Doll Quilt Swap Complete

The two were done by me and sent to Alissa in Austrailia and the third is the one I recieved from Flossieblossoms. Pretty awesome huh?

What Happens

This is what happens when you rush through quilting a quilt and decide you hate it. During the giveaway week I have been working on a quilt that I had hoped to have done by now. The middle quilting turned out great and I thought I would try something different for the sides and I HATED IT. Those quilts will talk to you alright. They say stuff like " OOH put me with that fabric" or "What were you thinking doing that?" or " You're kidding right? This is So not happening". So I listened and spent a day- yes a whole day -don't tell Soulmate- sitting on the couch and picking all the little stitches out of the outside quilting. So to redeem myself I made this............

Meet yumm. For those of you that haven't been over to www.thepioneerwoman.com GO NOW! She just had her first show in the Food Network. So exciting. Anyhoo -This is the whiskey BBQ peach chicken. It was so good people, so good. I put in some fresh peaches too just because I had them. Did I mention it was yum? Yum! Skin off the thighs because I didn't want to add to my thighs. Brown rice instead of mashed potatoes, again because of thighs. And a butter leaf salad. Perfect.

Oh and some of you have asked why our Virginia house is still on the blog header. Well, because we still own it. God has a buyer picked out for us and when that happens I will change it to our New Mexico house. Keep praying! I hope you have a great weekend. Girls have homework, Avery wants a pink streak in her hair ( I'll take a pink streak over a boyfriend anyday) and we are having our Virginia friends (met them at school registration- Thank you God) over for dinner. I'm making the World's Best Lasagna by allrecipes.com. It's a whole day adventure.

My Doll Quilt Arrived

Susan aka Flossieblossom sent me this beautiful quilt. Words cannot express how lucky and loved I feel. She put so much work into this quilt and it is amazing.

Winner!!!

Natasha You Won!!!!!! I would put down what your comment said but my copy paste is not working and I have given up coffee. You will just have to take my word for it. Shoot me an email with your address and I will get the fabric out to you. Congrats to you and thank you to all who commented.

Giveaway

You thought I forgot about you huh? I promised a giveaway 10 or so posts ago because, well, why not. Maybe it's celebration of new move, school beginning so I have sewing time again, or maybe because I have over 500 posts on this little humble blog.

Up for grabs is one yard each of these two prints of Joel Dewberry's Deer Valley.

Leave me a comment telling me whatever you would like ( how you would use the fabric, what you are doing for the rest of your summer, last movie you saw or book you read, your favorite dinner to cook. etc)
Second chance to win- become a follower or if you already follow leave me two comments telling me so( you get an extra chance)
Third chance- blog about this giveaway and leave me a comment with your blog. I love reading new blogs.

I promise to temper the overwhelming need to take a picture of every beautiful sunset. Winner revealed August 24th. My parents anniversary. High school sweethearts and still sweet:)

It's their first day

Up early and ready to go. Yes, I made them take the bus. Does that make me a bad mom? My thinking was we would meet some kids right? Wrong. I was getting texts that went like this, "Mom you are so driving us to school tomorrow. We are the only kids on the bus and we are going to be late because this lady doesn't know what she is doing!!!" She may have called herself and sister loosers for riding the bus too. I pray today goes well. I will let you know.

Meanwhile, last night was amazing. The skies are like gifts. So beautiful. So breathtaking. Everyone should want to see this right? Wrong

It went something like this.............

"Avery, you have got to see the skies!!!!"

"Hello, what are you doing in my room?"

Avery, some look outside."

"Um Mom I'm like skyping with my friends in Virginia. I can't"

"OK just smile nice and I"ll leave"

Say cheese. Good enough.

Can't believe she pasted this up. Pray for a good first day and plenty of nice girls for friends.

Old Town Albuquerque

I'll let the pictures do the talking.