Quilts for Christmas

 I'm sure you will all be happy to know that I now have teeth! 
 I have decided to give all my children a quilt for Christmas.  I am putting a picture and description here so they can pick which one they want. Since I'm sure they will all want the same one, I will draw names to see who will draw first, second etc.
This is the order of the draw.
Sarah
Andrea
Betsy
Hannah
Abby
Valerie

Here are the quilts.

                             Purple Mystery-56 inches x 56 inches

                                                              Crazy Hearts-54x69  (Abby)

                                                  Valentine Hearts-78x85 (Val)

                                  Cowboys-67x81 (Sorry for the bad picture) (Hannah)

                                              Civil War X's and O's- 75x83 (Betsy)

                                               Simple Frustration-71x86 (Andrea)

                                                   Purple and Turquoise Boxes- 63x75

                                                     Homespun clover-72x98 (Sarah)
Pick which one you want and I'll get it to you, starting with Sarah. There will be one left over. Love you guys 

I can't believe I'm sharing this

 I can't believe I'm sharing this.  Last week I had some teeth pulled and bone grafted.  I cannot have any temporary teeth until the graft is safe, another 1-2 weeks. I HAVE TO GO AROUND IN PUBLIC LIKE THIS FOR 3 WEEKS!!!!  I try not to smile at people and  I talk with my lips covering my teeth, but can only maintain that for about 4 1/2 minutes. So I get a lot of funny looks and spend a lot of time explaining my dental woes. It is painful to eat so I dropped another couple of pounds (not a bad thing). This time next year I should have a mouthful of beautiful teeth.

 In the meantime I am finishing a lot of quilts.  This cute bear is my souvenir from Alaska. Great fun to make and awesome to look at.

This is the Christmas quilt I finished last year but didn't get back from the quilter until January, so I didn't bind it until yesterday.

This is one of the quilts I sold to pay for my Ipad.

This is another one I sold to pay for my Ipad.

By the way.  I LOVE MY IPAD!

Also, I won another ribbon with my "In the beginning" quilt. I've entered it in 3 shows and came home with 3 ribbons. Nice....

.So I need to hide in my basement and finish a bunch of quilts.  I have 12 waiting to be quilted.

Alaska Cruise

We went to Alaska on a cruise.  I wasn't real excited about going someplace COLD on a cruise.  That just seems wrong somehow. Until I saw Ketchikan.  It looks just like Northern Idaho which I LOVE.  I absolutely loved the whole cruise.  This is Ketchikan.

We went with 10 people in Jim's family, and some of us rode in a float plane!  It was so fun!

We saw a family of Orca's.

We saw Humpback whales from the side of the ship everyday.  I got several pictures of "Flukes" which are their tails as they dive.  They were huge and magnificent.  I wish I could have touched them.

The scenery was nearly prehistoric. I couldn't catch my breath.

We saw several Glacier's.  We sailed down Tracy's Arm to see Sawyer's Glacier which was the biggest we saw.  This one came clear to the water and big pieces would "calve" off.  There were mini icebergs all over in the water.

Of course it was very COLD by the glacier.

We even saw fresh steaming bear poop on our hike.
I lost my cell phone, found a great quilt shop in Skagway and ate myself into a near coma.  All in all, a great vacation.

The wedding

Last Saturday my youngest and last DAUGHTER got married. (sniff) Here she is with her cute new husband Kameron.

Jim and I with the newlyweds.

Abby and her Gorgeous sisters!

Her beautiful bouquet that was made by my Daughter Betsy, See andersoneverafter.com

All the beautiful, artistic pictures were taken by my daughter-in-law, Valerie. See alittlebitothisnthat.blogspot.com.

It was lovely and perfect and I'm glad it's over.

Catching up on stuff

For my birthday (almost 2 months ago), Jim got me a Kindle.  It is SO COOL!!!!  I read and read and read and even better, my Kindle READS TO ME!  Most books are text to speech enabled so I can have it read to me.  It is a computer voice that reads phonetically so sometimes it is quite hilarious, but you get used to it and it sounds totally normal after awhile.  I can read and sew, or read and clean, or read and work on the computer to my hearts content.  It is a multi-taskers dream. Thank you Jimmy.

This is what I woke up to this morning, MAY 24, 2010, almost June!

Branches are breaking and it is still snowing.  What is going on!