tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-297685252024-03-07T03:20:52.578-05:00My Scrapbook NookSandiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02030373939318573405noreply@blogger.comBlogger3169125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29768525.post-72800178998255709402013-07-12T15:53:00.004-04:002013-07-12T15:53:59.419-04:00Forgetful me!Have you ever misplaced or simply forgotten to do something? Well that's where I am right now. I've been so busy with so many things that I simply forgot to start updating my blog. Talk about having a blonde moment that lasts for months on end! I'm back and will do better at updating and adding in pictures.
Sandiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02030373939318573405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29768525.post-15802322188017441902013-04-23T17:37:00.002-04:002013-04-23T17:37:30.626-04:00Eclectically MineCome see what I'm up to at Eclectically Mine.Sandiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02030373939318573405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29768525.post-38259770550791180762013-04-23T16:12:00.000-04:002013-04-23T16:12:41.477-04:00I have been busy...Just so you know, I've not been sitting around twiddling my thumbs while I wait for this craft room of mine to get finished. I've been keeping active physically and craft wise too! I have to laugh at myself though, I have a hard time making myself go there and then I have a hard time making myself go home- go figure!
I've been quilting up a storm! I've got 16 quilt tops done and waiting to be Sandiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02030373939318573405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29768525.post-55752624283597037092013-04-23T15:59:00.000-04:002013-04-23T15:59:37.762-04:00Waiting...I know that it's been months since I last wrote here on my blog. I'm still waiting on my new craft room to be finished. It's being built by my husband which makes it a labor of love. It's hard to get everything done when you've only got a few hours a week to devote to the project. It's painted now, and the next step is installing the flooring. Same goes for the half bathroom just around the Sandiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02030373939318573405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29768525.post-31912820912857287152013-01-25T09:17:00.001-05:002013-01-25T09:17:39.872-05:00Finding your path to productive creativityWhen I'm inspired to create something it just flows through me like an electric current. From the start to the finish it's like I'm obsessed, no joke! The whole project can take on a life of it's own and my family will be left to starve and go naked because I can do nothing but work on my project until it's completed. Lucky for my family that I'm not obsessed with my current quilting project. I Sandiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02030373939318573405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29768525.post-4575423112584883422013-01-06T15:59:00.003-05:002013-01-06T15:59:37.479-05:00Goals for the New Year
To post more often.
To take MORE pictures.
To teach others how to quilt (I've currently got 2 students)
To take classes- of any kind.
To ride my bicycle MORE. I joined a seasonal cycling group last year (yes I really did). I had a blast too!
To be fit- I mean really fit! I go to the gym but I need to step it up and be more religous about it and my work outs.
To be more open to trying new Sandiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02030373939318573405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29768525.post-80614562076778661802013-01-06T15:49:00.001-05:002013-01-06T15:49:42.207-05:00Creativity for the New Year
Believe it or not, I've been very active in the creativity department (it's just that I've not been posting). I feel bad about not doing any paper crafting- then again ALL of my paper crafting stuff is still packed away in cardboard boxes since something that feel like for forever. All I can be creative with these days is either fabric or food. Since I made a fabulous Chocolate Mousse Cake for Sandiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02030373939318573405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29768525.post-6216139348632821292013-01-06T15:38:00.002-05:002013-01-06T15:38:24.959-05:00A new Year and a New Scrapbook Nook
As it's now 2013 and my scrapbook nook is still under construction. It's a slow process but then again it's being built by my loving husband and by his own two hands. The 2 pictures you see above are the "closets" in my new much larger Crafting Emporium. All of my crafty goodness will be done in this room. The cabinetry is still to be selected (I'm going with white). My floors are going to Sandiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02030373939318573405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29768525.post-88705178927187042952012-10-05T09:25:00.006-04:002012-10-05T09:25:58.485-04:00quote of the day
Joy is not in things; it is in us.
-Richard Wagner
Sandiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02030373939318573405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29768525.post-44841879395355649752012-09-23T18:12:00.003-04:002012-09-23T18:12:25.277-04:00Have you ever...Just looked at yourself wearing an outfit and said...AS IF and then laughed yourself silly? I did that with my newest Cycling Kit. The bike pants are like capri pants only much more form fitting and the jacket, well it's kind of (insert eye roll here) tight. Not much is left to the imagination to this outfit! Then again this stuff is suppose to be form fitting. Heck I feel as if I'm wearing a Sandiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02030373939318573405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29768525.post-61854815841579608812012-09-23T15:48:00.002-04:002012-09-23T15:48:28.970-04:00quote of the day
I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.
Beryl Pfizer
Sandiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02030373939318573405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29768525.post-54859505863614911702012-09-22T16:18:00.001-04:002012-09-22T16:18:49.470-04:00My" To Do" listWe all have them, you know- the never ending "to do" list here's mine...
Do the actual quilting on those pieced table runners. Currently I need to quilt 10 table runners-ugh!
quilt those darn lap quilts! I'm up to what 5? Sheesh!
Clean up that guest room! I've got quilting stuff spread out all over the place in there!
Laundry...need I say more?
Clean upstairs bathrooms (it never ends)
Finish Sandiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02030373939318573405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29768525.post-47666117104584622292012-09-22T15:51:00.004-04:002012-09-22T15:51:41.069-04:00quote of the day
The more you find out about the world,
the more opportunities there are
to laugh at it.
-Bill Nye
Sandiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02030373939318573405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29768525.post-60872139312818364212012-09-17T08:51:00.002-04:002012-09-17T08:51:26.078-04:00Just toodling around...I love this house! I love how I'm able to work through each room, giving it it's own unique stamp and adding in a little of my own personality. To some , walking into a new room in our house is much like walking into a different chapter in a book. I like variety- truly creative people rarely have the same theme going on throughout their home.Sandiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02030373939318573405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29768525.post-73444563714029865412012-09-17T08:45:00.005-04:002012-09-17T08:46:20.626-04:00Quote of the day
If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
-Teena Booth, Falling From Fire
Sandiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02030373939318573405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29768525.post-37932560982541014212012-09-13T08:26:00.005-04:002012-09-17T08:46:32.069-04:00quote of the day
Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes
of their minds,
can change the outer aspects of their lives.
-William James (1842 - 1910)
Sandiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02030373939318573405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29768525.post-90527025773798763472012-09-12T14:33:00.000-04:002012-09-17T08:46:44.868-04:00Laughing at lifeMy goal for myself is to be 50 and fit. I’m working my ass off at the gym- the elliptical machine is one mean lady! I work out on it an hour a day 5 days a week and I feel so much better for it! I also joined a cycling group- oh yeah this is going to be fun!
Now to make you laugh- Bike Shorts! Have you seen them? To say the least, they leave little to the imagination (especially on men, oh yeahSandiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02030373939318573405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29768525.post-33395278492282367832012-09-12T13:09:00.004-04:002012-09-17T08:47:01.581-04:00quote of the day
You never lose a dream.
It just incubates as a hobby.
-Larry Page
Sandiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02030373939318573405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29768525.post-19346870702421726462012-09-10T08:26:00.001-04:002012-09-17T08:47:14.411-04:00To my freinds...First off let me say that I feel blessed for having as many dear friends as I do. There is something to be said by having lived in so many different places over the years and with that comes having made so many terrific and diverse friends!
Being so close to so many does tend to have an effect on me. I feel their pain and their joy. Currently, I have a great many friends that are going Sandiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02030373939318573405noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29768525.post-7442562961595067712012-09-10T07:32:00.002-04:002012-09-17T08:48:06.830-04:00quote of the day
Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.
Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
Sandiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02030373939318573405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29768525.post-2236141964885170572012-08-31T12:36:00.001-04:002012-08-31T12:36:40.335-04:00Exersize...like your life depends on it!I've been going to the gym 3 times a week for a while now and I'm about to step it up to 5 times. I'm serious about getting back into shape and being MORE active than I have been in the past. I'm pretty sure that my doctor will be thrilled to learn that I've jumped off of the ledge and have taken up all sorts of things. I've lost weight and I do feel better about myself and my Sandiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02030373939318573405noreply@blogger.com0Ayer, MA42.5611947 -71.589905442.4676782 -71.7478339 42.6547112 -71.431976900000009tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29768525.post-26662189873274986862012-08-31T10:37:00.001-04:002012-09-17T08:48:19.883-04:00quote of the day
I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes you're lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see, you KNOW they'd crush you if they could. There's honesty.
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T. Campbell and Gisele Lagace
Sandiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02030373939318573405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29768525.post-79983746668642185072012-08-30T15:50:00.000-04:002012-09-17T08:49:09.361-04:00My latest obsession...No, it's not a new "craft" rather it's an activity. I've wanted to get back into bicycling for ages. So, when my husband and I were at a bike shop getting a bicycle packed up so we can ship it to our son in South Dakota- well I started checking out the bikes there. You see, I'd gotten hooked on watching the Tour de France and knew pretty much which bike companies bicycles I Sandiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02030373939318573405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29768525.post-29107523325485385472012-08-30T14:33:00.004-04:002012-09-17T08:49:25.296-04:00quote of the dayWhat do you call a cyclist who doesn't wear a helmet?
An organ donor.
~David PerrySandiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02030373939318573405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29768525.post-85042064014048096872012-08-29T08:21:00.000-04:002012-09-17T08:49:38.354-04:00PURGE and don't feel guilty about it!Here it is, my final push to get rid of the BIG stuff. The emotional baggage that we let ourselves attach to some items is simply ridiculous! Even I am guilty of this very thing I tell people to "get over". So here it is, I'll lay it on the line...I'm guilty of carrying around things such as dishes (our wedding china) that I never liked and rarely ever used. Every time I pulled them Sandiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02030373939318573405noreply@blogger.com0