Finishes and babies!

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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

Dont forget my giveaway for this FQ bundle.  Go here to enter!

Inspiration strikes finally!

My design wall looks a little different tonight! Yeah!

(the Navy goat is for Dustin bc he asked)



Ok so tonight I posted to my blog and was trying to clear the backlog of blogs I needed to read before I went to bed.  And there it was...my inspiration ... on Mommy's Nap Time!

So I'm talking about what the next step was with my Habitat challenge

I have had this mess on the wall stuck with what to do.  So I sewed sets of two segments together. Then I got out the 12.5 inch square and cut each out four squares and was left with these

I love it!  It was exactly what I was trying to achieve.  After cutting the squares I was left with a pile of misshapen triangles.  So I got out my smaller 8.5 inch square and cut them into 1/2 square triangles and ended up with these

I will probably play a little with the combinations of triangles.  I think I may float the large and one small on the front in the dogwood gray and no border probably a scrappy binding.  And put the other small on the back with a medium blue from my stash.

Keep dreaming...Colleen

Ive been reorganizing my stash..it still is not neat enough!

Flaunt goodies and a giveaway!

If you are looking for the FQ giveaway please go here. :o)

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I am participating in Flaunt! again this year.  It is October 22 from 10-4p.

I have been busy making little things to sell in my booth.

badge holders

scissor jewelry

key fobs on top and bottle fobs on the bottom



flower pins and flower hair clips

Just a small sample of what I will be selling in my booth..

Keep dreaming...Colleen



pouch swap mosaic