Mom's Tussy Mussy's Are Back!

I suggested to Mom, that she make some more Tussy Mussy's for our Etsy shop.  She hasn't made any in a few years and I always thought they were so pretty.  She agreed to make some and apparently, other people thought they were pretty too because they sold out last night.

I thought I'd share photos with you just because I think they're beautiful!

Mom is working on some now for St. Patrick's Day and she was talking about Easter ones as well!

I'll have some new little door hangers to share next week.

In the meantime, does anyone have an original beaded fish tutorial?  Please email me if you do!

Pillows Finished

I finally got around to finishing up these last two pillows that I stitched:

These are both in my Etsy shop.  At the moment, I'm stitching up a couple of little door hanger pillows and when I finish that, I'll be starting on my block for the 2016 Crazy Quilt Calendar!  Yes, it's time to get that together!!  I've sent out my invitations and the girls are so excited!!  All are bouncing off the walls.

But I'll have more information on that down the road a way.  For now, it's like 0 degrees outside and I can live without that!  Tomorrow is supposed to be colder! 

Crazy Quilt Quarterly Sneak Peek

Good Morning everyone!  And Happy New Year!!!

As promised, here is a preview of the 2015 Spring issue of Crazy Quilt Quarterly Magazine:

Available on February 1st, 2015 at Magcloud.

This upcoming issue is filled with eye candy, tutorials and articles, all contributed by very talented crazy quilters!

Also, I'm getting ready to start on the Summer issue.  I'm now accepting articles, photos, tutorials and vendor ads.  Please email me if you would to submit content.

New Years Eve 2014

Scott and I have had a nice, quiet day together.  He took the tree down this morning. Then we went for breakfast at our favorite little place in Wonder Lake called Busy Bee.  I always have pancakes with chocolate chips.  Are you surprised?  LOL!!!

Scott is moving to a new dealership on Monday.  This one is closer to home than where he's been for the past, I don't know how many years.  I haven't been to this dealership yet so we took a little drive out there after breakfast.  Wow!  That shorter drive will take a lot of stress off of him!

After that, we drove to Hobby Lobby in Crystal Lake.  I have gift cards burning holes in my wallet but I didn't buy a thing.  I think I just wanted to walk around a little. 

After that, lunch at a Chinese Buffet in Crystal Lake.  Then he wanted to stop at Harbor Freight Tools and then Ace Hardware here in McHenry. 

The rest of the day is just going to be watching TV and relaxing.  I think he's dozed off on the sofa at the moment.  There's probably a few cats laying on him too! 

Anyway, this is the CQ project I finished up yesterday:

The photo is a little dark.  I took it with my cellphone.  I'm going to sew this into a pillow.  Hopefully over the weekend.  I'm sure I can get a better picture then with my real camera.

So that's our New Year's Eve.  We're not into any of the traditional celebrating.  We just go out during the day and look around in a few stores, have lunch and then take it easy the rest of the day.

Hope everyone has a safe and quiet evening!  Tomorrow I will post a sneak peek preview of CQ Quarterly Magazine!

The Dell Fiasco Is Over!

Okay, so I finally received my refund check from #Dell!  Now, I can pay my Best Buy bill and I'm good to go!  Thank goodness!  I will never buy another Dell product again.  But at least they send my refund in a reasonable amount of time.  So that little fiasco is over!

In other news, I took a urine sample to the vet today for Lucy.  Our vet wanted to make sure that there was no infection from the Bladder surgery that Lucy had just before Thanksgiving.  I'm thrilled to say that there are no white blood cells and no red blood cells.  All is good with her!  And now that the sun is out more often, Lucy is more active.  I guess critters don't like so much darkness either.  She did nothing but sleep since her surgery.  Now, she's been laying the garden window and watching the birds on the feeder!

I have a few finishes to share today.  First are my little cat door hangers that I made around Thanksgiving:

I'm still trying to figure out how to feather the edges of the photos in Photoshop.  If anyone can clue me in, I'd appreciate some help!  In my Corel software it was called "a vignette".  I really like that look, especially on my Etsy photos.

I also listed this little Hanging Heart pillow for mom.  She made this from a vintage linen that I found at a flea market earlier this Summer:

I just talked to mom a little while ago and she said she was working on some more Valentines Day things.

Okay, I'm off to make some dinner!