Go Cowboys!

Well here I sit all by my lonesome wathcing some great football. Nothing better than the Cowboys vs Packers. But I'm all alone because DH went to Las Vegas this afternoon. Darn him and his buddy with a private plane!! Must be nice to whiz off to Vegas for a weekend of golf and black jack huh? eehh well, even if I had a buddy with a little private plane I wouldn't go. nope, no way, uh uh I don't like to fly as it is, and something that little is bound to make me puke don't you think????

So I'll sit here all by myself, well me and the 4, yes count'em there ARE FOUR, dogs....... Sometimes it feels like a kennel here. Except sadly it won't really be that long before there are only 3. Our older dog is like 14 now and some days are good and some not so good, but mostly good for right now.

But I got my design re-digitized. yeah I had to redo the one that I posted about a few weeks ago. Something happened to it and everytime I tried to open it I got an error message and it shut me down. So "delete" and start again...................

Maybe I'll get the darn thing done tomorrow. Then I've got to work on a rag quilt and get it done! I'm running out of time. as usual.....

But I've got 3 whole days to sew. All I "have" to do is go get more dog food and feed the little urchins twice a day and let them out to do their thang. Which is much easier said than done lately. They don't much like the cold and tonight there is snow forecast. They really don't like the snow.

For that matter I'm not a huge fan either. But we need it.

Now I'm going to cruise around blogland for a bit............

Stuffed.......

me, not the turkey! We've eaten, the leftovers are put up but the kitchen is still a disaster area. I've already run the dishwasher twice today and need to unload and reload at least one more time. Jennifer and Tim have left and it's way to quiet.

Don't think I'm going to brave any of the Black Friday sales. Way to many idiots and way to little patience on my part any more. I'd like to get my sewing room put back together (it's been the guest room the last few days) and get some actual sewing done this weekend. This evening I plan on trying to learn how to do cool things on my blog page tho ;) Wish me luck!!

Happy Thanksgiving!

I want to wish everyone a very happy and Blessed Thanksgiving. If you happen to be traveling may you have a safe journey.

We arrived home safe and sound after our last minute trip to Albuquerque. I spent lots of time in the mall on Saturday. Didn't buy much, but it was nice just to wander around. I also have a great picture of the view outside our window.


Pretty eh? Let me tell you, this picture doesn't even come close to doing it justice. Mike overhead some saying that there were hotair balloons Saturday morning. Not surprising since the resort is pretty much across
the hiway from the balloon park. Albuquerque has one of the largest hotair balloon festivals in October every year. We haven't been brave enough to face the traffic and tons of people, but I hear it's amazing. We sit home and watch every morning on tv :)


Then on our way home Sunday morning, this little urchin just happened to end up in our car.......



Now isn't this just he cutest little thang???? And it's SO like we needed another dog. We now have 4, ughhhhhhh. I swore that would never happen! Never say never.............

Here she is with her big sister



She's little, maybe 4 pounds. I'll get her to the vet next week and find out for sure. She's almost 12 weeks old so one thing for sure is that she'll be little. Thank goodness for that lol. Except Mike and Bryan want to name her "Little One". geez what a goofy non-name. So that fight will continue. Hopefully we'll have her named by Christmas.

We're working on Thanksgiving dinner. Mike and the turkey in the brine and he'll get up at 4:30am to put it in the roaster. Usually we eat dinner around 5ish, but this year we have to eat around noon. Jennifer and Tim have to leave by 3pm at the latest, Tim has to be at work at 6am Friday morning and it's a 6 hour drive home for them. Company policy that no one can have Friday or Saturday off. sucks......

But at least they are here for a few days, and for that I'm thankful.

So Mike is doing the turkey and the gravy and then I'll do the cornbread dressing, sweet potatos and green bean casserole. I've already got a chocolate pie and strawberry pretzel salad done along with cranberry compote. Still need to do a coconut creme pie.

Blessings,
Terri

The suite life.....

Today started out kinda slow. I woke up with a sore throat, courtesy of DH, but managed to make it to a little quilt store, Quilt It YaYa, in the next little town over with a friend. I got some cute flannel to make Molly a little dog bed since the other two keep kicking her out of the two dog beds we now have. I was going to work on it when I got home, but I needed a nap instead as my head was starting to pound by now.

So about 30 minutes into my nap, DH calls. He wants to go to Albuquerque and stay at Sandia Casino Resort. Noooooo, my throat hurts and my head is pounding, not to mention I haven’t done any laundry all week. I have NO jeans clean. None, nada, zilch. So I throw a load in and it’s 6:30 by the time it’s done and we leave.

Now I’ve been to Sandia Casino before, it’s an Indian casino just a tad north of Albuquerque and a gorgeous casino. But the resort part wasn’t even started the last time I was here. So we wait for our room and when I tell the bellhop our room number he comments on what a great room we got. He had been telling me how this resort rivals anything in Vegas, and he would put their suites up against Bellagio anytime. Yeah, yeah, yeah I’m thinking. Very nice guy but he’s “selling” the place. No doubt it’s a very nice resort, but I’m not totally believing him lol.
So he shows me to the room, DH goes straight to the blackjack table, and when he opens the door the first thing I see is this
This is the tile medallion in the entry way of this suite. The next pic is the living area as seen from the doorway


This is the powder room just inside the door.















This is looking toward the door from the window, notice the niche? I've got a closer shot coming up. The arrangement was gorgeous.















The bedroom, with king size bed
















A few shots of the bathroom









Scales in a hotel room???? Plus a regular blow dryer, not one of those cheesy ones that hang on the wall in most hotels.















This is where I plan on being in about 20 minutes!!
















and then this.....



and then a little of this....
little chocolate casino chips! don't ya just love it!!

Here' the niche, not a very good pic. I'll try for a better one tomorrow.

Now I'm off to see if that bathtub works as good as it looks :)

Since I don't really gamble I'll spend tomorrow in the mall, so I better rest up!

I'm sewing!

Wooo hooo I'm actually sewing! I'm working on a rag quilt for a Christmas gift. It's all Moda flannels. I love Moda. I could do Moda forever and not run out of great fabric collections that I love. Here's a close up of a few of the fabrics. More pics when I get it laid out.

It's all outdoorsy stuff.

oh and don't ya just love my window treatments?? The girls at Passionista's Dec Board will be so proud :) Just so you know I've got cellular blinds ordered. Hopefully they'll be here before Jennifer and Tim get here for Thanksgiving since this is the room they'll stay in. I'll close up my sewing cabinet and move stuff out of the way so the 2 of them and our "granddogs" will have room.

I could just throw all of this flannel on the floor and roll around in it. It feels soooo good and I haven't even washed it yet. I may have to keep it after it's washed. hehe

Back to the machine now, I may be back later.........

.2%

Well no sewing for me the last couple of days. Remember how I talked about the other .2% of being self-employed? Well the last couple of days have been that .2%. I've spent them writing chapters for our safety manual. NOT FUN! I'm about ready to fire myself and find a better paying job. The only problem with that is it won't be a better "playing" job. So I guess I better suck it up and finish that last chapter on trenching/shoring/excavation. WTF???? What do I know from trenching???? But I did manage to come up with 5 pages about ladder safety. I can't believe it took FIVE pages to tell how to safely climb up a ladder. I can't wait to see how many pages it will take to tell how to safely t/s/e!

So since I have no sewing pictures to show I'll bore you with my little baby, Molly J

Isn't she just the cutest???? Mike has started a really really bad habit of giving her bites to eat after he's done. Last night I was so burnt we had burger and he got a vanilla milkshake. Molly loved it……

I was so afraid she was going to get stuck like that. But not afraid as I was that she was going to be sick all night.

In my bed……..

All poor Jack got was the straw lol

When we tried to take it from him he tried to eat it! By the time we caught him there was only 2" of it sticking out for us to grab.

Stupid dog.

Which reminds me of the country song "Stupid Boy" (which I don't really like), and that brings up the CMA awards last night (WHO invited Kid Rock???), and that brings up Carrie Underwood and my fav song of the moment "Before He Cheats". Oh yeah I love it! I hope M was paying attention while she was singing it, I'm sure he was……………………………..

To her bod!!!! He better watch out or I'll take a Louisville Slugger to both headlights J

Ok I'm done for the night, can you believe my finger are sore from all the typing I've done???? Man am I out of shape (omg you all have no idea how funny that is!). But at least I can still type pretty darn fast.

One last picture of my Molly……

Learning to digitize

It's making me crazieeeee!!! And that's an incredibly easy thing to do, I'm pretty much already there as it is. It all seems soooooo easy and understandable in class. Then I come home and try to work on it and can't get it to do what I want.

Maybe it's the long commute home. I have to concentrate so much on driving that I forget everything for those 12 minutes. and then it never comes back...............

Here is what it's supposed to look like. Pretty eh? well we'll see when I stitch it out tomorrow.

That is if M doesn't make me work all day. 99.8% of the time it's wonderful being self-employed. It's that other .2% when he's home........

Even if I get to work on it tomorrow I'm sure I won't have pics for a few days. They way it is now there are a gazillion jump stitches to trim away. For the life of me I just can't get them off.

Then there's the multi-hooping thang. ughhhhhh

That damn 12 min commute.........

I gave my friend the penguin wall hanging Friday night at her birthday party. When she got up Saturday morning and looked at it again she loved it. lol, she also loved it Friday night and went on and on telling everyone how I made it. But sadly she didn't remember any of that part. She was already two sheets to the wind when I got there at 7pm. It quickly went down hill from there lol. She also loved a pretty pink box that she unwrapped. Imagine her surprise when she turned it around and saw there were slippers in it!

**note to self ~ continue to boycott Long Island Ice Tea, it dries up the last few remaining brain cells left. And that's something I just can't afford.

I got a new digital camera Friday. What few pics I've taken so far have been awesome. It's a 12 mp and my old one is only 3. And it's about half the size. So far I've only taken a few pics of Molly, but of course they are loaded on then main puter upstairs and I'm on the laptop downstairs. Something to look forward to tomorrow. That and my stitch out :)