Precious pink bunting blocks - Building Blocks Tuesday

Did you all feel that strange rumbling yesterday?  Like a tiny earthquake?  No need to worry, it was just me, doing the happy dance.  The girls returned to school yesterday, and even though it is only half days all this week, I am extremely pleased.

Please don't misunderstand.  I have had a great summer with the girls.  We had a lovely vacation, and for the first summer ever, I didn't schedule them in camps for the rest of their summer.  So, we got plenty of quality time.  However, it has also meant that it looks like we are camping in our new house, as at least half of our stuff is still either in boxes or in random places throughout the house. Time for me to get organized and make this place a home!

Yesterday, we took a big step forward and started having some closets installed in their bedrooms.  The guys should finish up sometime today and I will finally be able to put their clothes and books away in their proper places.  No more shoes in a giant box.  No more books in the dirty laundry hamper.  I will likely be sorting stuff out for the rest of the week, but at least I now have a place to put everything!

I don't have any new blocks to share of my own this week, but as it is my month in the We Bee With It Bee, I have received these adorable bunting blocks from two of my bee mates, Katie and Celeste.  Thank you, ladies!  I'm hoping to make a precious little quilt for Olivia's new PINK room.





What blocks have you working on this week?  I would love to see.  Link up your fabulous blocks.  You put a lot of hard work into them - show them off!  This free linky will stay open until the first Monday of next month, but I will repost it every Tuesday until a new month starts.

Rules:

1) Please link up only to the page in your blog showing your wonderful blocks, not just the blog homepage.  Flickr and Instagram pictures are also OK.
2) Make sure to put your blog name as the description so people know where they are going or the name of your block!
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Thanks for reading,

Jen

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Highly distracted - Building Blocks Tuesday

Have you seen the back to school commercials where the moms and dads are riding the shopping carts through the store while "It's the most wonderful time of the year" is playing in the background?  Boy, can I relate.  While I am not necessarily school shopping in bliss, I AM looking forward to the kids going back to school.  I am actually counting the minutes.  Seriously.  It is 6 days, 2 Hours, 59 minutes, and about 2 seconds.

It's not that I haven't enjoyed spending the last few weeks catering to my kids every desire...well, OK, that isn't exactly my style.  It is just that I have grown tired of not being able to get anything done with them around.  Oh, I suppose a few things get done, but they are so disjointed and full of distractions that I doubt they even count.  I certainly don't feel any sense of accomplishment or happiness in doing them.  The endless distraction just sucks the worth right out of my tasks.

Do you know what I mean?

Take these fun blocks I made for Katie at Karma Willow Designs (click link for block instructions).  They should have been "fun", but I did them in such tiny baby steps that I didn't get the usual enjoyment out of sewing them.  I'm talking sewing 2 seams and having to stop for 2 days kind of progress.  I am really out of my rhythm.



I have 4 more of these to make for Katie this week.  She has been wonderfully patient, but it is time.  And it is time for these darn kids to go back to school too so I can get some stuff DONE (even if it is just one simple thing!).


What blocks have you working on this week?  I would love to see.  Link up your fabulous blocks.  You put a lot of hard work into them - show them off!  This free linky will stay open until the first Monday of next month, but I will repost it every Tuesday until a new month starts.

Rules:

1) Please link up only to the page in your blog showing your wonderful blocks, not just the blog homepage.  Flickr and Instagram pictures are also OK.
2) Make sure to put your blog name as the description so people know where they are going or the name of your block!
3) Please grab my button and post it in your blog post or sidebar.
4) Visit other linky participants!

Thanks for reading,

Jen

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Still catching up - Building Blocks Tuesday

Still catching up!



I made these fun Quasar Stars for Celeste in my We Bee With It group.  She is making a medallion quilt for Quilts of Valor and wanted these stars to go around the center.  I am very interested to see how it turns out!



The chaos continues around here.  As if a new house, new projects, and soon a new school wasn't enough "new" for us, we also adopted a puppy over the weekend.  Well, actually we are in our one week trial period.  He is a very sweet boy, but has clearly had some trauma in his life.  He is good around the kids, but won't let my husband get near him.  We will need to make some progress on that front this week!  Wish us luck!

What blocks have you working on this week?  I would love to see.  Link up your fabulous blocks.  You put a lot of hard work into them - show them off!  This free linky will stay open until the first Monday of next month, but I will repost it every Tuesday until a new month starts.

Rules:

1) Please link up only to the page in your blog showing your wonderful blocks, not just the blog homepage.  Flickr and Instagram pictures are also OK.
2) Make sure to put your blog name as the description so people know where they are going or the name of your block!
3) Please grab my button and post it in your blog post or sidebar.
4) Visit other linky participants!

Thanks for reading,

Jen

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Back in the saddle again - Building Blocks Tuesday

Blocks!  Well, block, to share.  I am happy to report that I am unpacked enough to find the elusive power cord for my machine and get a few minutes of sewing in here and there.   I spent one late night trying to make this Bunting Block for Jenni in my Bee Hive group.




It might have been a little TOO late.  I got as far as sewing the rows together and noticed there was something off.



Yep, that blasted pinwheel was spinning the wrong way!  And of course, the way I had put it together meant that the whole thing had to be unpicked.  But, as you can see from the top pic, I managed to get it right in the morning.

I liked this block so much that I choose it for the blocks I will be receiving from my We Bee With It bee members.  I asked for white blocks with pink buntings, just like the tutorial HERE.  I think it will make a darling quilt for Olivia who adores pink everything.

The house is coming along.  I am still not completely unpacked and it has been a couple of weeks since we moved in.  The kids are wanting constant entertainment, so I've only been doing a couple of boxes a day.  We are also installing those organized closets in their rooms, so many of their boxes are waiting for that to happen before I even open a box to unpack.

Aside from the closets, there is quite a lot of work to be done around here.  We bought an older home that had had some of its maintenance deferred.   So it feel like every other day I have one contractor or another coming to either fix something or give me a quote to fix things.  On Friday last, I had six different contractors at the house for various things.  On the agenda for this week: a new water heater and bids for some flooring that needs to be replaced.  Nonstop fun around here!

We are enjoying being "in the country".  While I do miss the ocean air and view, I do not miss having ten other families within a stones throw of our door.  Nor do I miss the sound of sirens at all hours since we lived within a block of a major street leading to the hospital.  It is not exactly quiet here.  Our neighbors below us on the hill have various animals, so we hear the rooster crow in the morning, the sheep bleating a little later, and the occasional turkey gobble!  Luckily, they are just far enough away to be a welcoming sound of morning and not a jarring alarm clock.  We also have a bunny problem.  There is rarely an evening I don't drive in where there are at least five bunnies on our lawn nibbling away.  As, I have big plans for a year round vegetable garden, I have mixed feeling about seeing their little cotton tails.

I'm sure I will be sharing more about our adventures in weeks to come.  Meanwhile, what blocks have you working on this week?  I would love to see.  Link up your fabulous blocks.  You put a lot of hard work into them - show them off!  This free linky will stay open until the first Monday of next month, but I will repost it every Tuesday until a new month starts.

Rules:

1) Please link up only to the page in your blog showing your wonderful blocks, not just the blog homepage.  Flickr and Instagram pictures are also OK.
2) Make sure to put your blog name as the description so people know where they are going or the name of your block!
3) Please grab my button and post it in your blog post or sidebar.
4) Visit other linky participants!

Thanks for reading,

Jen

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