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You better hurry it up! Today is the LAST day to enter!
! Clickity-click on this and comment on the giveaway post, and BAM you will be entered to win that amazing prize!! HELLO- Did you hear that it was ONE JELLY ROLL and ONE LAYER CAKE!?!??! Seriously. That is a BIG giveaway. HUGE. So tell your friends. Fast. This is it Ladies…..one last chance. (almost like the last chance workout. almost)
We have been super busy this last week!! Which is great 🙂 Ladies (and Gents) keep em coming!
I wanted to spotlight this amazing quilt… It is a scrappy quilt made by one of our local librarians, and it is gorgeous! This is a paper pieced quilt, and the main block is called pineapple. (?) Each block has 37 different pieces of fabric!! I was just in awe of this quilt.
And all the borders had this beautiful applique on them!
We machine quilted the simple feather meander pattern on it and it turned out great…I love how the machine quilting enhances the design!
Amazing!
So, technically Monday is my day off…..which really means that I get to stay home and WORK my buns off, to prepare for me being gone the rest of the week! Hahahaha, so sneaky, that day “off ” is!! 🙂 But don’t think I am complaining….cause I’m not. I really enjoy it. I do. Who doesn’t love laundry and dishes….fighting to keep the dishwasher loaded while my 18 month old unloads it!? It is a fun time right now, having Ms.E and Mr. J to keep me on my toes!
I have had a million ideas come to mind this weekend…..projects and ideas of things we will want to share. We have some tutorials in the works that are gonna be fun too. I swear your gonna love it! 🙂
Oh yeah, don’t forget to blog about the giveaway….and if you haven’t already, go comment on the giveaway post so you will be sure to be entered!! (only a few more days!) Don’t be shy, tell your friends. Spread the fabric love! 🙂
Okay, I am going to go back to the housework, so I can get on to the fun stuff…..you know, like sewing, creating and sharing it with you!! 🙂
Have a great day!
Sarah
ps.. I tried to get a picture on here, cause we all know it would be more exciting with one. However, it is NOT working for me. I will talk to the Handsome, single computer guy to fix the situation. But, if you really wanna know, it is probably ME, and NOT the computer! 🙂
I asked the Lord to tell me
Why my house is such a mess.
He asked if I’d been ‘computering’,
And I had to answer ‘yes.’
He told me to get off my fanny
And tidy up the house.
And so I started cleaning up…
The smudges off my mouse.
I wiped and shined the topside.
That really did the trick…
I was just admiring my work…
I didn’t mean to ‘click.’
But click, I did, and oops I found
A real absorbing site.
That I got SO way into.
I was into it all night.<<Sigh>>
Nothing’s changed except my mouse
It’s very, very shiny.
I guess my house will stay a mess…
While I sit here on my hiney.
Boy we all have day’s like these…don’t we? I found this somewhere (i wish I could remember) while I was…..YES, on my fanny cruising the internet. 🙂 I thought this was pretty perfect for me at this time…..Since I am stuck at home, with my broken leg. STILL!! And I do a lot of internet surfing!! I am SO ready to be back in action at the Quilt Shop!! I miss all of you ladies, and projects!!
Have a great weekend…..what’s left of it anyway!
Jenny
Hey everyone this is Hillary! And I’m resurrecting “Lose the Fat Quarter!” The Missouri Star Quilt Company girls were doing this in the shop once a week recently to help all us girls who like to sit and sew… get our tushies moving!! We got to work hard to lose weight and then one lucky girl got to take home a pile of fat quarters!!
Well, when mom broke her leg there were a few things that kinda stopped in their tracks and that was one of them 🙁 it just became to much.
I don’t know about you, but, I hate to lose momentum and I love having a group to talk to and keep me motivated while I’m trying to lose weight. That means…. (drum roll please) I’m starting an online group!! Woohoo! 😀 It’s gonna be fun! There won’t be a pile of fat quarters to take home but maybe we can work on dropping a few more of our own “fat quarters” until the shop is ready to restart the class & probably after that.
I know we all have our own personal goals
but…. for me…. my starting weight is ____
HA!
You thought I was going to tell didn’t you 🙂
Heck no! but I’ll probably tell you each week as I weigh in if I’ve lost weight and you can post about how you’re doing in the comments or in the Lose The Fat Quarter forum group under the General Discussion section (the forum is under the Community tab up top:) ). I will say that my ultimate goal is probably where some people are just starting. But hey I’m gonna look GOOD when I get there 🙂
MOTIVATION
My thoughts for this week are about motivation.
One of the big thing’s in exercise is motivation. In order to keep going we have to have some form of motivation.
It can be something physical, like a dress, swimsuit, or a picture of yourself from where you once were and want to be again or…. maybe you’ve never been there and it’s your head stuck on someone else’s body :D.
Motivation could be more emotional as well, maybe you want to lose weight so it’s not so hard to get around, maybe it’s for your kids or spouse. Whatever it is exercise is so much easier when we have that motivation fresh in our minds.
I’ve recently challenged myself to run a 5k this spring
Aaaah!! What am I thinking?? I know!
So, I’ve been pulling out the motivational swimsuit, my spouse is helping too 😆 , so I can be ready for this and get moving to lose some serious weight!
So far I’ve been running 3 days this week and biking on Tues… I skipped Thurs…. shh! But frankly, I’d forgotten how stinking hard it is to haul myself at a run around the block even 2-3 times much less a mile or 3. Right now it’s more of a jog…. or a walk and jog combo, with lots of walking, but still!It’s hard OK!
I know you all understand so my thought’s for today on our weight loss journey is MOTIVATION!
Find some, pull it out, right a letter to yourself or you kids. Hide it if you want to, or stick it in your purse it’s really for you anyway, but,
get out your motivation and let’s get moving!