Here are a couple of photos of my new home. First is the front and the other the back showing the patio.

Need to spruce up with flowers etc. Of course first comes all the unpacking, I'm making progress slowly. Finally I can walk without every muscle in my body hurting.

My New Home

I'm IN, well sort of. I have all the furniture in the house, and some boxes to be unpacked and some are emptied. But there are still a lot of boxes in the garage to find the bottom of.



It is so nice to be in a place to call home, and be settled (hopefully) for the rest of my life.



Now, I'm anxious to get everything put away and straight so I can play. But have a feeling I'll start playing a little before it is all done.



This fall I will have a nice fall garden, turnips, various greens (mustard, kale, collards), beets, onions, cauliflower, squash (yellow crook neck and zucchini) and broccoli. I hope by then to have a small freezer so I can put some away for the months to come. I have a small pressure canner and for things that don't freeze well like beets can put them up in the canner. I enjoy doing this and look forward to have the harvest from spring and fall gardens. There are several fig bushes in the yard so will be making some preserves. There are also, several pecan trees.



At the moment I'm so very glad the previous landlady kept pushing move-in date. But to think I could have been in here right after the fire and never had to put things in storage, is a bit of a disapointment. But I didn't look for another place, until she put ceramic tile in the living room and dining room. Even with that I was going to try to cover it with rugs and work around it, but the constant promised move-in dates that came and went were the last straw.



Now to only get things more organized where they are handy when I get ready to work with them. Now I can concentrate on getting quilts made for my family. I did find the Charity CQ blocks from my group that I thought had been stolen in a break-in I had several years ago. When I found them I wanted to scream with joy but afraid the neighbor would call 911, I just said thank you.



I'll shortly post photos of the house and the CQ blocks.

Life Moves On

Last day of March my granddaughter had her baby, a beautiful 7#8oz 19" baby girl and she named her Symphony Marie. She is the best baby, very seldom cries, except to tell you she is hungry or needs a diaper change. Her two brothers adore her and are exceptionally good to not bother her. They will ask if you have her, if they can hold her. When we put her in their arms they hold her a few minutes, give her a kiss on the forehead and are then ready for you to take her so they can skittle off to play. The older brother doesn't like to hear her cry and if you aren't up at her first noise he will tell you you need to take care of her NOW.

I'm still without my apartment, owners seem to be dragging their feet finishing the work. I was told to call Fri and they would give me a firm availability date, after 4-5 dates that have come and gone. Well I did, no answer, left a message and after 2 or 3 calls, didn't get an answer or a return call. Maybe my views of being a landlord are different but I'd think if you owned property and had tenants you'd return calls, especially if you couldn't answer them when you were called.

I'm looking at another place on Tuesday, total size wise it is about the same, but rooms probably are larger because it has 2 bedrooms instead of 4, but has a den/family room. It was remodeled for a mother and she passed before it was finished. I'm told it has high vaulted ceilings, wide doors, hardwood floors, a detached garage, and a yard. The other place had a covered parking, no yard. Will see, if it is meant to be to find another place it will happen.

I am so anxious to get all my projects unpacked and get back to work on them. In my time with not much else to do, I surf and that is dangerous. I find new fabric, new projects that keep calling and tugging at me. After I made the quilt top for my Ex I have found so many new and interesting wild life prints, and my mind runs wild with possibilities with the fabrics. I have a sea scape quilt I'm designing, because I couldn't find something in that line already available. I want to get it finished and try to market the pattern. When I started there weren't many fabrics available to work with, and each surfing search finds more and more.

Last couple of years or so I've been able to surf EBay and find some great buys and great fabric groups of fat quarters. That has diminished greatly. There are still a few good fabric combinations on there, but not the amount of selections you had just a year ago. Guess the economy has effected those vendors as well. I have only a couple of stores to buy fabric from locally and there selections are limited, so EBay was a great alternative. I'm about 150 miles from San Antonio so the cost of gas, etc and time to go there and shop the several stores with much larger selections of fabric was not ecomonically feasible.

I need to get Ex's quilt finished. Need to add borders and quilt it. I will probably hand quilt this one as I don't think it would lend itself to machine quilting. This will be something I can do in the evening while watching TV. The top is a collection of fabric squares/rectangles with printed photos of fish/birds/animals. He used to love to hunt then moved to hunting with a camera. I have an overall printed fabric with a wildlife theme to use for the backing. I started out to make it a size he could use for a throw to cover with in his easy chair, but when I spread on my daughter's queen sized bed to show him at Christmas it covered the bed (without borders).

After all the machine work is done and it is sandwiched, I'll start on the quilt for my oldest son working on Ex's at night and move down the line. When I finish quilts (2 each) for 4 children, will move to grandchildren (11). Children are getting one bed sized pieced quilt and one art quilt (wall sized). Of course since I can't just work on one project at a time, will work on others bouncing back and forth. Otherwise I'd get bored to death with the project and probably take forever to finish it. I have some counted cross-stitch and Brazilian Embroidery projects that I want to squeeze in along the line.

A couple of family reunions to work on too. They are so much fun and each time hope more can attend. I feel to many families today are to busy in their own lives to make or take the time to keep family ties. I remember my parents and their kin always had or took time to visit, families stayed closer.

My quilts

A lot has happened since last post. Still waiting to get back home. Can't do a lot while staying with my Granddaughter. She rents a nice 3 bedroom mobile home (single wide) and just doesn't have any spare space. She now had 3 children. Her baby daughter is almost 2 months old and a little doll - but then as great grandmother I'm prejudiced.

I'm waiting for the electrical company to connect wiring back to the building so that I can move home.