Feeling Inspired

Yesterday was an unusually quiet day at the office, and as I say that I am kicking myself for the impending punishment to come. So I did what I always do on quiet days, I surf the WWW to seek some much-needed inspiration, learn a few tricks and feed my imagination. Wouldn't you know, I came across this fantastic thing called an online Quilting Bee. How Awesome!!! The ladies over at The Block Party Quilting, who by the way are now publishing a book (kudos!), have been doing this online bee thing with other quilters/bloggers online.

For the last year or so, since I discovered quilting, I've been wanting to join a bee. Sadly, in my generation, we have lost the arts and craftsy-ness in our lives- everything is so Walmart and Target, who needs to actually make something when you can buy it for so cheap and all it took was a trip to the store or a few clicks of your mouse? So this is why I love the internet: I have at last found other people in all age groups that are really intense about quilting. I don't know how they manage, but I'm fascinated and impressed at once with how other women keep jobs, run households, raise kids and quilt like crazy! Stay tuned... I'm almost done with my first quilt, a baby quilt for my son I've been working on for two years and just now got done trimming.

A Taste for Dog Hair

Josh is getting to be very mobile now. Cruising all over the living room, swinging off of furniture and speed-crawling to the nearest electrical outlet. Yes, we've babyproofed. Well, sort of... we got the outlets covered and the baby gates up, but that's about it. The rest requires 24-hours surveillance of the speed-crawling suspect. A little exhausting, but at least I get to play with him while I'm at it. I wonder what he's thinking when the fistfuls of dog hair get into his mouth- YUM! I'd like to give a big THANKS for the loads of dog hair to my never-shed-ending mutt, Lemon.