Love my little goobers

Sure do love these goobers!!!

They keep me ultra busy... and ultra happy!!

Chaotic as usual, some days it really wears me down, and other days i thrive on it. This week has been crazy busy.. getting ready for our fall hook-in.

This last week I dyed 45 yards of wool, and drew out about 15 patterns, filled orders, ran the kids back and forth, actually made dinner a few of those nights (ok, and a few we just ordered out! lol) and i'm pooped today!

I still have another 20 yards to finish dyeing, and another 15 or so patterns to get done, and need to steam and bind my rug. Phew! Think i can get it all done by the 13th??

Yah.. i think so.

As long as these little monkeys let me!! :D

3 tubs full...

2 more yet to fill!

haha... look at these goofy faces!! Faces only a mama could love?

I am SO blessed!

I thank God every day (soo many times a day!!) for

all the love in my life. I don't think it gets any better than this!

I hope your day is filled with the abundant love of God!!

xo

Bren

The last two weeks..

Well i haven't been blogging the last two weeks. That cold that I "thought" was done and better ended up taking me down again, and then turned into a sinus and major ear infection. :( Man oh man!!! I have never had an ear infection.. and holy cow i never want one again!! Talk about PAIN!! I'm finally on antibiotics and on the mend, hoping to mend allll the way this time! :D

Anyway, i HAVE been getting things done in the last week or so! I've just been trying to stay off the computer! I even have pictures to prove it!! LOLOL

I have been dying wool, and getting them listed on ebay..... and more wool.....
... and MORE wool!!

Also just listed a bunch of cool "as is" wools!!!
Let's see...I finally finished that baby quilt !!! wooohoo!! hard to see much from far away. An ark, lil aminals, and the saying "two by two" and "a covenant for all generations to come". Hand appliqued and quilted. I was going to put the baby's name on there as well.. but they haven't named him yet!!

This is me standing on a chair at the kitchen table to get a picture..

I'm not real good at hand quilting yet. Still struggling along with that one! As you can see below... My stitches are not even, nor as small as they ought to be, and i just struggle with the whole process when it's in a frame!!?? So i did this one without a quilting frame, i seem to be able to manipulate the fabric better and have better angles and leverage. Now.. on my other quilt (further down) i'm not quite sure i'll be able to do that!!? Maybe one of these days i'll get good at it!! LOL

I made some fun funky fish pincusions!! These are made of wool, stuffed with wool snippets and sand. This is a Sue Spargo pattern, that I shrunk down a bit. I'll be taking them to the hook-in with me.. don't know if they will sell... they are purty funky!! LOL

I got this all ready to be quilted. Yay!! Finally!! :D

I am so excited about this one as it is for me ! LOL Hand pieced, hand appliqued, Jan Patek design, and i just love it!! I can't wait to get it finished!! Granted... it may take me all the way until next summer to get that puppy hand quilted!! haha!! But that's OK!!! :D

And although it doesn't seem like much... that has kept me totallllyyy busy!! The majority of the hand dyeds sold the first couple days they were up. (There are some left.. and gobs of cool as is wools) so I will be dying again today, just as soon as i take a shower and vacuum!! LOL!!

Hope y'all have a wonderfully blessed day!!

xo Bren

Finally feelin better

I'm finally feeling better! Yay!

That cold was a hum dinger, and really laid me low for the last week. :(

Haven't gotten much of anything accomplished because i was feeling so pukey. But i HAVE been working on that baby quilt - and getting it quilted up! I'm about 3/4 of the way done with the quilting now - almost there!! woohoo! I need to hustle it up, as the person it's for is about 2 weeks away from giving birth!!

I hope ya'll had a great holiday weekend!

We didn't do much. Puttered around the house, went to church, got some laundry done, played "Life" with the kids one night, got to spend a little time with a good friend - that's always soo nice!! :)

Yesterday I was going to take the kids to the skate park, and happened to be talking to my girlfriend, and she was excited to join us! So it turned into a realllyy nice day, of lots of kids playing on anything that had wheels, and gabbin with a girlfriend ! We're both usually so busy we have a hard time "making" the time to do things like this!

I did bring my camera... but didn't take loads of pics - duh! LOL! But caught a few decent ones!

The boys road their bikes on the bike course, roller blades, and skate board. :) But I didn't get any pics of them in action!! Bummer!!

The girls mainly road their scooters and gave roller blading a try!

Best buds! And a good day :)