Twitter.
46. unfriend v. To remove from a list of personal associates on a website.
47. viral adj. Circulating rapidly on the Internet.
48. vuvuzela n. Long horn blown by fans at soccer matches.
49. webisode n. Episode or short film made for viewing online.
50. zombie bank n. Insolvent bank that survives through government support.
Sources: Oxford Dictionary of English; New American Oxford Dictionary; Oxford English Dictionary; Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, New Words 2009, AARP

Ok It's a little late,

I just laughed so hard!!!

Cross My Fingers for Luck!

It's that time again! Yes, I signed up for the drawing for tickets to Antiques Roadshow. They'll be in Minneapolis in July! And then I could go see my favorite cousin too! Sign up here PBS Antiques Roadshow

Magic Potholders

DD wanted matching potholders. I told her Peg at my favorite quilt shop Common Threads Quilt Shoppe     had these really cute potholders for their Christmas quick gifts dealio a while back and I could make them for her.

 So she picked two fabrics and I went to town!

 Really though? Who needs 10 potholder? And I wish I could make a potholder to cover the

poor girl's eyebrows!!LOL she has a few issues cooking sometimes.

They really are like magic and soooo fast to make. It takes longer to cut the fabrics than it does

to sew them up!

 This one was the last one, I had some scraps left and they were just a little shy of the 9" size

so I just faked it! Pretty cute with a little square peeking through!

The idea is to layer in this order:

8or9 inch square right side DOWN

1 or 2 layers of batting-I used one of cotton batting (warm & natural)

& 1 of insul-brite

8 or 9 inch square right side UP

4 8 or 9 inch squares, folded in half &  pressed and woven

over each other-raw edges to the outside edge

Sew the around the edge of the whole bunch together about 

a 1/4" seam allowance, pinning as needed

Trim the edges close to the stitching

Turn the whole pile right side out and TA DA!!! giver it a little press and

top stitch around the edge-I went about 1" from the edge.

For circles use 10 or 10 1/2" circles-same process.

Finished & Finished

So here's my nifty walking foot, going along on the baseball quilt, yes I'm tired of it and am glad it's done.

 All Done washed up and ready to wrap a couple of books in and deliver. But not today it's snowing!

 I also finished the bright ocean quilt. I really love how it turned out

 All washed and ready to go when ever baby mama comes back to work so I can deliver it!

 Lookie I made little hearts in the corners! They're not the best, but it was good practice.

New Look...Like It?

Well I dunno what happened to my star but now I have flowers! I love it! Take alook at LeeLou Blogs  to see what she has for FREE!! Fits right in my budget!

Packing it In....& a Table Trick

These are the last of the Christmas decorations for 2010. Purple & gold all packed away in their boxes.   It's almost depressing, I just love the Christmas trees, Ah well if it was there all the time I probably wouldn't like it as much. 

But hey I want to remember this cool table cloth trick. See the Purple satin table cover was too short so I made some bloomers for the table!!

Yup, lookie here, I just cut some left over gold taffeta and ran a casing for elastic through the top and ran some hem tape through it and TA-DA looks like two table clothes and it was free!!!

 

 Well I realize I had to tuck in the green ribbon, but nobody knew any different!

 Looks good! This was the table that the advent wreath was on I imagine we'll use the same one next year. I got fat white pillar candles already at Pier 1 so I'm set on that!

baby quilt & Potholders

So I added the pin stripe sashing and I like it a lot.

Now all I gotta do is get it stuck together and quilt it.

And make the DD about 10 more of these........

only not with squares on them. Sure I can do that!

Christmas Organization

Oh my goodness! Just look at all the glittery wonderful Christmas stuff! I usually store all my Christmas stuff by color, and I usually have to juggle it around with the lights and all to fit it in. So this year I'm storing all the lights in their own box-one heavy box I might add.

 Yes, I took down the tree today, and while I was at it I figured I should get the storage situation under control. ooo look at those pretty white ornaments...oh sorry, stay on task!!!!

 Look I'm saving up these gray and black ornaments-eventually, I'll have enough to do a black & something tree. There's really something very pretty about those black glass ornaments.Those odd shaped ones in the 4 pack I got this year to add to the others. I got them for something like fifty cents at menards.

 Oh and look Stars!! I know I love the tree toppers-I used to store them with their colors but this year I'm giving them their own box.

 I found out I have a lot of red decorations, they wouldn't  fit in their box so I have a slight over flow situation.

There, see all labeled and ready to get stacked in the closed

And here they are, well I mean some of them, there a just a couple, well, few more to put in, But I still have to take down the church tree next week so I still have the purple box and the gold box to store away.

Baby Quilt Again

So I'm really liking this baseball fabric for a baby quilt for DD's friend-well their having a bit

of a ...tiff...right now but anyways every baby should get a quilt.

 I started out with this cowboy fabric, and I really don't know what I was thinking when I bought it, I mean it's cowboys, so it's got that going for it, but really? It;s kinda u-g-l-y.

I'll put it on the back burner for now and finish the baseball one.

Note to self-oh and you too dear readers!  8" squares of baseball with 2" borders of light & dark fabrics
9" squares of cowboys with 2 1/2" border of red pin dots.

Wall Hanging part 2

So my Wonderful cousin Robin was kinda disappointed that she didn't get the wall hanging, after the game for the gift exchange was changed(I hope we leave it the old way next year!!!) I decided another one could be done....

 

 But this one has a little bonus. See when I got the button can that had belonged to my Grandma, I right away went through them. There were a lot of them! Anyways there was this little token in there and so I thought I'd add it to the wall hanging for Robin. At Christmas we were talking about when this picture was taken and they figured in the 40's and sure enough when I googled the Midwest Transit Line (that's what's on the token) they operated in Ames from 1944 to about 1952. And Mom mentioned that Grandma had worked in Ames in the 40's while Grandpa was overseas. I love it when it all fits together!!

 I think I like this one a little better than the 1st one, it's much simpler and really focuses on the photo since there aren't any quilt blocks like the other one. I kinda felt like Robin might be able to fit a smaller one in here home a little better too. I'm going to get it in the mail tomorrow.