Desire to Inspire Update...

Can you say marathon sewing?!  Where did this month go?  All I'm sure of is that there is only 1 week left to finish my projects for the August Desire to Inspire Challenge.  No excuses not to have it done..but here are my excuses!  The fabric package arrived late afternoon on the 8th.  I started a table runner but couldn't finish it because I didn't have the right color tassels.  OK, I'll start another runner while I'm waiting to go to the nearest big city for tassels.  (We're limited on craft/sewing supplies here.)  Then a doctor's appointment in a nearby little town on the 14th and pre-op tests for my upcoming knee replacement--that took most of the day.  In the meantime, I advertised and sold my Pfaff 807 (purchased in 1985) and my Hobbylock 796 serger (purchased in 1989). 

I started a new prescription for a UTI that was just starting and that same morning helped set up the quilt display in my small town for the Valley-wide quilt show--and started feeling very sick.  Things went downhill from there--bad headache, fever, chills, nausea, cold sweats, a general feeling of being very ill.  I quit taking the prescribed medicine after the 3d pill (2nd morning!), called the doctor, and then started benadryl.  Then came the hives--yes, an allergic reaction to the drug.  It took 5 days to get my system back to normal--it was a bad reaction.  Then came the day of the eclipse which we spent with friends 25 miles further north...and a trip to the nearby big city to get tassels, fleece interfacing, etc. for my projects.  And now, marathon sewing...  I keep having new ideas of things to make with the fabrics I received!  I have 6 items completed and will make another 4 today, hopefully.  And could sure use that serger for finishing the edge of napkins--of course!!

Driveway Gardening...

Some people do patio gardening and some do container gardening--and we do driveway gardening!  Our driveway is our largest expanse free from trees so that's where we garden.  Our conversation yesterday morning went something like this:

Me:  Who's out front?  (We have a buzzer that sounds when someone/something is in the driveway--and it also goes off if someone walks or drives by or if the neighbor parks near the property line.  There is also a camera that shows us who it  is.)

DH:  What?
Me:  Who is out front?
DH:  I don't see anyone.
Me:  There's someone out front.
DH:  (as he looks at the camera picture)  Oh, it's the deer.

At that point, DH went out to shoo them of and here's what he saw:

He's a beauty, isn't he?  One of the reasons he looks so nice is because he's eating his veggies!  Yes. he ate all the cherry tomatoes and the plants as well!  Mr. Deer also brings his harem, including the twin fawns.  Did you know that deer like to eat hollyhocks? and raspberries? and lilies? and cherry trees?  They love the smorgasbord of our yard!  I have some lilies that I've never seen bloom--don't even know what color they are!

FABRIC STASH - WEEK 31, 2017 (8/6-13/17)

Used this Period: 0 yards 
Added this Period: 0 yards

Used year to Date:  112.61 yards
Added Year to Date:  22.38 yards

Net Stash Decrease for 2017:   90.23 yards

 

I seem to be going no where fast!  Another half month has passed with no time spent in the quilting studio.  Perhaps I will get something accomplished soon as the weather feels like it is changing already.  Mornings and evenings feel like fall--cool and crisp.  I'm predicting an early winter here on No-Name Mountain!

 

The Senior Center golf tournament (major fundraiser) is now receding in the rearview mirror.  We spent yesterday from 6 a.m. to about 5 p.m. helping with the tournament.  The Center puts together a breakfast and fabulous luncheon for the golfers.  I helped with registration again this year, and then DH and I sat at the 3rd hole to certify if anyone made a hole-in-one and won the Razor.  This year we had a heart-stopper as one gentleman's golf ball was about 2 inches to the left of the flag and came to rest about 16 inches past the hole.  DH said he could hear me gasp clear down at the other end!  My helper activities were curtailed a bit this year because of my knee.

 

And, speaking of my knee, a knee replacement is in the near future, latter part of September to be exact.  The doctor wants to wait for 3 months after the cortisone shot (which didn't help), so the surgery will take place in September.  I had the pre-op tests/procedures on Thursday, including an EKG.  So, barring the unforeseen, I will be complaining about the pain in another month--but I will be on the way to being able to do my usual activities again.  That's something to look forward to!

 

I received the fabric assortment for the Desire to Inspire August challenge from Henry Glass, and have been thinking of what I want to make.  The fabrics are from the new Country Cuisine collection--the theme is strawberries.  I will be starting on it either tomorrow or Monday--and will be making kitchen projects.  It will be interesting to see them come to fruition--just need to jump in and get the first item started.  I need to have projects done and pictures submitted by the end of the month--and just received the fabric bundle on the 8th--all our mail is routed through Salt Lake City which slows things down a bit!  

Christmas in August...

It feels like Christmas in August!  The package of Country Cuisine fabrics was delivered by Fed Ex late yesterday afternoon.  (It takes a while to receive packages in rural Wyoming!)  I had already planned to do coordinated kitchen projects since the theme is strawberries--and seeing the fabrics confirmed that decision.  Today I will have to solidify my thoughts on the specific projects I want to make and how to make them special.  Here is a look at the fabrics:

Henry Glass' Desire to Inspire Challenge

"It is your lucky turn! If you are up for the August challenge we would like to select you!"

I received an e-mail yesterday from the Henry Glass team stating I have been selected as the person to complete projects for the August Desire to Inspire challenge--how exciting is that?!  The fabrics to be used in August are from the Country Cuisine line by Isabelle Biche which will be introduced this month (August, 2017). 

If you haven't heard about this fun challenge, go to their web site and peruse some of the past challenges:  http://henryglassfabrics.blogspot.com/search/label/Desire To Inspire
It will get your creative juices flowing--guaranteed! Fabrics have been sent out, and I should be receiving them soon.

Two new fawns have arrived in our resident deer family.  They are so precious!  One fawn was being tutored by the 4-point buck (who is in velvet)--I'm sure the fawn was being told of the "smorgasbord" offerings in our yard.  Watch out flowers/trees/bushes!