FALL FOOTBALL!!!

 I have my Nebraska Plates out for the football season!  

 This is a Peggy Karr plate which our good friends 

Bob & Julie gave to us for Christmas a long time ago.  

 A few years ago when we were in Omaha visiting family

we saw this plate and could not resist.

Julie and Bob gave this to me for my birthday this year.  

I have not hung it up yet.  

I have no idea what I am waiting for so I had better get to it.  

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Another chair or two

 This little accent chair I found at my niece's store in Carroll, Iowa.  

I think it had at least 6 coats of paint on it.  

This weekend I stripped it now it  

 is ready for the Bazaar!

 The quote I have on this is from the song - 

"Oh what a beautiful Day" 

Then I found this little kids chair and painted "Time Out" on it.  

Last year I sold a red one at the Bazaar.

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A chair for the bazaar

 I picked up this little chair at a local store a while back 

and decided to work on it this week. 

 It will be going to the Christmas Bazaar with me 

and hopefully someone will buy it.  

 The quote is "And I think to myself what a wonderful world".  

I love that saying. 

 I have another little chair that I stripped off the paint today. 

Now to repaint it and put a quote on it as well.

This is almost too cute to sell!!!

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Bazaar Snowman

 I have completed 6 of these snowmen.  

They are ready for the St. Gabriel's Bazaar.  

Now to find a place to store them until November 9th.  

Too Cute!!!

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Happy 49th Anniversary

Tonight we went to Jaspars in Legacy Shops for an Anniversary Dinner. 

Bob & Julie Urosevich joined us for an anniversary dinner celebration.  

Our anniversary is August 8th and their anniversary is August 16th.  

We celebrated number 49 and they celebrated number 45.  

It was a wonderful evening. 

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"Fields of Iowa"

 I have my quilt put together and it is ready for the quilter. 

 I am calling this "Fields of Iowa".  

I am going to take a break from Quilting and concentrate on working on wood crafts. 

The Church bazaar is in November and I need to get some projects started.

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Primary Colors and Fields of Iowa

 About a month ago I saw this scrappy quilt block on a blog.  

When making quilts you tend to have lots of  l, 2, and 3 inch stripes left over so

 I went to my scrap basket and pulled them all out and got busy with my iron.  

The center stripe is old fabric from my Mom.  It used to be curtains.  

I love how it all came together.

 I made 30 blocks and spread them out on the floor.  

I did not like the left side of the quilt so I went back to the scrap basket and made more blocks.  

I am calling this quilt "Primary Colors".

 I finished it off with a 2 1/2 inch border.  

Now it is ready for the quilter.

 We drove to Iowa for an Aunt's funeral in June and I loved seeing all the different green colors in the fields.  They have had so much rain in Iowa and the crops looked beautiful.  I got the idea to another scrappy stripped quilt and calling it "Fields of Iowa".  I had picked up a lot of Shamrock fabric over the years and knew I could work it all into this quilt.   

 A close up picture of some of the squares with the shamrock fabric added into the block.

 Surprising how much green fabric I had in my drawer.   

I used the black fabric as the center stripe in this quilt 

representing the good black dirt you find in Iowa.  

Here are 13 blocks laid out that I made yesterday.  

The "Primary Colors" quilt has 48 blocks so 

I will be heading back to the sewing machine today.  

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