Full disclosure

I thought you all should see behind my stove, it is only fair when I post behind my sister's.  I did not cook a full Thanksgiving meal and then take these, true, however I also did not do any sort of cleaning in prep for these pictures either.

Above is the wall behind the stove and the back of said stove.

All the way to the floor...yes I need a back splash too, or at least a better quality paint that I can scrub and won't show water marks this badly!

This is actually from the other side showing the countertop too.

This is the full shoe rack, including the 2 new toilet seats I need to install....a job for tomorrow.  Again, must figure out something better to do with the hats and gloves bin....still thinking bike baskets hung below the coats would work.

Tonight I cut a dozen or so circles for yoyos.  They were left over circles from the circle quilt I made for my friend E.  While cleaning last week I found them and instead of just stashing them somewhere as 4 and 5 inch circles I figured I should just cut them for yoyos.....done!  I also worked some on Vega's quilt.  I am locating some quilt pictures for my quiltspecific blog, so will not be posting there tonight.  Have a great one!

Pictures....

This is my mudroom!  I cleaned it out while Tim was building 2 of these AMAZING shoe racks for me!  The idea came from my sister at  Thanksgiving.  They are great!  I want to come up with something different to hold hats and gloves...I am thinking a couple of bike baskets attached to the wall under the coat rack....which needs bigger knobs for kids coats!  But that is a different issue.  SO I LOVE these new racks and it has also given him an idea for a new entertainment center for the new TV we will be getting in the next 6 months or so.  But that will come soon!

This is the back of my sister's stove.  I know it seems like nothing, but I have a stove that sits out like this one, but I have no counter top behind...so it is a waste and annoying because things can fall behind.  Annoying....this could be an answer!!  

I have done much cleaning this week, not much crafting.  Since yesterday I have embroidered  the words....peeks out of the shutters and sometimes he speaks and tells ho(w).  I will be doing a bit more tonight and cutting some yoyos too.  

I am watching the Project Runway behind the scenes episode tonight which again just makes me want to A) watch the next season and B)makes me want to make clothing....unfortunately I HATE construction, which is why I make quilts!  Have a great night and enjoy some new ideas and what new things you come up with!

no pictures...

I have pictures, just downstairs in my camera so you will see them tomorrow.  

Yesterday the only thing I accomplished was a very little work on Vega's quilt.  Though I got to play with her for a while too....don't get excited she is still inside, it is always fun to play with a rolling, kicking baby belly.  And it is a very great thing that my sister was accommodating to me playing with her belly.  I did get a great picture of my one niece head butting the belly b/c she had been being nice and sweet talking to the belly and giving it kisses and when I tried to take a picture she blew a zerbert and then head butt it.  (and yes she is 2 by the way)

Today I got a good start on Excavating the kitchen.  I manage to completely get caught up on dishes and clean off my counters.  I have a list of all of the stuff I found other places for.....the aquarium I bought in July for the "squid" at the summer house, complete with said "squid" that my 2 year old told me is not a squid but an octopus!  

My husband built me 2 shoe racks for the mudroom, which also meant that I did a bit of excavating in there too.  I pulled all of the light jackets and flip flops out, along with the soccer cleats.  Again I have pictures, but that will wait for tomorrow.

I have not heard back about the Crown quilt delivery...I'll let you know on that as well.  Tonight I am just going to work on Vega's quilt and may be cut out a few more circles for the yo yo project.  Mostly I am just going to enjoy that half of my kitchen is cleaned and my front room is close to still cleaned.  I think one of my favorite moments in cleaning the kitchen was coming back into the front room to discover the entire Game of Life bank spread all over the floor!  It was awful and I almost lost it then...but I did alright, now if I can just get these 2 small people to go to sleep!   Have a great Black Friday...no shopping in this house and the best part of it is no more Black Friday commercials!!!

17+ hours and counting

4:45 alarm went off

5 am in the WalMart parking lot

5:55 am unloading groceries

6:15 wake up Tim, putting away groceries, first mug of tea

6:45 am Steven awake

6:55 Jakob and Andrew up too

7 am Gretchen too!

By 10 am I declared concession to the Crown quilt.

I excavated the front room until mid afternoon when

I like an IDIOT! took 4 children to Aldi 

(for Milk, Eggs, apples and stuffed clams) and

WalMart for dish detergent and spaghetti and frozen waffles

All forgotten during first visit...and well Aldi is not open until 9.  

Again IDIOT!!!!

More excavating then dinner then community Thanksgiving Eve church service.

The best part was when the Priest used the term Pagan instead of Gentile in the reading!  Awesome!

Have a great night and enjoy tomorrow with as many loved ones as you can manage!

Tuesday....

I am the border stitching away from done with the Crown quilt

5 yoyos made while waiting for busses this morning and afternoon in the rain, using nearly 15 miles worth of gas to keep the van warm.

Family dinner

that's it....wow I kind of feel like I have done nothing today!

Now I did make sure that 3 boys made it to school with freshly packed lunches and full bellies with clean clothing on that has to count for something!

A bit more...

Yep it was a Geotrax day!

Today was laundry and working on this quilt.  I have 4 more rows to do tonight!  I am zig zagging down the edges of the gold that has been serged.  It is making it look much better I think.  


It is becoming a really tough project as I get more hours into it.  The Crown fabric is kind of crap to work with and make look good.  But it will be great, I hope.  


I also did some yoyos while I waited for the bus both in the morning and the afternoon because one of my second graders was sick, so I choose to not walk said sick kid to the bus stop when they are sick.  So yoyos accomplished.  Oh and every bed in my house (all 5) have fresh sheets tonight and every towel in the house is clean.  


Now tomorrow I need to finish the Crown quilt and have things ready for family dinner oh and organize for a major grocery shopping trip!  Plus since I am doing it at like 5 am I should go to sleep early...but that won''t happen.  We;ll see!

Have a great night all.... Can you find kitty in this pile...yes they are all the same, only one has been loved to near death.


Enjoy and come visit tomorrow!