Each year, once Ray “Kingfish” has set his event list, I go through the list and create banner ads for each event. I pull the logo & graphics from the hosting society and create a banner that we rotate on his site. KingfishServices.net
2012
My March Quilt project is in pieces ;> to say the least about it.
Well, I started out really great working on the next quilt project, then everything came to a screeching halt! I have all the squares made, but I can’t decide how to piece/arrange them together. Ugh – this is the hardest thing for me to do.
When I was doing the February quilt, I had a similar problem, but got it worked out. There is a pattern to the way the pieces are assembled – at least in my mind there is! So I have to figure out that pattern for this quilt as well. So for now, it’s a pile of squares.
Pattern: Cross Ties
Magazine: Quilters World – December 2010
Tools: Creative Grid 45° Double Strip Ruler (Which I am in love with!!!!!)
Some how this pile of squares is supposed to look like this.
Every time I start to layout the pieces to arrange them my dog decides it’s fun to run across them or take a couple and run. She’s 12 years old, but forever a 2 year old.
This is my first year being actively involved with the team of women from my area (http:\\isanti3dayteam.com). I am signed up to be a walker this year. Each walker makes a commitment to raise $2300. This year our team has 8 walkers = $18,400 that we need to raise. Being part of a team of walkers helps in so many ways, the encouragement is unbelievable that we get from each other. Also, we all share the burden of fundraising together as a group.
This year we have 4 large events scheduled throughout this summer. Flap Jack Breakfast, Pink Boutique, Beer Bust and Pink Picnic.
This year we have developed a cookbook as part of the fundraising efforts. All our friends and relatives and ourselves of course, have provided over 150 recipes for this cookbook. Filled with loving recipes, inspirational quotes and messages from our current and past breast cancer survivors of inspiration. We are offering this cookbook for sale. You can pick this cookbook up at all of our upcoming events or if you donate $15 to me thru the 3 Day website, I will mail you a cookbook. If you would like more information or more than one book (these are a great gift for anyone in your life) just drop us a note on http:\\isanti3dayteam.com\ website and we’ll get right back to you.
Now, sometimes we take things for granted – don’t be ashamed, we all do it. What comes natural to some, others don’t even think of it.
I get called “Cheap Jeni” a lot of the times when I go shopping. I may find something that I want to buy, I will carry it around the store for up to an hour, after that hour, if I still want it, I’ll buy it. More times than not, I don’t want it any more. Helps keep me on budget. Now there are times when I really do need/want it, but I don’t buy it – well, at least at that moment- there is always the next time.
I am doing some fund raising for our Susan G Komen 3-Day Walk Team, and I needed to order some supplies to make up posters. When I went to check out, there was an “Enter Coupon Code” box on the check-out form. So, I opened another tab and “Googled” the company name and “coupon”. I not only found a “free shipping” code but also a 15% savings code that I was able to double up on. IT WAS AWESOME!
So, at our Team meeting, I nonchalantly was describing how I saved so much and everyone just looked at me – it was so quiet you could hear a pin drop (This was a room full of women!) . The moral of the story is if there is a place on the check-out form to enter a coupon code – ‘Google’ It! ( or Bing, or Yahoo, or whatever search engine you prefer.) It won’t cost you anything, in fact, it could save you a bunch.
So far so good – just building my stack of finished tops.
I have seen this pattern in the catalogs for a long time and finally bit the bullet and bought it. I also bought the Jelly Roll of material.
Pattern is “#1137 Stars on Point – A Jelly Roll Quilt” by Whistlepig Creek Productions. I purchased it as a kit from an online store. It came with a navy binding.
I had a lot of trouble with the material for this quilt. I know that I am just a beginner but this material twisted and turned so much on me, I seemed to fight it every step of the way. But I like how it turned out.
I have always loved photos. My sisters still laugh at me because I have kept every negative of every picture I have ever taken – including B&W. My hubby used to just shake his head when I would take a whole roll (or more) of film only to appear to have all the same image. He didn’t realize the small differences in the pictures, but I did.
Welcome digital cameras!!!! I got my first true digital camera in 2000 – it took pictures & video and saved them to CD. Now I could take as many pictures as I wanted – Sweet. I still take way too many photos, but at least now I am not paying for processing – which means I can take all the more. It’s a vicious circle. Yes, I have filled up many a huge hard drive with all those images – but that takes up much less space than the boxes/containers of prints & negatives I have stored around the house.
During a recent job interview, I was given a programming test / quiz – which I botched up royally – I froze. And no, I didn’t get the job. So in the spirit of my math teachers – I’m going to ‘Show My Work’.
The test was to write the code to display numbers 1-100, if divisible by 3 – write “Yeah”, if divisible by 5 – write “Baby”, if divisible by both – “Yeah Baby”. I didn’t freeze because I didn’t know how to do the “for/while” statements/loop or the “if” statements, it was because I had never had to check for a WHOLE number before. So my mind was racing on a small detail of the question – in my mind an important part of the question (but not to them I guess). Well, I now know how to check for a whole number in 3 different ways. Something learned!!!
So here are my 3 versions (I have a tendency to be dramatic you know):
<script type="text/javascript">
function YB(){
for(i=1;i<=100;i++)
{
x = i/3;
y = i/5;
if(x == parseInt(x)){
a = " Yeah";
}
if (y == parseInt(y)){
a = a+ " Baby";
}
document.write(i+" "+a+" <br />");
a = "";
}
}
</script>
for ($i =1; $i<=100; $i++)
{
if($i % 3 == 0){
$a = " Yeah";
}
if($i % 5 == 0){
$a .= " Baby";
}
print $i." ".$a."<br />";
$a = "";
}
public class yeahBaby{
public static void main(String[] args) {
for(double i =1; i <= 100; i=i+1)
{
String a = "";
double x = i/3;
double y = i/5;
if(x == Math.rint(x)){
a = " Yeah";
}
if(y == Math.rint(y)){
a = a+ " Baby";
}
System.out.println(Math.round(i)+" "+a);
}
}
}
This year there are some huge events on the horizon for me(us): big wedding in June, my baby sister is turning 40 in June, I’m turning 50 in July – all of this happens in a 17 day time period. All of these are things that are out of my control.
So I wanted to throw in a couple of things that were in my control.
The first being that I have signed up to do the 3-Day Walk to beat out Breast Cancer. I walk for mothers, daughters, sisters, aunts and friends that have been touched by this disease.
Who knows what else I’ll come up with this year, my plan is to make this whole year unforgettable!!!!
Because I started the Craftsy Block of the Month classes I decided to start another project that I have had on my mind for quite awhile. I wanted to make a quilt with a checker board in the middle. It is one of those things that just got stuck in my mind and it wouldn’t let go.
Well once I get started on something my mind goes in 20 different directions. Why only have a checker board what about other games…This was my down fall.
So here comes the Tic-Tac-Toe board as well. Now I just need to figure out 2 more boards that I can put on this quilt to make the complete cover.
For January I started 2 “projects”.
One is a the free online class from Craftsy - Learn it. Make it.
Craftsy Block of the Month Class
Each month they release 2 blocks. Each block is different and you learn a new technique.
It is a wonderful class and I am learning a lot of basic steps and different approaches at making simple blocks.
