Turtle Trax Too

Here it is super Tuesday yet again. I do not feel like cleaning. I want to play.My butterfly piece is at the stage of quilting.The real work begins.I am excited as I came up with a new idea for it yesterday.The only problem is that I have a HUGE customer quilt on the frame.Its beautiful and she wants a basic all over so it shouldn't take long. Maybe if I get my work done today I can sneak out to Gracie House and finish it.That way tomorrow I can play instead of work. hmmmmmmmmmmm.

Wow you never realize how much you use or how much you will miss your computer, until its gone! My p.c. went to the shop on Monday morning and we didnt receive it back until Friday morning. It was horrible! Being the computer wiz that I am I successfully saved ALL my pictures,2000 songs in ITUNES, and every file I needed................HAHAhahahahaha. NOT! My personal recommendations to all you bloggers out there, back things up. If you dont know how, then learn! I was short on time to begin with now I am minus time. Thank heavens I didnt have my business files on this computer. I would be sobbing right now.Especially since tomorrow I have to figure out my quarterly sales taxes and then pay them.Atleast until I can download all my songs,books,and movies I can plug it into the wall to charge. But all those email addresses,files,and (starting to sniffle here) pictures.........Argh... It was a very stressful week to begin with though.Which is I guess why I didnt put my all into figuring o...

I am hesitant to post this, but I need to write it down. Its crazy as i was never one of those diary girls but this blogging thing has been very good for me.We are having some pretty strong difficulties with our foster daughter. I never expected for it to be a bed of roses.In fact I have been waiting for the testing phase to begin. It just really hurts now. Its seems you can never really prepare yourself for some things. She has decided a few of our rules are not worth living here. These rules are not up for a compromise. We have compromised on so many things which has been difficult as we do have 3 other children.But on this we will not. I hate to see her leave I really do but I cant take this tension in the house too much longer. When she asked us to come live with her we outlined what life would be like. We had to resign back up in the foster care system and go through all the crap the state asks.We told her we would only do it if she could live by our rules. I know she is only ...

I spent the morning picking out new curriculum for homeschool next year. I am exhausted but happy with my choices. Lets hope the kiddos will be happy with them too! We are going to try Oak Meadows for Astrid who will be in the third grade.Their philosophy really sounded good to me and the subjects look like they will be really interesting to her and fun for me to teach. Definitely more hands on.Jerrod is taking a bunch of different things but I am most excited about his math program.Its by teaching textbooks and has dvd lectures and problem solving for every lesson and problem in the book! YES! I have to try this video upload.Jerrod has been working so hard on the piano and in videoing it so he can send it to his grandma.He still needs to work on a few notes and iron out some kinks in the video but its pretty good.Im really proud of him.He's played and taken lessons since he was 5.It seems we are past the difficult stage and too the point that the songs have begun to be fun to list...

I have been sitting here trying to answer that question. Hmm what did I do today?? Well lets see. I did a little bit of a lot of things. I did work today but didnt finish the quilt on the frame. I got halfway into in and noticed that the backing was sewn wrong. It is a patterned directional back. I had sewn one side upside down. So off the frame into the house, rip it out, resew it, back to Gracie house, repin and start quilting again. In the midst of this there were about a dozen phone calls.ALL long distance with friends and family I wanted to give my attention to. So did NOT finish that quilt today. I quit at 5 and came into the house.There was my butterfly quilt just waiting for something.So I worked a little more on that too. I am making progress although not ready to post another picture yet.Maybe tomorrow we will see.It is going to be a loooooong work in progress. So now I need to eat and then onto binding a customer quilt.A king.I wont be finishing that today either.So no...

This has defintely been in my mind.Yesterday a good friend who wanted to say thank you for two quilts blew me out of the water. He replaced two appliances in our kitchen with brand new ones. I know that doesnt seem necessarily random but it was overwhelming. This guy is one in a million though.I cannot even list the number of things he has done for us.The time it would take to list them all would be days.I had actually been happy that I could make him these two gifts.A great way to say thank you for all he has done. So now I have to come up with something different.Maybe something I can do for him that he couldnt pin on me.I will have to give that one some thought. Thinking about what he did for us though makes me think about what we do for others. I think about my husband on this also.He is one of my heros in this aspect. I cannot count how many times he has plowed for others late at night so they didnt know who did it, he drops off the first salmon of the year he catches to the...

But having a mental block. This is kind of WAY out of the box for me. I am a piecer. A good friend of mine bought me some paintstiks though. Now I want to paint everything. So I am trying to really come up with something that is out of the norm for me.I have more butterfly's to make and of course I am going to add crystals and beads. Not sure where yet, I am hoping that will come to me! But I am not sure if I should trying adding another element like flowers? I have a few quilting ideas so that I am not too worried about.Well that is until I put it on the frame.Then of course I will draw another blank. I am hoping that by putting it up here it will hit me upside the head what is missing.