I can't believe my four day weekend is almost over. Joe, Sadie and I went to my parent’s house for Thanksgiving which also happened to be Sadie's 1st birthday. She wore her new red and white polka dotted collar and I wore my new red scarf! All evening I kept thinking about getting up early on Black Friday and what stores to go to, but when Friday morning rolled around I decided to sleep in and take Sadie for a morning run followed by coffee and relaxation.

I'm so happy the house is all decorated for Christmas!

Didn't Joe do a great job hanging the lights!

Mom's House

Doesn't my mom have great taste! Check out the pictures of some of her fall decorations. I can't wait to see what she has in store for Christmas!

Sadie

My Baby :)

Busy!

This has been such a busy fall! Not nearly as relaxing and carefree as the summer. I am back at school taking an accounting class so I have not had nearly as much free time to blog.

Last weekend was spent buying Christmas decorations and my mom and I made the cutest decorations using old ice skates. I will post a picture of them later this week. This weekend I did some cooking, studying, cleaning, laundry and decorating while my boyfriend and our dog Sadie were in Bend hunting. While I was at the grocery store on Saturday I ran across a bannana bread mix that I wanted to buy. Two bannana's, one egg, 3/4 cup of water and bread mix all combined into my mixer, 45 minutes in the oven and I had the best snack and a yummy smelling kitchen just in time for Joe and Sadie to arrive back home!

Quilt Block!

This weekend my boyfriend Joe was gone so my dog Sadie and I packed up my sewing machine and headed to my parents in Salem. Saide and my mom's dog Sophie finally took a nap after lots of playtime so I was able to finish sewing my quilt block!

I have about 5 of those, you can have one of mine

Last night before I went to bed I made sure to set my alarm for 5:15am so that I could be up and ready to leave for Salem by 6:30am. I even checked twice to make sure it was set. My mom and I wanted to be down at the Coburg Antique Fair early. But this morning when I woke up it was 7:07am!!! I hate oversleeping!!! But I was up and was able to get ready and got to Salem by 8:15 am and I live in Beaverton. I had to do a little make-up at a stop light but I made it. From there we were off to Coburg! Once we go there we got a lot of great ideas for things we wanted to make ourselves and got some fun treasures. I definitely saved some money because when I would see something I liked, my mom would say, "I have about 5 of those, you can have one of mine." Yay!

one with the fabric

This morning at 9:00am was the 1st meeting of the year in Grandma's Quilt Club at Grandma's Attic (an amazing fabric/sewing store) in Dallas, OR. I drove down to Salem to meet my mom and we drove there together.

There are monthly meetings and everyone in the club gets a pattern and some fabric each time to make one quilt block so that at the end of the year you have 12 different blocks to sew together into a quilt.

Rachel who speaks each month to the club told us today that there three things we can't discuss when we were all together. Politics, religion, and weight, because these things keep us from becoming "one with the fabric". She is pretty funny!

This year the theme of the club is the bobby sox sisters so along with discussing sewing and quilts we will also be talking about three young girls growing up in the 1940's and 50's and learn what their recipe's, crafts, sewing projects, and household tips were.

For my quilt blocks I chose 1930's fabrics. I love all of the little prints on them! Once I finish the I will post a picture. I am so excited to sew on my new sewing machine that I got last night for my birthday!!!!