Showing posts with label Black Tie Boogie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Black Tie Boogie. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Social Media Overload...Or Is It Just Me

I can't seem to keep up with all my favorite places to visit on the internet. This became even more evident while I was moving and when my laptop decided last week that it wanted to breakdown just a little (I only slightly melted down over this...okay, so maybe it was more than a little meltdown.)

In the beginning of my blogging life...
(This may have been just a "few" years before I started blogging,
but it was the first picture I used for my avatar.)

...I would go to my blog's dashboard to visit blogs so I could see what everyone was making or cooking. It was so easy to "follow" people around by clicking that cute little box with faces (I love that little box!) 
I always had lots of time to leave comments and enjoy reading the posts.

But...then...along...came...

Facebook (great place to keep track of family and friends)
Instagram (love the pics that show up here)
Google+ (I'm struggling on how this works and haven't totally figured it out. yet)
Bloglovin' (a way to follow you around)
Feedly (another way to follow you around)
Twitter (never used this)
Pinterest (very addictive, but love it!)

AARGH!

I like simple.
I'm sure the overload thing is just me.
I'll try to get focused a little more and get used to the NEW technology stuff.

What is is simple for me? Visiting the blog hops.

Look who's hopping today:

November 26

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Monday, November 25, 2013

My Baby Is How Old? Really?

It's my youngest daughter's birthday today. She made this cup for me several years ago....yes, I still have it (she must have known I loved purple.)

I used to call her my "Angel" (she's still my angel, but now I have to share her with her husband and those sweet Monkey Boys.)


She's really funny, especially around that husband of hers. I keep telling them
their face is going to freeze like this, but they just don't listen to me!

She's really talented, too. She decorates cakes that taste as good as they look
and she sews when there's not a Monkey Boy hanging onto her legs or in her arms.

Sometimes I'm taken aback when I realize that I have children who are all grown up.
I can't possibly be THAT old....can I?  

Have you been checking out the Black Tie Boogie Blog Hop?
It's been such cocka-doodle-do fun!

November 19
November 20
November 21

November 22

November 25
November 26
November 27
November 28

There's a new blog hop coming, too!
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Wednesday, November 20, 2013

My Day To Boogie With The Chicks

I don't have a rooster cock-a-doodle-doing in my yard like Vickie does, so I had to 
sew me some feathered projects. If I had a rooster, I'd want him to be like Vickie's Fonzie
He is such a stud! 
Check him out HERE, along with the whole Black Tie Boogie schedule.

These guys have really gotten into this Black Tie Boogie Blog Hop.


I went looking for a rooster and found the perfect one by Julie Lynch on her "Jaunty Rooster"
pattern. He looks very handsome in some of the "Home To Roost" fabric from Red Rooster.


Right-side up look at fabric


This is a small quilt, 45" x 45"




The hubby had a shirt that matched my apron perfectly, so he became a sort-of-willing
model for me (even though it had a ruffle.) I love the chicken soup recipe on the fabric!

 

Aren't these just the cutest chicks!


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Monday, November 18, 2013

Black Tie Boogie Begins!

Madame Samm is the queen clucker of this feathery blog hop
and Vickie has been flapping her wings all over the place to keep us on track.

Thanks to you both for all you've done to give us chicks a good time!

Thanks to Red Rooster Fabrics for sponsoring Black Tie Boogie with a 
great giveaway of fabric. Check it out over at sewwequilt.com!
There's going to be so much to cock-a-doodle-do about during this hop, 
you won't want to miss even one day! 
Here's who's strutting their stuff during Black Tie Boogie:

Black Tie Boogie Schedule
November 19
November 20
November 21
                                          Pigtales and Quilts ~ Happy Birthday Thearica !

November 22

November 25
November 26
November 27
November 28


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Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Some Wicked Scissors And A New Hop

I've been a little AWOL from blog writing and reading because I'm still packing (does it ever end?), cleaning (that never ends), and touching up paint as we get down to the big MOVING DAY. I have stopped a few times to sew a little in preparation for that WICKED blog hop that's coming soon.

Some of my wickedly sharp tools for sewing

I just realized I'm totally hooked on little fancy scissors after I did a some shopping online at Anita's Little Stitches.  I've always bought regular sewing scissors, nothing fancy, but then someone very sweet gave me a pair of Dovo scissors and some batting shears. Now I'm hooked on quite a variety of sharp things (this is where you should hear my seriously creepy cackle if you were standing next to me.)

I'm not sure why I suddenly like scissors so much, but it is possible that Wicked Wendy put a spell on me. I hear she can be ALMOST as competitive as That Other Lady, Maybe she's hoping I cut my finger on one of those sharp scissors so I can't sew anything for the Wicked Blog Hop. She does have a little mean streak in her...she put me on the same day as That Other Lady for the Wicked hop...mean, mean Wendy! LOL! COL! (cackle out loud.)

There's a new blog hop in the works. Check it out over at Sew We Quilt!


This one is coming after Wicked...watch for it!

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