Dancing and Working

The title says it all. I've been dancing and working. Whew ....

Wait a minute, that could sound bad. I haven't been dancing WHILE working ... or working while dancing or any combination of those. ha! I fear that if that was the case, I'd be one poor mamma! Unless the object of the job is to get paid to STOP dancing ... ha!

So I can mark something off my list of goals. My sweet hubby got me Dance Dance Revolution Disney Channel Edition for Vday! I was so tickled to get it!! (now, all of you can stop laughing!). It is seriously fun, though. And there's a workout section so that you can track calories burned, etc. I haven't done much from the workout section ... my goal is to get a perfect dance score! Little Happy has fun dancing on a Barney dance mat that was once Sunshine's ... and he jumps along with me as I dance.

Aside from that I've been working my usual 20 hrs a week. Not much time for crafty things lately. But I'm still looking for just the right pattern for the cherry fabric. And I know I want to make Happy a quilt someday too. I know the pattern I want to use for him, but not the fabrics.

Relay for Life stuff is fast approaching ,and taking up some of my daytime free time. After April I'll get back into regular stuff.

But then after April, it'll soon be time to plant some flowers and my little garden! We have sweet little raised bed flower/vegetable garden in our backyard. I'll need to get some more dirt and add to it this year. This past summer I didnt keep up with the veggies, and pretty much just scattered zinnia seeds everywhere ... and the bee balm sort of took over. I'm going to do something with that this year. :) Enjoy the picture from July 07 in my garden!

Love is in the air!

Yep, that's right ... love is in the air! And I'm not talking about sappy lovey dovey Valentines love ...... I'm talking secrect stash love!

I bought these 12 fat quarters at a wonderful quilt shop. I fell in love with the bottom fabric first. I love red cherry fabric... then the rest just sort of fell into place. I have no idea what pattern I'll do with these, but I'm enjoying flipping through magazines and websites for ideas. I think I have a good mix of dark/light for each set.

No matter what I make out of them, I'm sure I'll love it.

Polka Dot Parade

I finished piecing the Polka Dot Parade top .... now to decide on borders/binding and backing colors. Originally I had planned on doing a solid black border and binding .. .to tie together with the black center blocks. But now I dont know if that will work or not. It's bigger than I had thought it would be too!

All the fabrics are polka dot (except the white solids) ...and I love how that clashes with the squareness of the 9 patches. I used a cheaper white fabric and really could tell the difference between it and the nice Kona cotton I have used before.

Brain Age

Art by Happy - copyright 2008

I'm 33 years old and I love video games. I confess. In our house is a playstation 2 (and about 10 games), a nintendo gamecube and nintendo DS. And I play them all. And I'm the proud player that won 3 different Ratchet and Clank games. My latest love is Brain Age for the DS. Maybe by playing all these games, my brain age will become nice and young and supple.

Only a saggy 33 yr old would think of supple brains, cause certainly nothing else is supple. Now it's turned into one of "those" words ... you know the kind. The one that is normal, but when you say it over and over it sounds weird ... and when you write it it looks weird? Supple. Yep, weird.

So for Valentines day my husband already knows that he can get me either Flash Focus for DS OR jewelry and i'd be tickled with either of them. And secretly, I want want want want want Dance Dance Revolution Disney edition..... I mean, come on .. it would help me shed this last 50 pounds I need to lose!!

I've got some goals for the coming month.......

1. Organize the "office" part of our bedroom.
2. Get Happy's Scrapbook up to date!
3. Finish the polka dot quilt
4. Get the polka dot quilt and the batik quilt on the quilting machine at the quilt shop.
5. get Dance Dance Revolution Disney Edition.......
6. Whoooops..... delete number five for a while.... because secretly I want a Wii even more.
7. Lose 10 pounds.

I feel tired already. :)