Week Catch Up

In 2006 I went on a retreat in Lancaster ,PA with one of my online groups and one of the women, Sharon had started this quilt called Women of the Bible ( apic of the finished quilt is near the bottom of the page) Now even though I have fabric dye and white kona, I decided against making mine in her fabric choice. I'm making mine scrappy with what I have here. Some are applique (grrrrr) most are pieced. Paper piecing works best I'm finding. Look at the Joseph's Coat, there are 49 pieces in the 6" block.Yikes! I never did a Dear Jane or the Civil War quilt because of all the tiny pieces. I believe I'm over that now. There's a really good Bible study that focuses on each woman for a week at a time. I've been do it on and off for a year or so and only had 8 blocks to show for it. Well I started it again the other week and am almost caught up for restarting in January. This week we read about Moses's mother. But I am going to cheat a tad and try and get the blocks for July and August done now so that when it's packing and moving time I'll be set *VBG* and can just concentrate on the readings






I'ts going to be a Christmas present and the study guide for my mil eventually. My setting won't be like the original either- to narrow and long
Ok I was cleaning out the memory card and found a couple more pictures from the gardens so I swear, these are it :)






Some kind of begonia - I never saw one like this before. Very lacey looking flowers.....



Finally, before hubby left I grabbed 5 or so quilts for him to take to Buffalo and I found Nancy on them:

Both she and Moose are lost without hubby here.....

Buffalo Botanical Gardens revisited

It's offical- Guru ( aka Hubby) left Saturday morning to start his new job on 3/2. Personally I would have take last week off and went up to get things like furniture, stoves and fridges delivered FIRST!!! But the sexes disagree on important things.



Poor man got there around 4 PM on Saturday went to the apartment and guess what???!! No heat! All the thermostat said was under
50*! Lovely- no heat is an emergency in Buffalo so he only had to wait till about 9:30 PM for them to come turn it on again! Poor guy, good thing I sent him with 5 quilts * wink*



Friday night my mil took the family out for a belated bday dinner for DD. Afterwards we went and finally rolled the bolt of batting onto the bar for the quilting frame! Yippee! No more guessing at the amount needed and either having too much or too little !!!



One of the last things I asked the love of my life Thursday or Friday was how to use the snow thrower. He told me I didn't need to know since we weren't going to need it anymore.LOL- liar!!!

Here's what yahoo weather has to say about tonight and tomorrow's weather:

TOTAL ACCUMULATIONS ARE EXPECTED TO RANGE FROM 4 TO 8 INCHES OVER
ORANGE AND WESTERN PASSAIC COUNTIES...TO 10 TO 14 INCHES ACROSS
CENTRAL LONG ISLAND AND SOUTH CENTRAL CONNECTICUT.FOR THE NEW YORK CITY METRO AREA...8 TO 12 INCHES OF
SNOWFALL IS EXPECTED So guess who doesn't know how to use the snow thrower and we have a very long driveway??? Ok I only need to do 1/3 of it as it's shared but it's still 2 cars wide by the garage and pretty big! I hope our uncle can get it started if I need it.



But here are the last of the pics from Valentine's Day weekend when I was in Buffalo with hubby. Let the adventure begin...........

More pretty flowers

Couple more pics of the gardens- I have a few more to upload soon.

More Botanical Gardens Pics

Tired of all the pretty flowers yet? Imagine if I had more than 25 minutes to take pictures of everything. In the spring /summer I'm sure the out door gardens will be blooming. I wonder if they have calla lilies....

More Buffalo Botanical Gardens pics

Hubby's New Job

Could you stand to work in a place as beautiful as this every day?
These are pics of The Buffalo Erie Botanical Gardens in Buffalo, NY.Hubby starts in March. More pics will be coming this week. I think I took 30 or so :)