My next project

 I saved this picture a while ago.

 I showed it to Manda when she was here. She has a two story house in WA state. She loved it!

I'm going to make 7.5 squares, backed with muslin. I cut some muslin squares. I plan to make each strip a different color family, so it will give the look of a rainbow. The longest strip will be 10 squares, and it will be blues. I'm going to stitch and flip the squares. 

 

I got out the scrap bins. Yikes, I didn't realize I had so many! I started pulling and ironing blues for as long as the knees let me. 

Because I'm using muslin as the filler, I'll let it act as batting. I'll back it by sewing the backing and front right sides together, then flip and do some top stitching, like I do with the table runners. 

It should be a fun project. I'll ask Heather if she wants one for the steps to her finished basement. And I'll ask Steph if she has a wall that she'd like one for. I'm an equal opportunity mom, after all!

Yesterday we bought a dryer. Ours is on it's last legs. The new one, a speed queen gas dryer, comes tomorrow.  

October!

 Wow, September zipped by!

 Hello October! One of my favorite months!

Manda's table runners and coasters are done and in the mail!

Now I'm fixing Heather's quilt that I made her over 20 years ago. The bottom has shredded from being tucked between the mattress and the footboard. I cut off the bottom two borders, and cut new binding. Now to sew it on!

She went from hair to her mid back to this! She looks so adorable! She has her mama's curls, and her dada's thick hair.

 

I bought this! It will be delivered next Friday, yay! They deliver and set up, for a price of course, which is fine. I need more steps for my weight loss. 

 

September Morn!

 September is more than halfway thru! Yikes! Time goes so fast! We have a routine going. Tuesday and Friday at 11 is physical therapy. Thrsday mornings is breakfast with the Veterans for Ralph. The third and fourth Wednesdays are lunch with friends. Sundays are lunch with his brother and sister in law. Usually Monday's are food shopping days.

 This is one of the two table runners Manda requested. Both tops are done, but I have to back and quilt them.

 This is the other one.

This adorable nugget is now 7 months old! Yikes!

 

Our old bed was only 3 years old, but had pronounced sags. Raymour and Flanagan sent a tech out, and yep, sags. So they credited us, and we picked out a new one. This one, instead of a box spring, has a frame with 2 motors. You can raise or lower the head or the foot! Makes it so easy to change the sheets!

 

I love Aldi! Heather benefits when we shop there!
 

Another month!

 And just like that, it's September!

 Another first day of school that I don't have to be a part of! It's Eddie's last first day of college, and Jul's first first day of college! Garret's first day of 5th, and Amary's first day of 7th!

 We had all our girls in the same place at the same time! This only happens every few years. They went to NYC to see Hamilton, and stopped at Liberty Park on the way home.

 My older grandchildren at Lake George, NY.

September 2 was the 4th anniversary of nephew David's death. I got Jul this sweatshirt in memorium.

 

And just for fun, I sent the little kids hot chocolate mix, which they were delighted to get.

One the crafting side, while Manda and Steph were here they went thru my charm packs and claimed several. Steph wants fall coasters, and Manda wants coasters and a table runner. 

I also started a rectangular granny, to use up yarn and give me an excuse to watch TV! 

Getting ready!

 First, Hello August!

 

The horde is coming! Manda, Ben and the kids arrive tonight! Then they and Heather and Jules head to NYC in the morning, where they'll pick up Steph at LaGuardia. They'll do some touristing, then they are seeing Hamilton tomorrow night, staying over in the city, and coming back here Saturday. 

OMG, she's rocking the bathing suit and shades!

 

Inspiration pix!

Ralph is at breakfast with the Vets, then I have PT, then last minute tidy ups! 

Still July

 Still hot and humid with thunderstorms. I've been going to PT on Tuesdays and Fridays, and have a few home exercises to do. Each thing they have me do is not hard, but at the end I'm wiped out!

 This girl is now 12! Can you guess what she spent her birthday money on?

I sent this to Heather, because Jules loves her crocs, and got back "omg!"

 

I don't know how I missed the DD Warren books so long, but I'm working my way thru them now!

 I saw this on a facebook ad. Isn't it amazing?

Hot, humid, and thunderstorms

 It's July in jersey! The forecast is the same every day. 

 I bought the pdf pattern for this, I'm picturing it in other colors.

Miss Boone was patriotic for the 4th!

 

This was so good! Long, almost 600 pages, but it went by so fast!

OMG, Baby Boone is 5 months old! I told her parents they better start thinking about a car for her, LOL

 

We had lunch at our favorite drive up burger place, Webers!

I started PT yesterday. My right leg is significantly weaker than the left! My PT said we're going to start with strengthening my ankles, and work our way up. I have homework, of course. I already did my first set of exercises this morning. Here's hoping!