Friday, January 29, 2010

Friday Flaunt


Well this should have been my flaunt last week but I was too flat out to upload it in time.  Finally finished two of my 'ten in 10' resolutions, numbers 7 & 8.  The other quilt used the same calendar panel but was framed with different fabrics.

As of Tuesday, when I wrote this blurb and set it up for automatic posting, the twins are yet to be born.  They are now at 39 weeks, which is phenomenal  since both look like being well over 6lbs a piece.  The doctor intends to wait until labour starts naturally and Sara is really huge and uncomfortable.

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Fabric Needed


Hi everyone,
have just started to work on my quilt for this year's guild challenge and have discovered that I am a little short on fabric.  I need one 2 3/4in square if anyone has any to spare. 

Please leave a comment below, with your email address, if you have some and I will get back to you.   I won't publish your email.
Thank you

Friday, January 8, 2010

Poem for the New Year - no time to flaunt

Just picked this up from one of my online lists.  It was posted by Jeni Kift.. not sure if she wrote it or found it but it seems very appropriate for the time


T'was the month after Christmas, and all through the house,
Nothing would fit me, not even a blouse.

The cookies I'd nibbled, the chocolate I'd taste
At the holiday parties had gone to my waist.

When I got on the scales there arose such a number!
When I walked to the store (less a walk than a lumber),

I'd remember the marvelous meals I'd prepared;
The gravies and sauces and beef nicely rared,
The wine and the rum balls, the bread and the cheese
And the way I'd never said, "No thank you, please."

As I dressed myself in my husband's old shirt
And prepared once again to do battle with dirt...
I said to myself, as I only can,
You can't spend a summer, disguised as a man!"

So, away with the last of the sour cream dip.
Get rid of the fruit cake, every cracker and chip.
Every last bit of food that I like must be banished
Till all the additional ounces have vanished.

I won't have a biscuit, not even a lick.
I'll want only to chew on a long celery stick.
I won't have hot biscuits, or corn bread, or pie.
I'll munch on a carrot and quietly cry.

I'm hungry, I'm lonesome, and life is a bore...
But isn't that what January is for?
Unable to giggle, no longer a riot.
Happy New Year to all, and to all a good diet.