There is a give away going on!

Check it out, here is another Give Away! You all know how much I love these!
Go to Sarah Craig's bog, Confessions of a Fabric Addict, to enter to win!
It is her 100th blog and she is giving away lots of cool stuff. Joy!

I won again!

The stars all in a row for me this week, I won another give away! This one is from Hazel whom writes the blog Cotton Cocktails.
I will post a pick of my package as soon as I get it. Its coming from the UK so it will be a bit of time, but that will be good too cause I have a terrible memory and it will give me a change to be all excited again!
Cheers,
Carolyn

This morning

I woke up and with crust filled eyes took a look at the second window I painted. My eyes shot open with glee! It looks awesome!

And then I remembered that I did not post the 6th donation quilt I made for the Delton Vet Clinic!

And on a last note - Tika sometimes eats his food so fast as if there is someone going to take it from him - that he vomits right back up. Total waste. ha ha

Well this morning he starts to be sick and I say - oh no, stay on the kitchen tile! He proceeds to run into the living room while projectile vomit all over the hardwood. It was disgusting and absolutely hysterical all at the same time. Suppose you had to be there, but it was funny watching him run his fat butt and not get it on himself. Yikes! What a mess. Guess I have to run to work again this morning.

Cheers,

Carolyn

Winnings, windows and fire hazards, Yippee!!

Lets start with some good news. I won a give away! YES, I am the lucky girl whom will receive my very own coffee cozy from Mary who writes her own blog called Life on 19th. 

I will post a picture of my prize as soon as I get it.

Now for Windows. Every year I have the joys and pleasures of plastic sealing our ancient windows (it's that or we freeze our butts off!). This year, I once again took down the nasty yellow lace curtain on the kitchen window that for some reason I have left up from the previous owner. I had the double sided tape up, in fact I even had the plastic on and was started to blow dry it taunt when I thought - why am I doing this just to put up that nasty curtain again?? I have Gallery Glass Paint! So, off came the plastic and I created a faux stain glass window. Here are some pics that my hubby and I took:

I started with gold "lead" lines, but ran out so I had to switch to black. In the end though its not that noticeable.

I am sitting in my kitchen sink. Not too comfortable after the three hours it took me. And it was getting cold so the paint kept sliding down. I think it turned out okay.

The S in the middle is for the Saskatchewan Rough Riders of course! ha ha. Go Riders Go!!

I had so much fun doing this one, and my hubby is in Vancouver right now, so I did the other kitchen window to! Hopefully he likes it!

If you have been reading my blog and you are wondering where the extra cat in the tree has come from - well, it is my neighbours. They have a 1 year old and I do not think the cat and the baby see eye to eye. Plus she is so damn skinny I have been feeding her as she is always in my yard anyways. Her name is Tick Tack. Our whole block knows her.

This second one is not dry yet so it will look different. I will try to get a better pic, but I have plastic covered the window so it may not be possible.

What was left - oh, I should show you the reason why I started painting in the first place - the dreaded yellow lace!

And finally, the fire hazard! My hubby has decided that for now, I get a sewing corner. In my corner, he has provided awesome lighting and a electrical outlet. To do this, he went into the attic and fed the wire down the wall. When he went up there this time he found several live wires. Not only were there live wires up there, but they are aluminum and some were taped off with - get this - Packing Tape!! Dear lord, the insulation up there - the whole house actually - with wood chips. I swear I am living in a match box! Thankfully the hubby was able to turn off the old electrical panel and pull out all the old fire hazard wiring and connect to our new panel very safely. He brought down a piece just for me. Well, I actually found it in Lucky's water dish, but I am sure that's just were he was keeping it for me as I am the one whom fills the dishes. ha ha

Check it out:

Scary!!

That's all for tonight. It is so late and I have to work tomorrow. So sad!

Cheers,

Carolyn

I love Give Aways!

I have yet to win one, but I still find it pretty exciting. Like buying lottery tickets, I dream the what if dreams.. ... 


You too?? 


If your answer is yes then check out this link. This Give Away is from the Quilted Fish blog. There are a couple of complete kits that Amanda is giving away as well as some fat quarter bundles and pretty buttons. Good Luck!

Thank goodness for long weekends!

One beer and one glass of wine and my face is solid pink, little warm and I have a wee bit of giggles. Yup - I'm a cheap drunk.

Time to share! I made three little quilts today to donate to my vet clinic. Here they are:

As you can see in this pic, a fourth quilt pushed out of the way to make room for the wine and (what is left that is you can see.. .. ) cheese and grape platter we enjoyed for supper. Not the healthiest, but it was damn good! 

My goal was to complete 4 mini quilts today, but now have drank my limit of booze - I do not think that will happen, that and it is almost 10pm! Wow the day ran away.

Of to a soak in the new tub with another glass of wine to relax my back from leaning over a coffee table to sew! Thankfully, I get to tape and mud the room down stairs tomorrow morning. As soon as I can get that room done, I have a sewing room again!! YES!

On that note, I must go before the bubbles in the tub all disappear, here is the best lunch I have had in months, delicious tuna salad, black bean and corn salsa enhanced with cilantro and a little tuna salad. Fabulous Tostitos Blue Corn Chips (my fav) to make the meal complete along with a great book, a little iced tea. Oh, and I was home alone! It was great!

Then there was the watermelon hubby and I had last night that one of the pieces broke into a perfect heart! All on its one, we did not cut this at all:

And lastly, Lucky is able to go cone free - he is back to what he loved the most... .. His Balls!! ha ha ha

Just for Linda!

I apologize, but this blog will be a tad long. I have a few things that I keep meaning to blog about and today is the day!

First off, for my friend Linda - since you thought the wall behind the sauce wall was good - check out the wall behind my stove!

And why stop there, how about the wall repair here:

Or there are the floors, we found the original hardwood under this garish green shag, and there is tile everywhere, I mean everywhere!!

Here is some fantastic use of tile... ... or not:

And what about that fridge? Original to the house. Its a Magic Chef. Yup, they do not make them like that anymore! In fact they do not make them at all.

Now, onto the quilting. I was able to get some sewing done these past two days and made two small quilts to donate to our vet clinic. Here they are:

Here is Jada Bean helping:

Saturday I went to the football game. My Saskatchewan Rough Riders were in town to play the evil Edmonton Eskimos. Now, you have to love Rider fans, the weather sucked, it sucked bad, the rain came down in sheets sideways right into our faces and it was cold enough to see your breath. All this, yet there were more Rider fans in the house then Edmonton fans and the game was in Edmonton!! Not only do we show up to show our Rider pride and cheer on our team, but we dress up. Here are some picks of the best dressed that I saw: (one lady even let me take her picture in the lou!)

Here is the swag, small selection, I was sad - but still bought my share.

See, this crowd is all Rider fans:

Oh My, I almost missed this one. These boys were popular!

They even let people rub their melons for luck. 

Didn't work - we lost. Still a great game and it was really close.

And here is the info for the 12" quilt competition, just in case you were too shy to ask!

Finally, I will leave you with tonight's supper. FUN Do!! hee hee hee

Ahhh that was good!

Cheerio!