I love it.....

It looks so much better in person, much brighter.

This is the finish of the pineapple blossoms I won last summer.

(at Block Lotto)

I dug up perennials today. They needed to be thinned out and moved.

I got some of it done.

Then.....

Our nephew came over.

And he agreed to help me!

I got one of the corner plants out and moved it to the west side of the MCC...(men's crisis center)

I turned it into 6 plants.

The corner plant was turned into three...one for each corner and one in the middle.

Then he thinned out some of "Grandma's flowers" and they were moved to the south side of this building.

(these are what I gave Gwen)

I gave him a grape pop for his work.

He was supposed to get some jello cake too, but he left before that happened.

The golf cart, we bought it last year....last summer the town said it was okay to drive these on our city streets, as long as they had a slow moving vehicle sign and a flag. They are kinda handy. 

don't throw things into one blog post all week.....

I read the preview for this post and I have to wonder...... was I drinking or something?

No I wasn't.Baby pictures have been sent to me. Babies on their baby quilts!

So sweet.

I received an award from http://indigothreads.blogspot.com/ or Sharon

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5. Blog about it and leave a comment for your nominations to let them know that you have chosen their blog.

Rules! I would have sworn I saved the Liebster award picture, now I can't find it. (Since I have been adding things to this post all week, it is rather disjointed.)

Well, look, I made some block lotto blocks for March..

I had no white on white fabric, or at least not much.

My cousin Gwen came for a quick visit and she brought a yard of it with her!

I dug up some of Grandma's perennials for her to take home and plant.

Is that a fair trade??

Thank you Sharon.

There are so many awesome blogs out there. I put in links to some of the blogs I seem to visit a lot. See above.

My plan for today....hang this quilt up and take it's picture.

cards

My mother-in-law needed some birthday cards for a couple of her girl cousins.

She wondered if I could make her some.

(she had talked to tractor joe, who said, "Mom needs 2 birthday cards")

I made a few birds with happy birthday on them,

postcard style

Hmmmm....there was hesitation as she looked.

This will work for one of them, but the other is turning 90,

and she is a quilter

and I need an envelope....

(tractor joe didn't get the details of what she was thinking)

Okay, back to the drawing board.

Now I had the details...

I made this one on card stock,

using fabric,

getting a quilt block on it,

 made sure it said 90,

and it is a real card with an envelope.

On my way to give them to her this morning!

we kame and konquered

We were out geocaching yesterday.

One of the caches was (Ocheyedan Mound Earthcache)

There is no actual cache container up there. 

To get the find we had to walk up to the top.

Time for a little exercise!

We needed to take a picture up there and figure out what area was the highest.

Here I am on the highest area, bracing myself against the wind.

At least it wasn't cold, just a nice warm WINDY day.

Most of the others were micros (film canister size)

I stuck my finger up the black hose and the whole thing came off the wall.

Ahh....a fake water faucet! It was held there with a magnet.

When you twisted off the hose, you find the tiny cache container.

This one is called Rainbow Bridge. I don't know how old the bridge is, but it's in the middle of nowhere. The locals have been marking it up for years.

I wasn't very impressed with the graffiti.

The cache was simple enough to spot.

It was hanging there, in plain site. That made it easy!

We went for 7 and found all of them!

I need to work on some triangles for the block lotto. This month is going by way to fast.

blue baby quilt....

The blue baby quilt is finished! 

It was the backing that slowed me down.

I love pieced backing...

as long as I am not the one doing it.

I loved making the letters, but getting the rest of it sewn up just dragged me down...and it wasn't even that many pieces. oh well.

The baby's mom saw a picture of it and said,

"it is beautiful, I will never use it"

I hope she does! It is quilted heavily and should hold up to several washings.

It was starting to snow when the picture of the quilt was taken.

Then the white stuff picked up...

it was really pretty....

and the dog needs a haircut.....

We'll wait till it is warmer.

Yesterday was balmy warm...and all the snow is gone.

Now today there is a nice cold brisk NW wind and thoughts of spring are not as strong.

back in the house I sewed up some scrappy trip blocks...

I don't know my total, but it is a nice sized pile!

The "Letter Love 101" class is over. 

heavy sigh, I miss it.

One of the last things we were to do is use about 10 of our favorite things from the class and make a journal.

So far, I have one little page.

painted papers...

My great aunt Meta had lots of bingo dobbers.  She has moved to a nursing home now, so my Mom asked if I wanted them. Sure. They are such pretty colors. I tried them out recently.

On plain paper I drew hearts and flowers with a yellow crayon.

Over that I started dabbing with different colors.

Love, love, love.....

I made more "I love you more than coffee, NO WAIT" cards.

and since I am easily side-tracked....

I also starting cutting up painted paper that I had from this free online class...

sign up here!

(I didn't doodle on these, I just wasn't lovin' the results when i did)

My favorite place for fonts is...

http://www.dafont.com/

under Fancy is "typewriter"

I printed out the typewriter looking words. Size 22.

I cut a bunch of birds from that paper and made several postcards.

I found the words here....(etsy shop)