Hootie-Whoo ~ Baby Owl Quilt

A recent joy for me to make was this DARLING baby quilt.  It was commissioned by a friend, who's grandbaby was on the way & she wanted a special wallhanging for the baby's room.  I looked at the nursery bedding and pondered awhile, and came up with this silly idea.
I had sooo much fun making it! I can't remember the last time I made a baby quilt...and now I remember why I use to make so many of them. They just bring joy - all the bright colors, silly, happy designs, and because they are small,  they are quick & easy to toss together.

Here is Chloe's Hootie Owls Quilt....

Mama Owl

Back

I used 'curls' font for the name, outlined with a button hole stitch.

This picture shows some of the fun freemotion quilting swirls & whirls.

On the back, top 2 corners have a 'pocket' for the hanging rod.

Dragonflies in each corner.

3D leaves added to the tree branch.

Baby owl

Moon

Wonky silly baby owl.

 

Baby Chloe is due in March.  I can't wait to hear how here Mama likes the quilt.

We Officially Have a Smart Kid in the House

Cole recently received the Superintendent's Scholar Award for keeping a 3.5 or above GPA and no discipline problems during his Freshman year at LSHS.  He actually ended up the year with a 4.0 GPA ~ Wahoo!  It was so nice seeing the kids receive their awards.  Good kids! Each one unique, proud, and smiling, with their bright futures, goals and ambitions and all within reach! Wahoo!!!

We're just a little proud of our Cole.... he even dressed up for the occasion!

Our principal, Dr. A.

Superintendent of Schools, Mr. P.

And a SMILING Cole!

Someone got tall!!

Camping October 2013

Thanks to the goobers in Washington DC shutting down all things within the federal govt. during Oct. our planned camping trip to Lake Conasauga (which is in the National Forest system), had to be reworked to a Gordan county park in N GA called Salacoa Creek. So we made the best of it and camped...  It was in the mountains (more or less), it was camping, it had a lake, and we had a great view of the lake from our campsite. The lower part of the campground was CROWDED! People were parked cheek to cheek, and everyone was having fun socializing amongst each other.  But we tend to want a more isolated, quiet spot when we camp - so we were up on the hill, away from the crowds.  We had one camping-neighbor, but they tended to stay in their camper, so no noise from them.

All in all, we had a great time. Blake fished, the boys & I sat around camp reading, and playing McScrabble ...a made up version of scrabble just for fun, and we spent some time hiking at Fort Mountain.  The weather was perfect - cool and refreshing. and Murphy seemed to enjoy his first camping trip, too!
 

Murphy (L) met a friend while hiking, another friendly Golden.



This is Murphy SMILING at Ian, begging for a hotdog. I wish it was in focus,
but he's wiggling so much is hard to get a good picture of that silly smile.

ANOTHER attempt to capture Murphy's smile.
It looks EVIL, but he's just a grinning fool!



The sunrise view from our campsite.