The View From the Kitchen Window

This is a very common sight when looking out

the kitchen window. The cat begging!!Gladys gets fed twice a day. She does not think

that twice a day is enough. So this happens often.

We almost always give in and take her out some

treats to the back porch.

As soon as she hears the back door open,

she tears down the railing that she is perched on

and heads to her food dish!!

I thought I would post this while it was on

my mind. I got up from an afternoon

nap and am sitting with my lap top

at the kitchen table.....and what do

I see out the window......little black ears!!!

Design Wall Monday

I have a box of red white and blue odds

and ends blocks and decided to get them

out and see what I had.I guess they are like orphan blocks.....except that they

didn't have a destination in the first place. I starting making these earlier this year and

plan to make more R/W/B blocks until I

have enough of ones I like to put together

a quilt top.

This Pineapple Block was one of my first paper pieced attempts. I would really like to pull it from the others and make a whole quilt out of these. Not sure if that will happen......if it does it will take me quite a while to accomplish. This heart was also paper pieced and now I need to get it appliqued to a white background and square it up.

Same Quilt, Different Colors

I saw these two quilts at

the guild meeting I went

to last month.I bought the pattern and it includes

the panel with the scripture blocks.

Comfort of Psalms One Fabric Too! Pattern by Jeanne Cloverdale for Block Party Studios, Inc.

A Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Gramma Can Be Fun

This is my oldest middle grand daughter. She loves

to play with lipstick.

I am not the kind of Gramma I had planned on being.

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome changed those plans I had.

I do my best and I try to make fun memories for

the kids and myself.

I try to be creative....that's where the lipstick and the

cans of beads and bracelets come in handy.

I also have a few hats.

You can entertain from a horizontal position if

you own a few cans of beads and a cheap tube of

lipstick.

I have times that it really bothers me that I can not

do all the things with the kids that I would like.

I worry about them understanding why Gramma is

not present at a lot of activities....like other grandparents are.

I can't take the heat, or extreme cold, driving very far

wears me out. Don't have the

energy to make it through a day trip to an amusement park.

Sometimes a trip to McDonald's is all I can do with them and that

may be at the drive thru!!!

We make up songs to sing....you can do that sitting in a car while

Mom is inside Wal Mart, but now they are all in school. Pre School

to 7th grade, so the Wal Mart sitting, I think, has past.

So when one of the kids visits us and asks for the cans

of beads or lipstick.....or breaks out singing our

cat song.....I know I am making happy

memories with them, just not at the amusement

park as I had planned before I was a Gramma with CFS.

Oh, and another thing we can do when I need a rest....

draw the ABC's on the ceiling with flashlights while flopped on the bed

together........they love the flashlights and can use

them at Gramma's house. They tell me

they can't do that at home because Dad says they'll run the

battery down!!

Design Wall Monday

I am trying to figure out how I want

to set these pinwheel blocks so I spread

them out on white tone on tone on the kitchen table.

More often than not my kitchen table turns into

my design wall. These are whirly gig blocks on my design wall. Looks like I have spare thread also to show on my design wall. LOL I have to really pay attention when I go to sew together the whacked up half square triangles or I get them backwards.