Sunday, March 20, 2011

Sunday: finished quilt

I finished the next quilt today! I like how it ended up turning out. I still need some practice on the edges, but I will just try again on the next one.

The top:

The back:

The foldover:

The cat test (passed):


Saturday, March 19, 2011

Saturday: quilt day


Today is National Quilt day. In honor of it, it spent way too much time working on a corner of my binding.

Now, I know that there are other ways to do corners, but my problem with this quilt is that the back is smaller than the front. (Don't ask me why.) So I had to be creative to figure out how to get on the binding without messing up the front. I figured it out, but the corners are still giving me problems. One of these days I'll get it figured out.

Here's how it turned out. Not great, but definitely the best I could get.

update: the next corner went much more smoothly...it looks better and took a normal amount of time. :)

Friday, March 18, 2011

Friday: moving

So here's the big news: we're moving back to West Michigan.

Ben has taken a job with Gentex and I have a few possibilities on the horizon. I think we're going to leave here April 3rd after church and will get to Michigan on the 4th.

This was an incredibly hard decision for us. We like it here. We like our jobs, love our friends, and have put down some roots in the short time that we've been in New York. But at the same time, our family is back in West Michigan. We feel like this is where God is leading us; some doors have closed themselves here while other doors have easily opened in Michigan.

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Wednesday: counting sheep

I was having a hard time on Sunday night getting to sleep, so I decided to count sheep.

They started out well behaved.

But number 3 turned into a bullet sheep. (My paint skills are kind of lacking.)

The sheep #4 jumped too high.

I finally got them back to normal.

Only to have sheep 10 do flips over a fence on me, very unexpectedly.

After that, things went out of control. They all dyed themselves.

So I had to give them a shower before they could jump. But then they were just sopping wet sheep.

Since it was a sunny day, they eventually dried. And then went *poof*.

But they stayed calm, albeit poofy.

Until one sheep decided she needed bows and ribbons in her coat.


Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Tuesday: today

"Beware the Ides of March."

That was an apt quote for today. The day went way better than I expected, but it was still not enjoyable.

I'll be less cryptic later. And when I'm less tired.

Monday, March 14, 2011

Monday: Happy Pi Day

I'll admit, I almost forgot Pi Day today. I know, it's horrible. But once I was reminded, circles just kept showing up!

For example, someone brought in some donuts at 11am out of the blue. Hooray! And for dinner we had cylindrical tater tots.

Sunday, March 13, 2011

Sunday: TV shows

I finished all the on-line Grey's Anatomy this weekend. I really enjoyed the show and am excited to see the next season whenever it comes out. I found it interesting how I liked and disliked characters at different times throughout the series.

I started The Cosby Show next. I know it's old, but the first two episodes still made me laugh. I remember it as a special show because I was old enough to stay up and watch the new episodes while Nathan had to go to bed.