We're the Hex Girls...

and we're going to put a spell on you!

I've caught the bug! Hexies are fun and fast,

even for a hexie virgin like me.

These gems are all over blogland and now I see why!

I was the lucky winner awhile back from Sara 

for a bag of flannel hexies and some templates.

Last night was the night to pop my cherry with these

and it felt sew good!

I'll need to print off more templates and in the pursuit of locating

a download I found this super cool site for hexagons and so much more.

Triangles, squares, circles you name it it seems to be there.

Just click on graph/grid paper when you check it out.

Put in the dimensions you want and print.

Three Cheers for ...

well...ME!! 

I was taking a wander through the clearance section,

 nothing caught my eye

 until I saw a little of this peeking out,

Ka-Ching!

"Three Cheers" by The Buggy Barn

for

Henry Glass & Co.

Happy dance, you betcha.

A generous 2+ meters for $2.00/m.

I love when things like this happen.

Books and Blocks...a case to be made...

This bookcase is all that remains from my youngest, CJ's, captains bed.

So on one of the muggiest days so far this summer, I assembled the loft bed

we picked up. After much blue air & buckets of sweat, I got her done! Yay!

CJ's happy in his "Nest" but now he'd like to make the space under the bed into a

"library".

That's where of course the old bookcase will come in.

I'm going to cut it down a few inches and I think repaint it.

Here's my baby, hangin' around.

I like the scrolly cuts on the top but it needs something.

Then I found these 2 quilts I made for him a few years ago.

Scooby Doo with bananas is 5yo.

CJ loves bananas!

and his Bear quilt made from flannels is going on 9yo soon.

The quilting is second rate at best and it's wrinkled and wonky

but CJ loves it and has requested that both these and his

Radical Robot quilt make their home in "the Nest".



Welcome to my World

My space may not be big and spacious like some

My space may not have all the bells and whistles like others

But it is my space and it's my little bitty slice of heaven,

adorned with some of the quilties from Sandie's swap

(scroll down my sidebar and give the button a push to join the fun).

A couple of minis and that green "quilt" above was "made" by my youngest

and his classmate  when I was feeling rough.

I'm hoping hubby picks up a cabinet today in the city so I have a place

to keep my fabrics together, I've misplaced my

Beatrix Potter fabrics after our basement flooded and have yet to locate them.

Swap and a Win

New  QUILTIES  arrived today!!

The theme was black/white with one colour.

On the left is a creation by Marilou,

center stage finds Laurajane's lovely

also from Laurajane is the handbag charm {So cute}

and

Linda made this wonderful silhouette on a polka dot background.

I love them all and they will all be hung up in my sewing space.

Up next is a win from http://sewsweetness.blogspot.com/

Ironically I've been wanting to try hexies and now I have a great start.

I believe there's approximately 100

and 2 magnificent charm packs.

=)

YUMMY fabrics and

the HEXIES are flannel

A LITTLE of THIS a LITTLE of THAT...

The past couple of days have been a real work out for my

Brother,

there's some of these...

 

 and this,

and that too...

Whew!

I have a couple more blocks to go for my

Bee In My Bonnet's " the Great Ganny Along"

This quilt top is coming together so quick for me,

I just love it.

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!!  =)

Superstitious? or Not?

What's your spin on

Friday the 13th

?

I don't mind the day at all. In fact I always look at the new calander to see how many

there will be 1,2or 3!

The 13th is a number that has cropped up in my life a few times,

I was born on the 13th of August,

my brother was born on the 13th of March,

I turned 13 on Friday the 13th, 1976,

I goldsmithed in my family's business for 13 years,

I was with my first husband 13 years before we were married,

we were separated 13 months after the marriage,

{thankfully it didn't take 13 years to divorce him}.

I'm not really all that superstitious and I believe we make our own "luck"

good or bad.

I just think it's amazing how some would have a number dictate

how they conduct themselves.

How about you, are you superstitious?

Does 13 play a part in your life?

Either way I hope you have a fantastic FRIDAY the 13th.