Sorry it's sideways

Its what I get for using free software. I tried turning it but it wouldn't save so you get to turn your head instead.

This is Des' favorite new thing to do..."run". Its mostly walking fast until he turfs it but its pretty funny. And at the end you can see his other new thing too: saying "oooh, wow!". He started saying it the day we got back from ABQ and says it all the time now. I have no idea where he picked it up.

And you get to see our new floors! We still have to finish up the kitchen but so far, so good!

While I figure out what I'm doing with my life...

I'm going to let you see another page in Des' quiet book!

In other news, the day after I got home from ABQ, we found out that the hardwood floor place was having a sale so we took the plunge and bought 500 sq ft of lovely wood flooring! So not only was I trying to catch up on laundry and housecleaning, we were tearing up our nasty carpet and scrrrraaaaping up our yucky linoleum and laying down beautiful "Golden Teak" floors. Hopefully we'll be finished with the kitchen this weekend and I'll post pictures. Next on the list: find an area rug and get our state tax return to *maybe* get some carpet for the upstairs. We'll see. I'm kinda tired. Kolt said we're paying someone to put our carpet in though so maybe it won't be so bad.  

That's it for now. I need to take some pictures of Des and his cute little hair-trim my sister did. Apparently last week was the week for haircuts (all the grandbabies on Kolt's side had haircuts, plus me and Des). 

I've returned!

Just got back from good ol' Albuquerque today. The baby is stinking cute, the family is doing great, and I have a headache. We'll try to blog something fun tomorrow or this weekend....

:D

Oh man, Oh man, Oh man!!

I get to go play with this baby TOMORROW!!! Woo-WOO!!  This is my sister's new little sweetie pie and I'm so excited to meet him. He was born this morning just before 1 am. What a cutie!

Cars!!

Ok, so I feel bad to just post the boring, old apple tree for today PLUS I'm super excited to show you my newest page!

The wheels button on and off...and that's about it. Kolt says its dumb but I don't care. It's cute!!  :D

The Finished Apple Tree

I finished the Apple Tree page. I just added the basket so you can stick the apples in it when you "pick" them. I didn't want to do it out of felt because the velcro would just stick. I know its not that exciting but it's something. 

Oh and GLEE COMES BACK TONIGHT!!! AAAAAAAHHH I'm so excited. Oh man. It's replace my used-to-be-favorite-show-Bones-but-then-they-completely-RUINED-the-subplot-that-kept-us-all-watching and I am seriously hooked. 

Piggie Bank Page

I finished this cute page last night and I love it! I had to figure out how to make the "money" and I'm happy with how it turned out. The "coins" are just images I found on the internet printed on silver and copper silky-polyester fabric. Then I sewed with matching silver/copper thread around the images and cut them out. The paper money is actually fabric I ran across at Joann's that was PERFECT. Seriously. perfect for this page. I just cut it out and sewed up the sides. Unfortunately the fabric only had full images of the fronts of the bills so each one has the same image on both sides. But I figured it wasn't that big of a deal.

In other sewing news...I was thinking I might start a different blog where I stick all my quiet book pages and other sewing stuff in. And I'd allow google searches to pick it up (this blog I don't.) Also, the main reason for doing a sewing blog would be to round up contact info for fabric stores around utah because I've found THEY NEVER ADVERTISE IN THE YELLOW PAGES. All the fabric stores around here that I know of are just by accident or word of mouth. SUPER annoying if you are trying to find cute fabric and all you know is Joann's. They rarely have something special that you just gotta have. Perhaps I'd even write a little description of what they offer (i.e. Amy Butler/ or quilting fabric/ or contemporary prints--like IKEA) .

I was going to just have people send me the info as well as asking around for cute places. I dunno. What do all you sewing/crafting/cute people out there think? Would you appreciate the work that would go into this? Is it a waste of time? Am I trying to create a monster?! :)

OR even better... I just had this idea. We could set it up with several authors who could post stuff like projects and info and do it that way. I know several of the cousins are crafty, crafty, crafty... Or we could do the "guest post" thing too if you don't want to commit.

Anyway, let me know. Thanks!