finds at the show on Saturday.....

I emptied my bag of goodies and took a picture.....I had one rule, no Christmas patterns or fabric this year. I broke that rule when I bought Santa & Rudolf in the Photo Booth. It was too funny. The swirly stencil can be used in scrapbooking or quilts, a double duty thing. I saw Tanya make a landscape quilt on her blog using the book Accidental Landscapes. She made it look so easy.... it would be her fault that when I saw the book, I bought it. The tiger was only because we are losing our high school and they are the tigers! There is a scrap bag of dyed fabric, a  huge cut of hand dyed fabric and some batiks that said buy me when I touched them in a booth. Two other patterns that captured my attention. The blocks are small and the samples looked so sweet in the booth. Then there is the rope. Sigh. We watched a demo on wrapping fabric around it then sewing the rope in a circle using the zigzag stitch. It looked like a braided rug. Both Karen and I bought it. If we never make a place mat or even a coaster....we have some mighty fine clothes line ready to go!

A cache right outside the Iowa Events Center.....
When we walked out, I turned the GPS on, the cache I wanted to find was only about 300 feet away! We had to go for it!!
As we approached, it looked like the cache was hidden near this pair of hands. I knocked on them to see if they were hollow and they are. So I got down to look up inside. BINGO, an ice cream bucket full of goodies! It was no urban micro. It was a nice sized, "you can't miss it" kind of cache.

You can see my feet sticking out on the bottom as I signed the log book. It was really quiet on this end of the building...so I am pretty sure that no one saw us and wondered what we were doing.
It was a great day.