The Day After.....

Good Evening Internet Friends!

Well, the Tree Bird Blog Hop wrapped up yesterday, and I still had some fabric left over.  What to do with it?  I had a pile of flour sack towels sitting in close proximity to the fabric and "sew" this is what I came up with:

I likely have enough bird house fabric to make another of these, but that is for another day!

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Spring is Sprung????

Good Evening Internet Friends!

So apparently today marks the official start of spring I am told.  Hmmmm, I think the Alberta forecast was not informed of this.  This is my street this morning:

Honest, there was hardly any snow out there yesterday morning.  Thankfully my neighbor came by with the quad runner while I was at work and plowed it out for me so I did not have to! ☺

No birds out there today!

Today is Day 6 of the Tree Bird Blog Hop hosted by Lana at It Seams to be Sew.

The participants for today are:

Super Mom - No Cape

Freemotion By The River

Sew Incredibly Crazy

Tea Time Creations

Baa's Amazing Adventures

Selina Quilts

Ramblings of a Quilter

Busy Bee Quilts

Quilted Delights

Grandmamas Stories

Check out their awesome projects!

This evening I sewed together the first row of my latest Mystery Quilt that used up a lot of my "stash" bird fabrics:

 The entire row.

 Left side of the row.

Right side of the row.

Hello Kitty attacking the entire row!  Silly cat ☺

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Knitting Along....

Good Evening Internet Friends!

This evening I did a bit of knitting and that is all for my crafting.  It has been a long work week and I cannot wait for the weekend!

Here is what I have so far of the Vancouver inspired socks for my husband:

Apparently these socks are quite the talk and envy in the oil field camps.  Who would have guessed.

Today is day 5 of the Tree Bird Blog Hop hosted by Lana from It Seams to be Sew

Here are the list of participants for today to check out some fabulous projects:

The Raspberry Rabbits

More Stars In Comanche

Sew Many Yarns

Super Mom - No Cape!

Stitchin By The Lake

Jane's Quilting

Quilting Through Rose Colored-Trifocals

Quiltscapes

This evening my son and I watched Songbird Documentary and learned that cats are a real threat to song birds.  Hmmmm, something to think about:

My son's cat during the documentary!!!!  (excuse the box of goodwill donations in front of the cabinet...)

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Hello Tree Bird Bloggers

Good Early Morning to all of you participating in the Tree Bird Blog Hop hosted by Lana from It Seams to be Sew.

I of course had great aspirations for my project today and was working on something, but as usual work and life got in the way.  On top of that I happened to be at one of my local quilt stores last week and find none other than the Beautiful Birds fabric.  Well, I could not leave that behind.

So, here is what I came up with quickly to show case this awesome fabric:

 I made four of these, but my dining room table is huge and I can't seem to get a decent picture of all four on the table!

Here is a close up of one place-mat.  I chose to quilt these in a simple diagonal pattern so as to look like the wire at the zoo! ☺

The ceramic birds were painted by my son and I a couple years back and I thought they looked appropriate on the table with the other birds!

Please check out the other participants in today's adventure at:

Marjorie's Busy Corner

Ridge Top Quilts

Stitching By The Beach

Seams To Be Sew

Living My Dream

With Work In Hand

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Monday.....

Good Evening Internet Friends!

It's Monday and almost over. Today was somehow a very loooooooong day.

Yesterday I decided to make bread.  After I made a batch and kneaded it I was not sure it was going to "live", so I decided to make a second batch.

Well, the first batch did "live" and so I made it into a cinnamon loaf which was the perfect way to make toast this cold morning:

Super yummy!

Today is the second day of the Tree Bird Blog Hop hosted by Lana of It Seams to be Sew at Sew We Quilt.

The list of participants for today are:

Sew Peace To Peace

Moose Stash Quilting

Buzzing and Bumbling

I Piece 2 Mary

Quilt Doodles

Just Let Me Quilt

Les Quilts

A Stitch In Time

Check out everyone's cool projects using the Beautiful Birds fabric collection!

Even I was able to get my hands on some of this fabric!

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Road Trippin'

Good Evening Internet Friends!

I woke up this morning to a bright sunshiny day and a temperature of  14 Celsius (57 Fahrenheit).  The snow was melting and the puddles were forming!

I decided that it was the perfect day to take a Road Trip out of the city.  Since the highways were clear and no forecast for snow or the likes I even decided to take the Focus.  The road was awesome and we saw lots of water running and big puddles. 

I decided on Road Trippin to Ponoka with the destination being Prairie Points Quilt Shop to pick up some things that I "needed".  Here is my haul for the day:

The Bird Fabric made me feel like spring, a kit for some cute place-mats and some fat quarters including one with curling graphics!

My son and I stopped for ice cream afterwards.  Heading home the sky had started to cloud over, but it was still pretty to see the countryside not completely covered in snow:

Stopped for petroleum upon returning to city and re-filled the car for a whopping $7.   Our ice-cream cost more!

It was a great day.

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Cardinal Christmas

I decided to play along with Mojo Monday again this week.  

Here is my version of Sketch 324:

The glitter exploded on me so I have a little extra, but maybe I just need to come to terms with lots of glitter!

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Christmas Card #1

Over last year, I managed to make enough Christmas cards by playing with different stamp sets and using up scraps, that I was able to give all of the people at work a Kathy made Christmas card (I gave these to people I knew would appreciate such a gesture - those who prefer store bought received such).

I gave out more than 50 cards not including the ones that I posted to family and friends.  

Lots of these cards were VERY well received and as such I am beginning my "stash" for next Christmas, only ??? days til Christmas!

For this card I used Sahara Sand, Early Espresso and Very Vanilla card stock from Stampin Up.

The image is from the To You and Yours stamp set from Close to My Heart. 

I colored it with my Copic markers.

The greeting is stamped with Early Espresso colored ink, and the ribbon is 1/8 Taffeta Ribbon from Stampin Up as well.

I LOVE this card.  I hate birds, but it looks so pretty..

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Friday is for the Birds....

Friday is for the Birds....that probably sums up my day so far the best...

My son painted these birds a few weeks ago and they have been sitting on the dining room buffet since then.

They were originally purchased at Michaels (on sale) as was the paint (on sale).  He painted them, and thinks that they are just great!  I actually hate birds (except for ducks) as I do not like anything that crawls out of an egg, and then has the ability to get over my head to excrete fecal material (UGGGGGHHHH).

These are alright for now on the buffet, and I think the purple glitter one is kind of cool.

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy