I made a bird ......

two so far. If you can guess the purpose I might make you one :) They're all the rage I hear.

I made a heart ........

yep, just one. There will be more though because I am in the mood to make some.

Meet "Peaceful Heart". She measures about 5". I fussy cut the fabric so there is a surprise on the back for the recipient :)
My doctor told me that I have bronchitis and fluid in my ear, hence the earache (in addition to my regular sinus and allergy "issues") so he gave me a shot, antibiotics and something for my cough. Hopefully I will be right as rain in a few days.
Our school district is letting out 2 hours early today ....... something to do with a weather system heading our way. So my high school kids should bound in about 12.30 ish.

I made a boob ............

Actually I made more than one .......... for Nina Lise aka Mrs. Moen :) They are packaged up and ready to mail.

If you want to help her with her amazing community project hop on over too http://makeaboob.blogspot.com/ Be ready to oooh and aaah over some of the ones that have already been sent her way.

Fabric Postcard

The recipient for this Postcard Pizzazz swap lives locally. I might just drop it off at her house once I get past my dose of the "Tennessee crud" - cough... cough ... splutter .... splutter.

Aaargh I feel like such a failure :)

Not really ..... well maybe yes, just a teeny weeny bit ..... but I am frustrated with my lack of quilting ambition at the moment.
I had committed myself to making a smaller version of the "Leaves of Green" quilt by Susan Brubaker Knapp http://wwwbluemoonriver.blogspot.com/ (give that lady some hugs ... her mom died a few days ago). My goal was this week-end. Not happening.
So I got my first 4 blocks cut out and sewn and went ...... yuck ..... my daughter went ... yuck also BECAUSE they did not work out with the very pretty patterned fabric I had chosen to sew with them :( So back to the drawing board and the realization that I really do need to make this a scrappy leaf quilt for it to work AND buy some blue fabric for the background AND make it bigger than I was going too AND so on and so forth.

As for the practice blocks .... they are going "on point" and will be made into either little cushions or a Christmas wallhanging. Don't expect to see anything soon because I am going to do some embroidery on them and that takes me forever and a day to get accomplished. The burgundy red fabric in the background is going to show up in the re-arranged project somewhere.
So the hubster and darling son are off to "Home Depot" to spend more money :) Some big manly tools have being showing up in the house the past few days ... (maybe we should turn the garage into a workshop.) in preperation for our fireplace project.
 The hole in our bathroom ceiling is now closed up and the hole in the wall is about to be, which means ......... I will probably be painting some time next week. Hopefully our hot water heater will be fixed by then because I always get paint on my body somewhere and the thought of a frigid cold shower is not appealing to my delicate Scottish body.
I'm about to do another fabric postcard swap and this time the recipient actually lives within 15 minutes driving distance. Maybe I will show up on her doorstep with it.
Enough of my rare Saturday ramblings. I'm off to eat lunch, do some more visits at OWOH2011 and finish up some prep work for teaching a genealogy class.

Conversation Hearts Swap - Big Hill Goddess

If you love to make fabric hearts and enjoy motivational quotes/words then this might be the swap for you. It's just starting up AND is being run by one of our local crafters right here in Nashville :)

Head on over to http://www.bighillgoddess.com/2011/01/would-you-swap-hearts-with-me.html to find out more details from Angie.

Every Inchie Monday

Now here's an interesting, tiny art work, year long challenge, for anyone that might be interested. An inch a week can be found at http://www.everyinchiemonday.blogspot.com/ The weekly themes are in their sidebar.