Take me out to the ballgame

My hubby got tickets to the Angel game tonight. It was a great one and they were terrific seats! Not only did the Angels win but they had a parachute team from the Navy "drop" in the center of the stadium during the National Anthem. The young lady who sang it did a great job. What a great beginning to the holiday weekend.

This was two guys standing one on top of the other. Awesome huh? There were five jumpers.

Did that first picture make you crave a pretzel? LOL This next photo, with the flag, during the anthem.....it was AWESOME!

Lackey pitched against the Orioles. We won 5-2 and Lackey did a great job. I love the banners that are decorating the stadium. It's Patriotic Week. I love those banners. Reminds me of the old days. You know, 1970! LOL

If you would like to see a few more pictures of the jumpers, they are here in my webshots album.

I got home and my sister had dropped my mom off on her way to her son's house. She left me a treat in my sewing room (besides my mom). LOL Two little fat quarters. Adorable fat quarters. I've never seen this cherry fabric before. Now I've GOT to make a red and white quilt. My drawer of red fabric is overflowing! And that would be an adorabvoe in a block in MY red quilt!

And since my sister asked in the comments section, what the block looks like that I'm working on, here is it. This is one of my cherry blocks for a swap. The block is from Quilters Cache and the block is called Swappers Star. I love it with the black fabric.

Gifts, gifts, gifts!

My boss was on vacation last week with her family. Can you guess where she went by these lovely gifts she brought me back...........

Don't you love Hawaiian applique? And red......yummmmm!

In the non-sewing world, this would be a travel bag for jewelry or make-up but in the quilting world, this is an accessory bag. Can't you just picture thread, scissors, thimble, etc. inside? Yeah, me too! :o)

And I got this adorable apron. Isn't it cute?!! It has a built in lei!!!

I couldn't figure out how to take a picture of it without standing in front of the bathroom mirror. I've done that before. And my husband refused to model it for me. Can you imagine? Hmpf!

And then...........I was in my sewing room, minding my own business, innocently sewing these little parts for cherry blocks for a swap.....

And my youngest daughter came in and said she has been asking me since Christmas for a little padded protective bag for her navigation 'thingie' she got for Christmas from her sisters. "If you don't have anything to do.....". Yeah, like that's ever the problem. And of course, she didn't call it a navigational 'thingie' but I can't remember what she said so that's what I'm calling it!

So I went through my stash and was going to use a cutsie fabric when I came across this vintage car fabric. Even though it's a real contrast to today's technology and not going anywhere without a system that tracks you to some satellite in orbit to get you from point A to point B, I still decided to use it.

I used fusible batting and muslin for the lining. I did a simple grid to quilt the layers together. I think the piece is 6 x 10". I also cut the fabric and pieced it so that each section would be right side up. It's hard to see the seams but when it's finished you can see it. It bothered me to have cars on their heads. Oh wait, cars don't have heads but you know what I mean.

I used double bias tape around the edges and ta-da, a finished GPS cover. Came out cuter than I thought but don't look at the rounded corners too closely. I put the bias tape on the inside and top stitched it on the outside and those curvy edges were a bit tricky. But heck, she's probably going to keep it in the bottom of her purse so no worries.

And this is the inside. I put a little 'Love, Mom' on the inside right behind the GPS. :o)

Not bad for a seven month waiting period! lol I hope she's not too satisfied a customer or she might come back for more stuff!!!

Eat, drink and make cards!

I had a Stampin' Up party on Saturday. My friend Neena who is the SU demonstrator told me none of the Frisby women has had a party in a while. The girls are too busy and I think I haven't because I'm sure I own most everything they sell! lol But we got together anyway so I had to put out a spread. You know, if I didn't feed people, I could spend hundreds of dollars on stuff for myself! LOL It just wouldn't be as fun....
So, we had some bedgetables....

And we had other stuff that I didn't think to take a picture of like Frito Salad, sandwiches and fruit. My husband already looks at me like I'm nuts for taking pictures of everything so I can blog about it. LOL
Then it was time to have some dessert and I made our favorite and super easy Texas sheet cake...again! This is a crowd favorite so I have to make it whenever the girls come over.

I'll share the recipe later if I haven't posted it already. :o)

This is the first card we made. Neena makes everything so easy by precutting all the paper. We get to just stamp and play. I like the saying. You should be able to click on it to make it bigger.

Then we did this adorable card!

The flowers and leaves were done with their bigshot which is a die cutting machine/system. I don't have one but it's similar to the old Sizzex machine, but way better. Anyway, we cut those parts out with the machine. We also used it to emboss the dots on the white card stock and the little dots on the pink flowers. It is a cute card! Who doesn't love pink and black together? I'll probably never send it to anyone. Well, maybe I will but I have a hard time giving up the cute ones. hehe

Then we used the big shot and one of the dies to cut out these little matchboxes. They don't look like much here because we didn't decorate them but if you add a little ribbon, a sentiment and some chocolate, they're really cute.

So that was Saturday. Sunday was nothing exciting. Laundry and cleaning up the backyard some. Tending to my dying tomatoes.... more on those later.

C'mon Over!

I finally finished the curtains in my spare room. It's seems kind of goofy to have half of the room all modern shelving from Ikea and the other half old stuff with a country look but it's just a spare room right? No sense in going to Pottery Barn and spending a small fortune on furnishings. Like I can afford PB! Good thing they give the catalog away for free or I couldn't afford that either!!!
So here's the front window.

I kinda sorta hate mini blinds but my rooms face the street and I have to have some privacy for those late nights sewing and playing with stamps. They're cheap and they work. What can I say?
I found some buttons in my sewing box to make fabric covered buttons. So I put some of the check fabric on them for a decorative touch. Look at me trying to be Martha Stewart!! lol

And this is the room all done. :o) It's so small I can't get far enough away to get a picture.

I still haven't found a place for all the stuff that I took out of this room and that I don't want back in this room. I think I'll be making a donation to my local charity this week (because all the leftover stuff is in the game room and that room is practically sacred!!) hehe

So, c'mon over!!! :o)

Father's Day Fun

Stephanie and Kelley came over to cook their daddy a Father's Day breakfast. I love breakfast and was so happy to participate (in the eating). They made bacon and waffles and cut up fresh strawberries and bananas. It was delish! Here are the cooks with their daddy.

You better believe the youngest daughter, Ashley got grief for not being there for the cooking process but managed to get there for the eating process. lol She tried confessing that she played five softball games on Saturday but the older sisters weren't too sympathetic. I recruited her for the clean up and she couldn't even argue about it. :o)

Let me back up a few days to Tuesday. I went and picked up my mom for a little visit before taking her to my older sister's house on Saturday. Friday, we made a trip to Michaels. My mom loves to make jewelry and it keeps her very busy and ingrossed. That evening when we got back, my hubby was playing golf and mom was in "her room" (the guest room) making jewelry so I got a few minutes in the sewing room to play too. I finally finished the valances for "her room". :o) This is the small window over the bed. I might paint that rod, I'm not sure yet. It's just plain wood and I suppose it makes sense to have it be black or cream colored. The picture of the big window didn't come out. Too much glare from the sunshine outside.

I still need to use the little check that I bought for the side panels. Hopefully, I'll get that done in the next night or two and I can share that finished project!!

I'm leaving my husband...

We went to a car show this past weekend up in Palmdale, CA. There were a lot of good looking cars, like this one. :o) This is my hubby's `34 Ford 3 window coupe. (Took me a long time to remember what it's called. It's not like it's a Pfaff, Singer or Bernina! hehe)

And you never know who or what you'll see at a car show. There were lots of Princesses.....Miss Lancaster, Miss Teen Lancaster, Miss Jr. Lancaster, yada, yada. Pretty young things with all their body parts still where they were supposed to be! :o)

And this `56 Chevy started out the Burn Out Contest. Yup, a burn out contest. Men! They are such funny creatures. They pay big money for nice tires and then hose down some concrete and put the pedal to the metal... and go from this........

....to this. Cough, cough......silly boys!

And then I saw "him"! Across the parking lot. I've been married for almost 32 years and never thought anyone could take my breath away like when I first met my husband, but it happened. "He" was tall and had a tan to die for. And what a body............

I'm in love............those eyes, that mouth, those buns!!!

:o)))))

Hung up my buttons

I finally figured out where I could hang my decorative buttons. I tell you, my room is wall to wall sewing stuff so it took some creative thinking! I had a sign above my window that said "Woman Cave" because my hubby has a game room and his sign says "Man Cave". I figured if that was his hangout, this was mine but the buttons are much cuter than the sign!

I ended up using the small buttons. I just dont have a big enough room to be able to have the big 12" buttons.

You know, in looking at this picture, I don't think I like anything "real" size. It's either oversized scissors, spools and buttons or itty bitty collections of sewing machines, irons....stuff. So much stuff. Well, a girl has to have her toys!!!!!