Orange and Pineapple Crush Step 4

| May 10, 2008

The saga of Bonnie K. Hunter’s 2nd Mystery Quilt continues…….step 4 was 120 3 1/2″ triangle blocks combined with our step 1 2″ four patches to make 30 SPINNING STAR blocks. This is what my step 4 SPINNING STAR for the PINEAPPLE CRUSH MYSTERY  QUILT (my controlled scrappy quilt) looks like.  I went back to my […]

While the Adults were in CANCUN…..

| May 7, 2008

Grandangels Leanna (12), Sarah (8), and Cooper (4) and I have had NEVER ENDING PARTY TIME since their parents left for Cancun last Friday.  The ADULTS are coming home tonight….so normalcy will once again reign. However, I have to share a couple of highlights of our week with NO ADULTS IN THE HOUSE! The kids made […]

HAPPY MAY DAY and HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROB AND TARA LYNN

| May 1, 2008

TODAY – MAY 1st is a national holiday in many countries – and it surprises me that many of us here in Virginia do not even recognize it!  If you celebrate MAY DAY – let me know! BUT HEY – any opportunity to celebrate new life, spring, flowers, love, and friendship sounds good to me!  Isn’t […]

Orange and Pineapple Crush – Step 3

| April 29, 2008

TA DA…..My Step 3 of Bonnie K. Hunter’s (quiltville.com) second online ORANGE CRUSH mystery quilt is accomplished.  Hip Hip Hooray!  I am seriously cheering because getting all of these triangles sewn on the correct side was not easy for me (I am a bit directionally challenged and hopelessly spatially misguided!)  In fact, I made an entire extra […]

A Mouse, A Brownie, and A Pineapple Crush

| April 27, 2008

HERE IS WHAT I HAVE BEEN DOING…… Having fun with a mouse, having fun with a Brownie, and  having fun making STEP 2 of my PINEAPPLE CRUSH MYSTERY QUILT! FIRST THE MOUSE Grandangel, Leanna, played the part of an evil mouse in her middle school play, HERCULES this past week.  The production was excellent! Here is LEANNA […]