Love Pilates

Well, another pilates class under my belt tonight. I just love the classes and hope I can keep it up.

After I came home to bake little chocolate pecan pies/tarts for my daughter to take to school tomorrow for the great Feast.

It is the best recipe and so easy.

I do buy store bought Pillsbury crust in the box.

1 stick butter

2 eggs

1 cup sugar (I mix half white half brown)

1 cup pecans

1 cup chocolate chips

1 tsp vanilla

Optional 2 tablespoons flour (I leave out)

Melt the butter then stir in the two eggs slightly beaten, the sugar and the vanilla. Next Stir in the pecans and the chocolate chips (it is best to make sure the mixture is cool before adding the chips). Pour into two pie shells and bake at 350 degrees for about 30-45 minutes. Check it to see if it is firming up in the center, but leave a little soft.

Yum, yum!

Six Feet Under

Tonight I had a great dinner out with my family at Six Feet Under

My husband loves the catfish tacos and my son loves the combo tacos(one shrimp, one catfish and one calamari). I think they have the best shrimp poboy.

Yum, yum!

Thanksgiving week

Well, it is Sunday night before the week of Thanksgiving and I have plenty to be thankful for. My husband and children (most of the time), my work and my life in general.

I took my daughter shopping this weekend to find boots and jeans. She is now in a women's 6 1/2 shoe and fit into junior size 1 jeans(they must run small, because she is very tiny). This is huge for us because she has been in-between sizes for some time now. She found great purple suede boots and three pairs of colored (red, turquoise, and fuchsia) skinny jeans.  She is so happy, she has been in her room for hours cleaning thoroughly.

I myself went off to a Pilates class today after going to one yesterday, too. I started classes about three weeks ago. This is the first real organized exercise I have done for seven or eight years. I really need it and am excited that I am doing it. It feels really good.

After Pilates I went to the grocery and picked up the makings for chocolate chip pecan pie since my daughter wants to take on to school on Wednesday for the great feast and she is already looking forward to having her own pie to eat over the holiday weekend.

Tomorrow off to work again and looking forward t it after being away for the weekend. I can't wait to get in there and play with the new Amy Butler fabric. I am thinking about making a small quilt with the new prints and solids together.

Earthy fun!

What do you think?

Fiery Sunset

My colors!

More Amy butler

Tell me which color way you like best. 

Yeah, new Amy Butler!

We opened boxes yesterday from Westminster Fibers thinking it would be all kinds of re-order bolts, come to find out that it is the newest Amy Butler fabric.

It is so pretty!

I love seeing the springy fresh colors, when it is so cold and the sun is low in the sky. 

Quilt Market Fall 2009

To backtrack a bit, I just visited Melissa Averinos' blog (there is a link to yummygoods blog over on the right side of this page), which made me think of fall market. I got her new fabric line in the first day I was back in the shop after market. It was such an uplifting surprise since I was exhausted that day after a cancelled flight causing our night to be very long.

Taffy and I went off to market this year again together, a trip we both love. This year we took our friend Mary with us. She wanted to go and we were happy to have a new perspective on the market offerings. Mary introduced us to all kinds of new people, which was quite fun and exciting. 

Here Taffy and I are at an evening social that Mary dragged us to, where we met Jay McCarroll, Melissa Averinos, Patty Young and quite a few other new folks. We also a couple of old friends from previous markets. We had a great time!

The end of the weekend

Yesterday I went to the Indie Craft Experience show in Atlanta that my friend Mary (she was there with her beautiful little girl, too) told me about, with my daughter, my friend Anita and her son Bing. I have not seen Anita and Bing, who is 9 months old for a month. He is the most wonderful baby. I got to hold him almost the whole two plus hours we were there. My daughter got a little time in there. She loves him so much, too. Bing is pictured here in his Rasta onesie I got for him at the Burnside market in Portland. Bing shares Bob Marley's birthday. He definitely has music in his bones, too. He just jammed at the ICE show to the great music the DJ was playing. I'll post a picture or two soon.

I found the cutest Gnome pendant and earrings for my son's best friend to give to his sister for Christmas. Crazy, I know, but I just knew she would love them and just knew he would love to give them to her and the how was a bit far for the kids to get to, since they are still not driving.

After the show we tried a new restaurant, No Mas, for dinner that opened in the Castleberry Hills area of Atlanta. We enjoyed our dinner and the time away.

Today was cleaning and purging day. It is going to be cold enough tonight here that the plants had to come in. We decided to purge a bunch of things from our sun room so that we could put all the plants in there instead of the garage, which we have done in the past. My husband took a trunk load to the Last Chance thrift. I even cleaned out the kitchen junk drawer, yeah!!! It is such a good feeling to clean stuff out.

A visit to the Japanese Garden

On Saturday evening we went to visit the Japanese Garden with some friends we met in the Bahamas last Christmas. My daughter made great friends with a little girl on our holiday trip and then I decided to take her with me to market so that she could see market, but also to see her friends again.

Our new friends were gracious enough to come and get us from the hotel, take us to the garden, and then to their home for a great meal.

It was amazing how it could be 90 degrees in the city and only a few miles away and up the temperature could drop enough for us to get chills. 

My Baby Girl at Market

On the second day of market I brought my daughter in to see what it is all about and to meet all my friends I have made at market over the years. 

She loved the Valorie Wells booth as well as most of the Wesminster artists' booths. 

If you check out her neck tie and purse you will see what she was up to earlier in the day. She went to the outdoors market under the Burnside Bridge and found this really neat artist who makes things out of duck tape. She got a great purse for herself, and a tie for her dad that has little rubber ducks with devil horns on it. This duck tape artist finds really neat tape on Ebay from Asian countries that has all kinds of little scenes on it. I went back later in the day to get my son a wallet made out of duck-tape. I got the ducks too. He still carries it to this day. He has also started making them. Duck-tape is a great thing!

Revisiting Spring market

I have been thinking about blogging on Fall quilt market, but I might have to revisit Spring market first. It was a special market for me because I brought my daughter with me. Her birthday fell on that weekend so I took her out of school for almost a whole week to head out to the west coast. First we went to Seattle to visit my friend Mari, who owns the best bead store and online bead site. We met her one year old for the first time and got to know the four year old much better. We had such a good time!

We headed to Portland on the train the day before market. I took the train five years ago from market to Seattle and just had to share the beautiful ride with my daughter. If you have never done, it you should. The weather in Portland was great, around 90 degrees which is just fine with me. I love the heat!

When I walked into market I saw the Westminster booth right away. I had to see my friend Jeff, the sales manager for Westminster. He was near the Heather Bailey display, which caught my eye. I had to sit down and order right away, which is going against my rules for market. I usually wait to order until the second day, but I was blown away by Heather's line. The colors are just fabulous!

I ordered all of Erin's Park Slope Line, too. My daughter is using the orange, blue and green color-way to make a quilt for her bed. She is on an orange, turquoise and green kick.

As usual I already had an order in place for all the new Amy butler and Kaffe Fassett. I always order all of their fabric so my rep just knows to check with me the minute he has heard of a new line. I often order before there is anything to see on paper. I just tell them to write it all up.

Anna Maria Horner's booth was so cool! I love the new home dec fabric and ordered quite a bit of it. I plan on using some of it in my daughter's room on a chair. It works well with some of the colors in the Park Slope line.

I have just added several blogs of people I met at quilt market and am inspired by. They are all really creative and put things together in such a great way.

I am getting to play a little on the web since I had a great meal cooked for me tonight and am not in the kitchen cleaning up. I should be working on one of the two school auctions I am involved in this year, my shop website or maybe even some paperwork, but am playing instead. This could turn into an escape from life if I am not careful!

We measured our kids on the wall tonight and my 12 year old daughter has grown an inch in 5 weeks. Blows my mind. She will catch up to her 17 year old brother in no time at the rate she is going.

Second post

Ok, I have added several things to this blogging page including information about myself and a picture of myself with my husband, the love of my life!

We are boating in this photo, which is another of my favorite hobbies, although I don't get to do it very often and don't know much about it. I just like to be a passenger floating on the water and sometimes swimming in it.

More later.

First Posting

Ok, it is time for the crazy quilt shop owner to get with the times and start blogging. Here is my first attempt.

I should be working on the website to make it better, but instead I am trying to start a blog to catch up with the world at large.

Check out my blog over time to see how things go for me in the blogging world.