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A Valentine

Lysa February 14, 2013 2

Yup, this is me and my Valentine, a bazillion years ago! Oh my god we were BABIES and we thought we were so grown up! I think we’re about 14 here, Chris might have been 15! BABIES! I tell you BABIES!!!! We never seemed to take any photo’s of ourselves back then either. Good thing my Dad wanted to get a photo of this motor bike! I snatched this photo from a pile of bike photo’s at his place a few years ago (actually like a good girl, I asked first).

I wish you and yours a lovely Valentine’s day, with lots of chocolates and unexpectedly happy surprises, like this Valentine I received from Miss Cynthiaf! Wasn’t that sweet of her!

Hurry up, Ketcup and Mustard! (Part 4 of 6)

Lysa February 4, 2013 2

Ketchup-ing… I mean catching up! October’s Fab Bee block, Eryn’s month. I posted my progress each day on Instagram. Can you guess what Eryn’s theme was?

Day one

Day two

Day three

Day four

Day five

It’s a piranha plant from Super Mario!

My brave husband, Chris did a Super Mario Bob-omb for the Bee! I love those guys!

Hurry Up, Ketchup and Mustard (with Sprinkles on top!) Part 3 or 6

Lysa January 21, 2013 5

Hundreds and thousands is what they call sprinkles in South Africa apparently. Who knew? Berene was September’s Queen bee from the Fab Bee and she sent out this wonderful package loaded with goodies! Some of these goodies really saved my butt at Christmas time when decorating cupcakes! Thank you Berene!

It was an intense block but partly because I was determined to use up ever speck of fabric sent. Mission accomplished! All I had left over was a few grey scraps… well actually I stole some from Chris’s pack because I was a little short on the the grey. Shhh don’ t tell, I don’t think he noticed.

It’s going to be an amazing quilt, it really does look like sprinkles, or hundreds and thousands as they say in South Africa, doesn’t it!

We kept Chris’s block a little more simple and we even had some coloured fabric left over to send back to Berene, no grey though… shhh

Hurry up, Ketchup and Mustard-Part 2 of 6

Lysa January 15, 2013 0

Yesterday I posted about my need to hurry up an ketchup… or catch up, rather, on my blocks in our Fab Bee! Today I’m going to show Ellen’s blocks from, gulp, August. Ellen wanted everyone to do owls. Right away when Chris,my husband, found out what the theme was, he automatically said “I know what I want to do!”. When he told me, I immediately started to say, “You can’t do that, that’s way to advanced!” But then I remembered back to Cynthia’s block. It was the first block kicking off the bee and the theme was hearts. Chris told me he wanted to an anatomical heart. I talked him out of it saying that was way to advanced. Well, Amy did one and it was awesome! Chris was a little choked with me when he saw how fantastic it turned out. So I bit my tongue and this is what he came up with. Luckily I knew Ellen has an awesome sense of humour.

For my block it was just after we had Sonja from Artiziania come talk to our guild. I bought one of her owl paper pieced patterns. I had never done one before! It was so fun and now I’m so addicted!

I love buttons and I have a coveted secret button stash, which I only use under special circumstances. Ellen’s owl was one such circumstance!

I would even go as so far to say it was a HOOT! See what I did there, wink, wink!

Hurry up, Ketchup and Mustard! Part 1 of 6.

Lysa January 14, 2013 2

Yup, hurry up, Ketchup and Mustard! A little saying I like to say to my kids when we need to get going. Speaking of needing to get going, somewhere between July and November a lot of life happened and I really ended up behind on my Fab Bee blocks. To quote Professor Farnsworth in Futurama, “Good news everyone!” I recently caught up! Well… some what. I still have to do Bea’s December block of stars and recently received Sherri’s rainbow fabric for her January block. Kinda not feeling too caught up anymore but remember my new years resolution. It’s not about git n’ r done, it’s about enjoying myself while I’m doing it.

Just to make sure this isn’t such an epic post I’m going to break it into 5 posts: one for each person’s block. Which makes this post part 1 of 5, starting with July and Darlene’s Block. Oh and I’ll also be posting my husband’s blocks too. It started out as a joke that we needed a dude in our bee (we also really want one in our guild too but sadly no takers-yet!). When I was telling Chris how I jokingly volunteered him for our bee with all seriousness he said he would do it. Okay, sure then!

This is my block, I don’t know what it is with this block, it’s the second time I’ve done it. The last time it was for the Unscripted bee I was in. I fought it then and I ended up fighting this one too. Although I’m pretty happy with the results. (Whispering, I think I won the fight!)

I like to do a little drawing with each block. I have a little somethin’ up my sleeve with what I’m going to do with them!

TA DA-Chris’s block. I can tell he’s getting addicted slightly, he’s coming home with quilt design ideas! I told him when he’s done his quilt he has to come into our guild to show it off! Don’t you agree! He totally should, shouldn’t he?