M is for Mike and Mia and Mouse

Minnie Mouse balloon

I've been blessed with some really special people in my life, but 
none more special than my husband of 32 years and my sweet
granddaughter of almost 2 years!


   Mike adores Mia.  
He often repeats how much he loves her and how special she is and how smart she is and how cute she is, etc, etc....I think you get the picture.


One of the things that makes me incredibly happy is that Mike has the opportunity to enjoy spending time with Mia.  Mike is a workaholic.  During the younger years when our own children were growing up he worked full time+, traveled for work, studied for his Bachelors degree, then his Masters.  Sure he loved the kids and spent as much time as he could with them, but lets face it.....he was a busy man working hard to provide for our family.  He still works long hours, but takes every single chance he gets to spend with Mia. 

Makayla's birthday banner

Mike and Mia and Me (oh and Mia's mommy and daddy) attended a Minnie Mouse Birthday Party for Makayla today!

Minnie's Mini Cakes

Minnilicious table decorations

Makayla enjoying her Mini cake

Makayla's mommy made a special pinate and also some
Minnie Mouse gloves to wear while hitting the pinate!
Maaavelous.

We attended MANY Minnie Parties today!

At the end of the day this monkey clad miracle

loves her grandpa almost as much as grandpa loves her!

One in a Melon

The first birthday of Miss Mia is fast approaching

and Jenny is planning a watermelon themed party for her.

So in the spirit of things I decided to create some watermelon themed accessories.

Can you see the little pink bathing suit pinned on the quilt?

I appliqued some watermelons on it!

I found this cool watermelon fabric when I was at Rosies Calico Cupboard

in San Diego.  I was hoping to find a coordinating watermelon print fabric

here in Phoenix.  Unfortunately I didn't find any and I didn't have enough

fabric to really complete this quilt.  So I decided to add a white border

and make some cornerstones out of the leftover piecing.

Here is the quilt top with white borders and leftover pieces for cornerstones.

Now the fun part begins............I'm going to add some applique.

Yesterday I loaded my longarm with this Nativity panel.

I've been having significant problems with my longarm lately.

A couple of months back I purchased new wheels to upgrade my longarm.

Unfortunately the new wheels have created a problem with static electricity.

The static electricity has arced and messed with the electronic with my machine.  Fortunately the folks at APQS have been really helpful providing a grounding kit and technical support.

I haven't wanted to load customer quilts until I have had this problem resolved, which I think I may have done yesterday. 

The Nativity panel came out pretty good.  Only one blip with the machine.

I'm hoping to quilt Mia's quilt tomorrow and that will be the final test.

She checked out the top today and told me that she likes it!

Blessed are the piecemakers,

tammy