Congrats!!

Lili and Anthony are engaged!!! Congrats to the almost graduated college student and her man!!! Love you both!! Beth

Snowed In

We have 6 inches, everthing is at a stand still

Ken was able to park his car at the top of the hill after digging it out and spinning tire a couple of times. He even escaped and with around the block. He has a nasty cold, he should be inside!!!! He says I hover!! So I told him to text me if he needs me and I"ll watch the weather channel and sew!!

Happy New Year

I haven't blogged since Sept!!!??

Well since then, new baby, quilting, new furniture, lots of lbs, a fix for my digestive issues (well, sort of, better than anything else) chemo lotion on Ken's shoulder, Bar Harbor, Maine, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Birthday (next year, big and I mean big 50!) Christmas, Julie's Birthday and today, Mom's tomorrow Dad's. What to do !!! Make hexagons!!!

We have a grandchild, Isabella (Bella) Sept 23, 6.2, 19 inches long. Not totally our way of planning, father is no where to be found most of the time, so he's out of the picture, but she is cute and innocent of her parents issues.

We completed our living room with one more end table and coffee table. All is done, now on to den (no options there due to wall configurations, just freshening up! Maybe another color beside Tuscan Red and gold - maybe

Digestive issues better thanks to Levsin (sp ?) Three times a day, getting better, but to take gas x, plus immodium and a probiotic, just to make my body not so bloated and bathroom visits to a livable number.

Ken has a bad spot of shoulder that did not test well and was given chemo lotion to cure it. Brings it to the surface and air kills germs as per Dr. Looks like a bad case of posion oak. He's now on two weeks off and then another check up.

Bar Harbor a surprise visit to the "mountains" We hiked, we ate lobster, real lobster, we whale watched, we hiked and we ate lobster!! Turns out I like Lobster, never was a huge fan until, real Maine Lobsters! Yum, But they serve them head and all, those little eyes looking up, yikes!!

Halloween, fun, decorated here to the hilt, Thanksgiving, well, stomach issues big time. So missed my intake of Mom's chestnut dressing which I was looking forward to big time. Christmas, fun, lots of Bella time. She spent many nights with us, babies eat a lot and poop, my lord she needs some Levsin too!! I am now the proud owner of diaper skills, #1 and #2. At 49, I'm starting my diaper duties!!

Bella in her swing, loves that thing. She's 3 months old now!! I see her again on Friday. Next week, she might come up for a night.

Hexagons, Gone Crazy, they are so easy to make (thanks to Suzie mailing me 150 of the plastic forms!!) Made halloween, Christmas, 4th of July and now plaids and stripes Star!! Halloween had approx 75 in it, 4th of July about 100, Christmas 100, Plaid star I would say it will take approx 300!! Now that I'm exercising to get this spare tire off and no naps have time to do this!!

This week a Paris cityscape is in the works:

My measurement tool, rather large black cat in the middle of the cardboard cuttting station!!

Bye for now, up to 120 situps a day and arm stretches yoga style 120!! Spare tire watch out!! Plus eating tiny portions, maybe I won't have so many tiny bubble in my stomach too!!

Kaffe in Provance

I preordered the book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Comes out mid September. Amazon has a deal if you preorder!!!! $16.00 and some change!!!!! Can't wait!!!

Red White n Blue

I'm working on State Fair exhibit. A flag, all hexagons, Kaffe is in there too!! I'm trying to figure out how to get "peace" in there too! I did try this last year, but didn't like any of my results, we'll see how the hexagons turn out. It's a lot of work, for a piece about 28 in by 12 in!!! But it's fun!!!

Babies & Kaffee

I have pics. Suzie went to see the babies post birthday (she was camping on their birthday). Had a great time with them, she said they talk great (yep) and they are the cutest (yep) and they are Casey by looks but Micheline's personality is very much present (yep, in a good way I mean!)

Sweet Casey

Mischievous Micheline!! How adorable!!

Kaffe a Day News:

I've been doing it, I just don't have the names of the fabric down pat so that I don't get in trouble by the fabric police!! But, here it so far:

It has a piano key interspersed with Kaffe half triangles coming. This is about 2 weeks worth of sewing (and all done at least part of one day, Kaffe a Day) I'm making a spread sheet to include with my next post.

Small Butterfly Done - check

Small butterfly baby quilt is done. Mother wanted lavender butterflies, but the lavender will not be used it's for a keepsake only. This one is all prewashed and polyester batting, can be washed.

This is the overall - it's about 18 x 24, I just quarted it and did some stitch in the ditch with the side panels and then with variegated thread did chain stitches around about 1/2 of the butterflies and

then did some french knots in the big butterflies. Back is solid purple.

Hope she likes it.