Life @ RuffHaven

post card mail art

Just wanted to pop in and show you what I made out of a gift bag, a napkin and some lace paper.

Lenna has organized another post card swap and I could not resist playing along.

But of course I procrastinated and the due date snuck up on me........

so I gathered a few things that were nearby and made three small post card collages.

Hope you are enjoying these last few days of Summer.

Marianne

Top 5 ways to tell if you are a Real Quilter

First an update for the stay at home round robin.

round two - we were asked to incorporate triangles in a three inch border.

I chose to make mine irregular and I will add some decorative stitching

to give it a crazy quilt effect.

Are you a Quilter?

Just in case you were wondering.....

here are 5 tell tell signs

there's more fabric than food in your house

your ironing board is always set up ....but you never iron clothes

you believe in UFOs

you have called off work more than once because you needed to finish a project

if you clean up your sewing room your family thinks you are leaving home

Are you laughing?

Are you nodding your head?

Do at least four of these statements apply to you?

Welcome !

You are a Real Quilter

We have a winner - Fall Journal

The winner of the Fall Journal offered as a gift during the

Fall Fun Blog Hop

Kim over at Stamp-a-Rama

Kim I'll be sending you an email to request your address.

To everyone else who requested the template for the purse gift card holders,

I will be sending it out by the end of the week.

Thanks everyone. I had fun ....hope you did too

edited to say ....boo hoo....Kim you are a no reply blogger.
I will leave a comment on your blog so you will have my email...
.if I do not hear form you by Saturday I will need to choose another winner

edited again:
Yay ! Kim contacted me and her gift will be in the mail tomorrow !

We have a winner - Fall Journal

The winner of the Fall Journal offered as a gift during the

Fall Fun Blog Hop

Kim over at Stamp-a-Rama

Kim I'll be sending you an email to request your address.

To everyone else who requested the template for the purse gift card holders,

I will be sending it out by the end of the week.

promises --- a real day in my life

THE DOORS

It was Sunday morning.

Lifeguard said

" You sleep in today, I'll walk the dogs"

I mumbled

"aww... thank you...you're so sweet"

I rolled over and swiftly fell back to sleep, just in time to jump back into

the dream I was enjoying before the dogs thundered onto the bed.

I woke up again at 9:30

I must have been tired to have slept that long.

I thought it would be a great day to just work on some projects that

somehow piled up on my dining room table.

I finished up the center square of a Round Robin Quilt.

I wrote a post about it on my SewRuffHaven.

I also posted my pics in the Flickr Group.

I took a gazzillion photos of Goldie.

Her leg is healing nicely, but she is still so upset

because she is not allowed to chase the squirrels.

I tweeted about Goldie....yes I tweet.

Surprised? I don't promote myself on Twitter,

but I do use it to communicate with some online friends.

Not the intended use,
I know, but it is a quick way to "talk" to all your friends at once.
Occasionally I will shout out that I have room for another dog.
and my blog posts are announced on twitter too.

I checked FaceBook....yeah, I am on there too.

Not much, and I think I have about 30 friends...

if you friend me and I " know" you... I'll accept

...But I really don't go looking for people.

I guess am a bit on the edge of "why am I on FB?"

so by now it is a little after noon

I walked the dogs down to the stream for some rejuvenating exercise.

Oh then I was ready for my nap.

I do take a 30 minute nap everyday.

The dogs taught me that a nap a day is very good for you.

When I woke up I had to finish a blog post

for a LaborDay Blog Hop over on PaperPlay .

I was starting to wonder what I would have for dinner,

happy, because my day is so pleasant and peaceful.

OH SHIT !

I promised Lifeguard I would paint the side door of the garage !

Oh No...It's 4 f 'n :30 and I forgot about the door .

Shit Shit Shit. huff .....
I should have done this in the morning...instead of sleeping in.

I bought the paint the day before and Lifeguard laughed and said something like

" Only two days left to honor your promise to paint the door before the end of Summer"

I replied in my best ' i'm right and you're wrong ' snotty voice,

" Well Summer doesn't officially end until September 23, 5:04 A.M.,

which is the minute before Autumn will begin"

I puffed my chest out all proud of myself for having that

bit of knowledge stored in my cluttered brain.

But I did make a promise,

and in Lifeguard's brain, Summer ends on LaborDay.....

so I gathered my supplies.

The butter knife is for opening the paint and the glass pan is for holding the paint.

...I was too lazy to go down to the basement to get the proper tools.
Plus I was in a bit of a hurry now

After about 1/2 hour of cleaning and painting .

I was finished with the first coat.
when it dies it will match the other door perfectly.

and I only got a little bit of paint on one finger

With the first coat out of the way I could go back

to organizing my pins on Pinterest.

* hangs head *

yes I am on there too...but in my defense ...I only have 8 boards

Later that evening Lifeguard came home and smiled in approval

"Thank you for painting the doors" he said
"I'm sure your online friends missed you today"

HA!
I smiled....and thought to myself...
how long does he think it takes to paint a door?

Internetingly Yours,