52 Photos - Gallery 18 - The Sign Says.......

If you are old like me, you will remember that song by Tesla.  It may well have been a one hit wonder as well, since I had to look up who actually sang it.  And had never heard of them.

His sign says, Long hair freaky people need not apply.  Another sign read, Anybody caught trespassing will be shot on sight.  Or another, you got to have a membership card to get inside.

Tesla was definitely quite the hippie type.  And at that time we were testing the limits of fitting dirty words into lyrics.  Not even close to today's though.  Even so, I have cleaned up a couple of the words for you!  So he gets himself a pen and paper and writes his own sign that says, Thank you Lord for thinking 'bout me, I'm alive and doing fine.

Less rules and more gratitude.  We could all use some of that, hippie or not!

That is all nice and good.  My kind of sign is very different.  Way more commercial than the hippie culture of the 60s would have wanted.

Harbor Freight is a place I frequent often.  But when I go there my shopping list is for quilting items.  Yes, you heard correctly!

Just this morning I was there getting some canvas drop cloths for a quilting project I am  working on.  I also stopped by the local resale shop, The Purple Cow, and found some green linen pants on their 99 cent rack.

My project will definitely be groovy as I re-purpose and recycle once more!

 

Design wall 1-30-12

It is almost the end of January, my birthday month is over for another year, that is always sad. I have accomplished a lot, quilting wise and life wise. 2012 is turning out to be so much better than 2011, and that is something I am very grateful for. I am surrounded by wonderful friends who share my love of quilts and dogs and biking, and the time we spend together.  My design wall is filled with projects I love and I haven't killed DiNozzo yet, although he may not make it through the week.  See him hiding from me after the toilet paper incident?

This week my design wall is filled with my mystery quilt for my local guild, River City, so I can't exactly show you that one. I am Beta Testing it!  But I am also working on the Tiny Tiny Houses and found the most wonderful sashing material. I started putting together some blocks of houses. Kind of a double meaning. I really mean blocks like subdivision blocks. Check out my first block block! LOL!!


So I am off to a great start in this first month of 2012.   And I am planning on a great rest of the year too!  I feel good for the first time in months.

I hope yours is a wonderful and forward looking.

Albondigas to all!

glen

Design Wall Monday1-23-12

Amazing that the week flies by so fast.  Amazing.

Most of what I have been doing is cutting up fabric for the retreat in March.  I have two quilts cut out from the fabric around here, no buying any fabric!  Yes!  And I am working on my houses still.  I have like 40 something now.  Look at all of them.  They will finish at 3 inches.  And I want to make Tiny Tiny Trees to shade the Tiny Tiny Houses.  Won't that be fun?

I have been working on my word quilt, but that just needs binding.  I issued the challenge to my group from Modern 8 to think of a word that will inspire them for the year.  Make a small hanging for their quilt room with that word.  The creativity is amazing in that group.

My word was Albondigas.  Ever since Spanish Class in High School I have loved that word.  It is fun to say......Al -BON-di-gas  (and all A's are short vowel sounds).  I love it.

When I see it over my closet, I laugh, and I need that.  2011 sucked.  2012 will be much better now that things have changed in my life for the better.

My second favorite word is photovoltaic - a means of generating electric energy by using solar radiation and converting it to current electricity.  Frank was researching ways of powering space ships into deep space.  The ship used this radiation to bombard a plate and the ship would be pushed forward.  It was a means of propulsion.  Interesting.  It is cool to say as well.