I will be back!

Sorry for the lack of blogging lately. Things are busy right now-Soccer is Tuesday and Thursdays, Exam study class is on Tuesday and we are packing our selves to move on the 19th of September. We have hired someone to move the stuff but we need to pack it-I think I would have preferred someone to pack it and I move it. I thought the 10 days this summer without the kid would have stressed out the hubby and I but no-this packing thing is going to do us in I think! Why are the "family" things in the house mine to pack? Why do I have to do the kitchen, the bathrooms, the ya ya ya ya-why is the adult male in the house done once his dresser, closet, computer and tools are packed???? UGH!! I love my hubby very dearly but I tell you he is on my last nerve-Yes I ONLY have one left!!

The professional exam study class is a true class for a true 4 hour 250 question exam-how did I miss that information?? Sitting in class I decided that I might just as well take the SPHR exam and get it out of the way-it is the same study class and why go through it twice. The bad part is that the exam is right after Christmas which means that I will have to study over the holiday-through the baking and through the sewing and that stinks! I will multi-task become super cooking sewing, studying, sewing MOM and succeed at it all!

Amazingly enough, before packing the sewing machine up on Sunday I was able to put the bindings on two UFO's. One was the trapezoid and one was a Joann Fabric BOM from I think 2001-2002. I remember sitting in the chair doing applique after I broke my broke my leg one winter. It has been quilted waiting for the binding since about 2006. With the Buggy Jars, the Trapezoid and the BOM done I have only 3 completed quilt tops waiting for attention. I am hoping that I can add a quilt frame to my new sewing room and turn those 3 tops into quilts shortly!

I think the camera is packed-maybe hubby's is not yet-I will try for a picture to post.

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Miniature Booty Swap #2

My MBS2 quilt arrived on Friday and it is awesome! It is dark blues, hot pinks and variations of gold/orangy stars. The colors are so bold and striking together. Don't you love the quilt label? I have got to figure out how to do that with my machine. The feature is there I just need to find it... ;)

Thanks again to Marlene (http://madamquilter.blogspot.com/) -I love it!!

The process of sorting has begun in preparation for the big move. We moved here 2 years ago in October and we did a HUGE sort and dump so you would think there would not be much. There is more than I would like but overall we did a good job keeping things organized and in their proper homes. The exception is my quilt room and the closet I keep recipes and cookbooks in-dag gone it no one to blame but myself. I tell you what though the next move should be seamless because I am organized now! I spent all day in my sewing room sorting, setting and am ready to sustain! (anyone notice the 5S reference?) I have an old dresser that I kept stuff in but there was no rhyme or reason and I had project pieces in different spots, was using fabric for one thing in another and then having to re-buy.

I went to Target and bought plastic boxes, clear this time, and magazine holders. I then when through the dresser and put all the projects together in one bucket. I was able to save one for the fat quarters that are groups and I don't want to separate but need to wait for that "perfect" project. I see a turning twenty in my future for some of them because I FINALLY found my pattern book! I knew I had one! I have been a subscriber to Quiltmaker Magazine forever and have saved them for just as long-so I sat on the floor flipping through magazines. The criteria to keep was that it had to have more than 3 projects in it that I would consider making-if not I pulled out those I would consider, stapled them together and filed away. What was remaining went in the trash bag-I know almost sacrilegious but I had too-I only could buy 6 magazine holders in the color I wanted and I had to save one for my Cook's Country magazines.

Here are the fruits of that labor: