Moonlight Becomes Us

Well, here we are, it's been a long time since my last post. At least this time I have a new sunset picture.



These next photos are from a "moonlight boating cruise." Poppy & I took the boat out with Cissy & Loverboy just before sunset and met some other boaters. we went to a beach and watched the sunset and then gabbed & had a picnic. I hiked up the hills around us & got these photos of the city. Unfortunately, since I'm not the photographer of the family, I didn't get any shots could give any indication of how beautiful the night was. The ride back to the launch was incredible -- the lake was like glass.

Maestro made it to Seattle safe & sound, and he's not homeless. He is jobless. He stayed in a hotel for a few days while looking for an apartment, then went up to Bwin's Mom's house for a week before moving into the new place. When I asked him if he had any kitchen utensils, he said that he has a plastic fork. That's okay, he can eat mac & cheese with it. Oops, but no pan to make it in. No problem, how about Easy Mac? Oops, no microwave. Oh, there's an oven, so he'll be able to make frozen pizza & corn dogs. Problem solved. I don't have any photos of him in Seattle, so I'll post this one in his honor. He has had a couple of classes and he loved them. They've met or exceeded all of his expectations. Yay!!

Juju's friend came for a visit. They've been friends since college. It was great to see her.

I have lots more to post, but I will get this published before Blogger boots me for lack of posting.

Pretty soon I'll be blogging about our new grandbabies!!

Quilts, Showers & Wieners

Get your head out of the gutter! Now you can keep reading...

I co-hosted a coffee on Monday morning for my quilt guild. I am really enjoying being a part of this group. They are so fun and willing to share their talent with you. When Susie & I decided to host a coffee (held once a month in someone's home) in September, we figured on an apple theme. I found a cute apple wallhanging pattern on a web site and it took a lot of 3" squares of different red fabrics, so everyone who came to the coffee brought some red fabric & we cut them into squares during the coffee. Everyone left with enough squares to make the wallhanging and they really seemed to enjoy themselves. I've started on mine, so I'll post a pic when it's done.

On Tuesday, Juju's former coworkers gave her a surprise baby shower. You can tell from the photos that she was actually surprised, since there is NO MAKEUP on her face. I got her to my house and she was "kidnapped" by one of the teachers and brought to the shower. It's ridiculous how much stuff she has.

I love this t-shirt. It says, "No autographs, please!"

Wednesday, I finally finished the quilt tops for the grandbabies. There's still a lot to do, but I was so happy to get this far! T~, do you see which one Tuck is????

The next photo shows how crazy you can get when the unborn child sucks out your brain cells. Juju left home with this "pair" of shoes on.

Yeah, not even close. She was wondering why she was limping, and looked down to see why.

One more funny picture: This is in Disneyland ---

Well, I'm going to my local quilt shop for their annual Quilt Pink for a Cure day. People bought fabric & a pattern for a quilt block, and the finished blocks will be made into quilts which will be sold on ebay for breast cancer research. Some of us will be sewing our blocks at the store and most others bought theirs, sewed them at home & brought them to the store in advance.

Random Acts of Craziness

Wow, has it really been that long? Well, I've been a bit busy... I know other people find the time to do fantastic blogs among all the other things they do...

Here's a sneak peek of what I've been working on the last few days. This is EO's Baby's quilt in progress. t really does NO justice to the fabrics, but I wanted to get it on the blog. I've also been working on Juju's son's quilt.

Before that, I was in Anaheim at a Women of Faith convention. It was great. The timing was either really good or really bad, b/c Babs & I left the same day Maestro left for K-Town and then on to Seattle. It was very emotional for all of us to say "see ya later." It turned out to be a great weekend and I made a new friend, too. Here's a picture at Disneyland's California Adventure. Nathan and Babs have a tradition of taking a picture in front of the "California" letter that goes with their name. There are a couple of snaps of the Lego store at Downtown Disney that Herc would like :)

A couple of days before Maestro left, we had a 40th birthday party for Babs. We decided to combine the "over the hill" blackness with a fabulous, glamorous vibe, and came up with a goth idea. We all (Poppy, me, Cissy, Rosebud, Juju, Bwin, and Nathan) met early at my house and put on black makeup & nail polish. Juju did Babs' with the notion that they were going out (Babs didn't see what Juju was doing till the end). Juju got Babs to our house under false pretenses and we had a great time eating & playing Apples to Apples. Then Babs wanted to show off her glam goth look so we went to a local bar for Karaoke. Some of you may need to pick yourselves up off the floor now. That's okay, I'll give you some time.

Okay, here are some photos.

This is Bwin singing Baby Got Back. There had been a girl doing her best to impress Bwin with her dancing, so Juju had to show her what's what.

The weekend before was really busy and fun too, with a party at Cissy's. We finished that day with a final visit to Hot Laps.

We returned from Cheeseland the Wednesday before that. What a great trip that was! Thanks to EO for her blogs so we can stay in touch & still "see" them.

Okay, back to the sewing room.

Love, Neenee