Aurora's Quilting Corner and more

Sunday mornings how I like them , sitting in my slider looking out of patio window and drinking a cup of coffee. The bird is sitting on his perch, Willow our RagDoll Cat is cleaning herself next to my silder and Mia, our Labradoddle is in the recliner next to me snoring! Since I forced my brain to shut off last night and sleep nine hours I feel some kind of energy I haven't felt in months. ToDo List for today: Study for Biology, Work on my Lab Report, study math since I have an exam this week, cut my orders, finish my Tshirt Quilt so I can sent it off on Monday...and then I can sew for pleasure. But first things first, I need to take Mia for a long walk. This dog enjoys when she can run and play. She is such a calm loving dog. Do you sometimes feel like life is passing way to fast? And you are asking yourself why am I sitting here. Life is precious and personally I would prefer to go to the big city on weekends, go to Canada, see plays and museums. But we can't right now,...

Once upon a time, there was an older student that was just very very tired of studying. So instead of sitting down and looking at the books, she started sewing with a fabric that reminded her of the Raggdy Ann and stitched Animals. It reminded her of a blanket from a little boy she once knew, it reminded her of her little brother and his blankets he carried around. So instead of doing what she was suppose to do, she sat down and made her machine soar. Out came the most delightful toddler rag quilt just for a boy to love.

Looking out of the window, I thought to myself this evening. How carzy will it get? It was 54,cold and stormy. I went to the barn and those clouds rolled in. Just like in this pictures the clouds came it...and then it started pooring. Now call me crazy and/or nuts but I like weather like that. Personally I think it is really awesome, and I wish I could put that into a quilt. The dynamics alone are beyond awesome. My next quest was to check online if there are more pictures where weather seems to be nuts...and sure enough there were very interesting ones out there for ...I thought I would put them on here. One of these days I will take one of them and transfer it into a quilt!!!

For once a little bit of time for myself and on top of that time to put in fabric!!

So I sat...and sat...typed away thinking to myself. History in the USA...interesting. Bush senior and Clinton ..definitaly a challenge...Honors Program...really what did you get yourself into. After 8 hours of being glued to the computer, while checking emails in between and making sure facebook was still there I had 8 pages done! So, I got up...realized that my butt was hurting...and yes getting old sucks...( as I am writing this right now my feet are falling asleep and they are freezing) I decided to slow cook my first pumpkin. When you have a family like I do...they like pie and anything that goes with FOOOOOOD. While the smell of orange peel mixed with cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, allspice, vanilla was moving through the house, I started on the dummies that my teenage son needs for his beautiful haunted trail. Since one of the dummies will be used in a butcher scene we had to stick a pumpkin into it - like my teenagers would say - guts and gore mom!! Did I at any time mention...

With Helloween approaching I am in overload! First for me that means midterm (I wrote an 8 page paper yesterday -  not done yet) and then our boys are doing a haunted trail. Personally I think it is a great idea, there are 17 teenager involved and this little village has so nothing for teenager -  other then getting in trouble not much to do here. So here I am in my spare time (yeah like I have any of that right) putting dummies together, making ghost, asking for supplies on craigslist....I wish I would have more cheesecloth but I don't. One of the scences is a butcher shop -  so the dummie is made out of old clothes and we will put a pumpkin in the middle so the butcher can rip some of the inside out. They will have an insane asylum -  you think those walls will be padded? I still think a ghost that will come down on them would be great Well so many ideas -  just not enough time. I hope this village will like what the teenager are putting out there. ...

So you wake up and have tons of plans. I had coffee started studying, worked on my exam...so far everything was going great...until I stepped outside. Really a flat tire? So I got the compressor out... Amanda blew the tire, dropped her off at football and then I went to Walmart and to sit and wait...for new tires I couldn't afford. Can you say...that was the money for our anniversary dinner. Let's see what comes next