It is looking up!

So first of all I must say that the hail started AFTER I got home today. Only by 5 seconds, but it didn't hit me. So how great is that after a wonderful, wonderful weekend in Munich?! I'm a little tired from all the walking we did, but it's a good tired. Jenny had mapped out all the craft shops we needed to visit. So we walked, and walked, and walked until we saw almost everything on the list, plus all the gorgeous historical buildings as well.
Here are a couple pictures I took at Marienplatz.



Don't you just the frog in the wirework?



And at the quilt shop we visited I HAD to pick up a fat quarter pack of this lovely line...



And as promised here is my most recent quilt. It's the zig zag quilt that I started a couple of weeks ago. Not only is it beautiful (like everything I make...) but it's the fastest that i've finished a quilt, EVER!!! So I have to show more pictures than usual. Also to show off the lovely antique sewing machine that sits in the living room....

Almost looking up

Have you ever had one of those days when you know you should have just stayed in bed? Well, that was my week. Almost everything went wrong. I should have known once i hurt my finger (which now has a huge chunk of nail missing in the middle). So after a week of a sore finger, a shattered applesauce jar (Thankfully no glass in my then bare feet), mean people, and my usual brain-dead state, life started to look up again today. Jennifer surprised me with this coveted fabric. (She claims it was just scraps she won't use, but I secretly know it's just because she likes me so much!)



And, I get to leave for munich with Jenny in the morning. Although It's just a really short trip (we return monday night) I am in desperate need of it. So because life loves me so much right now.... It decided to let me end my day driving home in a hail storm....

Sorry if this post was a bummer, but I promise to be enthusiastic, upbeat, and optimistic next week. I will post a happy cheerful quilt for you that i have just finished! (binding and all.... it rarely happens) and maybe some nice pictures of Munich!!!

An afternoon of firsts

Have you ever thought to yourself when someone says they had a sewing machine needle go through their finger " how the heck is that possible?" Well that's what i've always thought. But today.... it happened. I guess i should have expected it. But anyways here is a really bad picture of it. I think it only broke through my nail and part of my finger.



The thing is though, it really didn't hurt that bad. It was more of a shock than anything. So after realizing what happened i ran to the bathroom to put my finger under water. I've never been upset when i've hurt myself before. I've handled it with no problem, but for some reason i began to feel really dizzy. So i went down on my knees while still running my finger under cold water. All the while thinking about how stupid this story will be when i tell it. So the next thing i knew i was dreaming the story. It was really nice until i realized i was laying on the bathroom floor having this dream. Which means it was the first time i've ever fainted as well. I guess the two things had to happen some time, so why not have it happen in the same day, right? Sorry if i threw this story up at you. I'm still a little confused and queasy, so i'm not really thinking straight....

Now that i look at my picture, i can't really see anything worth fainting over. I've had worst. But if you can't see the damage, it's on the right side of my finger.

May Day

Yesterday our little town had the raising of the May day pole. It was a great event and the weather could not have been more perfect. I was finally able to just sit and enjoy the sun, our neighbor was even nice enough to point out how white I was.



The town dancers decorated the pole to some traditional German music, and the band was wearing all the traditional outfits as well. There was beer, brats, and just a lot of fun.



And in case you don't care...

here is what i'm working on now. corinnea has inspired me to do what i've been dreaming of forever. She pulled out her awesome zig zag quilt reminding me of the rainbow one that was lost in my mind. So here is a little sneak preview...

My new favorite quilt

It's finally finished!! I'm in love with it. It's filled with my favorite fabrics, and critters, and, most importantly, makes me smile!



It isn't completely finished, and knowing me, probably won't be for another year, or at least three months. It is made up of four blocks of five different patterns (this is because I've finally come to the realization that I can get four of the same blocks done until I get bored and have to put it away).





Because it's my new favorite I have to enter it into the awesome quilt festival that closes today. I hope i'm not too late...





If you don't know about it click on the picture above and hopefully you have time to enter as well!

A Couple More

I have a couple of new collages to show off. This first one I really like. It's probably because it involves the ocean which i have a strange obsession with..... Anything involving fish I adore.



And also I had this great vision to have birds on a telephone wire. It's not finished yet because I feel that it's missing something. Suggestions would be great!

beads, beads, beads..... and a quilt.

Jenny and I went to an expo at the stuttgart messe today! and it was so much fun, I'll let her tell you all about it because I just want to show you my goodies! this is a pile of some of the stuff I got. If I had known what I was going to, then my wallet would have been stuffed just a little bit better...



Also! My dad got back from Africa yesterday and surprised me with these lovelies when I came home from the expo...



He bought them from a lady in the market who said she had made them herself! They made of paper (magazine I think) and are so cool. (His only request was that I keep them out of my mouth. Apparently I tend to chew on my jewelry....?)

But in other news I quilted my Anna Maria Horner quilt. All that's left now is the dreaded binding...