Showing posts with label Blockapalooza. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blockapalooza. Show all posts

Sunday, January 30, 2011

Lots of things accomplished...none of which were on the list

This has been happening a good bit in 2011. I have a list of things I set out to do ....I get sooooo much done and am so proud of myself, until I go to check items off my list and low and behold:
all of these things I accomplished? no where to be found on the list.

This week I set out to clean my house, finish the appliques for my Hugs'n'Kisses quilt, reorganize my closet ( something I knew was more than one weeks task), finish my blocks for the first week of Blockapalooza, exercise everyday, and finish my Valentine's gifts.

What I actually accomplished?
I cleaned my house ( minus my art room), got a great start on the closet ( so far so good right?...ha!), went to the same grocery store twice because the first time I got so distracted with sales and got in a hurry that I completely left like 7 things off the list! Worked out like 2 days...Helped my soon to be sister in law pick out her wedding dress ( that was fun)! and finished one block (out of two) for the Blockapalooza....what's missing? a whole lotta sewing and a whole lotta blogging, and a good bit of working out!

Forget New Year's Resolutions....I gotta a New Week Resolution: get more than half of the things on my list crossed off! And I don't mean half of a task ...I mean half of the list. Maybe I should shoot for most of the list , but I'm just gonna start with baby steps. I'll let you know how that works out for me, lol!

So as for the one thing I actually got to sew? Here is my first block:

Hopefully in less than 24 hours I will be posting the second block and maybe a Valentine's gift or two?


Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Blockapalooza!!!!!

Today is the start of  Quilt Dad's Bloggers' Block-a-palooza Quilt Along!!!



There will be two blocks a week, one on Mondays and one on Thursdays.  They will be using Sunkissed by Sweetwater for Moda, as will I. My pictures will on be on Flickr and I'm sure a few of them will sneak onto here once or twice!

So today was full of fun for me! Not only did the Block-a-palooza start, but I also received some Kona solids in the mail that I won in a giveaway from Marmalade Fabrics on A Stitch in Dye's blog! ( I highly suggest wandering over to both of these websites as they are full of creativity and eye candy!)

And before that I stopped by a small shop here in Greenville to pick up a small piece of coordinating fabric for my Valentine's projects and stumbled on the cutest Valentine fabric! ( I have no idea how to rotate this...Sorry!)





Hope your Monday was filled with inspiration!