Ryan while he was here 2 weeks ago

This first picture he is showng me his hat and gloves his aunt Erin bought him. The 2nd picture he is in our back field helping his pawpa look for a leak. The rest he is learning to ride his bike with Aunt Erin's help. Then he figures it out on his own.

New Quilt: Quilt Of Many Colors

Here is a quilt I'm working on that I call a quilt of many colors. All of the material seen was given to me from several ladies in our Church except 2 of the colors. The green print and the bright pink/red I bought. This one has been claimed already.

Baby Blanket and burp cloth

I made this blanket and burp cloth Monday for a friend in the church who just had her 4th child.
The first picture is the blanket the second is the burp cloth

My Husband is becoming a frugal shopper

Every since I got 2-free tickets for an internet business training how to sell things on e-bay, yahoo and more for Tuesday evening the 22nd he has been even more excided about looking for marked down items.


This is so neat my husband Casey works at Home Depot and is always coming home with new things he's found marked down. He comes home all excited I can always tell when he gets out of the car if he has bought something he has this Big smile on his face and starts telling me how much he saved on the item. Here are a few things he found this week. He has already bought 2 floor lamps one was $38.00 and he got it for $7.00 another one was $ 80.00 and he got it for $17.00. He got a me a toaster oven that bakes, toast, does pizza and is wonderful to bake biscuits (since my oven just went out on me) He got it marked down but I forgot how much it was. This week he came home all excited because he found ceramic tile marked down he would of had to pay $400.00 at regular price and got 8 boxes for $80.00 he also came home with 2 fajita iron skillets with wooden trays. He got the cabinets we were going to put in our kitchen several months back, original price was $ 2,800.00 he got them for $600.00. Yesterday he came home with 2 microwave stands and said hey we can sell these, regular price was $83.79 he got them for $20.00 each (hey I want one of them). OK enough here are the pictures of a few items he found.

From Hillbilly house wife site

Reader Questions
“Can I freeze the overnight bread to bake later. When in the recipe would it be best to freeze.” - Anonymous
Great question. If you’ve been making the family bread which results in 4 loafs of bread, and like me you don’t have a particularly large family, you don’t really need that much bread all at once.
Here’s what I do and it works with just about any yeast dough bread recipe…
I prepare the recipe per direction up to the point where you shape the dough into the final shape (i.e. loaf, rolls etc.). I don’t let it rise, instead I stick it in the freezer. If I’m baking bread, I put it in the baking pan to shape, then stick everything (pan and dough) into a large freezer bag and stick it in the freezer overnight.
I take it out of the bread pan the next morning and store it in a freezer bag. The dough will rise nicely as it thaws, then bake as usual.

Large tote bag

Here is a large tote bag that I made, I'm getting better at figuring out how to do them even though I don't have a pattern.

Tote Bags

Here's a tote bag that I made last night. I didn't have a pattern to use I just decided how big I wanted it and cut it out and made it. The fabric I used to make all of the items seen on this blog except the purple material for the quilt was given to me by my friend Angela Turack (thank you Angela). God provided these through a dear friend. The material on the tote bag has frogs and butterflies, I will be making more soon.

Here are 2 more items I made.

OK I know I'm probably boring some of you with all of my pictures, but I am having so much fun doing these. The first picture is another changing pad. The second is a larger baby blanket.

I GIVE UP :(

OK I have to admit that I can't seem to get the nursing blankets to work, I wanted to make them for my daughter in-law Rebekah and a couple of other moms, but the straps and the length didn't seem to want to work. Maybe I'll keep trying, but for right now I will continue to make the burp cloths, baby changing pad ( it's as long as the baby) so that the baby fits on all of it, baby blankets and quilts of all kinds. A friend told me about a friend of hers that makes quilted hand bags and will be getting the pattern for me to make them so we will see how those turn out. I am enjoying my sewing machine and am thankful for it. DON'T I have some nice children who bought it for me.

Baby Changing Pad

Well it's not a good picture but it's cute in person. It is big enough for a baby to lay on while changing his/her diaper.

Pink Baby Blanket

You really can't see the blanket very well. I'm having fun doing these, they may not be professional but with time I will get better that's why I'm making these for practice.

And Here Comes Another One

Here's a pink burp cloth.

Quilting Up-Date

OK here's the burp cloth and the nursing blanket. The nursing blanket didn't turn out the way I wanted it to so, I will try again until I get it right it has a pocket for a nursing pad. The burp cloth was easy since it's like quilting.
I have one more idea for the nursing blanket so we will see if it works.

My Quilt is coming along great

My Quilt is getting bigger and I'm having a great time working on it, I'm not able to work on it everyday because of not feeling well and not being able o sit long periods of time. I'm hoping to be able to get it finished soon, this one is a practice one then I will be making more to sell Lord willing. My friend Robyn Fritz who quilts a lot sent me a pattern for place mats that I'm hoping to include in my collection of quilting items. OK here is the current progress of the quilt.

Free Facial

free facial

Hey everyone I started a Mary Kay business and I'm in a contest to do 15 facials in 15 days! So if any one is interested in helping me with my training and wants a free facial or wants to host a skin care class ( you can earn free mary kay products) then email me or give me a call at 210-836-7706. You can also check out my website at www.marykay.com/ewalker61 Please pass along to any friends you may know that might be interested. thanks,Erin

Full size Quilt in the works

OK here is a picture of the full size quilt I'm working on. It is taking a long time to do because I get tired and have to stop (very frustrating). still have a long ways to go putting each square together. I'm not a Pro but am working on getting there.