Cold, cold , cold

Well, it would seem we are well on our way into winter in the Northeast. Christmas is 2 weeks away and I just don't feel ready to deal with it yet. I will be on wood stove duty till April.

Yesterday dear hubby and I celebrated our 24th Wedding Anniversary. Went to our favorite lunch spot and had the greatest Gyro's. So yummy!

Currently working on a beautiful quilt project from Crabapple Hill pattern, Over The River and Through The Woods I adore her designs. I wanted this pattern for the longest time now and finally gave in and bought myself this gift along with others! Midnight Crow and Trick or Treat bags. I am making the quilt in the black & neutral color scheme just as pictured and then sometime down the road, I want to do it in reds and neutrals. Another biggie pattern purchase was Le Jardin from Bunny Hill Designs. These two companies make my heart flutter every time I see a new pattern. Just so classy and vintage. Right up my alley. I have been really smitten with the new fabric line from Moda, Rouenneries. In my opinion, this is one of the prettiest lines of fabric to come out in a very long time. Between the fabric and the Le Jardin pattern, I had to have it.

Great movie alert! Julie & Julia. This was such a cute movie. The acting was superb and the characters were really enjoyable. If you feel like being entertained without blood and guts or alien invasions, this is a sure bet.

Anyone else out there using Ubuntu?

I have recently installed Ubuntu on my computer, partly because I wanted to get away from Windows and partly because a virus was running a muck in my puter. Again, another reason why I wanted to get away from Windows and all it's vulnerabilities.

For the most part I am loving it. The clean, streamline design has just about all I could need and the program hasn't cluttered up my computer. There are some draw backs though. Of course my printer isn't compatible with the program and Dell is know for not writing new code for existing products. Hp is the same way. Ask me how I know. Cause this printer was purchased to replace a older HP printer that didn't have any new drivers available to update for the newer windows programs. But on the brighter side, this will keep from from hitting the print button for every little thing I see, that of course I am going to make someday but never do. I haven't even tried the phot software yet. I have a Sony digital camera, but because it's a few years old, I am sure it will not work too. I will just have to bog dear hubbies laptop down with all my trivial programs.

I still have loads to learn about this and I find the more I try, the better it is getting. If anyone out there knows any tricks, please send them along. I would love to meet folks that are using Ubuntu.

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Flea Market Find

I found this adorable chest of drawers at a flea market a while back for $2.00. Can you believe it? It's about 8 inches tall and 3 inches deep, solid wood with metal hardware. With a little TLC I think this will be perfect for all those loose buttons and other goodies. I will have to clean the hardware up and give the chest a new coat of paint. I am thinking Shabby Chic. I will definitely have fun dressing this little baby up!

Just Had To Have Some

Of course, me being the total Poodle devotee, I just had to own a piece of this fabric. If I were to confess I would own everything POODLE! Not really sure what I will make with it. I will hang on to it to make sure that it goes to the "perfect" project. I just love the retro look of this fabric. It really brings back so many memories of my childhood and the styles that were so popular back then. I am so glad to see that these prints are becoming available again.

So Cute!

I finally found these zippers. I have searched high and low and no one seems to carry them here in the states. I came across them totally by accident while browsing Esty shops. These came from Japan and the price including shipping was very reasonable. They are going to be the perfect addition to little pouches I have in mind.

Change is in the air

I have been so busy around the house that I haven't had the time to devote to the improvements to the blog. But they are coming. I even found this neat thing on the web called "HassleBot". It sends you a reminder email to try to help keep us on track. The email is whatever you type in and the reminders come when you specify. It is working and in some odd way it is motivating me to GET MORE DONE!

What's been keeping me from my blog is my house. First it started with the deck needing to be repainted, then it has lead to the kitchen being repainted. But first I needed to redo the pantry. Well actually I am moving the pantry. That all started many years ago when we ungraded to a larger fridge. This monster doesn't fit where the old one was, so it has been in the way ever since we got it. I won't even tell you how long that's been. But what I want to do is use the old pantry area for the fridge, which will only require a few inches of enlargement to the opening and turn my mud room into a new walk in pantry. Plus I have been trying to keep the grass cut and get a veggie garden going. I have way to many sewing projects back up. Many of them are new summer clothes for me since I have nothing to wear. I keep chipping away at all these things and am slowly making progress. Oh, plus the new handbag that I started. It's 65% done and I really want it finished.

Trying Out ScribeFire

I came across this great new gadget for posting right to your blog from your desktop. Now I am sure there are loads of these things out there, but this one works right along with Firefox and just sits quietly in the lower toolbar when not needed. So this is me trial run to see how well it works.