Shirley Anne’s Heart

Posted By drsao on February 8, 2010

Where was a picture of SAO during the Superbowl you ask?  Look at the picture of Cooper during the Superbowl – Cooper was sitting on top of me and the foot you see in the backgound is MINE!

Ok – so here is a close up of me – and yes, I painted each toenail a different color – just for fun, you know!  I started making HAPPY FEET when I was in college – to calm me down and make myself smile before exams.  It has now become a tradition of sorts.  In fact I have several grandangels who as infants crawling around on the ground thought they were M and M’s and tried to nibble.  One giant land turtle (belonging to a friend in CA)  mistook my big toe for a strawberry…….yep…….I was at a pool party and the turtle thought I was part of the refreshments…..true story.

SAO's HAPPY FEET

I ABSOLUTELY have to get out of the house soon (not that I am saying anything negative about this beautiful snow) -  however, my blog entries are starting to resemble someone who is landlocked with cabin fever!!!!!  I wonder if breathing in too much fabric lint can have an effect on cognitive functioning…..sigh. 

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Posted By drsao on February 8, 2010

I keep forgetting to post a picture of a GIANT DINOSAUR that I knitted.  In 2005 my grandangel Vincent asked me if I could knit him a dinosaur.  He has always been one of those children who LOVES dinosaurs and can actually pronounce all of their correct species names!

 Feeling pretty confident that I was safe and there would NEVER BE A PATTERN AVAILABLE for a giant dinosaur (because in my entire liftime I had only knitted FLAT things like afghans and a few sweaters GONE BAD) I said that I would be HAPPY TO KNIT HIM A GIANT DINOSAUR  if I had a pattern.  His mom, who is brilliant at finding things online, worked her magic.

The REST IS HISTORY – before long a pattern arrived in the MAIL – a pattern for a six foot long dinosaur (counting the VERY LONG TAIL)…..and YES this really is a GIANT DINOSAUR – just like he asked for.  IT TOOK ME FOUR PLUS MONTHS TO KNIT IT AND I WORKED ON IT DURING ALL OF MY SPARE TIME!!!!!  Vincent, who still loves dinosaurs, loved it (although I must admit that I almost fainted the first time I saw him swing it around his head by the tail – but hey, it was made to be loved – I was only hoping that it could survive long enough to get LOTS of love!!) 

This picture was taken last summer.  The GIANT DINOSAUR  is still alive and well after 5 years!

Dino and Vincent

I learned a lot of NEW STITCHES.  I was VERY HAPPY in the end, that other than the fact that it was blue, it did RESEMBLE a dinosaur.  Now, I ask you, why am I having so much trouble knitting a SMALL PAIR OF SOCKS (it is on my goal list AGAIN for 2010!!!!)  And, just for the record, it is the ONLY KNITTED ANIMAL that I have ever produced although I did crochet one giant hippo and two giant rabbits!!

Vincent and the dinosaur

And to answer your question, yes, Vincent got a DINOSAUR QUILT!  It is a Karen DuMont pattern but I put it together with my own setting.  This picture makes me smile.  You can tell if someone LOVES a quilt if they fall on the ground and hug it!  :)

Vincent and his Dinosaur Quilt

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Posted By drsao on February 7, 2010

The Superbowl is over and the SAINTS are happy for sure!    CONGRATULATIONS SAINTS.  My DD and SIL are happy for sure — they – and their snowman were pulling for the SAINTS TO WIN!

The Saints Fans

Epps Snowman Happy that the Saints WON!

The Colts fans in the family had fun watching the game and the commercials….doesn’t grandangel Leanna and grand-dog Ruby look relaxed!!!

Colts Fans Ruby and Leanna

 Other Colts Fans were too full of sugar to be relaxed…..look at Grandangels Sarah and Cooper!

Yummy Ice Cream Sarah!!

Cooper the Colts Fan!

I participated in Marge’s DELAWARE QUILTS Superbowl Stash 2010 – and made a quilt top all from fabric already in my stash (from the last two Augusta Cole Cutting Bees to be exact.)  I did the WEAVE pattern – it was lots of fun.

Here you go…..my Superbowl accomplishment…..this is made from 4 1/2″ half square triangles and a few 4 1/2″ squares.  The white inner border is 2 1/2″ and the final border is made from 3 1/2″ scraps that I have been sewing together into one LARGE roll!  I finally found a home for them!  There is a lot of satisfaction derived from taking a bunch of UNRELATED fabric leftovers and turning them into a scrappy quilt.

Thanks Marge for the Superbowl Quilt Party on Fabricaholics Anonymous!

Superbowl Stash 2010 Quilt

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Posted By drsao on February 6, 2010

Are you ready?  Will you be glued to the TV tomorrow – -providing that the POWER is on?  Can you imagine the wailing if the ice knocks out our electricity!  I do love this snow – but we need our electricity for the Superbowl and FOR SEWING!!!!!

SNOW IN VA

Who are you routing for? 

 PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT AND TELL ME WHO YOU ARE PULLING FOR!!!

Some of us are looking forward to the commercials as much as the game……can’t wait.  Some of us are cooking away – and NO, I will not be making my black bean brownies tomorrow – we are making ICE CREAM SUNDAES here.  Yes, in the middle of the STORM OF THE CENTURY we are going to be eating ice cream – that is if we can withstand the temptation to eat it early!  Everyone in this house has been having ICE CREAM ATTACKS and INTENSE LONGINGS ever since the ice cream hit the freezer on Thursday! 

Leave me a COMMENT after the game and tell me which was your favorite commercial – I have been watching some PREVIEW commercials and I think we have some good ones coming on.  I can’t wait to see the ENTIRE BETTY WHITE feature! 

GO COLTS!!! GO PEYTON!   I am pulling for the COLTS (my DH, Max is a LOYAL fan – and thinks Peyton Manning is the greatest quarterback to have ever graced a football field) so I am DEFINITELY cheering the Colts on tomorrow.  LOL

Peton Manning - ready for the Superbowl

Are you a WHO DAT SAINT or a COLT fan?  The SAINTS ARE CONFIDENT OF A WIN – so says Sports Writer Ralph Vacchiano……..I know they must be excited because it is their first Superbowl and New Orleans sure could use some GOOD THINGS happening there………

Underdog New Orleans Saints confident they’ll pull Super Bowl upset vs. Indianapolis Colts

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/2010/02/06/2010-02-06_underdogs_confident_theyll_pull_super_upset.html#ixzz0el8mbrru

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Darren Sharper (l.), Jonathan Vilma and Saints are undaunted by underdog status heading into Sunday’s Super Bowl.

FORT LAUDERDALE – The New Orleans Saints are the heart-warming, feel-good story of Super Bowl XLIV – a hard-luck franchise representing a downtrodden city. They are the Cinderellas crashing Peyton Manning’s ball. They are everybody’s darlings.

Now I can’t be accused of not giving EQUAL TIME to the players!    And I had to include this article because I think it is HILARIOUS that the Saints are being referred to as CINDERELLAS crashing Peyton Manning’s Ball.  GOOD WRITING, don’t you think! 

It won’t be long until we KNOW whether the CINDERELLA SAINTS or the PEYTON MANNING BALL RUNNERS win the rings!    I am not really a football fan but I do get excited every year for the SuperBowl Game – our whole family watches it!

The quilters of FABRICAHOLIC ANONYMOUS will be stitching away – following  Marge – and finding out how their HALF SQUARE TRIANGLES end up in a wonderful quilt.  FUN FUN EVERYWHERE!

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Posted By drsao on February 4, 2010

Brother Dan in Orange

Happy birthday February 15 to my brother Dan – in Texas.  His real name is DANNY and he can thank me, his darling sister, for that, because I was given the honor and privilege of naming him.  My mother claims that I wanted to name him DANNY BOY but I do not remember that part!  Here we are in Kansas City in December helping my parents move into their new house!  I think he wore that bright orange shirt into Walmart while we were there….I wonder if anyone put his picture on the PEOPLE OF WALMART website!!  (He had on some pretty wild orange PJ pants with it earlier!!)  LOL

And on February 18th there are two birthdays to celebrate – HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my quilting friend Patsy…..doesn’t she look happy here at the CUTTING BEE in January!  For sure – we were all very happy!

Happy Birthday Patsy (behind the white sewing machine)

and happy birthday on the 18th to my nephew Tyler……he is a nice guy and a clown at the same time.  I think he looks a bit like HUGH GRANT!  I have a great picture of Tyler making a SCARRY face but since it is his birthday I decided to be nice!  Tyler is going to be a dad for the 3rd time on or around May 2nd….YEAH TYLER AND AMANDA!  I just love new babies in the family…..and I would like it even MORE if I could say girl or boy – but this time it is going to be a surprise! 

Smiling Tyler with the movie star sunglasses

February 23 my DD in California is having a birthday………hope it is super special too because she is super special!  Anyone who gives me six grandangels is SUPER DUPER SPECIAL!!    Jan is the best gift my DH Max ever gave me!!!   I am sending CYBER HUGS! 

Jan getting kisses from Jannae and Collin

My cousin Janie has a birthday Feb 24th!!   Here we are in July in Kansas City – she gave my Thimbeberries Quilt a good home.  It is always fun to have your quilts find a home where they can be loved!    I have lots of fun memories growing up visiting Janie – riding horses – eating the best homemade vanilla ice cream in the entire WORLD – and experiencing country life!  I don’t know if Janie remembers this but I remember going to church with our Grandma Albertson and I can still hear Grandma singing those Methodist hymns – in a very loud booming voice!    Janie is also a QVC fan – like me – must be genetic – our dads are brothers!

Janie and sao with THIMBLEBERRIES 2008

And finally my DSIL Greg has a birthday on February 26th….the father of my three Virginia grandangels……and I still think he is cool even though he got me a LIFE SIZE BARBIE DOLL FOR CHRISTMAS and scares me by making her talk like an alien when I am not expecting it!  In fact Greg scares me EVEN WITHOUT the Barbie doll!    And I still go to watch him run and cheer for him – yes I do.   

Greg and the EVIL BARBIE

My dear friend Shirley in CA has a  birthday in February too and UNFORTUNATELY I DO NOT HAVE A PICTURE OF HER.  Can you BELIEVE THIS!   Ok – so my mission on my next trip to CA is to fix this !!!  HAPPY BIRTHDAY FEB. 28th SHIRLEY!!!!!!!  I miss working puzzles, reading GREAT BOOKS and eating black bean soup with you!!!  Thank goodness for e-mail!!!!

And this is a BIRTHDAY BLOG ENTRY – but I just had to add one tiny little thing………

 I JUST FOUND OUT THAT CATHERINE AND JOHN are celebrating 33 years of wedded bliss on February 19th.  That is SO SPECIAL.  I don’t have a picture of John – but imagine him by Catherine’s side looking very happy.  Happy Anniversary to my Missouri Buddy and Virginia BFF.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY CATHERINE AND JOHN

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