Bunko babes

What a great group of ladies!

Bunko was at my house last night

and we really had alot of fun.

First was had a really nice dinner outside

in my secret garden.

It was a beautiful balmy evening

just perfect for eating outside.

Here we are intent on rolling the dice.

After bunko we play another game called

LCR

Left, Center, Right.

We all start with $3.00

and roll the dice passing the bills

to the left or right or put in the center pot.

The last one with a dollar in front of her wins!

My baby girl was the lucky winner!

Here is a picture of the whole group!

What a weekend!

This wall in my living room has been bugging me

for ages now!

Just before Jenny's wedding I painted it turquoise.

Then I couldn't seem to coordinate

the rest of the room

with that color.

Then I painted it royal blue.

Liked it, but it still was not quite right!

So this weekend I got new curtains and  

painted the wall sage green color to match.

I'm thinking that this may be a keeper!

Now to work on that kitchen color......

I bought an extra curtain panel and made this pillow today.

I loaded the fabric onto the longarm and

quilted this design onto this pillow and

also another one that is still waiting to be sewn together.

Here we are.....

Hot babes at the bay!

Mom, Jenny and I

picked up some Quizno's sandwiches

and headed down to the bay for a picnic

while Jenny and I were visiting last Wednesday.

Hard to believe that we needed jackets.

It was a beautiful sunny day in San Diego,

but was pretty windy down by the water.

One last post about my California trip.

I failed to mention that along with Disneyland

and visiting with my mom and dad

I managed to make a couple of business stops.

You know what they say about all play

and no work.

I made some fabric purchases at

M&L Fabrics.

M&L is located between Knotts Berry Farm

and Disneyland so I really had to stop......

I was right there.

Looking a little PINK!

I had to stop at the Quilted Rose.

I needed some new thread for the longarm

and also some baby designs.

I picked up another bundle of Camp Reach for the Sky quilts

at Rosie's when I dropped off my last bunch.

And made a little purchase as well.....

Very late...........need some sleep!

Mom's shirt

Last week I showed you

the BACK of a shirt I made for

my mom.

I couldn't show a picture

because I know my mom

 reads this blog and

would see it before

I gave it to her.

I can show it now!

Mom is a long time Elvis fan!

There's no place like HOME.......

There's no place like home........And I just clicked my red sparkly slippers together today and I arrived at home...........

Well, it wasn't quite that easy, but my shiny blue Camry got me here in about 6 hours!

Jenny and I left Phoenix bright and early Monday morning and drove over to California. We had a wonderful chicken dinner at Knotts Berry Farm before we checked into our hotel.

We stayed at the Anaheim Plaza hotel.  Value priced, but a very nice, clean older hotel located just walking minutes away from the maingate of both Disneyland and California Adventures. 

Jenny and I had a great time at Disneyland on Tuesday.

Our very first stop was to visit Chip and Dale right on Mainstreet USA.

You may remember that while Jenny was an intern at Walt Disney World in Florida she was a VERY CLOSE and PERSONAL friend of Chip and Dale!

(ie....she WAS Chip and/or Dale!)

Pirates of the Caribean was our next stop followed by

the Haunted Mansion

and the Jungle Cruise.

I was literally attacked by this StormTrooper

while watching the Jedi training session!

It was pretty startling to have a Storm Trooper

get in your face while brandishing a weapon!

No trip to Disney is complete without visiting

It's a Small World!

We also checked out Nemo's submarines, Captain EO and

Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln, as well as the Disney train.

This was the view of the Tom Sawyer's Island

and the river that the Mark Twain Steamboat travels on.

Quite shocking!

The river was completely drained as repairs and updates

are being done.

No Space Mountain, Matterhorn, Big Thunderbird Railway

or Splash Mountain for me and my pregnant girl......

Not this time anyway!

Here we are at the end of a fun day!

California here We come!

Jenny and I are on our way to California tomorrow

for a Mother/Daughter trip to Disneyland.

The LAST for Jenny as just a daughter

since soon SHE will be the mother!

I wanted to create some shirts for us to wear at Disney

and since Jenny used to be Chip and Dale

when she was a Character Performer at Disney World

we just had to wear Chip n Dale!

I also made a shirt for MY mom,

but it is a secret until we get to her house on Wednesday!

Along with running errands and getting ready to leave

I also quilted this quilt top today.

Lee made this for her grandaughter Andrea.

Guess that's all for now.

Giveaway Entry

Nicole over at Our Cozy Nest blog is having a giveaway of Moda fabric!
Check out her site for an amazing tutorial for making some cute fabric flowers!

My Quilt arrived!

My Wintertime Mini Quilt Swap quilt arrived yesterday

and this is what I received:

This sweet little snowman arrived

from Dorothy in Illinois.

The snowman is hand embroidered and is surrounded by snowflake buttons. 

I LOVE the swirly blue border fabric.

Thanks Dorothy!

My brother Bob has been visiting from Utah

for the last several days. 

It has been awhile since I've seen him so it

has been really wonderful to catch up.

I've just realized that I didn't take a single picture

of him while he was here and he left

late last night to begin his long journey

back to Utah. 

Spring has arrived here in Phoenix

and so have my tulips.

Well one of my tulips anyway.

The air is heavy with the smell of orange blossoms

and if you are one of the lucky ones who is not allergic

to this smell it is heavenly indeed!

A week or so ago I planted some

Sweet Pea seeds in this

containter which has seed starting packets

and some of the seeds have sprouted.

I'm hoping that these plants really

take off and grow

well as I'm hoping to have flowers on them by the

first part of May.  Wish me luck!

On the quilting front:

I finished up my last quilt for

Rosie's Calico Cupboard

and Camp Reach for the Sky

I'll be dropping this and 2 others off at Rosies

next week while I am in California.

I know that they have over

100 more quilts that need

to be quilted so I just may be bringing

home 6 more quilts to do by June.

Anyone out there have any batting they'd like to donate?

I quilted a lovely quilt for Beth,

but forgot to take a picture of it.

It was a Yellow Brick Road quilt made

with beautiful bright fabrics.

I did take a picture of the label.

I wanted to include a picture of Lee holding this

cute little baby quilt that she made.

Lee came over one day to show me this top

and was questioning how to go about quilting it.

We added a very thick puffy batting

and she stitched in the ditch and

this quilt turned out wonderful!

I had not seen this method of doing a biscuit quilt,

but it looks super fast and easy!

Today will be a day of

laundry and gathering things

for my trip to California.

Primarily the trip is to go to

Disneyland with Jenny.

Remember?

I earned this trip by volunteering at

Give-A-Day-Get-A-Disney-Day!

(Go to this link for information on how

you can get the same deal!)

I got to volunteer at a DOG WALK

surrounded by a million muddy dogs!

However on this trip I will also be acquiring

some fabric, searching for some quilting patterns

that I need for customer quilts and also

buying some quilting thread from the longarm shop in San Diego.