It's Here!

After an fun afternoon of registering Wade for college and then taking him to lunch at TGIFridays, we went to Target and look what I found!!!

Quilts and More, a little sister magazine of American Patchwork and Quilting. I quickly came home, grabbed a diet coke, went outside, and spent the rest of the afternoon on my little couch outside ooing and ahhing.

They've done it again, that Pat Sloan and Monica (Happy Zombie). Pat has an adorable table runner using stripes. She teaches how to make the stripes go all one way! Monica has two bags: one to use as a handbag with an easier way to find our cell phones/glasses/and keys and one to use for carrying groceries. Maybe this will make it easier for us to "Go Green" if we have bags that are fashionable and help us to use fabric that we might already have (another way to recycle!).

I love everything Maybeth Oxenrider designs. She has been a designer for American Patchwork and Quilting for a long time. I've been a fan of hers since I started quilting over 12 years ago.

I'm thinking this fabric that I won from Sharon would look great either in Maybeths quilt design or here, "Ease into Autumn".

There's nothing like a great quilting magazine to get those creative juices flowing.
It makes me all happy inside.

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Another thing that makes me happy are the little suprises I find in my garden.

A sunflower holding it's head up high even though some sort of bug has made breakfast, lunch, and dinner out of her leaves,


one playing a cute game of "pee pie",


and one peeking at me over the fence.

My biggest surprise were these little cuties:

Call me a "city girl" but I didn't realize birds had babies during the summer. I saw their mama sitting in the nest the other day, but I thought maybe she was resting and looking at her favorite quilting magazine. I guess her creative juices were flowing, too!

Have a great weekend!

Amanda