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Madyson Claire

12-8-06

6lbs 7oz 19in

Christmas Spirit

I wasn't too much in the christmas spirit this year. Maybe it's because Shelby is getting older and so are the other nieces and nephews we have in the family. All the fun Christmas traditions we had, they are growing out of. Or maybe cause I feel like its a race and I'm making myself rush to the finish line. The finish line being Christmas day. I put up the Christmas tree but not with all the bangs and whistles I would normally. It took me 4 days and I ended up saving away alot of the decorations I would have normally displayed.

Well, last night I heard "O' Tannenbaum" by Vince Guaraldi and for some reason it just put me in the ole Christmas Spirit! I don't know if it was because is sparked a childhood christmas-y feeling of when I would await all year to watch Charlie Brown Christmas and all the magic that the season held or if it has some kind of Grinch-ish heart en-larger, but I needed that CD!

So, for lunch today I went out to get this:

Then I ran into a holiday display which led me to:

which then led to:

ultimately ending with:

Can you just SMELL the Christmas Spirit? Yeah, I know, you wish you were at my house this weekend.

Little Miss M

I think that's what I'll call Derricks little girl when she is born, Little Miss M. Here is the blanket I knitted for her:

In the works

All completed

And bundled and ready to go to keep Little Miss M warm for the winter

I used this awesomly soft yarn by Baby Bee called Angle Fleece. The color is called Teddybear, it was a beige varegated with pink and blue. It was all knit stich on #10 circular needles, 100 lines across, 200 down. It made a nice 36x36 blanket. It's a simple pattern but because of the size it took me some time to complete but, I wanted a pratical size blanket. I am happy with it. I'd do another one. I'd like to do one for myself!

Little Miss M's arrival status: if she hasn't made an appearance by Friday, they are going in after her!

Um...yea, remember me?

Ok, so I haven't posted in a while - alright, a few MONTHS!! I've just been really busy and its been hard to try and find the time to commit to this. This whole blog is basically journaling and even when I was younger I couldn't keep up with one. There is alot I still I want to accomplish with this blog and I'm not giving that up. I have the most time here at work and my previous computer really wasn't up to par to posting pics, it froze up everytime I tried to download one. I have a new computer so maybe now it won't feel like such a chore. Maybe this new computer will make it fun! My computer at home could definately keep up but when I am at home, I get caught up with other things to do. So, to catch up with the last blog about quilting those 6in blue jean squares I cut in the summer (no I haven't put those together yet but hopefully posting them will be my motivation to put them together), I give you these photos of how they came out...

Here are 8 pairs of blue jeans:

Here are the 124 6in squares I pain stakingly rotary cutted on my living room floor:

Doesn't seem like a big deal, but boy did it take some time to do! I also bought some really pretty flannel to back it. Those 124 are already cut. I guess I could have taken a picture of that to put up but, hey, there's tomorrows post!

Quilting...on a Sunday afternoon

So, Sunday, I decided to do something with the huge stack of un-wearable, un-usable jeans I had in the 3rd bedroom. I have at least 30 pairs that I have been saving to do something crafty with. Mom gave me a really good idea to make a blue jean quilt out of them. Seems pretty easy. Just a bunch of squares and sewing straight lines. Has to be easy for any beginner. I borrowed her rotary blade, cutting mat and 6" square template and got to cutting. I sat on the floor of the living room so I could cut them up while I watched TV. Got some good movies in but when it was all said and done, I cut 124 6" squares. One hundred. Twenty four. Squares. Believe it or not, I am SO sore today! I guess it was the whole sitting on the floor using cutting muscles I haven't in a long time. Its all over sore! Who knew quilting was a full contact hobby. I bet moma is really in shape. I'll post pictures at a later date. There wasn't enough light to take any when I was finished cutting those 124 squares. Did I mention I cut 124 6" squares?

8

Today is our anniversary, number 8. He's not home but I did get those pretty flowers today at work, how sweet huh? I think this picture came out MUCH better than that last post of flowers! Whew, that was an old camera! It's the one here at work and a 3-1/2 floppy fits in it. O.L.D. We plan on eating out on Wednesday night, when he comes home. I was also able to change the number of years we've been married on my profile. Won't be long and I'll be up-ping Shelby's age there too. Time certainly does fly by.
Weekend was pretty slow, just hung around the house. I started yet another dish cloth, in a red white and blue and this one will have a star design on it. My next project is going to be a baby afgan for Derricks baby. I'm not going with a pink or blue. I'm sticking with a neutral beige. It's the color she's going with in the baby's room so it's perfect. When I start on that, I'll be sure to post pics. And I don't want to talk about those booties I started...