Showing posts with label swimmeet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label swimmeet. Show all posts

Saturday, January 14, 2012

Final Block for Color Palette Challenge

Final Block for Color Palette Challenge by arts1plus
Color Challenge Block 24" x 24"
After trying a few pattens, I settled on this block from a design by Bonnie K. Browning-"Color My World". There are many ways to move the blocks around to create different patterns and this is my final decision on which to use.
     I still cannot download from my photos on my computer, but did discover that I can down load pictures off of my Flicker account.  It is a little more time consuming but at least I can show some things this way!!
     We attended our granddaughter's High School Swimmeet this morning...she, of course, did wonderfully!!!  And we got to see the grandson while he was practicing at the same pool...such talented young people!!!  All the kids....not just my grands!  A real pleasure to see them in action.
     I am working on a fusible landscape using Misty Fuse.  I am thinking of entering it in the Misty Fuse contest.  I had picked up a little flyer about the contest at their table at the Houston International Quilt Show last November.  Of course the deadline is tomorrow so I may not quite get it finished in time....Queen of the Last Minute Projects, that's Me!!!!

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Zentangle Challenge #31-"Fairyland"

This week's challenge was given to us by Carol Bailey Floyd who is a CZT artist you can see in many of the Zentangle instruction books.  Her current blog tells of her most recent ventures.  Her challenge is entitled "Fairyland".

                           
Zentangle Challenge # 31.."Fairyland"

One of my "followers" (my SNL) has challenged me to take my postings up a notch  and suggested I write a haiku to go with each Zentangle Challenge...Never one to back away from a challenge...here is my first...


"Fairies, fantasies
Never too old to dream.  Come!
Play in my garden."


Besides accepting a new challenge...we attended our grandson's swimmeet at which he was wonderful!!!  He and his sister have been swimming since they were about a year old and are both terrific!  Their dad, my SNL, was and still is a competitive swimmer...such a great life long sport for them.
My favorite grandson at a meet.
And in between events, we read!

Other "exciting" events this week have been, getting a new pump in our well...not much fun!  And getting  a new area rug delivered.  We had a couch reupholstered a few months ago, and wouldn't you know, the old rug just didn't look very good any more...so had to get a new one.  Now I am thinking the walls could stand a new coat of paint...and thus it begins...voila...eventually a "new" house!!!

Sunday, January 10, 2010

Fun Time Had by All!


Horned Frog fact #7: "Unlike other lizards, horned lizards have wide, flat bodies that come in handy for camouflage and burrowing.  They have various spines on their bodies and a crown of horns on the back of their heads."


We went to Kathleen's swimmeet yesterday for about half of it.  She did a great job!!  Don't know how she finished up so will need to call her later and see.  It was good to see everyone.  Andrea was there to cheer her niece on and we got to see Colin's new braces which he just got last Thursday.  Then Dick and I went to Fort Worth to get  our H1N1 shots at Cook Childrens....quite a few people there.  We ate lunch at Mimi's Cafe on the way home to use my coupon!

It is still cold here although sunny which makes the cold not so bad...better than cloudy days.  One or two more days of it then a little milder with rain next week.

A few months ago I checked "The Widows of Eastwick" out at our local library.  It was John Updike's last book...it was published 2008 and he died early 2009.  It was pretty good but alluded to a lot  events from the first book on the subject...."The Witches of Eastwick", published 1984, which I had not read.  So I decided to check that novel out to fill in some of the blanks in the "Widows.."  I finished it yesterday; it was not as good.  I think Updike improved quite a bit in the 25 years between, but it did answer some of the gaps.  It was kind of interesting to see some of the current events from that era...Vietman War, use of a wonderful new machine to replace the typewriter called a word processer and cell phones were not even used at all then.  Any way, I am taking a directive from Andrea's blog and writing about books/authors as I finish them.

Saturday, January 9, 2010

Frog Fact # 6 and Food Facts




Horned Frog fact #6: "The typical horned lizard is 3 to 5 inches long." And yet they look so fierce!!!  Wait until I get to the "defensive moves" fact!



Today we are going to go to a swim meet to see Kathleen be marvelous with her High School swim team.  Then Dick and I are going into Fort Worth to get our H1N1 vaccination.  The hospital where he volunteers once a week is giving shots to vols and family members.  Then I think we will stop by Mimi's cafe for lunch.  I was on line at their website to get the recipe for Buttermilk Spice muffins, and while there...I signed up to be a member of their e-club.  So as a newly signed member, I rec'd a coupon for a free breakfast entree...which they serve all day.

I have become quite the restaurant coupon person...most of them will send out coupons either monthly or at least for special occassions like birthdays and anniversary and I am all for free food!!  Some of my favorites are Blue Mesa, Red-Hot-and Blue BBQ, Cold Stone Creamery, Rockfish, and now Mimi's.

Yesterday, my quilting friends came and we cut out 900 four inch squares and made up 150 kits with instructions to hand out at the guilt meeting next week.  Hopefully, the kits will all get signed out and then sewn together and turned back in  by the February meeting.  I "paid" my workers  for all their hard work by feeding them broccoli-cheese soup and muffins.....tasted pretty good on such a cold day!!!