Happy Friday!

It's been an up and down week, but I do have some  projects in the works to show you that I am excited about! 

First, I finished the February HST block of the month following Jeni's awesome tutorial (You should go make this, now).

 I added 3 new Farmer's wife blocks (I needed a break from all those tiny pieces but might make more tonight!) These are blocks 70, 50, and 12.

 I wanted to make this Greek Cross for a while, and since was a little scared to try the paper piecing star from the solstice star series at Fresh Lemons, I made this block from the Summer Sampler series.  Tutorial here

 Here is the next block in the Solstice Star series that came together really well.  I like it a lot.

 Here's what I have made using this tutorial from Blue Elephant Stitches.  Love it.  Planning on two girl baby quilt and one baby boy quilt.  The top is done for the boy quilt, and I plan to put the extra square on the back of it. 

 Then, I recently got to join the Bliss circle of the do. Good stitches bee, and for February we are making boat blocks with scrappy sails appliqued onto a white background.  This is what I've got so far, hopefully I can get these made this weekend and then in the mail next week.

 Yesterday I made coffee cake, and it was wonderful.

 And the kids practiced sticking their tongues out "like the alligator" (who has no tongue?)

Happy weekend to you!

2012...

Happy New Year!

January is a big birthday month in our family, today is my mom's birthday, yesterday was my best friend's birthday, and the 4th is my sister in law, step brother, and nephew's birthdays! And yes, you are right, their cards aren't in the mail yet.

Here's what I did when the new year arrived: The single block in the left photo is the first block I made for the Farmer's Wife Quilt Along and it made me soooo excited to do more.  So, the photo to the right is what I have so far.  11 total and I'm hoping to add more in a few minutes when the monkeys take their nap!!

So far 2012 has been exciting, in little life moment ways.  Monkey pants learned to climb halfway up the fence in our backyard, all by himself! He was super excited about this, but when he realized he couldn't stay up there forever, he got a little more worried. Last night I had a dream where he was still almost 3, but as tall as his dad...scary...

I woke up this morning with my equilibrium all funky so my lovely husband let me go back to sleep from 9-11:30, during which time he rearranged the living room and cleaned it, and cleaned under the fridge and discovered the real reason our kitchen smelled a tiny bit...um..."off"...I thought it was the 50 lb bag of garlic that I'd bought at Costco with good intentions going sour, but nope...

...it was a dead rat...or mouse...I didn't double check...

One of the things I wish for most highly in my lifetime is to live in a house where we can have ZERO interaction inside our home with rats, mice, and all other rodents, living or dead.  So far, aside for the first place we lived after being married, we have had rodent battles in every spot since.  Which I think is ridiculously disgusting.  We aren't nasty hoarders, or even close to unclean...I'm not a clean freak, but it gets done as it should.  Why do we have these rodent appearances?! Yuck.

So, yes.  That happened.

Here's some more fun for our week.  My in-law's are coming this week to stay with us for a few days.  We haven't seen them since before we moved out here to Idaho in August, so it'll be great to visit again.  There are only two things I'm having a less than pleasant time with...

I don't know when they're coming, or how long they're staying (yesterday Lovely Husband said he thought it might be Tuesday, but at breakfast this morning he said he thought it was actually Thursday...??? No word on how long they'll be here, but school starts back up on Monday the 9th so...I might have to keep them entertained?! )
We have about 850 square feet in our house.

Wish me luck!

How is your 2012 going so far?!

p.s. I have a bunch of projects and goals and the like ready to show you soon, so watch for it and tell me what you're hoping to get done this year!