The Numbers Have it!

Yes! Numbers fabric win!

I have several things I need to work on this week, the Asterisk quilt being one of them.  I need to get it to the top stage at least.  I am hoping it can get further than that, but it may not make it by the River City meeting.

And I need to at least start on that Challenge quilt.  You won't believe what I pulled in the bag.  Me! The most modern person in the room.  I get the least modern fabric in the room.  I am going to need help that one for sure!


In preparation for retirement, Frank has been making some bold strides.  He bought a computer and I made him get the Geek Squad support package on it since I refuse to get frustrated with him trying to help him understand what he doesn't know and I don't know.  Now he can just call the Geek Squad 24/7 and he can be polite and they can be polite and they can have a sweet fest all night now with each other whilst they figure out his computer!

The other thing is to get Netflix.  And to practice, we are binge watching our first program.  OJ Simpson Trial.

 It took us a while to figure out how to get the controls to work. And we still have our moments.

The weather across the nation was bad for most of the weekend.  Ours was Saturday.  We had a tornado nearby between Carrie's house and ours.  No one was hurt.

This is where the flood waters came  up from.  You can see it is clear and nearly dry, so we are safe!  Barb made Dale go out and check it twice during the storm.  The rain was coming down so hard you could barely see the trees. 

Temperatures fell to 38 last night and will again tonight.  It
is almost May!

About 4 1/2 inches of  rain fell in 45 minutes.  Then for the rest of the afternoon we had another 1 1/2 inch on top of that.  We were never in danger, but the street in front of the house did have standing water.  Something we have not seen before.  I am guessing it is because of  the 4 inches in the 45 minutes.





After the weather cleared we were able to get to Denham Springs and spend a few minutes at the Artist Reception for the Juried and Emerging Artists Exhibition at Livingston Parish Art Council. 


Here is my piece called Speechless. 

Don't you love to see your work hanging in a gallery somewhere!

Recycled Art Auction and Arts Council Exhibit

Several of my friends had a dog in this fight, as the saying goes.  More than a few, in fact.  65 pieces were up for auction and about 7 of there were people I knew.

In a nasty turn of events, Carrie called and asked me to take the baby while she and Andrew both worked late.  I agreed thinking we could just bung him along to the Art Auction.  But he had other plans.  He really wanted to just, well, scream bloody murder.

So we left and ended up meeting Carrie for a late dinner.

Where he sat perfectly content eating half of my Chicken
Shwarma Salad.  Now he had already had his dinner and a bottle and a snack and another half bottle.  And two diaper changes.  So I have no idea what his problem was, other than the fact that the Art Crowd at Habitat for Humanity was not snooty enough for his tastes.

I have no idea how many millions my Tea piece sold for.  ( I found out yesterday that Tea sold for $150%  of the value of the start bid.  Not bad!)

I did get a chance to take a look at the other pieces and know there is no rusty stuff going on, so next year I plan to have some pieces already ready to go for the auction.

Early.  Can you believe that?

So I had the baby for the weekend since his parents were on the beach.   He and I had swimming classes on Monday.  Which were cancelled at the last minute when the instructor got sick that morning.  Which was a total shame because I looked damn good in my new bathing suit after losing 41 lbs and having 3 weeks of Performance Classes. Damn Good! (personal win:  today I flipped the tire TWICE for the first time ever in my life!)

So he went to his  home and stay with an unspecified relative.  Who will live there.  Like I said.
Whoever wants to make anything of that can.

I have two pieces that needed to be prepared for hanging at the Livingston Arts Council.  The April/May exhibit is exciting.  It is called the Established and Emerging Artists Exhibit which combines students at the high school with the juried artists from the council.  I am excited to see the combination of the two.  I remember when Carrie was exhibiting as a high school student and how exciting it was to see her work out in the world. 




I went to bring the paperwork and pieces to the Arts Council today, but they were closed.  I just can't get their days straight!  They used to be closed just on Monday.  I  wonder when Tuesday came into the picture?  Geez.


I have two things to show you but I want to create two separate posts for them, you know, since they are so spectacular, and all.

One is how I did the hanging sleeve on the two pieces here for the show.  The other is how I am making the marks for the Bird quilt.  I really need to get that on the frame and quilted.