Labor Day Campout

Well, another Labor Day campout has gone by. That must mean I'm almost another year older! I know fall is just around the corner. It's so dry here, it's hard to tell if the leaves are starting their descent or if they're just falling off the trees because they've all dried up! The mornings are beginning to "snap" back at you. We haven't had a freeze yet, but I know it's coming.

Larry and I spent 5 days in the "wild" in our trailer. Hunting season opened and he went bird hunting every day. The birds seemed to be in fine fettle this year and their flying skills have improved. Only one decided to commit suicide and is now resting peacefully in our freezer. It will travel with us on our last camping trip of the year to the Grand Ronde River in October. We'll have a cremation ceremony there for it. Hopefully there will be another to Lay in State with it. The ceremony should be beautiful. They'll be snuggled under a thick blanket of heavy cream and cream of mushroom soup with potatoes nestled around them. The actual cremation should only take about 45 minutes at 350 degrees.

As for me, I finished the above necklace and started another one, only white with blue crystals. I finished that one here at home and it came out real pretty. Both look like winter to me. This one has deep red crystals, green leaves and seed beads. Brings to mind Christmas. I also finished a knitted purse, started and finished a Stephen King book and watched 8 dvds! Can anyone spell "BORED"!!! I was really glad to get home, which is unusual, I LOVE camping! Guess I just have too much to do here. I am looking forward to our October fishing trip.

Fair weather means FAIR TIME!!

Today we went to our County Fair here in town. The good weather is bringing out LOTS of people! Around here the Fair is a pretty big thing. We don't have a lot going on, usually, so the County Fair is the time everybody shows off their "skills". Guess next year I'll have to enter some things.

Have to see all the animals. The sheep and......

the cows.

The dogs and.....

the cats.

The goats and.....

the llamas.

There's also pigs...but I'll pass them for the CHICKENS!!!

The pretty ones...........

And the fluffy ones and wild ones!

But my all time favorites are the babies!! All sorts of them!

Chickens,

goats,

ponies,

cows,

And even little people!!!

I have no idea who this little one is, but she's "stylin" with her pretty dress, pink shoes and sunglasses on, all dressed up for the Fair!!

Wish all 7 of mine were here, (with their Mom's to ride herd on them). They'd have so much fun!!!
So, one more Fair is done, another year gone by. Guess that means school and Fall are just around the corner. Larry is getting antsy for hunting season to start. Fall is "his" season. Spring is mine. It brings out the Morel picker in me!!

Hope you all take time to go to your local Fairs and celebrate the changing of the seasons.

Finally up and running

Well, I finally got my computer back from the "Dr." Too bad there isn't a pill you can use to clear up wicked "viruses"!

Thank you Rachael, Michelle and Lana for your kind comments! Also, It's nice to meet you (Michelle and Lana), too. I read all your "Rachael" blogs. You know how a snoopy old Mom is! :-)

We just got back from a camping trip with our 3 Granddaughters that live close to us here in Washington. Good thing it was only for 2 days. The kids may not have survived "Grandma"! I find the older I get, the quieter I like it around me and 3 little girls ages 10, 9 and 7 just don't know the meaning of quiet! Maybe it's just that my mind is going and I can't remember what it was like to be that age (it was a REALLY long time ago for me!).

I'm sort of in the middle of things around here.Trying to get classes over with at the fabric shop (I've got one more to give, a fabric painting/dyeing class), get my husband and I "retired", and do all the fun stuff I want to get done! I did get one little project done, though.
Here's a couple of pictures of some silk ribbon I dyed for Rachael. Hope she can use them. I still have a roll of 1 inch and a roll of 3/4 inch ribbon I want to try some things on. She gets all my "experiments". :-)

I'm working on a felted purse that I may sell. Got to figure out how to do a store on ETSY first. That may be a while as I need to make up some things to put on there. Probably going to be hand dyed fabrics (cotton and silk), hand painted fabrics, baskets, felted purses and slippers, beaded bracelets and necklaces, and of coarse, quilts.

So, I guess this will do it for a while, at least until I get all my programs loaded back on to my computer. Hope everyone is enjoying the tail-end of Summer. It really feels like Fall here today!

You're never too old to learn.

I'm trying my hardest to believe that!! This "blog" stuff is so new to me, but I'll give it a go. My husband and I are within weeks of retiring, so this is going to become an obsession with me, I'll bet! Nothing like a new hobby! As if I needed another one. Presently I'm giving a class on painting fabric for clothing, wall hangings, quilting or anything else you'd like to do with it. I work part time (for 8 more weeks) at a fabric shop that also has the most awesome yarn and bead shop in it. So I'm stocking up now, preparing for a winter of needing things to do to keep me married. I know my husband will be pacing trying to figure out what he's supposed to be doing, (besides getting in my way!).

Here's a picture of one of the quilts I designed. It measures about 40" x 60" or so. I made it for display at the big Houston quilt show. I help Marjie McWilliams, of Fabric Designs.com, test the new Dylon dyes and dyed all the fabrics for this quilt with them. Marjie did a demonstration for Prim Dritz (makers of Dylon dyes). She hung my quilt in her booth along with one she did and Prim Dritz bought them both. This quilt is now hanging in the Board of Directors Room at their head office. I'm very proud of this one!