Wednesday….mmmmm…

I love when folks post pictures of food….now I do cook and meant to take pictures of my cheesy garlic biscuits, but forgot too…..

Well, I did a favor for Ms. Donna today (embroidered her a label for her quilt) and she made me (well, ok I have to share with the family) this:

That is a fresh strawberry pie!!! Ok, I don’t normally like strawberries, but this was SOOO GOOD!! Serious yumminess!!

After I meet up with Donna, I took my girls to the library–ya know I haven’t been to a library in over 10 years, scary! IT WAS COOL! We didn’t spend too much time, it was overwhelming for us all but girls picked up 2 books each and a movie and cd. I didn’t get time to play but we will be making this a weekly thing, definitely. Wednesdays are perfect with my work schedule as well.

Then we hit our local town’s farmer’s market. Not too much happening yet, but I did get some tomatoes, sunflower bread and some strawberry jam.mmmmmmm….yum. And after seeing in in Nicole’s Blog about local CSA’s, my friend Sati and I meet one of those farmers at the market and decided we will join up with them and just in time for the season’s! We’ll definitely add the farmer’s market weekly trips to our library Wednesdays as well

I did attend Guild last night and brought another new friend to join up I think I’m going to double the guild by end of year with people from the shop We had a speak discuss values in our quilts. It was short and sweet, but she had some nice quilts to share and great story teller. She was (is) from Dallas and loves the Aggies. I took pictures…lots of them, but they didn’t stay in my camera?! I need to figure what is up with my camera.

I did get quite a bit of sewing done. Mostly on the Patches of Zen (I figured out a name for it), then I dug back into my OC Mystery….I bet you thought I had forgotten all about it? Not really, just never finish Step 4, but working on them now.

Oh and Kevin (the hubby man) said that hamster couldn’t have been down the drain no more than 5 days, he figured out some logical things and how it got down there –no by toilet drain.  So, we’ll never know but at least we know where she did end up.

Another day off tomorrow and more sewing and packing planned. Convention is Sunday and I get to see Anjea Saturday.

Oh and I’m mentioned again at Mark’s blog….though I didn’t really need folks seeing that post of mine–the fan girl in me, it’s kinda embarrassing sometimes

Now, I leave you with another meme to play with.

Create your own family sticker graphic at pYzam.com

Well, because…

Paula did it and it looked cool…not a quick thing to play with, but fun!

1. Toni, Toni, Toni!, 2. “La mia casa è il mare e con un fiume no, non la posso cambiare”, 3. 0922_MarionInvite.jpg, 4. Soft purple, 5. Black Pearl / Pirates of the Caribbean – 3 (2535), 6. R G B, 7. Sunrise on the Beach – Key West, FL, 8. coffee and chocolate mousse cake, 9. Portofino a favorite of wealthy yachters, 10. I Love New York, 11. The closed window, 12. 006-2

How to Play:

a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd’s mosaic maker.

Be amused. Share the results My real answers are below:

The Questions:

1. What is your first name? Toni
2. What is your favorite food? Spaghetti
3. What high school did you go to? Marion High School, IA
4. What is your favorite color? Purple
5. Who is your celebrity crush? Orlando Bloom
6. Favorite drink? Wine
7. Dream vacation? Key West
8. Favorite dessert? Chocolate
9. What you want to be when you grow up? Rich
10. What do you love most in life? To live
11. One Word to describe you. Bright
12. Your flickr name

Ooo giveaways….

Pat Sloan is having a giveaway…she needs/desires 500 comments though–talk about goals!  So, I’m helping her along with that goal (and my own chances to win something from her ).

First, here’s my new purse made by the wonderful Cheryl for my birthday….it just screams me!!

Now, granted I just switched my purses over this morning – so my purse was empty compared to what it was, but here’s what I have it this one: A camera- I have carried one in my purse for over 3 years now, a PDA, Shades, packet of tissues with pirates on them, 3 pens, wallet (that has a lot of stuff in it as well), bottle filled with advil, actified, zantac, & alieve–my own drug store, 2 chapsticks, 1 lipstick, keys, mints, gum, business card holder, feminine items, extra memory cards (for camera and pda), a key ring with just my mini cards for grocery stores, Joann Coupon, tape measure, cell phone, ear piece.  whew……so, play along and comment in Pat’s blog!

Now here’s a picture of some progress of my OC Part 2–which I need to finish up before Bonnie heads south on the 28th, epp!

And here’s a tease to my Spring Season Swap quilt….which is on it’s way to it’s new home:

Whew….I also have more pictures, but I think that is enough for now……

Wordless Wednesday

Flowers from my garden.

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Thursday Thirteen

My Thursday Thirteen – My Signs of Spring

1. 65 or higher tempertures

2. Driving in my convertible with the top down.

3. Seeing my tulips and daffodils coming up.

4. Seeing the robins making nests in my yard.

5. Opening all the windows in the house to “air” it out.

6. Turning off the heater and staying under quilts on those few chilly nights.

7. Having a pit fire in my backyard.

8. BBQing every weekend.

9. Cleaning out my garden.

10. Planting new things in my garden.

11. The smell of fresh cut grass.

12. Bugs everywhere…yuk.

13. Allergies in full force.

Because Rose did it…

Rose did this and I was curious and bored this morning (not like I don’t have a list of “to-dos”)……

According to this (very limited) database, there are only 97,202 with the name Toni. That is my real name, not Antoinette. But it states there are no records of Carringer (my married name) and I know there are a ton of them folks in TN and NC Needless to say, I’m very unique LOL
How many have your name?

And Amy thought of me when she saw these this morning:
T-Shirt #1
T-Shirt #2

I have no clue why? LOL

yep, sounds about right… :D

The Recipe For Toni

3 parts Genius 2 parts Intellect 1 part ImpishnessSplash of Sweetness Finish off with whipped cream

What’s the Recipe for Your Personality?

ok, maybe just the whip cream part LOL

a meme kinda thing…

I don’t get tag too often, so when Not Lucy (aka Alicia) tagged me, I figured I better play along!

1. Name one person who made you laugh last night?
Myself, because I do silly things!

2. What were you doing at 0800?
Sleeping!

3. What were you doing 30 minutes ago?
Eating dinner.

4. What happened to you in 2006?
Remodeled my kitchen.

6. How many beverages did you have today?
Starbucks Chai Tea, Bottle of Cold Duck, lots of water.

7. What color is your hairbrush?
Blue.

8. What was the last thing you paid for?
Groceries at the store this afternoon.

9. Where were you last night?
Work, then bed.

10. What color is your front door?
White.

11. Where do you keep your change?
In my coin purse.

12. What’s the weather like today?
GORGEOUS!! Highs were in the mid-70s, so not normal weather at this time of year in Maryland.

13. What’s the best ice-cream flavor?
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough

14. What excites you?
Sewing

15. Do you want to cut your hair?
Yes, it’s getting soo long and I’m behind on my normal routine of once every 2 months.

16. Are you over the age of 25?
Slightly—-almost double that!

17. Do you talk a lot?
Not really.

18. Do you watch the O.C.?
No.

19. Do you know anyone named Steven?
Not at this point in my life.

20. Do you make up your own words?
Heck yah, pooper beans babe!!

21. Are you a jealous person?
No. Not really.

22. Name a friend whose name starts with the letter ‘A’.
The first person off the top of my head is a new acquaintance, Allie. She’s in Austin, Tx and I think she is just soo much fun!

23. Name a friend whose name starts with the letter ‘K’.
Honestly, don’t know anyone close to me.

24. Who’s the first person on your received call list?
Hubby.

25. What does the last text message you received say?
It’s deleted, but I think it was Anjea with the word blah!

26. Do you chew on your straw?
No.

27. Do you have curly hair?
Yes.

28. Where’s the next place you’re going to?
Probably work on Friday morning.

29. Who’s the rudest person in your life?
Too many to name, names.

30. What was the last thing you ate?
sausage ball

31. Will you get married in the future?
Why? 20 years with this dude, why would I do it again!

32. What’s the best movie you’ve seen in the past 2 weeks?
Shrek 3

33. Is there anyone you like right now?
I love everyone. Some of these questions are just stupid in my book.

34. When was the last time you did the dishes?
I have a 14 year old daugher to do them.

35. Are you currently depressed?
No.

36. Did you cry today?
Yes, Oprah does it to me sometimes.

37. Why did you answer and post this?
because I don’t get tagged too often.

38. Tag 5 people who would do this survey.
I don’t tag folks, if you want to do it feel free!

Monday Random Thoughts. . .

Bullet style listing – because it’s too early to go into deep details.

1. Finished a dear jane block!
2. Traded my Mega Quilter up for a 870Quilt Sapphire
3. October is Breast Cancer (and a few various other cancer) Awareness Month – you can still send 12.5 blocks to my shop for Quilt Pink until Oct 31st.
4. Ya know, I’m a idiot some days….drove all the way out to Chantilly on Sunday to see the Sewing Expo….only to realize it wasn’t happening on Sunday. (though ended up spending a beautiful day with friends in Ole Town Alexandra, VA).
5. Just noticed, this is my 101 post – WOW! That was easy to accomplish!
6. I’ve been tagged by Subee from Pieces of Time with this honor:

It’s a GOOD THING to make people smile; everyone should do it every day. Multiple times! There comes a stipulation tho, (isn’t there always?) that we do a meme using the letters of our name to describe ourselves.

T – Thoughtful
O – Outgoing
N – Nerdy
I – Ingenious

I’m not good at tagging others, but here’s a few blogs I truly enjoy reading daily (or as often as they can post
A Peach In Stitches
Nicki’s Ventures
Jonvaliquilts
Cindy’s Creations
Quilting Is My Passion

7. Manic Monday is coming up….stay tuned…

I’ve been tagged…..

which doesn’t happened too often, so I’m tickled to be obligated!!

Today I’ve been tagged by one of my newest blogs to read (met her through swap-bot) at Littlewanda Crafts.

The Rules are: link to the person who tags you (which I’ve done above), post the rules before I make my list (which I’m doing), list 8 things about myself, and then tag other people and list links to their sites.

1. I’m left handed.
2. I was born in England (dad was US Air Force).
3. Was the oldest of 4 kids (2 brothers and a youngest sister)…well until I found out that my older sister (by 16 months) was given up for adoption before I was born. And I did find her and met her in 1998.
4. I was in the us air force for 4.5 years.
5. Met and married my husband of 20 years in Crete, Greece.
6. I’ve lived in Japan for 4.5 years and had my daughter there (again, military wife).
7. I work at my local quilt store: www.patchesquilting.com
8. Have lived in this home for over 7 years now….the longest in one place.

I don’t like tagging folks, but here’s a few names I would love to learn more about:

A Canary’s Life, joaliquits, Lucy’s Quilts, Pam’s Pages