Favorite Animation

Tonight, my girls and I watched one of my favorite animated stories...Rikki-Tikki-Tavi. Chuck Jones, a true artist. It reminded me of another favorite, another Chuck Jones....The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics. A simple but wonderful story. If you get a chance check it out.

Then that led to a more recent favorite that we caught a couple of years ago at the High Museum during a celebration of animation, The Cat Came Back.

If you've got a few minutes, enjoy!

The best made plans...

This past weekend was "supposed" to be a sewing heavy weekend. Notice the word supposed.....the two days got away from me. So you say, you have Monday (your day off to yourself), get some sewing done today. Ha ha! 8 loads of laundry, a dishwasher full of dishes, and a trip to the grocery store later, there looks to be no sewing in my future.

Three things of note from the weekend though,

1. Hold on to your hats -- I bought a quilting frame on ebay this weekend. I'm ramping up to do some hand quilting. Anyone who knows me realizes how bizarre this seems. This will be a whole new challenge.

2. We picked up my Dad's roll top desk from my mother's house. I was reminded that it was my grandfather's before that. How cool is that?! We made a slight modification so retro fit it for PC related stuff. I'll take a picture soon of the girls sitting at their Paw Paw's desk using the computer.

3. Saturday we went to our company's fall festival (BBQ, games, and such). The Munchkins participated in the annual scavenger hunt with two other cuties, children of friends. And they won first place. Keep in mind that several all adult teams also participated....and the Munchkins won! No help from us adults who just sat and talked. I'm so proud. They were still riding the high this morning on the way to school.

Take care and send wishes of sewing my way!

Let's keep this ball rolling - meme week 2

Thanks everyone who is still participating in the meme (Kate, Doris, and Shannon). If you've been reading and would like to play, feel free to join in at any time. Okey dokey...here's this week's assignment.....This is -- one thing that I wish I could do everyday. So now remember you have until midnight Monday to post your picture (or, ok, in my case this week a description). Happy thinking!

This is.....so frustrating!

Okay, I don't have a picture, but I've got a great description. This is SO FRUSTRATING! I know I'm going to hell for this....but 2nd and 4th grade spelling words! I'd like to think I'm the "wearing the apron as I greet my babies with fresh baked cookies as they come home from school" type of mom, but I'm not. I'm the kind of mom who gets totally frustrated every Thursday as we sit and study the words assigned for our weekly spelling tests. Sounding words out, repeating and memorizing words over and over, and then not getting them right. I don't remember studying for spelling tests being so hard. I mean, I passed 2nd and 4th grade spelling, why should I be subjected to it again? EEEEEK! So come Thursday, send all your best spelling thoughts my way!

Friday!

Whoo Hoo! Just had to celebrate that today is FRIDAY!

I also wanted to remind all my panda obsessed friends that PandaCam at ZooAtlanta is back on line! So tune in and check out Atlanta's new little boy panda. I've submitted the name Pey Pey for his name. It's the nickname of my friend Christy's youngest boy!

Happy Friday! Happy panda watching!

Tuesday, tuesday.....the MEME revived!

Tuesday, the beginning of my work week....boo! I'm surprised that "Rather be sewing," isn't glowing across my forehead.

I'm reviving the meme. I'm going to roll out the new topic today and pictures are due by next Monday, midnight! Post a comment to my picture post with a link to your blog/picture! Here we go...THIS IS SO FRUSTRATING! Post a picture of something you find incredibly frustrating. Be creative.....

Here's Karma Chameleon. I finished the top Monday. Now all I have to do is sandwich and quilt. Hopefully, I'll get that done before the weekend. I'm so friggin' tired of this quilt already.
Thanks to Grammy Kathy to sending me these photos of me and my family in front of two of the seven quilts I entered in the Quilt Show. Notice no ribbons..... :( By next Quilt Show, I hope to have a ribbon winner finished and have lost 40 pounds. Who knows, maybe I'll be entering a handquilted item. Yes, something you may not know is that I'm an avid machine quilter. I think I have actually said,"I'm never going to handquilt." Cue Kate shaking her head and clucking her tongue (remember she doesn't really do that, but it expresses the moment). Well at the Quilt Show, my handquilting friend Fran hit me over the head and drugged me. When I came to, I was sitting next to a quilting hoop, fingers thimbled, and needle in hand. Fran is a great hand quilting teacher. She's very supportive. Even as I stitched very uneven stitches, she stood there telling me how good I was doing. It was hard not to try with Fran cheering me on. Thanks, Fran!

Quilt Show...whoo hoo

My quilt guild had it's quilt show this weekend. It was awesome. True to form I forgot my camera all four days I worked the show. But Kate took some pictures.... It was wonderful....