Quilt Show Weekend

What a beautiful weekend for the Arrow Rock Festival and my guild quilt show.  There was a huge crowd there on Saturday and a pretty big crowd again on Sunday.

This was one of my favorites made by my friend Gina.  I like the colors and the stars.  I think it has a very patriotic feel.

Cici's Adventures in the Sewing Room

Hey!  It's me!  My name is .......Cici!  The mom told me this was short for Cecilia, my original name.  She says the name Cecilia makes her think of the old Simon and Garfunkel song, Cecilia, You're breaking my heart.......  

We spent an afternoon in the sewing room the other day and I learned all sorts of great stuff!

 Strips of fabric tied to chairs are great fun to play with!

Look what we made!  This is one of three pillows for me to sleep on.  This one was my favorite.  It has replaced the folded up blanket on the back porch I was sleeping on.  I finally realized that blanket was really for the DOG!  Disgusting!  I'm so glad to have my own pillow.  I wondered why we used polar bear fabric for it, but it's really soft and since I'm bigger than the polar bears, I guess it's ok.

I was really helpful while we were sewing.  I tried to arrange the fabric strips and when she was sewing, and then discovered that she was doing "air sewing" and got upset and tossed an empty spool on the floor, I chased it and tried to catch it.

One thing did happen that I found rather disturbing.  She placed a little cup of water on the ironing board and explained that she would use it in the iron when she needed steam (whatever that means).  I got up on the ironing board to investigate this and discovered that there was a kitten trapped inside the iron!  It kept watching me from inside the iron.  I got to thinking that pouring water in the iron wouldn't be good for the kitten, so I started drinking the water.  Since I didn't get all the water drunk, I slipped back into the sewing room the next morning and just knocked the cup over to get rid of the water!  I still haven't figured out how to let that kitten out of the iron. It just looks back at me all the time.  I had fun in the sewing room, but I'm going to be careful not to get trapped in the iron!
Cici

Welcome Cici to the family

We welcomed Cici (short for Cecilia) to our home almost a week ago.  She is so much fun!

DD was home from college over the weekend and did some studying and also some visiting with high school friends.........in between catching up on some naps and playing with Cici.  I did laundry and spent all of Saturday cooking.  DD took a healthy cooler of food back with her on Sunday afternoon.

A message from the newest member of the family....

Hello!  My name is .........  Okay, the family hasn't totally settled on my name yet.  At the shelter, I was called Cecilia.  The family is trying that and also are considering Ginny.  Of course, there have been a few times when I thought they were naming me "No!".  This usually only happens when I try to get on the kitchen counter.  I really hope they don't pick this name because it's kinda scary when they say it.  I jump down really fast.  

Busy Weekend!

This past weekend was definitely a busy one!  DD came home for a visit, so we did lots of laundry, I listened to her study (out loud) macroeconomics, math, and some sort of engineering design project.  It was all pretty much over my head, so I just worked on the laundry and keeping food going.  The hubs spent the weekend in the field with corn harvest, so we barely saw him.  DD did convince him to quit early on Saturday evening to go to a movie...........The Magnificent Seven!  
My parents came for a visit on Saturday after stopping at the apple flea market in Waverly.  We had a nice lunch and then Mom and I went to the quilt show at the Martin Community Center while Dad and DD visited the Nicholas-Beazley Aviation Museum.  Mom and I got some great ideas for quilts!  Here were some of our favorites.....

Finally, Photos Worth Sharing!

I know it has been awhile since my last post, and while I have been really busy, I seemed to be doing lots of things that just weren't photo worthy............did you really want to see a picture of the big hair ball I cleaned out of the tub drain????  While I am really happy to get some things like that done, I didn't really feel like sharing the love/pain of those projects. 

The hubs did start combining when it was dry enough.  He even gave combine rides to some of my piano students.  One little boy carried his ear of corn in to my living room and laid it in a place of honor on my coffee table during piano lessons.  The weather hasn't been the best for combining, so the hubs has been at loose ends while waiting around.  One particular afternoon when he couldn't be in the field, I decided to entertain him by taking him shopping!  

Food, Family, Fun

I feel like I have done lots and lots of cooking in the last week.  Last Monday, I made pot pie...with rabbit!  I had 5 of DD's meat rabbits in the freezer and cooked 2 of them which gave me enough meat and broth for 3 pot pies (yeah!  freezer food!)

Here is one before it was baked for supper.  I'll include the pot pie recipe at the end (you can definitely make it with chicken or turkey and it is delicious).  The recipe was shared from one of my piano families.  I'm so excited to start giving lessons again today.  It feels like forever since I have seen some of my students.