We are back :)

We got back Monday night from our vacation to Britain. We had a great time and worked out we covered close to 3,000 miles during the 3 weeks we were there. Visited lots of historical places and a few beaches. Drove through, and stopped off at, some fabulous scenery. Enjoyed time with family and visited some old friends.

Now we just have to get past the jet lag, it's 4.00 a.m. here 10 a.m. there, and Nik and I are wide awake and eating cereal. We also have to readjust to the heat and humidity.

I've been blogging about our vacation at our family site http://jocarhansenfamily.blogspot.com/ and will put up our week 3 overview some time today or tomorrow.

Quilting news. I'm participating in a signature block exchange with the Lady of Steeles Hand Embroidery group. There are 26 participants. I took my drawn up blocks with me on vacation and finished the design element on about 12 of them. I would have gotten more done but for some reason I kept getting distracted by beautiful scenery :)

It appears that I am participating in "I Am A Stitchers Angel 2009". Before going on vacation I tried sending an e-mail to sign up but was having internet issues so never knew if it got there or not. So I read my e-mail today and I have been assigned a secret partner. Wouldn't you know it she lives not too far from one of the places we visited on our vacation !!!!!!! The theme is "Roses" and we have to send at least 3 hand made items over a period of 7 weeks. Fun. Fun. Fun.

While I was gone on vacation I got a nice surprise from Micki at Irish Muses. I'll do a separate posting about that once I have my "pass the award along" list put together :)

Kris and Nik start back at school on Friday so we have a short period of time to get everything together for them. Juliet and Elisabeth have one more week with us before heading back to university. After that I will be hustling to get some of my swaps finished and Christmas gifts put together.

Scotland4thesenses

Be still my beating heart I just ran across a fairly new blog about Scotland with fabulous photographs so if you want a taste of some of the places I have lived and/or visited when I was growing up go take a gander. My home town castle and local cemetery are featured !!!!!!

There's a giveaway running till tomorrow for a recipe book. Needless to say I have entered. It would make for great reading on the plane ride home :)

http://scotland4thesenses.blogspot.com

One more day to go before our flight so we have to do the mundane stuff like clean bathrooms, the kitchen and finish packing, once the "wee laddie" gets home from scout camp. Then we hand over our keys to our house/dog sitter and one of the neighbors. I am sooooo looking forward to visiting with my assorted homeland family members and touring amongst all the fabulous scenery and historic sites.