Time traveling...

It is so dry here in my hometown. We passed two wildfires on our weekend trip up to the mountains last saturday. It was beautiful up there though. I so want to move to the area whenever we get the chance to visit, and become a Laura Ingalls type frontierswoman, you know? Long dresses, sweeping floors with corn brooms, making my own cheese type of life. heehee. My husband is terrified I am serious, and goes along with the daydream only so long, then he brings up the movies, or shopping in the city, or which neighborhood has the best internet reception. He doesn't want to lose his technology. I tell him we can just hide it behind a chicken coop...

Where is your favorite get-away-from-modern-life-destination?

Faerie horses spotted at the San Diego Quilt Show

Yup. Faerie Horses were spotted at the quilt show this year. Don't tell the Faeries- they will be measuring for a barn in the back of the dollhouse faster than you can say "spit". Wanna see?

Three of them no less! I love this quilt. The colors are very eighties but with a nice pop from the orangy-pink on the left. I love how the colors all mix together from the background into the horse bodies and the borders. All that swirly quilting is perfect for the fantasy aspect, too. And those feet! swoon. Those slender and delicate legs ending in the donut-bun feet. I want to make one of these, but give the herd unicorn horns...

Here's another one, this time one of my husband's favorites. He was really into all the purple quilts this year-

Beautiful! Very geometrically balanced- it took me awhile to figure out the butterflies are log cabin halves. I know, I know- I'm new to quilting, what can I say? Just looking at them, trying to figure out how they're made is the best part of the show for me. Oh! And those tiny little body squares are just perfect. We liked how the contrast of the green with the purple wakes it up and breaks it out of cutesy land.

Ok. Ready for one last quilt?

I tried to bring this one home, but it wouldn't fit in my purse...the fairies were taking up too much room and wouldn't shove over. They were having fun hanging out in my zippered pocket, eating popcorn and critiquing the quilts. Oh, and stealing quilting rulers from every sales booth we passed. I told them to knock it off and just make some out of popsicle sticks. They got this glazed look in their eyes and demanded to be taken home immediately. I haven't seen them since we got home last saturday, but I keep hearing tiny microscopic buzzsaws whenever I pass by the workroom...

Itchy fingers

Sorry kids- no pics today. I forgot to take my camera with me to the La Mesa Craft Show, and boy, am I ever regretting it! I always have such a good time there, and come away with at least 100 ideas for things to make. Oh! my fingers are a itchin' to get craftin! This year they had such good things for Halloween- stuffed withces hats and shoes, pumpkin head dolls, lots of primitve painted signs and quilts. oh! the quilts. I am dying to recreate something I saw there! Oh well. I did, however, get to go to two other fabric stores in the area- Rosie's Calico Cupboard, and The Country Loft. Heehee- the fairies won''t know what hit'em this Halloween! I actually got a small piece of the "Ghastlies" too! This was a good weekend. Can't wait to show you what I've got planned for this stuff. Back next week...

September- new month, new year

Temcula Quilt show 2009

September for us is the start of our year. The end of summer, falling leaves and the chill bite of Autumn's arrival are all so yummy! We view it as the turning of the year, and embrace it. Autumn is my favorite time of year, and the start of my husband's work year. I am putting summer away this morning, and thinking about how I want to welcome the fall. How soon can I smuggle pumpkins into the house? When do the blankets come out of the closets? Research begins as I search for soup and stew recipes both old and new. Thanksgiving must be planned out, Christmas lists begun. I love it, but my husband chuckles when he spies me camped out on the sofa with my cookbooks spread out across every table in the house. Yes, it's that time of year again!

September is also the start of the quilting season for me. I have just found my love of quilting these past few years. I had an injury that kept me from a semester of school a few years back, so my husband offered to take me to the local quilt show- and we were hooked. I was surprised that he was so fascinated with them also, but he thinks they are beautiful works of art, and likes to investigate new sources as much as I do. So this fall we have plans to attend two of them, the San Diego Quilt Convention  and the Temecula Old Town Quilt show in October. And I even discovered a new quilt shop here in town, the Cozy Quilt Shop over in La Mesa. It's so perfect! I want to move right in. It's in an old 20's cottage, complete with wood floors and dark wood trim. Bliss. Can't wait to get back there, they even have quilting and rug hooking classes...hmmm, I wonder if the Faeries will go for a Country Primitve decorating scheme for christmas...