one day your in....

and the next day your OUT....

All four designers again! Ok so it will be interesting to see who brings what this season. I love that I have blogged about tv shows so often lately. Silly!




I did see a bust/dressform on sale at JoAnn's a few weeks ago. It is very tempting to get one and sew more often.

what a beautiful picture/catalogue from anthropologie. Love their stuff..

planet earth

Have you seen this series?





We tivoed a few of them on Sunday and are slowly finding time to watch them. It is so beautiful and well made. We kept saying things to each other like "that is so weird" or "how cool is that!"

I think my love of this type of tv comes from a childhood filled with National Geographic magazines and similar shows because of my dad. But who won't love this series. It really is amazing.




We were both really interested in the photography and the cinematography of this show. It is really fabulous.

tender mercies

Saturday night chris & I were chatting about the upcoming stake conference. our stake counselor had already warned us that the visiting general authority would be calling people out of the audience to speak/bear testimony. last night i expressed my distaste/hate of speaking especially on the spot and without preparation. ah! hate it....



So then Sunday I ran into our stake president in warsaw and he asked to talk with me during sunday school. we chatted and i thought he just wanted an update about yw's and our life since we have not seen him in a while. NO! He officially asked me to speak. 7-10 mins. on Standing in Holy Places. We had a good laugh about the coincidence of the situation. President is a great man and used to be our bishop! I still think this is so ironic and funny but stake conference is two weeks away and the reality of speaking in front of the stake and a general authority has not fully sunk in.... yet. AH! It will soon enough.



Please share if you have any thoughts or great insights about this topic. I would love any suggestions.



I call this a tender mercy because it is an example yet again that Heavenly Father knows me, my fears (speaking on the spot), my desires and my goals!




such a funny picture!


but i am also so grateful for chris and all that he does not only for me but for all those around him. HE is a great man and I appreciate how much he supports me and lets me run with even the crazy ideas that I have. He is the best!!!

I love you

a nine patch

A nine patch-i learned a lot this week with some helpful tips to complete it more accurately! I am not in love with these two together but with all four of them I think I will love it.


Here are all four of the fabrics. Next section we will connect it with a monkey wrench. YEAH!

This class makes me schedule time to sew and that has been fabulous!

autumn

I love this time of year. Plus upstate NY is so beautiful! I drove down to Warsaw today a little over an hour and about half of that is spent on back country roads. There were bright yellow, orange and red trees the entire way plus pumpkin patches, hay and corn fields plus even a few hills. I wanted to stop and buy squash and gourdes plus take a million pictures but I had an agenda to follow. It was so fun though and made my Sunday!

I want my mantel to look like this..love it!

pillows...

I just got these pillows in the mail from anthropology and I love the pattern and the texture but the color is a little too bright! Chris loves yellow but he even thought they were not right. I took pictures to try and convince myself but they were sent right back. Sad, now I am on the hunt again for more pillows.

one more thing.....

So last week i was asked to help out with a parent group on Tuesday nights. Tuesdays are especially busy with stake meetings, mutual nights or presidency meetings. Chris is usually gone for meetings as well so it is not like he will miss me. But how can I pack one more thing into Tuesday evenings...I am not sure how this is going to work out? And I am now regretting the choice to help out with something extra. I will have to think of some fun way to spend that little extra money. AH! I need to learn to say no thanks!