Progress On Victoria's Frienship Quilt Project

I have finally caught up on all the pieced blocks from the Victoria's Friendship quilt that have been presented so far from my group.
I do still have one applique block but as things go it will happen soon LOL
This lovely quilt is more challenging than I had anticipated when I picked it as my next long term project. There are many many small pieces in the blocks and they are sometimes difficult to be as precise as I wish to be. I thought I had done pretty well with the last block I completed (pieced block in the lower right hand corner) but once I had it all trimmed up I noticed that one "row" of seams don't match up very well. So note to self " no trimming until you make a very close up inspection of all seams and matching points"!
I am loving the fabrics I chose to use and it makes me excited to see it all together one day!

Catching Up , It's About Time

So, what have I been doing lately instead of blogging?
Plenty but I will admit I have just been a very lazy blogger so there haven't been any updates recently.
I am going to try my very best to do better and keep up!
So, for those of you who know me and my family you are not surprised to see this post I am sure. Of course I bought midnight show tickets for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows pt 2 and Mr Creative and son A and his friend W and I headed to Lehi, Utah for the show. I went ahead and did the whole 3-D thing. You can see us in our lovely Harry glasses.

Not that many of you will care but here is my kind of short review/report
First of all I am a book person and movies made from books often being a disappointment for me. I love all the details and specific events and it REALLY bugs me when those things are changed for what seems to be no reason at all!...One example will be the reaction of Hagrid as he brings Harry back to Hogwarts after Harry confronts Voldemort in the forest. Also Nagini slithering around Hogwarts chasing people while unprotected from the possibility of being killed and the scene in Hogsmead with Aberforth and the kids and a shortening or at least no explanation of the gathering of characters from former books in the Room of Requirement, and why it was surprising to see them there ...just annoying to me!
Having said that...I thought the movie was a wonderful ending to the series and I love it on the whole. I think the three main kid actors have matured in their roles and I am pleased with the way they brought together many of the characters from the earlier movies and books for the grand ending. The settings and backgrounds are wonderful but in seeing some of the previews and small sneak peeks they are mostly CG which they have done very very well.
I think that now I have a feeling of sadness that this is really the end of it all...no more books and no more movies to speculate about and wonder how it will be shown in the movies.
In my opinion the 3-D was a waste...not sure yet...but I will compare after seeing it in regular D. I didn't really notice anything in particular that stood out because of the use of 3-D.
OK, I seem to be knocking it more than showing love but I will say that I can't wait to see it again and have the DVD to watch over and over again when I want!

Is This May?

So...here in Utah we are having a different spring for sure. Mr Creative tracks weather and water for his job and this is going with the trend of every 30 years or so.
Very sad sight this morning where the bird bath is iced up and there is snow on the ground...very little but snow none the less!

On a happier note...I finally talked Mr Creative into buying a swing set for our Grkids to play on so that we can keep them under control in the back yard. So far grson I has enjoyed it a bit but he has been sick and we have had Seattle or Forks weather here so no playing in the rain! LOL Hopefully once the spring gives way to summer it will get lots of use!

Bye the way Happy Memorial Day and a big THANK YOU to all who have ever served and most especially now to those who wait!

OH Yum Icecream Cake

One more page for the mini. It is pretty simple with the one photo but I wanted to show the fun photos displayed with this Chocolate ice cream cake. Dad was in heaven as his favorite things are chocolate and ice cream! LOL
Sketch Nuts about Sketches
Supplies: pp Guy Stack DCWV and Luxury Stack, cardstock DCWV and Co'ordinations and stash, Twill and brads from stack, ribbon Martha Stewart. Cricut carts Graphically Speaking and From the Kitchen

Always Eating

First two pages of a mini album in the works.
Love this new stack from DCWV...the perfect papers.
Sure hope my Dad doesn't see this as it will be a gift for him LOL
Sketch Nuts About Sketches
Supplies: DCWV pp and cardstock, Bazil cardstock, ribbons Martha Stewart and unknown, Cricut Lyrical Letters and Straight From the Nest., ink from stash

I think it's because people stay still when they are eating so I always seem to have pics of the family! LOL
A page for a gift album in the works
Sketch by Nuts About Sketches
Supplies: PP and cardstock DCWV Guy Stack, brads Basic Grey (I think), ribbon, sticker tag letters and ink from stash

One More For Now

Finished this a bit ago.
I love this Crafty paper stack from DCWV and even though this will be in the Christmas 09 album I decided to use it for these pics.
I got the chance to do some sewing/quilting with my Momma and my gr'niece while visiting NC. This is another sketch from Nuts About Sketches and even though I only had two photos to use it worked with the sketch just fine. I also dug out some Prima flowers and old fancy brads from Making Memories and ribbon to complete the page.

Mr Roboto

Grson I was talking about making a blue robot like he had on one of his puzzles. I asked him if he would like to make one with Nana's Cricut Of course he said yes! LOL

He picked out the shiniest papers from Nana's stash and we designed, loaded the mats and cut the robot parts! Then we glued them together and Nana suggested he might like to add some sparkle with jewels, Yep again!
Here is his special robot
Supplies: DCWV glitter paper, American Crafts metallic paper, cardstock, jewels from the stash.

From the Quiltroom Design Wall

I have to admit that I have been spending much more time in the scrapbook world than the quilt world but I have to keep up in a couple of areas so here are the latest from
Victoria's Friendship Quilt
this is an 8 inch block and I am keeping with my chosen palette of fabrics so there will be a lot of repeated use of them. I still need to do some stitching on the applique block so hopefully that will be done soon.

Color From the Heart Lesson 5 Inspiration
For this exercise we were to find something that inspired us to create into fabric something that wasn't fabric...if that makes sense LOL
I looked for 2 weeks or so to find something that made me want to do this. I was looking for something spring like and searched all kinds of images on google and finally found the image that just made me want to jump in and create.
This image is of the Castle Eilean Donan in Scotland which happens to be the castle owned by my very own Clan MacRae!
Perfect!

At the top you see the inspiration image and then below the fabrics ready to sew into the Trip Around the World quilt. The squares are 2 inches unfinished. I had planned only to pick the fabrics to start out the project since my friend PN was teaching the lesson at our New Friends Quilt Circle but once I found the photo and started picking the fabric I just couldn't rest until I had the whole thing done! LOL
I finished it on Mon. afternoon took it to our meeting and everyone assured me that it indeed showed how the image inspired my quilt.
PN and CH borrowed the quilt plus the others from our lessons to do a trunk show for another group KNOTTS in Orem, Utah. When I get it back I will add a border and then take another picture to show the finished quilt top.
I really love my quilt and might just quilt this one. I had only planned on making tops but I might not be able to help myself and actually make it into a completed quilt.
I started out with 13 fabrics and added and subtracted about 3 of the fabrics to get the final look. You might notice the "out of place" square but I didn't notice until the top was sewn so I had to do some reverse sewing to fix the boo-boo.
Sorry such a long post but you probably can tell I really love this project!

Las Vegas Scottish Festival

Mr Creative and I traveled south in April to spend a long weekend in Las Vegas to see their version of a Scottish Highland Festival. It was really nice weather and we enjoyed outself despite Mr C's still healing broken ankle.

For their opening ceremony they welcomed the Navy Band out of San Diego. It was great to see the boys in their dress whites since all military mostly wear the camouflage ACUs most of the time.

Here is one of the pipe bands at the same ceremony.

There was a whole bunch of both Scottish and Irish dancing it is quite a contrast to see the tradition of the Scottish dancers in their dancing kits and jackets and socks compaired to the glitziness of the Irish dancers with their bright almost neon colors and sequins. LOL
I forgot to take pictures of them
Here is a link to some typical dresses for the Irish Dancers
and then one for the Scottish Dancers
Don't know any of these girls personally but they are very typical of what you would see at the festival!

Doing Some Catch UP

I have gotten way behind in my blog posting...Sorry about that Chief! LOL
I need to take a bunch of pictures so I will go back to Easter for these

I made cards for my "far away" grandsons since I couldn't be there to enjoy Easter with them.
Most of the papers are from DCWV Spring stack of 2009 and to tell the truth I can't remember which Cricut cart I used for the chick but I think the Bunny is from Winter woodland.or maybe not! LOL
Anyway Grson I helped me out with the cards and I gave him his own chick to take home and play with.

MY Mother's Day Gifts

Make your own free digital collage

DCWV Give away!

Erin at DCWV is giving away all kinds of goodies for National Scrapbook day...and I bet many of you didn't even know there was such a thing! LOL
Visit the blog to enter

Scrapbook USA EXPO

Did you know that there is a new blog for Scrapbook USA?
And just to think only 125 more days until the next Expo in Sandy, Ut!

Happy Mother's Day

To my Mother, and the mother of my Grandsons, my daugher.
Love You all!

This Morning!

Not much to say is there? Hope it melts off but the way things are going so far not too optimistic!

Where Have MY Pictures Gone? UPDATE #2

Maybe the problem has been fixed?
I added in the photos from my last post with the cards and then the beautiful sunrise and they seem to be staying! I will give it a few hours and see if I can add the others. Sooooo frustrating!
Crossing my fingers that I don't have to do it again

Where Have MY Pictures Gone? UPDATE

I checked into blogger help and it looks like it is a problem all over their service.
I am thinking of switching to a different blog hosting site...anyone have a suggestion. It has to be as easy as what I currently do as I just don't have the time to mess about learning a bunch of new stuff!
Stay tuned for updates!

Where Have MY Pictures Gone?

Something very odd is up with Blogger these days.
All of the pictures from the past week have disappeared! They were there as of yesterday and now poof, they are gone
I am not sure what is going on but I hope to get them re-posted soon!

Three New Cards

Kind of scary that I am doing so many paper crafting stuff these days...OK, I really should be doing some spring clean up around the house but these just needed to be done!
Flower Love card I made this for my dear friend who lost her sweet Aunt last week. I was very late at getting it done but I love how it turned out! I used both my Cricut Carts and my Make the Cut software to make this. Supplies: cardstock from stash, pp DCWV Luxury stack, jewels from Archivers $1 spot, ribbon from stash, stamps CTMH and a Costco set, cricut carts Martha Stewart's Elegant Cakes, Just Because Cards, ink CTMH and Stampin Up God Bless You Card I made for my neighbor who lost his sister after a long illness. I tried to make it a bit more masculine but with the birds I guess it is still kind of "cutsie"? Supplies: pp DCWV Dots, Stripes etc., glitter paper same, Cricut Cart Just Because Cards
Celebrate Happy Birthday is for my grson B who's B-day was last week. I wanted something fun for a pre-teen but not too baby or grown up. I love the truck cut from Boys Will Be Boys and thought it would be perfect. I also used a sketch from the blog Card Positioning Systems as my starting point and since it was a rather simple sketch it gave me room to "create"! LOL I also love the stripe paper I used for the celebrate word as it coordinates so well and is fun too! You might not be able to tell but the pennants and car body and hubcaps are made from a metallic paper that is kind of bling-y without being girly! LOL Supplies: pp K&C stack Hopscotch, metallic paper American Crafts, cardstock from stash, waxed fiber from stash, stamp CTMH, Cricut carts Just Because Cards and Boys Will Be Boys

Last Two Pages for today

Two more pages from grson I's birthday. He loved that I put the number three on this layout of him riding home on his new bike after the dinner and presents. Simple layout but I like how it turned out.

Grson I and I made some easy "animal" treats with chex cereal, and pretzels with no seasoning to take to his daycare friends. More of the cute animal paper and this time some felt farm animals this time on cardstock squares. The tag was the same one that I put on the bagged treats. It is fun to do little things with him.