Quiltin’ up a storm

Posted on January 30, 2009 by Suzanne

I’ve had 4 quilts on (and back off!) the quilting machine this week — it sure feels good to FINISH things. Well, “finish” as in “finish this particular step and then put them in the pile for the next step.”

I’ve uploaded a bunch of pictures to my Flickr Photostream, and because I’ve run out of steam for tonight, I’m just going to point you there if you’d like to see what I’ve been up to. A scrappy nine patch plus those Strip Twist QOVs from last week are the 3 that are photographed, the braid quilt was quilted today, but not photographed yet:

Quilt Photos

Did you know that tomorrow is the last day of January? How did that happen? Here are the photos I’ve picked for the last few days of my daily photo project:

The sky was such an odd foggy shade of grey and the trees were all covered with snowy ice:

You’ve seen this one:

And this one:

I waited until too late in the day to try to take Mark’s picture. None of the pictures I took were very great, and this one only looked decent after I went with the black and white. My goal was to get some pictures that show HIS eyes, but he wasn’t in the mood, and it was really too dark.

I’ve always thought that my eyes were my best feature, but my boys hit the beautiful-eye-gene-jackpot in that their DAD has really beautiful eyes, too.

Look at that dog’s tongue. Don’t you wish you could do that?

TTFN-

Suzanne

Overworked and underpaid

Posted on January 26, 2009 by Suzanne

Poor guy. That darned dishwasher always needs to be unloaded.

I’ve told that them that if they want to stop eating, the dishes won’t get so dirty all the time.

Saturday & Sunday

Posted on January 25, 2009 by Suzanne

I set the camera on top of our TV armoire, and snapped this one. I thought it would be interesting to take pictures throughout the year of our home and see how it changes. We rearrange fairly often, plus there is always something going on — the table to the right of center is Lego Mindstorm Central at the moment. And I’m noticing that the Poinsettia wallhanging never got taken back down after the holiday season.

The wall color is pretty accurate in this photo. When we first looked at this house I thought “OMG that is YELLOW” and was sure we’d have to change it.

It has grown on me, though, and I’m glad I never could talk Mark into repainting.

The boys received a copy of the movie Wall-E for Christmas. With the movie was a voucher for a free tree. Mark went online, signed up, and here, finely, is our Tree. We had to buy some potting soil and a pot last night. Hopefully it survived it’s trip to our house, and can survive until such time that it can be transplanted to the great outdoors.

For reference, the portion fo the tree that is actually above the soil is only about 7 inches…

I think I’m all caught up now. Well, caught up in sharing pictures, that is.

The boys should be home from basketball any moment now, and after we have our Traditional Sunday supper (popcorn, apples and cheese, that’s a well-rounded meal, right?), I might go sew for a bit. I mean…clean up some more.

Yeah. That’s it. I’ll go clean some more.

TTFN-

Suzanne aka EDG

Computers, part deux

Posted on January 22, 2009 by Suzanne

Shortly after I wrote my earlier post, I decided to actually attempt to do a little troubleshooting, and fired up my laptop. Network worked just fine on it, so now I don’t know what to think. I’ll have to try moving the laptop to the front counter to see if it is locational, and if it’s not…well, then, I guess we’ll know it’s the computer (which happens to be the new Mac, and…I guess I’m going to learn a lot more about how my Mac works!)

Photos from yesterday and today:

I cheated a tiny bit. I took a number of photos last night, I wasn’t looking through the eye-piece, just holding the camera at about my stomach, snapping pictures. The picture I took that captured the word Lost on the TV — the knitting was blurry. So, I cut the TV screen out of that one, pasted on top of the TV in this picture and VOILA! (I worked on my sweater some last night. Long way to go yet.)

Yes, I’m weird. And geeky. And just the slightest bit addicted to several TV shows right now. I got to choir last night at 7 and informed the choir director that I HAD to be home before 8. I didn’t tell him why, but my Mom knew. Thankfully, she didn’t give me away.

I took about 25 pictures of Katie. She basically ignored me. The lighting in here tonight is terrible, which means the camera takes longer to expose the pictures. Holding it by hand gave me very blurry pictures. I set some books down on the floor, the camera on top and got some great pictures. So there’s your photography tip for today. Actually, two tips. Get down on the same level as your subject and use something to balance your camera (it was sitting off the floor as far as Don Quixote and a Moleskine journal would lift it). Books, tables, chairs, counters all work as stand-ins for tripods.

And on that note, it’s time to stop letting the sleeping dog lie and send her out for her last trip of the day to the great outdoors.

Come on Katie, time to wake up so we can go to bed!

Big Day

Posted on January 20, 2009 by Suzanne

It was Mark’s birthday!

The lighting is terrible in the basement. This was the best of what I took, but still not great. He talked the boys into playing pool with him for awhile. They also helped me with the laundry (hey! they can match their own socks and and fold their own clothes!) and dried the dishes. I think the only chore Mark had to do was scoop the ice cream and cut the brownies.

I’ve started and erased thoughts about the inauguration today several times. Anything I come up with sounds trite. I guess I’ll leave it at saying I’m hopeful and wish the best for our new President, his family, his advisors, and all of us as well.

Suzanne