Monday, August 23, 2010

04-Mar Quilt Block


Block name: Rocky Road to Dublin
Finished size: 12"

Sunday, August 22, 2010

03-Mar Quilt Block


Block name: Arizona
Finished size: 12"

02-Mar Quilt Block


Block name: Album Block
Finished size: 12"

Offleash park visit

Dad and I took the girls to the offleash park today. It was overcast and had warmed up. Overall it was a good day. The park wasn't that busy but Lucy was still able to chase other dogs and get chased herself. Here the pictures from today.

Lucy hiding in the weeds.


Snoopy catching up.
Lucy coming back.


Lucy being chased.


Goofy Lucy


Paige & Lucy running back

Lucy hunting


Lucy & Snoopy


Lucy posing

Lucy running

Here comes Lucy



Happy Snoopy

01-Mar Quilt Block


Block name: Alabama
Finished size: 9"

Saturday, August 21, 2010

Garage Sale

Today we had a garage sale. The neighbor convinced dad that since he was having a garage sale, mom & dad should too. It was a community garage sale so we didn't have to advertise.

The realtor who sponsored the community garage sale dropped off our signs on Friday night. So this morning I was up at 5pm, showered and then woke dad up for 6am. He got showered and dressed and went to stick our signs in the ground.

Around 7am, after having a quick bite, we started bringing stuff out of the garage to arrange for the sale. We had the first visitor at around 7:30am. Early birds! Apparently the sale didn't start till 8.

It started out slow but then it really picked up. At one point we had a traffic jam in front of the house and there seemed to be no end to the people.

I was worried that we wouldn't have a good turnout as the weather was cold and overcast, plus still smoky from the BC forest fires. In the early afternoon the sun did appear and the blue sky was visible.
We didn't have a lot of items out but a nice chunk.

I had to bring the dogs outside as they keeped barking from the house and it got annoying. After a while they started to settle down, especially if I had them on the grass and not behind everything in the garage. A few people wanted to know if the dogs were sale too, but I didn't have any serious offers! ;o)

Jacki came over late morning and made us breakfast. We took turns going inside to have a bite to eat but always had two people outside just in case.

It was fun talking to people and the neighbours.

Around 2pm, mom had enough so we called her quits. What we didn't sell we started packing away to take to Value Village who donates the profits of whatever they sell to a few charities. I was amazed at how easy it was to just drive up to the door and drop things off. They took everything without a question and had their warehouse neatly filled with boxes of donations.

We only had 1 small box to be thrown out and the neighbor took it in return of us taking in a box to Value Village for them.

After all was said, we made about $129.40 profit.

Friday, August 13, 2010

29-Feb Quilt Block


Block Name: Winged Nine Patch
Finished Block Size: 16"

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Monday, August 09, 2010

26-Feb Quilt Block


Block Name: Squire Smith's Choice
Finished Block Size: 12"

Sunday, August 08, 2010

24-Feb Quilt Block

Block name: Sawtooth Pinwheel
Finished size: 8"

23-Feb Quilt Block


Block name: Right Hand of Fellowship
Finished size: 9"

22-Feb Quilt Block


Block name: Washington Star
Finished size: 12"

Picture and news on quilting

Lucy played out.

I've started my block of the month again so will be posting them when I get them done. Now that Lucy is old enough she is letting me quilt again with too much fuss. Hopefully with us going to Agility in September she'll grow up even more.

Tuesday, August 03, 2010

Random Pictures


Well I'm dog sitting for some friends so am trying to get caught up on a few projects while doing so. One of them is to clean up some pictures on my laptop so I thought I'd post a few of my favourites.

My stuff Snoopy collection, re-organized.

My real Snoopy.


My two favourite Snoopy's.

Lucy trying to get at my Snoopy collection.