Just for fun

I got tired of binding a quilt today so I took some time to play with my very small stash of wool. Here is the pin cushion I made. And look! It fits perfectly inside my "frosted doughnut." (Applique thread holder)

Sort of the new version of this pin cushion Gary's grandma Erickson gave me for my birthday when we were first married. Before I opened it she said "you probably won't like it." I don't know if she was being humble or if she thought I was a snob. I must have liked it because I've kept it for a lot of years. And I am not a keeper.

 This pear shaped pin cushion is the one I use most. My friend Annette Garner made it for me.

SOLD!

We sold this little rental house for about the same as we paid for it!  Mixed Feelings.

The house is very cute from the outside and it does have some charm in the front two rooms, but the rest was a nightmare to take care of. So it was either fix it up a lot or sell it. Also the quality of renters it attracted was not great (we've been to court twice).

California-July 16-24

Saturday the 16th, Alice, Laura, her roommate Brook and I all left for CA. We spent the first evening with Alice's sister-in-law and her family in Apple Valley- much prettier name than place-near Victorville. We attended the musical Hairspray at the local college-Laura's cousin Paul was in it. We went to church and continued on.

Carol, Laura

Laura thought driving was boring, so we "created" towns along the way you can visit Lauraville and ride her plastic goats or Caroltown which is a lot more cool I don't remember why-guess you had to be there!

 Here we are at the fabric district. Brook and Laura got bored here pretty fast.

 Scary elevator from the parking lot to the fashion district.

 tried stuff on...

 bought stuff. 

The next day we went to Disneyland-We stayed from 8am till midnight and let me just say- The happiest place on earth is really happy with 4 adults and no kids! Look for me in the hot pink shirt in these photos, Alice in green, Laura in white and Brook in gray.

Laura

Look! We even got the people behind us happy!

 No one complaining, no one terrified  and everyone taking care of their own food, etc. I never thought DL could be this happy!

Waiting for splash Mountain to be repaired. When it finally did people had given up so we ran up the line and did it 3 times in a row!

Still happy after getting drenched!

What drenched hair does when it dries.

Thunder Mountain Railroad broke down so we scored 4 extra  fast passes-best break-down ever. The guy behind us was totally wierd though and we had to spend a little time with him before they got us out of the ride and yes he got in all our pictures.

Brook, Laura

Laura, Alice
16 hours and 23 rides. Still happy.

July crafts

Block(s) of the month for American Quilting

Tie Dye Paper at Kori's house for Cramer Craft Day

Made into cards.

Veggie Pizza at CCD

Lake Powell July 9th

It seems like on the last day everyone gets serious about doing stuff before we go home! 

We had to do sand mountain one more time!

Heather and Jake

Heather

Cameron

Heather

Ashleigh (and Heather)

Kyle

Ashleigh

Heather

Jake

Jake's first time on one ski.

And a good time was had by all!

Lake Powell July 8th

Ashleigh and Kyle arrived in the middle of the night so the 7 of us started out day at the sand mountain again! They we took a very peaceful ride and hike to Rainbow bridge. It was a rough ride back though, through rain and wind and thunder and lightning! We ended up at sand mountain again at the end of the day and it was like the storm never happened.!

 Cameron, Jake, Heather

 Kyle entertains us with the empty milk jugs.

 Gary and Carol

Heather and Ashleigh

Cameron, Jake, Kyle, Heather, Ashleigh

Heather and Jake

Cameron, Kyle, Carol, Gary, Heather, Jake

Too bad Ashleigh is taking the pictuer or it could be our family Christmas picture!

Lake Powell July 6th and 7th

 We spent the night in the parking lot so as to be on the Lake first thing- but no- we had to take a detour to Wal-mart to get a new boat battery! We went to the sand mountain and cruised the lake a little and had just gotten back to camp when it started POURING. We played games in the truck and then drove into Page for dinner. We wanted to try some place new- we went to R.J.'s for the first and probably last time. The rain stopped and we were able to sleep out. Oh yeah and we stopped at the marina store to try on hats!

 Heather

 Jake and Cameron

Don't eat here. Unless you want a sweet game of PAC Man!

Cameron, Jake and Heather