PRETTY

Last week I spent most of my free time helping a co-worker get her 3 month old baby to take a bottle. And what fun I had!!!!!! 

 Who can't LOVE holding a beautiful baby that smiles and talks.

Yes Pretty is happy after her first bottle

Pretty, happy after her second bottle { note change of clothes, Pretty spits, forgot that burping thing}.

3rd. day. Pretty needed remedial bottle training. She decided that at home she would only be fed by Mom. She looks so innocent and sweet.  

Worked on me, my heart was mush.

 

A picture to prove to her parents that she can and will take a bottle!

Wish I had that leg power.

This little girl won me over hook line and sinker. 

{ I was secretly hoping Pretty would have to move in with me till she was on solid food. The puppies would of cared for her when I was work. They wanted to know where the squeaker was in her and kiss her non-stop}

Here is my baby, how the time flies.

I remember the day she was born like it was yesterday.

TIMES REALLY DO NOT CHANGE THAT MUCH

This is Lake Shore Drive in 1967.  What a mess, all these cars caught on the Drive due to blowing and drifting snow.

This is the  Drive February 1, 2011. Look familiar, yup 44 years later same problem Cars stuck on  Lake Shore Drive in another Chicago blizzard. The more things change the more they look familiar to me!

I remember walking with my father and siblings to the store several days after the 1967 storm passed. We children had a GREAT time! Chicago was shut down for days and days. {check out Dad's boots}I , one had to be of hardy stock in 60's , No fleece lined boots back then. I bet he even had plastic bags wrapped around his shoes to keep his feet dry.
This is not  my family, though I remember my Dad hauling at least five of us 10 children on a 3-4 mile hike to the store up on Devon Ave.


All you Chicago kids enjoy the snow in the coming days. My older brother even jumped off the roof of my Aunt's house. I thought he was so brave ! Me, no I did not jump off any roofs, I am afraid of heights!

MONDAY, MONDAY

And baby it is cold out there..... 

As I bemoan how cold it is in Colorado I see Chicago's forecast and they are in for an EPIC BLIZZARD . May even out due the one in 1967. Oh how I remember that storm, the city was paralyzed for days, no school. My mother tied us children together and sent us walking to school in the morning hoping the snow would stop. Well it didn't and the nuns tied us back together and sent us home. Our parents must of thought their children very hardy back then because now a days parents would end up in jail for tying a long rope around kids waist and then the kids all together sending them out in a storm never before seen in the city. My mother had allot of faith that we would make it as did most of the parents who sent their children to school that January 25, 1967. We kids thought nothing of it but fun!!

Oh I hope my poor boy who lives in Chicago gets bread and milk before the storm hits. At least I hope he has a long rope.

Here are somethings I had been doing this past weekend and will continue to work on this cold Monday 

white cotton dish cloth

leaf scarf

hooked rug

red work 12 month pattern

Have a warm safe Monday. Keep your eyes on Chicago

HEXIE WEDNESDAY

Three hexie flowers done this week. Actually they were done on Monday evening while watching TV. I am not an evening TV watcher but the History station had some interesting shows on.

I also just LOVE, LOVE this series. The English solve murders without allot of muscle, banging people around and general violence as oppose to American crime solvers.  It feels good to solve an English mystery murder, the crime being solved with dignity extended to the victims, criminals and the detectives.

 

I have been taking some Photo lessons online and here a picture for today.

 This cup belonged to Eric's grandmother....Love it!!

And of course, one of my sweet boy. I have no idea where the energized girl is at the moment. Better go find her I am sure she has found some trouble. 

HEXIES

I love love love these new cutters!!!! I was told I could find them in a hardware store, in the carpet cutting isle. They only cost 2 - 45mm cutters for  $1.98. AND they cut like a DREAM. Better than any cutter I have bought in a fabric store. SOOOOOOOO quilters, run do not walk and find these wonders in hardware stores.

Now I did not make allot of hexie flowers but I did cut out lots of hexies

  

Lots more strips for more hexies

  

making lots of scraps

  

I am back in the hexie group

Love it

Hello

Where Have I been since Christmas??? Busy, Busy………  I have been working nights at the hospital, something I enjoy doing in the winter months. It is a great way to get away from the politics and get some peace and quite.

I have also finished 2 quilt tops with binding and all, just need those dang labels.

{this quilt I started 12 years ago when my Mom was very sick. Better late then never, I finished it this past week. Hand prints of my children a looong time ago. Love it!!!!!!!!}

{This quilt top was made in the summer, finished machine quilting and binding last week }

Started another punch Santa { getting a jump on next year}.

Found out how to do hem stitching on my machine for crocheting baby burp clothes and blankets.

{Love it }

Made 10 strip blocks for 2 baby quilts {more on this later}

Signed up for a rug hooking class, {class is today}

Cut a bunch of hexies, { will post about this tomorrow}

And of course knitting

Nathan's sweater

Caitlin's sweater

Erin's sweater is here

So,as you can see I have not been sitting around counting the flowers on the wall paper.


Hope all is well with everyone.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year.

from my family to yours!