Foto Finish-old

Schloss Blutenburg is a castle outside Munich, Germany.  I spent a month living in Munich the summer of 2009 for a Library Science study abroad.  Every weekday we would ride 2 buses and walk to get here .  It was the 14th century hunting lodge of the Duke of Bavaria.  The oldest part is an 8th century chapel.  It was the coolest place ever to work !  From the coble stone court yard, to the 3 foot thick walls, and the arrow sight windows.  It is representative of the really old buildings all over Europe.  Believe it or not after a month of touring around and working in this place I got very tired of 'old buildings' .  I think the weight of the history of civilization was over whelming.

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Keep dreaming...Colleen

At the NC School Library Media Conference yesterday we got to experience Melville Dewey.

 He created this rap and video as a class project in library school. 

He now has a cd and does shows all over.  He is awesome!

The Great Binding Battle

Have you ever done battle with your machine?  You know when you think come heck or high water you are going to finish that block or quilting or that top or that binding no matter what tension-thread-bobbin-needle grief your machine puts you through.  Well I had a real dust up with my Sofia on Sunday.  My goal was to put together and finish my Halloween Scrappy Mug Rug.  And I was going to do it on Sofia, my new fancy computerized sewing machine.  Usually I use my featherweight for piecing and binding and mug rug quilting.  I have only used Sofia for some large FM quilting and embroidery.  No problem.  Then this happened

Can you see the horrible binding on the back of the mug rug...and white thread! 

 I kept wrestling and wrestling and at some point it was me or her.  I didn't even realize I didn't even realize I hadn't changed the bobbin thread!  I was determined to win.  Well the binding got finished but I think Sofia actually won.  Yes I had to take out the binding and redo it by hand and it now looks like this.

The worst part is that in my highly emotional state after the battle I posted the bad binding picture to my flickr group.  Opps!  So I get a little flickr mail very nicely asking me to fix a binding that was not up to standards.  Luckily I had already made the decision to do so .  So I took the bad pic down. 

Moral:  Don't post anything after doing battle with your sewing machine.  

 I am now proudly able to mail this wonderful package to some far away place.  And don't think I'm overly generous in my goodies, just blessed with a 50% sale at Joann's and a 15% teacher discount on top.

Keep dreaming...Colleen

Finishes and babies!

If you haven't entered my giveaway go here.

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First the babies!

 I want to welcome my new cousins!  My cousin Betsy and her husband Andrew welcomed their son Jeffery Andrew on Thursday Evening.

  He weighed 8lbs. 7oz. 

Then today Betsy's brother Brent and his wife Aubrey welcomed their daughter Taylor Grace weighing in at 8lbs. 8oz. (no picture yet)

 Congratulations Aunt Emily and Uncle Max, now Grandma and Grandpa!

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Now the finishes.

I am involved in the Scrappy Halloween Mug Rug swap on flickr.  My secret partner likes to decorate for Halloween.  So I pulled out all of my Halloween fabrics.

I didn't realize how many I had.  Many were from my 90's stash.

Her is the front.  I raw edge appliqued everything down. 

(the colors are not right)

I put a cool haunted house print on the back...

with my label on the back

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I finished the last of the little purses I made to sell at Flaunt!

Keep dreaming...Colleen



Don't you just love the fair?  Hello Kitty pumpkin!





Foto Finish - Feet

Oh oh!  I have the perfect picture!  Probably the only feet picture I have actually now that I think of it.

A lazy afternoon on Gull Lake, Ontario, Canada.  Everyone else was napping i the house.  I took my Coleman chair down to the back of the boat at the dock.  A 7&7, my book, and the beautiful day.

BTW a few minutes after I took the feet picture I saw something swimming toward me from the right.  It swam with in feet of the back of the boat.  Can you tell what they are?

A family of three otters!

Keep dreaming...Colleen

Looking down the dock to where the Sylvia Jane is docked.

Habitat layout, maybe

Spent the day at the Dixie Classic Fair.  Got there when it opened at 9am and didnt leave until 3pm!  I will blog about what I ate and show pictures later. 

So Ive been sitting with my sore feet up and playing around in Publisher with a layout for my habitat challenge quilt.  I think I have found what I like.  It really is me! 

 Can you get a little bit of an Amish feeling with the layout?  Im thinking no border with using whatever scraps I have for the binding.  The back may be whatever I have left of the habitat and the gray which is one of the new Free Spirit solids called Dogwood.  I really like Dogwood because the gray has hints of brown.  Let me know what you think.  I will probably try to sew it tomorrow so I can plan the quilting.  Any ideas?  I kind of thinking a square spiral for the center. Triangular spirals in the corners of the gray.

Keep dreaming...Colleen

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