Guild Librarian

Tonight I received a call from a lady in the Birmingham Quilt Guild.  Every year the guild nominates new officers and the new officers appoint a board of people to help run the guild.  Tonight I was asked if I would be the Guild Librarian, which is a position that sits on the board.  I told her I would be honored and would love to get involved.

Beep Beep

I have now registered for my 2nd and 3rd Half Marathon's.  Talladega Half Marathon will be in September and The Montgomery Half Marathon will be in October.  I'm excited and I'm sure as it gets close I'll get nervous.  Tonight I had a great 9 mile run and could have kept going.

Making Clutter Disappear

Silly mutt sunning himself.

 I have been thinking for a long time that I just can't make the laundry room look neat with the cluttered mess up top.  So I've been thinking about curtains.

 WaLa!  This is the fun colorful side of the curtains.

This is the strawberry/grape side of the curtains.

 My flower art work for the wall fits in better now, but I can't decide what side to leave the curtains on for now.

Sewing Projects

Sewing Projects for the weekend were cuddle quilt and laundry room curtains.

This is the cuddle quilt.  Each year I have to make at least one cuddle quilt for the Birmingham Quilt Guild.  The cuddle quilts are donated to places like Children's Hospital for sick children to cuddle with.  The cuddle quilts aren't suppose to be big but rather big enough to cuddle with but small enough a child can handle it.  One side of the quilt must be at least 40 inches.  

 The second project of the weekend was the start of my curtains for the laundry room.  I hate the way the sheleeves in the laundry room look cluttered so I'm going to put up curtains on dowel rods to hide the clutter.  This fabric will be the main side of the curtain and I made them so that I could reverse them and use the back side as well.

 Brian is holding the curtain panel up for me the opposite way it will be hung.

 This is the reverse side of the curtain panel.  This side is meant to be bright colored.

Crayon Challenge Quilt Complete!!

 Bliss at the Beach

 Hot Air Balloon

 Orange Beaded Sun

 Embellishments in the sky to catch the sparkle of the sky

 Kite Flying

 Beach umbrella

 Beaded ocean waves

Talladega!!

It was a great weekend for racing with beautiful weather.  Compared to last year's flood the nice weather was a welcomed by all.  Elliot Saddler won Saturday's Nationwide race and Denny Hamlin won Sunday's Sprint Cup race!  Saturday night was kind of neat because we had 4 pit crew members come hang out with some of the guys in our camp and we got the chance to ask them some questions.  Overall it was a successful Talladega weekend!