Sand Anyone?

Truely beautiful and amazing! Ilana Yahav makes art with just her hands and sand. I can't draw like this with a pencil, let alone sand!

Drunken Sailer - Irish Rovers

I grew up listening to the Irish Rovers. They put a smile on your face and a hop in your step! I'm 1/4 Irish and I can't help but to want to do a jig when I hear this kind of music. I remeber my Grandmother, even in her 80's when she was heavy, getting up and dancing an Irish jig like she did when she was a girl. She was amazing! She was probably almost 200 pounds and still light as a feather on her feet!

So...to all you Corcoran's, Irishmen and holiday Irish...HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!!!

Finally! Blogger has been being a butt-head and wouldn't let me upload pictures for the last couple of days!

This is the most recent block in the Once Upon A Time BOM. It is Snow White and Rose Red. I decided to use ribbon roses instead of just embroidering them. They are my first attempt at ribbon embroidery. Not bad considering I just used the cheap-y ribbon that you get for $.99 a spool.

I am trying to decide what to do now. I'm kind of in a slump. I can't seem to make up my mind on anything! I just flit from possibility to possibility. I have new material I could make...something with. I have new floss I could embroider...something with. Or, I could just go take a nap. I think I am in the pre-spring, pre-warm weather dumps. Oh, did I mention that I'm 44 and I seem to have A LOT of the perimenopause symptoms? White hair multiplying like rabbits, forgetful, moody, forgetful, tired ALL the time, forgetful, can't sleep at night, forgetful...whine, whine, bitch, bitch, complain, complain...sorry, it's one of those days.

Did I mention forgetful???

Shopping Spree and a Share...

Okay, so like don't tell my Husband, but I went fabric and craft shopping today. I didn't spend a lot of money, in fact I saved over $20 on my purchases by using coupons! Here's what I got:


House material that I originally saw on Jane's Fabrics & Quilts and a coordinating print.


This delightful group of blue/white/brownish-black material. I'm thinking maybe a new purse!


Some new satin floss and I have decided to try punch needle embroidery. We'll see how I like it!


So I grab the mail on my way up the driveway after my exhausting day of shopping at JoAnn's and what do I find, but a package! More material love-li-ness! A few days ago I purchased this Alexander Henry fabric from Anthem Fabrics. My picture really can't do this material justice, it's so cute!

It's called April Showers and May Flowers in chocolate/strawberry. I don't usually do the cutesy thing (despite the previous house material) with material, but I just couldn't pass this up!

On to the sharing! I have the Febuary and March block done in the Veranda Views BOM. I am so happy with these!

I am still looking for the right fabric to use for finishing the quilt as we can start sewing sashing on the blocks now, but I just can't decide on anything! I may have to bite the bullet and go to the quilt store and look at some more expensive fabrics. I have been trying to stay on a tight budget with my purchases, but sometimes you just have to splurge!

So that's my day...how was yours?

Finish #1...

I have been busy sewing...hand sewing that is. I have a few finishes to share with you, but I am going to dole them out one at a time. Give me more to blog about. Today I'm showing you my "Wonky House" that is an embroidery freebie from Jenny over at Elefantz. There are supposed to be more coming too!



"Wait," you say, "I thought you said embroidery freebie." You say. Well, it is. I just decided to do it a little differently. Instead of embroidery, I got the great idea to do it in needle turn applique. Something that I have never done before. I made the image bigger (since I'm not completely insane enough to make it so small!) and used it as a pattern for my material pieces. I also challenged myself as far as the material choices. As you can see, the "grass" and the "hill" are pretty traditional materials...what I'm most comfortable with. I chose what, to me, looks like a night sky with it's swirlies and "star lights." Where I really jumped out of my comfort zone is in the main house material. I love it, it just isn't something I would normally choose to make something out of. I used wool felt for the windows, doors, tree, sign and mail box. I'm very pleased with the way it turned out and I am really looking forward to the others that Jenny will be sharing. I hope she likes what I did with her pattern.l

Worst Fight Scene Ever

I used to love this show...sometimes I wonder why!

My Most Memorable Books...

I read this book a few years ago and it has really stuck with me. It is a fascinating look at how a woman named Marion lives her life during the medieval era. It gives you a real birds eye view on how life was lived then. The author really give insight into the day to day life and Marion's feelings about her situation. I found this book impossible to put down, such was my fascination. I was very sad when the book ended because I felt like I had become a part of her life and wanted to know what happened next. I don't have this book in my library, but it is definately one I am keeping an eye out for as I would love to read it again...and again...



This is another book that I read a few years ago and it stuck with me. Similiar to the previous one in that it gives you an up close and personal look into the daily life and thoughts of a woman's existence. It is about a society controlling reproduction due to a serious decrease in fertility among the women. Women are de-individualized and placed into catagories of usefulness. It is a fascinating and disturbing look at how a society at large can be controlled and opressed. There was a movie made of it years ago, but I wouldn't recommend the movie. It didn't and couldn't reach the depths of emotion and meaning you get by reading the book.

So have you read any good books lately or do you have anything in this genre that you could recommend to me?