Soccer Day!

Hi everybody!  

Saturday was soccer day x4!!  Four games--two for R and two for E (my two beautiful nieces). They both played SUPER hard! I am so proud of them!!

R scored at least one goal--maybe more, I just can't remember for sure.

Going for the goal...

Right after the goal!!!

While E didn't score a goal today, she played extra hard in both games! I'm so proud of her! She stuck with the ball and made some really good passes. She also made several shots for the goal but was just barely wide each time. So close!!

E after the ball :)

go E...go E!! (far right)

And the weather was PER---FECT!  Love my little soccer players!!! *grin*

Stay tuned--I'll have a "before" picture soon on my next project--reupholstering some little stools I bought a couple months ago.

Thanks for stopping by!

So, my dear brothers and sisters, be strong and immovable.

Always work enthusiastically for the Lord, 

for you know that nothing

you do for the Lord is ever useless.

1 Corinthians 15:58

Polka Dot WIP update

Hi there! It's been a few...I've been feeling non-bloggy lately. Mostly due to my back being wonky since last Monday. I also have not done much in the way of playing with sticks and strings, pins and needles, or anything else crafty. 

However, I did manage to make three more polka dot squares. This puts the total up to lucky number thirteen!! Ha! I've got a loooooooooooooong way to go before I have an afghan!!

Oh--I just realized that I lied when I said I hadn't done much of anything crafty lately. I did attempt to make a new tutorial for a camera "case." However--it didn't turn out quite like I had pictured in my mind. So...there will be no tutorial for now!  It was quite the humorous experience.

I also got all the stitches pulled from my koi fin. I think (for now anyway) that I'll just leave the fins and tail as they are. That may change a million times between now and when I get the quilt finished...

Thanks for stopping by. Hope you have a great weekend!

National Quilting Day

Happy National Quilting Day!!

If you're a quilter, I hope you do something quilty today to celebrate :)

Me?--I'm going to work some more on ripping out 

the embroidery on my koi quilt top. 

(see back-story here)

WooHoo!!

Here is a little bit of history about National Quilting Day.

Now I'm off to 4 hours of soccer with my nieces!

Oh, and--

Happy St. Patrick's Day!  

Wear some green so ya don't get pinched!

I'm Stuck!! *pout*

Arrrrggggghhhhh!!!!  *pulling hair out*  I'm stuck!!  I've been out of commission for a few days because of inflammation in my back and the associated pain and total stiffness that comes along with said inflammation.

But tonight I finally picked up my quilt top again and started working on the koi's fins. I had what I thought was a wonderful idea. It hasn't turned out so wonderful outside of my brain. So now I have to rip out this embroidery, leaving what seems like GIANT holes in my fabric!! (maybe they won't be GIANT and maybe they'll fall out with some steam).

But for now, I'm completely discouraged :(

So it's back to the drawing board. I have some other ideas (well--one other idea)--maybe that will work better than this one did. I don't have a picture to show you, but let's just say that it looks like my fish has worms. Haha!!  Oh, well...

Ok. I'm finished complaining :)

I hope that your day has gone SO MUCH better than mine!

I'd love for you to check out my parents' website. They are directors of a boys' boarding and vocational school in Belmopan Belize.

The school is Global Outreach Belize Vo-Tech and I hope you'll stop by and look at what all the boys do there. They live at the school for three years, attend "regular" classes (i.e. math, Belizean studies, reading, etc) and learn a trade so that they can be productive members of Belize society. They also learn about God and how to be Christian men.

I'm lucky that I get to go visit my parents once a year (except for 2011). I can't wait to go back this year!! 

Thanks for stopping by!