DH has entered two instructables into their homemade holidays food competition. If any registered instructables member (or any of you feel like registering) would like to vote for his creations they are the "potato puffballs" & the "creamy syllabub" . Voting ends today 3rd Jan...

We are having an icy/snowy day and NM and Doc popped into my bored little pea brain.... ;-) NightMist- what's going on with your 'tree situation'? Doc- how is Fudgey doing with his training? Leslie & The Furbabies- snowed in- in cold, cold MO.

(l checked out Snopes.com.. This is true, and also applies to cell phones!) PASS ON TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW I received a telephone call last evening from an individual identifying himself as an AT&T Service Technician (could also be Telus) who was conducting a test on the telephone lines. He...

I think it was Karen looking for blue appliances. Check out the new deep blue fridge Amana has. Just saw a blurb in the newspaper this morning and saw the mention. Maybe there will be more choices in appliances coming along. Pic at bottom of this link: http://www.amana.com/#/filicia/ HTH, Taria

Back in 2006 or thereabouts I made a baby quilt for one of DH's cousins for their new baby, Harry. In 2008 baby number 2 arrived and I soon had an almost completed quilt for Oliver, but it took me until the end of this year to get it finished in time for Christmas. On seeing little Oliver's...

I just got a quick e-mail from Jessamy!!!!! She says her health hasn't been cooperating of late and had prevented her from quilting much. No mention of the boys just that she has lost access to the e-mail addy that I used. But she's still with us so THAT is good! Just wanted to let...

In the last week of 2009, my son let me know that the art quilt/ portrait that I gave them for Christmas last year is so precious to them that they have painted and decorated the master bedroom with colors to coordinate and are going to put it in a glassed in frame and hang it permanently. I...

I want to wish everyone a Happy New Year, may it be a happy and healthy one for all of this. Today I have been married to the same wonderful (most of the time lol) guy for 21 yrs. I can still remember the day we met. I was working at a Speedway and having a bad day. He came in, bought me a rose...

I am visiting the Pasadena area and was wondering if anyone knew of any great lqs's in the area? I tried googling and yellow pages, but couldn't confirm that there were actually any shops left in the area. TIA, Nancy

Not quilting but sewing project. Two big cedar filled fleece dog beds. Names embroidered on each. DH asked if I was going to teach them to read so the pups knew which bed was for which. Well, Georgia smart enough to go right to hers and lie on it. Sure she had a 50/50 chance of getting it...

Santa left us (DH & I) a new computer under the tree!!!! It has Windows 7... Our old computer (the one I'm still using) is an XP.... at least until DH gets all the new stuff figured out and can "educate" me G. Question? - Currently, DH uses Outlook for his email and I use Outlook Express for...

I had planned to sew today, but.... I started by making bread - mixing and kneading. Then DH suggested we bake some ribbon cookies (dough in refrigerator). While I'm slicing those, he decided to make another treat that takes Rice Krispies, peanut butter and chocolate (our neighbours have their...

Happy Anniversary to Earl & Kathy Dillman! Karen, Queen of Squishies

Hello folks, Well the baby's head has been 4/5 engaged for about 3 weeks now, and I'm not sure that has anything to do with it, but I've developed SPD which is short for "lots of pain in your pubic joint because it is separating and bone is rubbing on bone". I can barely walk anymore, and am...

I want to thank everyone who shared their favorite FMQ sewing machine with me. Everybody's response helped me with the research. Believe me, I looked at every machine you all listed. I've just ordered the Juki TL98Q. While the machines with the computerized specialty stitches look wonderful,...

I think we all need to claim this quote ROFLMBO "Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands--and then eat just one of the pieces." (Judith Viorst (1931-) US writer and poet). I'm afraid I'm not that strong yet.

May I interrupt pie pastry and new computer challenges and ask for a report on the Puppen? Was it a hit or was it fascinating at least as long as an empty box might be? Hoping it was very special, Polly

Good morning all. I have all the ingredients in house to make brownies from scratch thanks to all your recipe contributions. So to the (hopefully) delight of my three DD's, I will be testing 3 different recipes this afternoon and the winner will get made three times tomorrow for desert at...

http://s307.photobucket.com/albums/nn303/NanaWIlson5/?mediafilter=images Nana

A few days ago I discovered that DH's laptop is operating with Windows 7. It must have been an automatic update, because we certainly did not go out and BUY Windows 7 for this 4 yr. old laptop. Did anyone else notice this on their computer? Karen, Queen of Squishies