nothing finished yet.....

We lost electricity this morning. It gave me a chance to take pictures of what isn't getting done around here. I ran out of pure white thread. Haven't gone shopping to buy more yet.

I was just inches from the edge of the Zig-zag doll quilt.

With the lights out, I could have worked on some hand stitching.

But no, I didn't, this little mini quilt is still sitting there. 

I went out to pull dead flowers and put things inside the shed for the winter. 

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So, the other night, I was texting with Crispy.

He will be here for his birthday in a few weeks and he sent me a picture....

He wants his birthday cake decorated like this one.

I answered...oh, you want a peekachoo cake! 

and started thinking about cake decorating.

lost in my own little world

then...

I hear the chiming sound from my phone...

another text from Crispy!

Hmmmm..... 

Why, I think he was yelling at me.

This is what Pikachu looks like...

And this is what Charmander looks like....

You can see why I might be confused with the two of them.

Now I need to find all my cake decorating stuff, so I can make my

(soon to be 19 year old)

a fire breathing Charmander cake.

block lotto sewing.....

split stars!! at block lotto this month. I have my 9 made! 

These blocks will make an awesome quilt, 

so,

of course,

I hope I win.

Because of the way I made these....

I have a pile of bonus HST's that will be cute little pinwheels when I get to them,

but no picture right now.

And some pumpkins.....

made by kids at the school. They make me smile.

good grief, it is October.....

On Saturday, Karen and I went to the Quilt Show in Des Moines. By the end of the day we were tired, cranky, and walking around with sore feet and knees. Neither of us bought much.

Karen was the crankiest. She kept fighting with her GPS. If it were me....I would have thrown it to the back of the van. We were only going to Ames and we know how to do that from Des Moines.

We stopped to have supper with Crispy in Ames. I haven't seen him since August! 

We went to the first restaurant, Hickory Park.

There would be a wait of at least a half hour.

Oh my, did we really need to wait....should we go somewhere else?

Crispy said he was for leaving.

That left Karen mumbling and grumbling

 as we walked back to the car, 

on our sore feet and aching knees.....

 "it doesn't matter where we go. we will have to wait a half hour!"

Luckily, we were seated right away at Old Chicago.

Then we dropped Crispy off at his dorm. He was ready to go do what ever college boys do on a Saturday night. 

We teased a lot of the machine dealers, 

stopping at every one of them to check them out.

We heard all about the "show deals that will never be seen again."

I did warn the one gal..."now don't get all excited, we really are just looking."

I bought this sweet little kit. I am normally NOT a button person. I don't like touching those white buttons that are on so many clothes. But these buttons were cute!

There is some hand stitching involved, but I think I can do it!

Oh oh, Karen read this. I forgot to add...

 that in spite of how tired we were....

we were also very very happy campers. Karen is the best driver in the world. We are looking forward to next year!