bling

because a girl can never have to much bling.

Ipad Sleeve 

a moment

tuesday tidbits

** winter is here.

** it is like someone flipped a switch.

** the snow switch.

** we have a ton of snow.

** and it is not forecasted to let up until next week.

** the joys of lake effect.

**we are starting the transition that occurs this time of year.

** the transition of ph being home.

** it is nice having the extra hands and it gives me more time with my sewing machine.

** i have picked up my knitting needles again.

** knitting at night while watching tv.

**today is the last day of  the holiday sales at lucends.

** enter BLACK10 to receive 10% off your entire order.

** i have a huge pot of chili cooking.

** c's top two teeth are coming in at the same time.

** joy oh joy.

** i have been listening to lots of xmas music.

** what is your favorite christmas song?

** mine is the little drummer boy and what child is this?

** i am trying to finish up some quilting projects that have been lingering.

** and testing out new ideas for the shop for 2011.

** happy tuesday.

caught up

i am finally caught up on all of my virtual quilting bees.

and this feels sooooo good.

now i can focus on finishing up

some of my projects

and work on some new ideas 

i have brewing in my head.

bits and pieces bee made two of these blocks

pins and needles bee

pins and needles bee

3x6 bee 4th quarter. made 6 of these in different colors

meet kit

do you name your cars?
i do.

there was betsy, white lightening, and old blue.
then i stopped naming my cars.
for no particular reason.
i wasn't inspired.
names did not pop into my head
while driving.

several weeks ago
i named my car.
a 2006 silver vw passat
that i have driven for
the past three years.

why did i suddenly feel compelled to name my car?

it was when my mom was here visiting.
we had been running a few errands.
it was cold and rainy.
we had one last stop to make.
we decided that i would run in
and mom would stay with c.

seemed like a good plan.
until my car developed
a mind of its own.

i got out of the car
and shut my door.
mom got out of the car
to sit in the back seat with c.
she shut her door.

and then she heard it.
the car locked.
i mean locked down.
every door, window and trunk.
with the keys in the ignition
running
and c in back seat.

what do you mean it locked i asked her?

sure enough
the passat turned into kit from knight rider
with my child in the back seat.

i called ph to come quickly.
mom called triple a.
i went inside took care of my business.
mom tried to keep c from crying.
while standing in the rain.

for the most part he had no idea
he was locked in the car by himself.
it was more traumatic on mom and i.
we both cried
and
wondered if it was too early for a drink.

kit has refused to repeat the incident
despite my request.
vw said they couldn't fix it unless
it locked down again.

but my car now has a name,
does yours?

a moment

cooper's hawk

this is cooper now.
in the afterlife.

i never knew how
i felt about life after death.
or if i believed that your
spirit lives on in some other form.
until cooper.

i am believer.
now.
because of him.

cooper's form
is a cooper's hawk.

i know it is my cooper
because he appears when
we need to see him.
when we need a sign
that he is ok.
that he is close.
that he is with us.

he always knows when to stop by...

he made an appearance
the day chace was born.
on thanksgiving.
the other day when i was sewing.
and today after the first snow.

ph is the one that usually sees him.
but recently he has been coming by
to see me.
i can not tell you how happy this makes me.

today, he came by
to see his little brother
and let ph take a picture.

isn't he spectacular?