Country Breeze

This is a wall hanging kit I got from Connecting Threads, called Country Breeze.  I just love that online store.  This was fairly easy to complete and guess what?  It's the first thing I've ever finished using a pattern.  I am normally horrible at reading patterens and doing the right thing.  However, this one was very easy.  I think I'll make another of these with different colors to give away.  I'm keeping this one. ;)

Bud the Bird

So, we've rescued a bird!  Either we take the bird or they were going to set it free.  We knew the bird would not last if they set it free.  His name is Bud, and he's a Cockatiel.  He can "cat call" whistle, and say "pretty bird"  He's very timid and shy.  We're pretty sure he wasn't very well taken care of.  And he for sure wasn't spoiled.  When he approach the cage, he backs himself into a corner.  He was in a ragged small black cage.  I got onto Ebay right away and got Bud a mansion.  As I was putting it together yesterday, you should have heard him hollaring and chirpping at me.  I wasn't sure what he was saying, but I was betting it was good.    He's so cute and I love watching him during the day.  Hopefully in time, he'll not be so shy and get used to us.  Welcome home Bud.

I made a not-so-fancy cover for his cage.  It's much easier than using a towel to cover him.

A Frame in a Frame in a Frame

What a perfect name for this small quilt.  This was a charm pack I ordered from Connecting Threads.  I really like Connecting Threads and have ordered a few other items from them.  Prices are great.  The centers of this don't exactly match up, and I LOVE that about it.  I was worried when one side didn't match up, and then the other....WOOHOO.  I knew it would be fine.  Not sure what I'll do with this yet.

Oh yeah, I have a confession to make.  Get the binding police ready, because I know they'll have a field day with this one.  I am not good at hand stitching the binding to the backs of quilts.  So, I was thinking and wondering how to make this easier on me.  I still blind sew it to the front, and then fold it over as if your going to hand stitch the back, and then I stitch something fancy down the front and it just happens to catch the back binding also.  Hmmmmm, how about that?  I like it alot more, and I don't think it takes too much away from the quilt itself.  I'm not entering contests anyway, so maybe the quilt police will leave me alone.  haha

Isaac's Quilt

I've been working on this for awhile.  Although, it's not that big that it should have taken me that long.  I just kept putting it on the back burner.  I knew I had 9 months to work on it, so I kept putting it off and working on other things.   Then all of a sudden, she's goes into labor 2 weeks early.  WHAT???  I'm still not done, you can't have that baby yet.  Anyway, they pick their own dates to come. 

Here we have Isaac Joseph, my friend Julie's baby.  He's so adorable.

I made Curtains....

I thought I would try to make some curtains for our bedroom.  I wanted something that looked fancy, but really isn't.  This fabric was part of the Wal-Mart 50% off fabric.  It's sheer with embroidered cream colored tulips.  It matches our bed spread perfect.  I also draped some of the fabric around and over our headboard.  Kinda like a swag.  It needs more help.  I wasn't able to "swag" it so well.  haha

My OWOH Winner is................

Trish, you can check out her blog Ketelcopia.  Thanks so much to all who entered.  I had 211 entries and so much traffic and comments to my blog.  I'm so glad I participated in this lovely giveaway event.  I look forward to next year's OWOH.   I used random.org to generate a random # and it generated #3.  Easy enough for me.  Congrats Trish!!

Here are your random numbers:

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Last day to enter my OWOH giveaway.

Today the 11th is the last day to enter my OWOH giveaway.   Everyone hurry over and enter.  There are 900+ participants giving away something.   It's great.  I've tried to get around to all 900 myself and still haven't hit them all.  Click here to go straight to my giveaway.