"Selfie" Fun Album

We all know how our kids like to take our

phones and cameras and take pictures of themselves....

who doesn't love a "selfie".

I remember as a kid how I loved looking at pictures

of myself.

So, I was looking through some old CD's of pictures last night

and ran across some pretty funny ones of the kids

and thought to myself...wouldn't it be fun to

make a Shutterfly album or one that you make yourself
with some of these silly pictures that they
have taken over the years...

It would help document their interests and what they were

thinking about and their sense of humor while they 

were young.

 this is apparently him practicing his mugshot photos... hee hee

 One of them made this on the "paint" program

 My oldest was fascinated with all my old show wigs that

I wore when singing...I think this was Reba McIntyre

I found a lot of pictures of my son's toys...this was his backpack

ready to spend the night at Grandmas

They took a camera to my moms to document their stay

My son also liked to lay out his clothes the

night before and put his Spiderman pillow in there

for the head.  lol

I had to put one of myself in there.  We found baby squirrels in

the yard and they were very friendly...this one was trying

to climb up my leg...

not sure what is on his head....

this was probably his first great selfie... love it!

New Quilt

New Quilt in Progress

I have been wanting to make a quilt to 

take to baseball games, for years...

even started a couple.

One was too pretty to put on the ground 

at games.....so

I gave it to my sister instead

This one started out as miscellaneous

squares in the middle...then I just kept building it out

towards the edge... It also has sections

of fabric from Block Party Studios with 

scripture verses on them.

It was one of my first

"quilt as you go" quilts.

The next one...was sort of a disaster right at the very start.

I bought already cut batik squares at  Walmart.

I thought I would just piece them together and

it would be easy peasy...right?  Nope

Looked horrible no matter what I did....still haven't decided how to 

fix it...

So now I'm on to the next idea...

I have a bunch of squares....all different sizes 

that I've made over the years.  They 

are also all different designs.  Some are paper pieced,

some are disappearing nine patch, plain squares,

and samples of machine embroidery...quite a 

mishmash 

I've decided to put them all together in the same quilt,

even though they are nothing alike.  What else am I 

going to do with them?  right?  

So I'm building this quilt in horizontal strips...

and then I will probably quilt as you go.

I don't know what I will do when I run out of squares....

I guess just start making borders.

check out the progress so far

I think it's going to be interesting....

to say the least....

I'll keep you posted on the progress...