It’s one of those weeks.  After dealing with the furniture people since June over ink the pups got on my sofa, they were to send me new cushions or come recover the whole piece since I have a stain warranty.  Today they decided to just give me credit for the purchase price for a replacement sofa.   But. . . .. they no longer sell that one and don’t have any other style in the same sage green.  Hello I just bought it in April.   It took me over a year to decide on that sofa and I have the matching oversized chair.  I can’t have a beige or brown sofa and a sage green chair.  I hate looking like I have flea market unmatched furniture after spending so much money.

Then comes the tablet saga.  My Surface Pro 2 table quit while under warranty so I shipped back and they sent a refurbished one.  Got it yesterday and power cord is defective.  Called back and they have no more so I’d have to pay another $110 to upgrade to the Pro 3.  Instead he gave me the new Dell convertible touchscreen tablet for the same price.  Problem is I have the cover and virtual keyboard for the Surface Pro so now my virtual keyboard is unnecessary and my cover and case don’t fit.

Getting something replaced is not always better than what you already have.

 

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Ok we all have a fabric stash or a stash pertaining to whatever your hobby is but one day you realize how much you really have.  While I was in Ohio visiting my amazing sister Jill, she gifted me a bag full of plastic storage boxes she wan no longer using.   Once I got home I realized they would hold my pre-planned quilt kits so much nicer than the plastic bags there were in.  I had no idea till I started pulling them from the closet how many I have.   Not to mention the couple I got while in Ohio.  Here are the 25 I have stored so far and labeled in boxes.  I still have half a closet of fabrics on shelves and in decorative storage boxes.   Luckily you can’t see the top shelf.

I know I wanted to try new things but I’m finding my quilt skills aren’t nearly what I thought they were.   Sewing these half hexagons was tedious but ok.  Now that I am starting to sew the hexies together to form rows I am learning I need a lot more practice in sewing those weird shapes.   Initially I thought I’d never make another one but realize then I’ll never get better.    Here’s what she’s going to look like before the rows are sewn and added together.  I changed how she was laid out numerous times before i settled on this one.  I’ll repost when I get this and the five others quilted and finished.

I did add one last mod to the jeep this past weekend.  If you’re in our group of gamers you will instantly know what this is.  I was surprised when I posted it on facebook that most of those that commented were the 30+ age group rather than young kids.    I think this came out awesome and looks good on the hood.

Last Saturday I picked up the jeep and her new front drive shaft is installed and it seems like everything is working for a change.   I added some new grab handles and door grips along with a cargo restraint.  I want to take the pups riding but I get nervous one would get out of seat belt and be killed.   This way it should hold them long enough for me to pull over and belt them back in.  Taking them for a ride this weekend.  I wish they would get more used to being around people so they didn’t bark so much but it’s too hot to take them to the park and such.

Seems like all I post about is family, my pups, quilting and my jeep but here I go again.  Those are the things important in my life, so I post about them.  Maybe most would think my life boring but I’ve had a lot of excitement in the first 50 years so maybe the last 10 or 15 will be quiet.   Here’s a new picture of my little “emo” dog Merlin.  He needs so much love and attention.  Unlike the other 2 he’d be content to sit on your lap and love you all day.  When he gets his feelings hurt he hides in the closet.  Sometimes I feel like I should give him to a little old man who would sit and love on him all day.

There are a series of applique blocks that are done with cats made into veggies.  I bought several a couple of years ago on vacation and need to look and see how many I have.  I never realized she did 31 different veggies.   Others look more like veggies.  I think this one was brocolli.  Not sure.

Hope she doesn’t get mad I added her picture to my blog.  This is my sister Jill.  She’s even more beautiful on the inside as she is on the out.    She just amazes me with her strength and attitude towards life.  She’s like the person I wanna be when I grow up.

HA-HA.  New quilt I’m starting is called a one block wonder.  Seems like all I post about are my pups, jeep or quilting but that’s pretty much my life.    I just cut out the pieces for a one block wonder and it’s another of those quilts I put off making because it was too time consuming and looked difficult.  So here we go.  These are my hexies cut out.   I have to sew half then lay them all out and sew the rows.    It’s all made with just one fabric.   Mine isn’t going to have a lot of different colors but it’s the first one so I can learn from here.