Tonight I worked on my Block of the Month for February. This one was pretty quick and easy to put together, and it did come out to the proper size. I’ll wait to see if the others are correct, like this one, or short, like January’s, before I decide what to do about the first one being a little small. I really like the colors in this kit, and I hope the finished quilt will be big enough to use on our queen sized bed. If I do end up cuttingall of the blocks down to the smaller size, but then I’d need to find a coordinating fabric to use as a border to make it big enough as a whole quilt.
February Block of the Month
Happy Birthday Big Brother
Today is my big brother’s birthday – he’s 32. To celebrate, I’m sharing one of my old favorite photos that I have of us together.
This one was from a set that my mom took to send out with our Christmas cards one year. I particularly like the Bahama necklace that he’s got on. :) I’ve added a few more to the end of my Photos from the 80′s album.
Thanks for being a great big brother. It really means alot in how much you care about me, all the way back from when you were in high school and called me your “little hippy sister” to recently in the last two weeks when you spent your vacation working on my house. I hope you have a wonderful Birthday!
Fun Weekend
It has been a fun weekend. Besides the boardgames and friends on Friday night, we have done the following things:
(in no particular order…)
- Dinner at Atlanta’s famous Varsity diner
- Found 2 geocaches at Yellow River Park in Snellville
- Attended an amateur folk concert called The Hungry Ear
- Checked out a UU church in Sandy Springs
- Drove the VW bus across Atlanta – Roswell to Sandy Springs, to Stone Mountain, to Snellville, to Tucker and back home
- Gave Thomas a manual stick driving lesson – he drove it all the way home from the local high school
- Made yummy Carne Asada (Mexican steak) for dinner
- Watched the end of The Motorcycle Diaries
- Cleaned up the garage
- Had hot chocolate at Starbucks
- Showed a Raleigh friend around Atlanta
- Visited the Fernbank Natural History Museum
The photo in this entry is Richard, the Raleigh friend, checking out the electricity display in the Touch and Feel part of the museum. There were alot of neat displays that let you see how inaccurate your eyes and brain can be.
Texas Bathroom
I’ve never lived in Texas, but I’m a Texan. I figure that since I’m named after a city there, most of my family lives there, and now, I have a bathroom decorated in that theme, I can be considered a Texan. (Real Texans would probably disagree, but that’s okay.)
While my brother was in town, he painted the bathroom two shades of blue – shower and sink area are a faint bluish white, and the toilet area is sky blue. It matches the Texas flag shower curtain and towels that I picked up at a Walmart in Texas. I think I mentioned before that my Aunt Derelys has her bathroom decorated like this, and I completely stole the idea from her. She also has a cowboy boot-shaped vase with silk bluebonnets (Texas state flower) and a photograph of bluebonnet flowers in the room. I might just need to keep an eye out for some decorations like this. I wonder what room Thomas is going to request be done in Swedish colors (sky blue and yellow) now…
Fun Dip and TV Memories
Thomas and I were in need of some social interaction with friends, so last night we invited a couple friends to come over for boardgames. Nancie and Tory, and Dave and Anna joined us, and we played Balderdash and Apples to Apples. I think Tory won both games, but we added a couple rounds to each after he won.
Nancie brought some fun foods that reminded us of elementary school days – frosted animal crackers, cupcakes, and fun dip. I have never heard of fun dip, but basically it’s a packet of sugar and a sugar stick, and you dip the stick in the sugar, and lick it off the stick. It turns your tongue weird colors too as you can see in the photo of Anna, Nancie, and me.
Speaking of elementary school days, my brother got the theme song from a show called H.R. Pufnstuf stuck in my head. I had never heard of it before this week, but it supposedly was one of his favorites in elementary school. Now Amazon is releasing it on DVD, and he’s excited and shared a few episodes with me. I think it was before my time. My favorite elementary age shows were all on Nickelodeon – Double Dare, Today’s Special, You Can’t Do that on Television, and Out of Control. My earliest memory of TV is Pinwheel. What were your favorite elementary age shows?
