What You Missed Last Week

Let's see..shall we run through the list?

I sent off my part for one of those secret projects that I can't talk about yet as the peeps in charge want to keep it quiet a tiny bit longer. It's going to be SO cool! You'll see soon. Guesses are welcome, I don't think anyone is going to get it though. ;) If anyone did guess right I think I might be so inclined to send you some freebies just as soon as I receive mine.

You missed my entire family minus Dustin becoming violently ill for 3 days. You didn't miss much there.

You missed our water heater breaking Friday night and the basement flooding. Picture me wading through our belongings trying to decide what too keep and what to chuck. You didn't miss much there, but oh how I wish you all were here. You would all probably cry if I told you the amount of ribbon and scrapbook paper that got sent 6 feet under. :(

You missed me making jam with Jessi. :) Mmm Peach Raspberry, Spiced Peach and then Blueberry Peach with Dustin yesterday.

You missed me kissing my husband away for the weekend (after the flood was taken care of-he delayed his departure, what a great guy!) to go to the BYU football game with his Dad. I have heard non-stop tales of barbeque steak and what is actually going on with the disappearing bees. My FIL is one of the biologists heading up that baffling mystery. Sounds like they're getting somewhere, hooray! (Hopefully that isn't all top secret and government MIB won't show up at my door in 10 minutes.)

You missed me braving the movies with my kiddos for the first time alone. Popcorn and pop and 6 of their buddies showing up did the trick and they were good the whole time.

You missed me whooping and hollering finding out that my pattern are finally on their way back from the printer! I'll give you an exact date in a few days.

You missed my widdle baby turning 3. Oh how is that possible? Seriously-he was just 2 weeks old a couple days ago!??

Oh look-you can see a sneak of the pillows I need to share! (I've been waiting until I make the curtains..)

OH-by the way. I get a lot of nice emails. Lots of people ask "is there anything you can't do?" Scoff Snort. YES. A lot of things. The list is very long. Here is exhibit A. Fabric Designer does not equate to cake decorator.

In all honesty, I'm a bit miffed about it. Harumph. Most crafty things do come pretty naturally to me. When they were handing out the talents in Heaven, Heavenly Father decided to bless me with a crafty nature. He skipped the cake section of my brain.

I've even taken classes for it! And every time a birthday rolls around I get all excited because "this must be the birthday I get it right!". I scour the internet for hours looking at cakes and getting ideas and get all excited about digging into a pile of confection and presenting my loved one with a beautifully sculpted mound of love. But they get this:

Other things I am not blessed with? Cutting hair. But for some reason, I haven't stopped trying yet. My family is loving it. I'll keep you posted.

I digress.

You also missed me picking peaches with my wee ones. Picture me atop a rickety ladder in the backyard because the little stinkers wouldn't climb it in my place no matter how many times I told them I would be there to catch them when it broke. So I climbed it in place, tossing peaches down to them with squeals of laughter. The squeals didn't come from me-I was too busy bracing myself against the deck in case the whole thing did come tumbling down but fortunately, we're all still whole.

Oh-if you click on the peach picture and save it to your computer it is actually print sized if you'd like to print it for your kitchen or something. :)

I did however fall in the shower and create a 5" round bruise on my shin that turned BLACK. It's finally easing up into a nice blueberry color after 5 days.

OH-Dustin and I are working our way through 24. We're always late to catch on to things like this which I prefer because we don't have to deal with those horrible cliffhangers! I loathe cliffhangers! So we've been watching 1 or two episodes (aka 3 or 4) each night. I have alway like Keiffer Sutherland and like him even more because if there was going to be a celebrity that looked like Dustin, it would be Keiffer Sutherland. That would be a fun post-side by side comparison. Hmmm..

All right, I've probably rambled enough so that you are wishing me to pop back into a silence. Whew! But I think we're all caught up now and I'll try not to disappear like that again for a while!

Comments

[nadine woodraska]

The jam looks so yummy! It sounds like you have been busy, I can't wait for the patterns how do I order them for my shop?
Your awesome
nadine
the material girls quilts

[Nichole]

Ahhh.... My hubby is obsessed with 24. Enjoy!

[Ruth- Sew Love Fabrics]

Yum, the jam!!! And your sweet little guy with his big boy shirt on, melts my heart :)

[Laurie]

heyyyyy sandiiii....
glad to hear from ya.....you long lost friend, you! sorry i've been so bad at keeping in touch. been the busiest summer ever, since we moved houses, etc.....it's been a blast here in our new place. :)
i just came home from the fabric store with an arm fullllll of fresh "farmer's market" fabrics. yay....gonna get sewin some cute fall jumpers and some quilts for the kiddos.
take care,
laurie
x

[heather hales DESIGNS]

oh that yummy looking jam!!! Let me know if you feel like sharing... Or maybe I should send you a loaf of sourdough- nothing better with raspberry jam!

[Somer]

Sounds like a very busy week. I love the pillows and the jam and i actually think the cake looks tasty (that might be because I am craving chocolate, have I bought any Halloween candy yet?)

Can I guess? Is it a home decor line?

[Jenny]

My guess is a scrapbooking line. But whatever it is I am excited to hear about it.

[Lisa]

Hey Sandi, I've missed you. I am getting a good laugh at your cakes because I have some wonderful pictures myself of some birthday cake failures. My daughter still talks about the time I botched the princess castle cake and nearly died laughing because it was so so bad!

And I'm guessing scrapbook paper or some sort of paper craft for your secret fun? Or perhaps a book is in the works?

Glad your back.

[Kim McBirnie]

Sandi, as always your blog is fab - I've missed being able to pop in and see what's what! Glad to see that you make birthday cakes just like me - they still taste good though, don't they?
Kim xx

[Kathleen]

What lovely photos! My husband and I are also working our way through 24. We saw series two on TV but that's where it stopped on UK terrestrial. It is a case of... just one more episode before bed... We watched the whole of series four whilst on holiday in Scotland (only 5 days)! It's incredibly addtictive!

[Leisa]

copy thAT ;)

[patty]

I must've been right behind ya on the cake dec. and haircuts line. I stink at both of those! LOL!!!

[jackie brown]

Sandi
Thanks for the e-mail and info....I thought I was out of the loop on the patterns. I can't wait....Sounds like you need an extra set of hands..Hope everything is calmer now!

[heather]

I can understand the whole "skipped the cake part of my brain" thing. Since you are gifted in the whole crafty thing, though, maybe you should use a cake-decorating medium that would be more like what you work with everyday....have you ever tried to work with marzipan? You can roll it out, cut designs into it and it's never goopy. Just a thought.

Also, the bag is great. I need one of those. Seriously.

thanks for sharing!

[Linn]

Jam, new pillows, cake, and 24?! These are a few of my favorite things! Sounds like you've got a lot going on right now. Enjoy.

[Becky]

What fun, and what a good BYU Game. We are all happy about that one.

[Emma]

I finally cut into my stack of your Farmers' market fabric and turned some of it into a quilt top which I love. Now I have to figure out how to quilt it to do it justice!

[Stacy]

That jam looks so tasty! I think I know where all the bees went to - my yard! Maybe people just don't plant enough flowers because boy do we have bees. They are so full of pollen they can hardly fly. ;)

Sorry to hear about your basement flooding. :( We have water issues in our basement, so I have to be on constant guard - especially since my sewing machines and all my fabric is down there!

[Diana]

Sandi,

Welcome back! The pillows look gorgeous and...did I notice a new fabric? Or was that just me?

Congratulations on your little guy's big day. Three...I miss three. My DD is 5 & 1/2 going on 15 and time has just been too quick.

The jam looks so delicious that it's inspiring me to make some of my own. I think a fruit pickung trip is in order very soon. And the cake? Personally, I think it looks yummy! I'll bet your family loved it.

[tina]

I noticed that you had popcorn and POP! Yay! Where did you grow up because not many of us call it pop. I am from western New York and I get teased about it all the time!

[Min]

Well...I relate to a lot of this post. For one, we went to swimming lessons one day and came home to a house that had burned down. i too threw away remnants of charred scrapbooks and papers and one of a kind photos and and and. Very few things really matter compared to the family and nobody was home. Whew. So I feel your pain about the flood. BLEH.
Secondly, my son the baby turns two in 2 weeks. How on earth did that happen???
AND...I somehow CAN cut my kids hair (it's curly which hides the mistakes I suppose) and I am making great cakes these days. Can't draw a design or sew worth a darn. I guess we go together like peanut butter and jelly. :)
Is your new project - papers? Or a crafty photo shoot in Martha? Something I can buy I hope.

[Min]

Oops...I meant my son also turns THREE in 2 weeks.

[Myra Gutzwiler]

Great looking jam! I,ve been "putting up" too! Blackberry jam, dried pears, canned pears, and on and on. When can I take time to sew? I'm guessing you have a new line of fabrics coming out! Can't wait to see! I hace Grandkids birthdays coming up, so I have some great flannel for jammies and quilts. Have a super week! Myra

[Jess]

My littlest just turned 3 a few weeks ago...your secret project...I hope its boy patterns! Cute stuff for boys is ALWAYS wanted and needed in my house!

[geeta]

OMG Sandi!

Is there any part of your life you didn't cover here? And you write about the ups and downs with so much humour!

Lovely to catch up with you- it put a smile on my face reading through it all....