Time to Quilt....

This is the pattern I am planning to do, but the colors of course

will look totally different.

To get myself in the mood to start my quilting project, I opted to change the blog background to a quilting theme. It has been 8 months now that Joshua has passed and when he died I wanted to do something that would help us all have a tangible piece of him to hold on to. So for the last several months I have had Joshua's clothing in boxes waiting for me to get the courage to cut into them and to make memory quilts. (That is what I wanted to do as a memento for us ) I plan to make one for us, and his brothers and sister and hopefully if I have extra fabric make pillows or something for the grandparents and his daughter PresLee. I wanted each of us to have something tangible to hold that was part of him and something that would make us smile when we miss him most. I have finally come to a decision on a pattern, purchased a serger to help with all the sewing I'll be doing and now...I just have to get someone to help me with that first cut so I can get started. It's the emotional game I play with myself that is holding me back.

So....I hope you will check on me to make sure I am working on the quilts, I do get sidetracked easily and need encouragement you see. I also hope that you will wish me luck so I don't screw up and sew myself to the cloth, or mess up the fabric swatch's etc. I am happy I can do something sweet in his memory and will post pictures when I have some progress to photograph and share. Until then....happy sewing for me and happy whatever for you!

It's a BOY!

We have a new baby boy! Well, sort of.... Joe and I decided on a whim to see what poodles are going for now days (since we have owned mostly poodles) and so while surfing the net and simultaneously flipping channels, we end up seeing that a both a Standard Poodle and a Toy Poodle were finalists in the Eukenuba Dog Show. lol... A sign perhaps?
Not sure...but we ended up on KSL.com and next thing we knew we were checking out an ad for a FREE miniature poodle, 4 years old -housebroke-sweet disposition-(small like Stephanie would prefer) and one that didn't need to go through all the puppy stages with chewing etc. HMMMMMM?! "Let's go look at it" said Joe to Stephanie. Before we knew it; we were in Park City and taking home a dog!

What the crap are we thinking? More crap in the yard...more crap from family for all the dogs we've had....and more crap as in dog paraphernalia laying around the house. UGH.

But.....I admit it. I was in love with him from the first glance. He is so sweet and he is silver in color, which is the color I always wanted if I were to hand pick a shade of poodle. lol. So now we have a new dog. He is doing awesome thus far, and it is uncanny how much he is like having Alvin back. (Our little toy poodle who died a year ago) Wow....we are still in shock at our impulsive insanity, but he is a doll and is doing great. By the way... his name that he had was totally lame , so we opted to rename him. We've decided his new name is Simon.

Simon? Yup... Because he has a funky flat top hair-do like Simon Cowell (results from a bad haircut he must of had recently that we plan to grow out)...and because he reminded us of Alvin our previous dog (almost like they could be brothers) and Simon is the brother chipmunk to Alvin in the cartoons so it is only fitting. However....we are open to suggestions on names!! We have a few pics of our new little boy.... hopefully soon he will have normal "poodle" hair and when he does we will post new pics.

"Hi" I am Simon. I weigh 13lbs and am 10" tall

Here I am with my new sibling Rawley. Dude...he is HUGE!

Getting acqainted in my new surroundings...

See what I mean by HUGE!? Whoa...he towers over me and won't quit sniffing my butt

Ah.....a nice spot to take a snooze

See!? Rawley thinks so too! So there... Home Sweet Home