I'm Back!

Whew! 3 days without electricity! Talk about stress!! We had a horrible storm go through here first thing Monday morning. 70 mile per hour winds took out trees and electric lines. There are still people without power and there are trees and branches down everywhere. It looks like a war zone around here!

I had to put 5 bags of groceries in the trash. Since my fridge is now empty, I took the time last night to scrub it real good so I now have a nice clean refigerator and I'm getting ready to go to the grocery store now and get some food!

I managed to do a lot of stitching the past few days. The dead silence in the house makes me insane so I spent most of my time out on my deck or over at mom's. Her power came back Monday afternoon. Anyway, I finished stitching up 4 heart shaped crazyquilt door pillows and I stitched a pillow with an old fashioned bonnet lady.

I told Scott last night that I don't care to go anywhere this weekend. I want to stay home and relax and just play with my stuff so that's the plan.

I'm am so thankful that I bought myself an IPhone!  I was at least able to get some information through all this!

Ok, I just wanted to drop in and say hi.  I'll be back to my regular posting now.  I'm off to get groceries!  I need strawberries!

Crazyquilt Strawberry Ornament

Pam Without Power

Hello Everyone,

My name is Jason, and I am Pam's E-Commerce Consultant and Designer. There were some storms that rolled through the Illinois area over the weekend which caused a massive amount of people to lose power. Apparently, they are still working on restoring service to everyone, Pam included. She asked me if I could write up a quick blog post letting everyone know. Pam will be back before you know it!

-Jason-

Beads For Crazyquilting

I've been looking around over at Kay's Pizazz Beads site and there are some really beautiful things there for Crazyquilting:

I love using crystals on my Crazyquilts because I love the sparkle!!  And I love anything vintage!  I like to stock up on supplies over the Summer so I have plenty of things in my stash for my Fall & Winter stitching!  Ok, so I stock up like a Chipmunk but hey, one can never have too may Crazyquilt supplies!  These are gorgeous! 

Going to head up to the Wilmot Flea Market this morning.  It's going to be a hot one today so I want to get up there early.  Grayslake Flea Market is today too but because of the heat, I think Wilmot is a better choice.  If I find anything cool to stitch with, I'll post again later!

Handmade Thanksgiving Greeting Cards

Nothing terribly exciting to share today.  I've been stitching on some heart shaped crazyquilt door pillows.  I'll have photos to share soon.  I also added some new Thanksgiving cards to the Boutique:

I made all of these using vintage greeting cards and of course, lots of glitter!  Ya'll know that all that glitters is gold to me!

Autumn Greeting Cards

I thought for today, I would share a few of the new Glittered Autumn Greeting cards that Mom and I made.  I'm not feeling great today so I'll just leave you with these: