Friday, November 2, 2012

what's up next?

Whew thought I'd never get back to normal after being a frog for a day.  Good news is my feet are less pointy but now my toes are green and webbed...fortunately they are short lived spells and the effects go away..eventually,,,ugh, such is the life of a prankster witch.....<);~D
Since I tried to use my magic wand before the stroke of midnight Halloween, it was doing odd things to my spells...(one of these days I may actually get to use it 24/7/365 1/4, and maybe someday pigs will fly, I wonder if a pig knows how to drive a broom???)   Because it was doing odd things, now I will have to do my next project on my own with my two little hands...like always.....so I better get at tonight because it's up next and due to be ready in a very short amount of time, like MONDAY morning, and I'm showing on Tuesday.  I also have to make 17 owl pillows between now and then too, their inner bodies are done and have gone to the stuffer (my friend who had this crazy idea of making 17 owls, and doesnt sew lol).  She is stuffing and fluffing.   but look at the fabric she bought for eyes!

yea!!!
Now I have to  do the outer bodies with hopefully minimal hand stitching.  There will be the soothing sound of the sewing maching whirring away in the house this weekend and the sound/screech of me singing, aaaahhhhhhhh.  good thing my blog has no sound, : D
Madam Samm Queen of Blog hops, organizer extrordinaire and Her cheerleader, Katherine of Sew Me Something Good  are having a UR Priceless coin purse hop and it begins Monday November 5, 2012 and runs through November 13, 2012.
Everybody will has the same pattern and will have sewn them up all different, I hear there are multiples at many places.......I will be lucky to get the two that I have planned done.  If you faintly hear the sweet singing of angels drifting through the air this weekend you will know I got my original idea done.  The crowing of the rooster Foghorn Leghorn I got both of them done, and if you hear the nuclear warning airhorn go off, Duck, because am I'm going to explode due to stress from self-induced severe procrastionation habits I have. 
on a side note........( I have been secretly sketching, and sketching and sewing and stitching and of course some unstitching mmm..., some goodies for next year and even thinking about the sketching while folding & stuffing the twilliing patterns too, so I haven't been just laying around like a baked potato.....
 I am going to have to get a committee together(ie, my quilting chicks group generally about 15-20 quilters, who are also stitchers, knitters, crocheters etc) to help me narrow it down to just a couple...and maybe stitch a few samples :) you'll have to wait............... ;)
 Below is where you need to go starting Monday to see how many different looks you can get from just one pattern.  And a such cute Original pattern by our own Madam SAMM too, I LOVE the shape and ANDOVER Fabrics is her sponsor for this hop, Thank you to Andover Fabrics, Madam Samm of Sew We Quilt and Katherine of Sew Me Something Good.  This will be SEW FUN! see you there!
UR Priceless NOV 5-13


Day 1 -  Nov. 5th

from being a frog on Halloween. 
Rose Creations
The Treehouse
Gracie Oliver Arts
Quilting Prolifically
Stekje
Grammie Q's

Day 3 - Nov. 7th
I Love Wool
I Like to Quiltblog
Keep Your Fork There's Pie
Retired to Quilt
Selinaquilts
From This to That
Jenny E.
Domestic Deficit Disorder
Pig tales and quilts
CherrysPrairiePrimitives
Espritpatch
Maria
Count it all Joy!
Creative Notions

Day 4 - Nov. 8th
as sweet as peaches
Deborah B
Birgit H
Fish Creek Studio
A Quilter's Table
Lily Patch Quilts
Cherry Blossoms Quilting Studio
Mary F
Rose Prairie Quilts and Farm
The Desert Rat Chronicles
Sally K
Paris at a Certain Age
From Blank Pages
Quilt Taffy
Barb H

Day 5 - Nov. 9th
Polka Dot Classic
Geta's Quilting Studio
Busy Bee Free
Briarside Lane
Quilts and Dogs
Blueberrymoon
Debbie R
suebee's World
Englating
Les passions de Cliodana
Colorpoint Quilter
On the Go Quilting
Personalized Sketchesand Sentiments
Freemotion by the River
grannygoodstuff
Scrapbook-ChickADoodle


Day 6 - Nov. 12
Read, quilt, cook, pray...The Learning Curve
Bacon Then Eggs
Nati's Little Things
by Mary
Feltfree på Åsly
El Patchwork de la Abuela
Amy's Crafty Shenanigans
Maryjo J
s.o.t.a.k. Handmade
Chloeandme
Janice M
throw a wench in the works
Everyone Deserves a Quilt
A Stitch in Time
Sew Me Something Good

Day 7 - Nov. 13
Julia P
Tina
Dachsies With Moxie
Marci Girl Designs
The Sunflower Patch
Wish upon a star
Mary on Lake Pulaski
Greco Mara
Linda M
Mack and Mabel
Dreaming in Patchwork
Judith Handmade Treasures
Kaydie
Caesarea Scrappers
Patchouli Moon Studio
Sew.Darn.Quilt.
Sew We Quilt


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Tuesday, October 30, 2012

A WICKED October 31st

Halloween has always been a fun holiday in our family, probably a little more for us than most.  The next few things my give you an hint as to why...... 
Stalked by a Coffin... 



... A man was walking home alone late one night when he hears a BUMP...BUMP... BUMP... behind him. Walking faster he looks back, and makes out the image of an upright coffin banging its way down the middle of the street towards him ...BUMP... BUMP... BUMP...
Terrified, the man begins to run towards his home, the coffin bouncing quickly behind him ...faster... faster... BUMP...BUMP...BUMP. He runs up to his door,fumbles with his keys, opens the door,rushes in, slams and locks the door behind him. However, the coffin crashes through his door, with the lid of the coffin clapping ...clappity-BUMP... clappity-BUMP...clappity-BUMP...on the heals of the terrified man.
Rushing upstairs to the bathroom, the man locks himself in. His heart is pounding; his head is reeling; his breath is coming in sobbing gasps. With a loud CRASH the coffin breaks down the door. Bumping and clapping towards him. The man screams and reaches for something, anything ... but all he can find is a box of cough drops!
Desperate, he throws the cough drops at the coffin... .. and of course....... the coffin stopped.   

hahaha :D  (I heard jokes like this all my life.)

next up:

Coffin Cookie bowl (I gave this to my SIL, who is quite the baker) who now has shared it by passing it on to her daughter. It's rather an odd bowl for most of you, but perfect for our family. I laughed when I saw it and snatched it right up. 
yep, COFFIN that's my maiden name
So, as a result of my maiden name being Coffin, I have probably heard every Coffin, coughin', coughing or dead joke imaginable..... My 10th grade substitute geometry math teacher filled me(and the class) in almost daily on any I any have missed. lol  Good thing I have a good sense of humor and knew he was joking, other wise it might have almost been considered bullying (through humiliation.) SO as I said Halloween has been a fun holiday for everyone in the family.  One of youngest daughters has the bug  and dresses for Halloween every year..(she's 30).  But I take to the lighter side of Halloween and not so much to the creepy dark side of the blood and gore..... and the movies that go with it.  There's too much of that in real life for me play around with it at Halloween, but I do laugh at those who do in a light-hearted way, am not much on really scaring the wits out people. 



They sat if the hat fits wear it and this is more me....a jokester witch, somewhere between Glinda the good witch, and her sister, the WICKED witch of the west and we all know what happened to her......

(but I do keep my eye to the sky for falling houses)

SO as I am writing this it's Tuesday October 30, and I am counting down the hours, minutes, seconds to the witching hour when WICKED begins
and for me 12:00 am Wednesday October 31.... in the meantime I'm relaxing... did you ever wonder why witches wear point shoes?? Because regular ones hurt our feet....

I was contemplating my next victim......um er, project... UR Priceless Coin Purses
 it starts November     ....have I started mine?
.... nope, that's why I'm waiting....
my WICKED witchy Wand to start warmig up.   I want it to go
POOF

and produce a couple cute and pricless coin purses for me.   It only works on Halloween though.....IF you try to use it BEFORE that time the WICKED WAND of FATE takes ahold and you never know what happens when you wave that wand......
Oh the hours drag on, and I flew by my daughter's house....

She was hanging around outside, bored, waiting for the witching hour to begin.  


 You can she she went all in for the newest in high tech brooms, mine plain ole, plain ole.  But it gets me where I'm going just without as much flash, she leaves a purple glittery smoke in her wake. . 
I bought this sign for my daughter, but everyone in the family tells me they misspelled a word......hmm  I wonder???

It's getting closer, the witching hour, can you feel the excitement, are you filled with desire?  I went searching for a hat, did you see it earlier, and I found one alright and although it was cute, it was very tall but a bit too small.  It just wasn't quite right.  So I sketched on some paper with pencils and pens, and giggled as I drew, thinking that if those who knew, that I stitched up some bowls, that got quite big, saw the technique I used, they would have flipped their wig.  So here is my piecing for all to see, no paper involved except for a rough sketch of the idea.....

And my below, Maybe not WICKED but Witchy, definitely..
my friend Itsy Bitsy all pink and pretty is hanging on it by a thread.



OH the clock is about midnight and I already started sewing, because you have to have a beginning to have an end..... now where is that wand, because I need it already............"abbra cadabra, ssssnipet  rippit and .......
BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG,
BONG, BONG BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG
OH hell, wrong spell.... and to early to boot.  Now look what's happened to me

and this is where I should have stopped.  But oh no I tried that WICKED wand
 again and hit hit me with an epic fail. 



So back to the drawing board, (without that wand) and below is what I have to giveaway, because like Madam Samm says EVERYONE is a winner... Click below pic if you want a PDF of the SPELL GONE WRONG Pattern (a new an improved version)  from google docs. 

Click here FOR SPELL GONE WRONG Pattern LINK
Now THANK YOU to Madam Samm for coming up with these crazy FUN blog hops and finding GREAT sponsors like RILEY BLAKE fabrics, hop over there too!! They have all sorts of fun things going on!!  Thank you Riley Blake!  And  lastly THANK YOU to Casper's best Friend Miss WENDY at Why Knot Kwilt, our WICKED CHEERLEADER, who does all the pushing, cajoling and encouraging without being Witchy, just WICKED, lol!!
 Now, you've been here long enough, off with you,  drop down below to see where to go next.


Wednesday, October 31st hop on
to see what others have brewed up today!!  It's the very last day, if you miss it you'll be turned into a frog, and I've got the WICKED WAND that'll do it........ HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYBODY!!!</; ^ ) a ahahahahahaha into the night... ------E .  . . .. poof

Beaquilter
Fun Thread Designs

Stitch, Stitch, Stitch  YOU ARE HERE

Made By A Brunnette

Buttons And Butterflies

The Recipe Bunny

Quilted Delights

Sunshine Reflections

Louzeekreativ

Mice In The Mix

Rosemary - That Other
The Fuzzy Hat Quilter
Sew We Quilt
Hop along and have a Wicked Wicked Time!
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Saturday, October 20, 2012

A WICKED announcement......

For the last month or so 100 Wicked people have been twitching their noses and snapping their fingers.  SPELLS have been cast, and things have been brewing.   Things have been chopped, pickled and stirred, and now there are WICKED, wicked, wicked things for you to see.  From monday Oct 22 till Halloween night you can hop by the blogs listed below day by day to see what WICKEDNESS  they've been up to. Things will be WICKED, they will be BAD (which is really, really good in a very WICKED way!!!)
Monday, October 22nd

The Quilting Alleycat

Words & Stitches

Geema's Wonderings

Quilt Doodle Doodles











Tuesday, October 23rd


Sew Incredibly Crazy

Hill Valley Quilter

Fignie - A Geekie Crafty Life

Hot Pink Peonies

Jane's Quilting

Sew Me Something Good

Buzzing And Bumbling

Polkadot Classic

Piece Peace

Selina Quilts

Pigtales And Quilts
Sew Mollie Sue, Quilt Much?


Wednesday, October 24th


Dancing Moon

Cheryl's Teapots2quilting

Freemotion By The River

Quiltingbydawn

Ninis Patchwork Blog

Grandmama's Stories

Kwilty Pleasures

Happier Than A Bird Quilts

Quilts From My Crayon Box

Quilt N Queen

Vroomans Quilts

Bumbleberry Stitch’n

Quilts by Christa


Thursday, October 25th


Angies Quilting And Crafting Place

Just Let Me Quilt

Lady Bug Lane

Debby Kratovil Quilts

Creative Obsessions

Kathy's Quilts

Loose Threads

Sew Maybe I Can

That's Sew Julie

Ramblings Of A Quilter

Aurea - That Other Blog
Peck's Pieces


Friday, October 26th


In Stitches & Seams

Sew.Darn.Quilt

Quilt Monster In My Closet

Lieselfriends-Di... Handnäher

The Learning Curve Quilts And Such

Qreative Quilts And Quests

Sew Many Yarns

Annieoak Designs

Searching Out Simple

Sheila's Quilt World

Val Spiers Sews

Robin - That Other Blog


Monday, October 29th


Ariane Quilts

Cindy Crafty Creations

.Quiltscapes.

Sentimentalstitches

Moosestash Quilting

Krislovesfabric

Marjorie's Busy Corner

Stitchinbythelake

Rose Creations

Simplesew
Charlottes Creations

Betty - That Other Blog
Alexa's World


Tuesday, October 30th


I Like To Quiltblog

Canary Created

Cherry's Prairie Primitives
Count It *All* JOY!!

Archimedes' Bathtub

Quilts And Dogs

Jane's Fabrics And Quilts

Creations On The Island

Englating

Mrs.Pickles Garden

Scrapbook-Chickadoodle

Taschen, Quilts Und Mehr

Pamela - That Other Blog


Wednesday, October 31st


Beaquilter
Fun Thread Designs

Stitch, Stitch, Stitch

Made By A Brunnette

Buttons And Butterflies

The Recipe Bunny

Quilted Delights

Sunshine Reflections

Louzeekreativ

Mice In The Mix

Rosemary - That Other
 
The Fuzzy Hat Quilter
Sew We Quilt
 
Hop along and have a Wicked Wicked Time!
 
 
 
 
 
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