The wind was blowing pretty good today and is supposed to get a lot stronger through the night.  All the pretty orange and gold leaves are off my maple tree outside my sewing room window. 

I went grocery shopping today and picked up a rotisserie chicken boy it tasted good tonight and I have a drumstick and thigh for George's lunch tomorrow.   I'm going to make a mostocholi casserole tomorrow with the leftover turkey breast.  I'll make enough for us and the kids, they have a dinner to go to tomorrow but they can heat it up Wed.

I filled out my absentee ballot today so need to get that out for the mailman tomorrow.  I also have to box up 5 ornament blocks I've made for a swap tomorrow, going to add a little treat for the hostess of the swap.  She's a Star Wars geek and I found cookie cutters and cupcake papers with Star Wars designs on for her.

Well it's jammie time here and watch the football game then beddy bye.

Here are 2 kits I've finished in Oct. 2012, con't like the daisy pillow case but it is what it is.  Not doing it over. 

I've started working on my kit stash, going to get them done or give them away.  Have to decide which ones I like and which ones I don't care for and re-purpose the latter.  It's time to purge my kits, fabrics and books again.  Make room to buy more.  LOL

Went to a pet store with Emily last week and saw 2 puppies ythat stole my heart but George won't relent.  I'm so sad, I so would enjoy the company of a pet but it's not to be I guess.

Like these and I bet I could make them from stash fabric.

Had a lousy day yesterday, could only see shadows and outlines.  Very frustrating and depressing.  I did work on my daisy petals only to find out the pattern/instructions were wrong so have to figure out a solution.  I think I may just have to trim them down and  do needle turn applique. 

Today was a much better day, I went to the dentist for a cleaning, I have a small cavity and then to exercise.  I have to get to exercise more consistently, I feel so good after I'm done.

Then I came home to try and salvage the daises, think I've fixed the problem.  Petal pattern way too big for the background piece.  So I started trimming them down and pressing under the raw edge for needle turn applique.

Well a Bulls game is on so I'm going to sign off and watch some basketball with George.

Yup I've been this tired.

Such a sweet block.

I had a lost day today ended up cleaning out the back hall closet looking for an upholstery cleaner and ended up tossing a bunch of old stuff.  No upholstery cleaner but I have some organized shelves and had an empty one.  I filled that with small appliances (muffin maker, pie maker, sandwich maker and a large crock pot), that emptied a shelf on my cook book shelves.  I didn't try to organize those today.  Then I went into the sewing room and one of the chairs would not roll across the floor, tipped it up and the casters were full of threads so I started cleaning them out.  Two hours later George came home for lunch, we had sandwiches and I told him what I was trying to do with the chair.  The thinking man that he is came in with a box cutter and got me rolling again.

I did get the apple core blocks I've made so far ironed, I have 3 of them and enough cores printed probably to make 300 blocks.  We'll see what happens. 

After George got the chair moving he went to move the chipmunk trap over to the neighbors but couldn't because he could hear the little buggers running in the downspout.

Then after futzing in the yard he came in and suggested we go to the Casino for dinner.  I never say no to dinner out so off we went.  George had a baked chicken and I had a steak smothered in onions and mushrooms.  Yummy.  Oh and we doubled our gambling allowance.  Yea for us....

I'm tired and ready to call it a day, will watch Pawn Stars for a while then off to beddy bye.  Our bed runner is doing it's job and our feet are so warm and toasty all night.

Here it is finally finished my Drunkard's Path bed runner, this should keep our tootsies nice and warm through the cold nights. 

Now I'm off to fix dinner and call it a day.  I have started sewing my apple core blocks, will see how many I get done from what I've printed out so far.  It's so nice to have the stitching lines printed onto the back of my fabric.  Does make hand piecing so much easier to stitch.  I love using Inklingo to print the lines.  Thanks to Linda Franz for developing this product. 

Worked all day on the bed runner, got the binding made and attached to the front.  Spent the better part of the afternoon hand stitching it down to the back of the runner until I just ran out of umph and had to stop to fix dinner, chili, peach cottage cheese salad and hard rolls.

Kathy called she has an interview tomorrow with a Dr's office for a job.  So hoping she gets it, there are 2 openings, receptionist and medical asst.  She's qualified for both but would like to get the ma as it pays more but will take the receptionist.  The jobs also have benefits and boy could she use those.  She is so hard working and reliable.  She's also good with people.  Sure hope this happens for her she can maybe get back on her feet after breaking her arm.

Think I'll try doing a little more on the binding for a while and maybe get it done or not and wait until I'm wide awake in the morning.  Then I need to work on the Christmas present I started at lunch bunch yesterday.  It's a cute pillowcase with a big daisy appliqued to the front and the wide rick rack added.  Very girly girly.

Well off to watch some football, don't know who's playing.

Here are the back yard trimmed blue spruce, George was going to cut them down because there was so much dead stuff on the bottom but he decided to trim them and see if that helped them survive a few more years.  We planted them as little twigs almost 40 yrs. ago.  Thanks to Lou and Terri who came over and helped him, he got so much more done than trying to do it by himself.  They hid the garden before but now we can see the garden from the sun room.  The fire is burning in the garden.  The trimmed the big blue spruce in the front yard too.

Critters are going to have to hide from the coyotes under the border evergreens.  We used to see trails of corn husks from the garden to the 3 evergreens.  Hope this extends the lives of these beautiful trees, they will still be havens for birds.