It's another beautiful day on the St. Lawrence River. On days like this I like to take out our new kayaks I bought this summer and enjoy a peaceful ride on the water. The river is clear and I can see the fish and even some golf balls on the bottom! My son practices golf and many of the balls end up in the river so we usually bring the ball retriever with us in case we see one or two. This is a photo of my son just outside our house next to the Ogdensburg/Johnstown International Bridge. On July 4th my dad and nieces boyfriend went out on the double kayak and Chance and I each went out on our own kayaks. We watched the 4th of July fireworks from the river being set off in about 6 different locations. We were almost to the state side and got "pulled over" by the New York State Police. They wanted to know what we were doing and where we were camping! Oh well, it makes a good story to tell.

A New Venture

Recently my sister and I have started a new venture. We have rented a spot at a local antique market and are selling some stuff. My sister and I fell in love with "Shabby Chic" and "Primitive" style of furniture and love going to the flea markets, antique fairs and auctions. We are now selling some of our stuff and are finishing some of the wooden items that we have bought over the years to represent the styles mentioned above. Our items can be seen at Long Sault Antiques if you are ever in the area. The address is 16129 County Road 36, Post Road Long Sault. ON . The floor doesn't look very nice right now under our stuff but maybe when we know for sure we are going to stay there then we will do something about that. There was an ugly carpet in that area that we removed but when someone painted they only painted around the perimeter of the carpet!! (It was probably a man! LOL)

Flowers from a friends

Recently I was able to have lunch with my best friend of over 30 years and she brought me this. Isn't she a sweet heart ? I had a very nice time and it was a perfect day. We sat by the pool and reminisced over old times and looked at my families very old photo albums. I (and I found out she does too) loves looking at old photographs. The clothes, backgrounds and poses are great not to mention all the old cars and other antiques in the pictures. What a lovely day. Thanks Mary for such a nice time. Happy birthday to all my July birthday friends : Cindy July 13th, Mary July 18th (and me too July 27th!).

Getting together with the girls

I had a nice night the other night when for the first time in about 20 years I got to get together with my girlfriends from High School. The 4 of us were always together in high school and have not all been together since graduating some 20 years ago! (Boy, am I telling my age or what!?!). Anyway, we had a nice time catching up on each other lives and telling stories from our past. I hope it won't be another 20 years before we get to do it again.

This is the 4 of us outside Starbucks in Brockville. From l-r in the back row is me, Mary Malcomson Tessier (my best friend of over 30 years), Cindy Wagner and Tracy Symons in the front row. I don't think any of us has acually changed much in the past 20 years...maybe a few grey hairs and a little larger clothes needed but you would definately be able to recognize each of us from our high school photos.

I'm not dead!

Well...Just wanted to let everyone out there in blog land know that I am not dead. I guess I am taking my button on the side to heart and hope that you will too when it says "blogging without obligation". It's been quite a while since I have been able to find a couple of minutes to even visit my own blog to write a few words. We had our quilt show this past weekend and although I haven't heard any numbers I think it was a huge success. All the quilts were beautiful, everybody I met was so nice and friendly and I heard lots of positive comments about the show. I will try to post some pictures in the next while from the show. I didn't take too many myself so I may have to wait until some are given to me. I was able to finish 5 quilts on my "projects that need my attention" list so I am pretty excited about that. I will post pictures of all my finished quilts soon. I think that brings that list down to about 25. I didn't realize it had been so long since I posted. I thought it was about a month ago since I have been on but realize it's been about 2 1/2 months! Time flies when you are busy!

Although our show was this past weekend (Friday/Saturday) I even managed to go to Vermont this weekend for their annual quilt festival. My friend Sharon organized this trip - so a big thank you goes out to her for this! What a magnificent show! Lots of vendors and gorgeous quilts although I do have to admit that I did not have any time to look at the quilts since I was so busy shopping. I am relying on other peoples photos for this too. The show closed at 3pm and we didn't arrive by bus until around 11 pm and there are about 80 vendors to visit too. I made lots of purchases and have many new ideas I can't wait to put on my "things to do next list" that by the way I still have to do! Anyway, enough for now. Hope everyone out in blog land is doing well and starting to enjoy the summery weather. Cheers!

This is what "not to do" with vintage cranberry glass. I always thought cranberry glass was actually that colour but I found out the hard way it is not. I picked this really cute vase up at an antique store last week and unpacked it yesterday. It was perfect before I got it. I had some hot soapy water in the sink from cleaning up some other dishes I had bought earlier and thought I would put this vase in the water to soak off the price sticker. I left it there for a while and forgot about it. When I went back hours later I found this vase with the paint all bubbled and it peeled off when I touched it. I don't know if it's because I left it for so long, because of the soap or because there was a bit of Javex in the sink. I won't make that mistake again! I like shabby chic and I am finding there is another common term used... "chippy shabby chic". I think I will still use this vase and call it my chippy shabby chic mistake! Live and Learn..I guess I learned my "something new" today.

This is a close up of one of the blocks. The fancy stitching is all done with yarn and the whole quilt is 'tied'.

Auction Find

I found this quilt at the auction the other night and decided I had to have it. I have always been intrigued by the crazy quilts . I have not made one yet myself and I don't own any others. This one is pieced (appliqued curved) with mainly flannels and wools with some cottons. The cotton prints look very old and I do not believe them to be reproduction. The batting is strange and I am guessing it's wool. I would not call the batting lumpy but it has thick and thin spots and the quilt is extremely heavy for it's size.

What a Nice Surprise!

What a nice surprise I received yesterday. One of my regular customers and friend came to visit yesterday to drop off some projects and she brought these for me. When I asked her why she said "just cause"! Isn't that nice. Thanks, Linda (no blog). I think they brought the sunshine with them. Yesterday was miserably cold and wet and today it's sunny. She didn't know this but these are one of my favourite flowers. They are so big, beautiful and happy.

They make me smile when I look at them.

Hi All...

I just thought I would post a picture of a "finish" for the month of March. I made this quilt as a fundraiser for my sons school rugby team to help them pay for their trip to Halifax in April. I will be selling tickets at a cost of $2.00 each at my quilt guild meeting this month and at Perfect Stitch in Kingston tomorrow. If anybody local is interested they can see me there or send me an email at quiltinthingsforyou@sympatico.ca .

The quilt is approx. 74" x 85" . The colours are actually a bit darker then they appear in the photo. I am happy with the quilt and would love to win it myself, although I have not bought any tickets yet!

Hi Everyone...

I just joined a group called rainbow swap. You can read about it here. I haven't done a block swap before and it sounds really fun. My friend Michelle told me about it. She joined before me and we are in different groups. It will be fun to see what each of us gets back. I will be doing my block in maroon and she is doing hers in dark green. What fun!

Another give away to tell you about

HI ...Just a quick note to tell you that there is another great give away at This That and The Other that you don't want to miss. Go over and check it out. Contest closes March 22/09.

Canadian Comfort and Rememberance Quilts

For those of you that are not aware of the very worthwhile project...Canadian Comfort and Rememberance Quilts...I am including a link for you to check it out. These are quilts that are made for the family members of lost Canadian soldiers. It seems all too common to turn on the news and hear of another soldier lost helping to keep freedom. Please check out this link and help if you can.

http://www.ccrquilts.ca/index.htm

I couldn't let today pass without mentioning my son...

Hello everyone in Blogland! I couldn't go to bed without mentioning my son, Chance. Tonight at 10:38pm he officially turned 15 years old. I never realized how fast time really goes until a child of my own. Only 1 more year and he'll be driving, 3 years until he's drinking legally in Quebec (only an hours drive away!) and in 4 years he will probably be gone to go to University! He had a quiet birthday today as all our family members are gone for the weekend on seperate mini-vacations. This is a photo I took of him today with his new lizard. He's a chameleon and we named him "Auto". This will be the third Chameleon we have brought home. The first one had a bone problem, the next one had a tongue disfunction and this is our third. "Third times a charm!" (I hope). Anyway...good night for now...

And to you Chance...HAPPY 15TH BIRTHDAY...MOM LOVES YOU XOXO

Hello

Hello. Thanks for stopping by. At the momment I don't have much here but I am working on that. I am new to this and am trying to learn about it in my limited amount of spare time. Hope to have it up and going in the next month so be sure to come back and visit.