How Cool is This?

I always thought that all my quilting buddies lived in my computer. But yesterday afternoon I had a real, live blogging friend come over! How cool is that? It was Vicki of Felines and Fibre Arts. She had a give-away last week and I won one of the prizes. Again - how cool is that? Since Vicki lives in Toronto, she brought my winnings over in person! Now I ask you, how cool is that? Tres, cool = no?

Look at what I won! Eight fat quarters of black and white fabrics! Cool - right? And two meters of Amy Butler fabrics in pink and turquoise. More cool, - yeah! And also a box of Nestle's dark chocolate delicacies! It just doesn't get any cooler than that folks!

Vicki also showed me the quilt she has been working on over the past few weeks. It is all quilted and she is giving it to her friend today. I was so happy that I was able to see it before she gave it away. I have been following her progress with this quilt on her blog for weeks. It looks good in her photos, but I have to tell you..... it looks absolutely amazing in real life! The colours are fantastic! The fabrics are beautiful and the quilting is totally unique and awesome! She used a friend's embroidery machine to download outlines of dinosaurs and then quilted those shapes with the embroidery machine! I didn't know this was possible. The outcome was stunning! Go check it out! Now how cool is that?

I Love My Post

Sometimes I wonder why I retired. I seem to have more to do now that I am supposed to be relaxing and enjoying life. My DH thinks that I now have two full time jobs - blogging and quilting. He might be right. Finding time to be creative and also time to read and keep up with all those blogs is not easy. Sometimes there just aren't enough hours in the day - or night.

Another thing I seem to have trouble with are the comments. I love comments. The more the better! But I also think that it is good blog etiquette to send replies to each commenter as long as each of them allows his/her email address to show. I often get replies on the comments I leave on other people's blogs and I enjoy that! Now the question I have is this: Is there an easy way to reply to the comments? A way of getting the comment to show up on the reply along with the title of the post and the blog that the comment was left on. Am I making sense? Is there a 'reply' button or something to click on? Don't forget, I am still somewhat computer illiterate, even though I am getting better. Any help would be appreciated.

I finally finished this week's Friday Block Party block. The pattern is called, "Wyoming Valley". You can find info on my sidebar. It is a 12in block. I am not sure what I will do with future 12in blocks, but I decided to go with a bright look. Someone on the Block Party blog made a comment that this block has 68 pieces in it. And she is right! It took me almost three hours to put this baby together. Needless to say I doubt if I will be making many more of these!

I put the block on the floor in order to get a photo and Felix came right over to look at it, but he didn't even touch it. He actually turned his back to it and 'hugged' his scratching post. I wondered if he liked it or not.

"Hey Felix. Don't you like my block?"

"Purrrrr, I love my post!"

"I know what you mean. I love posting too. This blogging thing is the best!"

"No, I mean, I love my scratching post!"

"Oh."

I Changed the Look of My Blog!

Well, I finally did it! I changed the look of my blog. I have been playing around on this computer for the better part of today. I wanted to put some things in my sidebar and was not able to get into the 'layout'. I thought I would never be able to figure this stuff out, but then I changed the template and everything just fell into place. I think I was still using a very old template from when I first started my blog. Speaking of that.... it is almost exactly three years ago (3 years and 2 days to be exact) that Mimi thought she wanted to tell the world about my creative endeavours! Thanks Mimi. This blogging is the greatest!

Meow!