chickenfoot

gas prices friday!!

we are just 4 cents away from hitting $4 a gallon. this is actually an improvement, as i noticed wed. that the price was $3.99. what are some of the prices around the country?  i have heard that chicagoland has some of the highest gas prices in the u.s, but i dont know....

i am feeling kind of strange right now, i dont have a swap that needs working on!  it feels kind of nice tho.  i have mailed out the last two swaps i entered this past week, both the lemonade stand doll quilt swap and the 6"-12" quilt swap. which leaves my little coin quilt that i started last month. it is the first quilt i have made especially for me. i am working on the hand quilting, and hope to be done tomorrow with that, and possibly get to binding it this weekend. i decided to quilt it with circles. i will post a pic when its done.

just a pic of the sun going down across the street.

jill tagged me for a meme, so here goes

The rules of the game get posted at the beginning. Each player answers the questions about themselves. At the end of the post, the player then tags 5-6 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know they’ve been tagged and asking them to read your blog. Let the person who tagged you know when you’ve posted your answer.

1. what was i doing ten years ago?

um geez. pretty much what i am doing now. homeschooling my, then, almost 5 yr old daughter.  doing some sort of craft or another. just you know, being a mom and a wife.

2.five things on my to do list today:

laundry, cleaning the bird cage/taking care of the bird, dishes, do the bills, work on my quilt

3.snacks i enjoy:

pasta salad, raisins, fruit, popsicles,fudgesicles

4. things i would do if i was a billionaire:

make sure that everyone in my family and close friends has the main things they need(cars, house, etc.). open my own shop, some sort of art/crafts/quilting store.buy that house that i love in lindenhurst. donate like crazy

5.five places i have lived:

racine, wi, kenosha,wi, mundelein,il, gurnee, il, altamonte springs, fl.

6. people that i want to know more about:

barbara, pasha, jacquie, laurajay, and sarah you have been officially tagged!

i wanted to give you this link, because i thought it was so pretty, at lionbrand. the way they have it set up tho makes it look like a bikini bottom a normal person would not be caught dead wearing!

just gas

im not feeling well so i am going to bed early. before i do tho, i wanted to post the gas price. i did notice this same gas station had the price up to 3.89 yesterday, so this is an improvement!

off to bed with me. hope everyone is having a good friday nite.

rainbows and gasoline

i have decided to call this gas prices friday. my family at the present only has one car. because of this i dont always notice the price of gasoline. i thought it would be interesting to keep track of the price over the summer. hey it doesnt take much to impress me, i tell ya! so for this week we are at $3.75 a gallon. does anyone know why gas is sold with the tenths of a cent thingy there??? i mean do they think we are getting a bargain because they dont charge us $3.76?? i say aw heck they are taking so much of my money anyhoo, they can have the extra 1/10th of a penny!

most fridays you can find me in a coffee shop hanging with the girls. we originally met and beaded together. now we mostly just yak.  one of our favorite things to do together tho is too eat and watch scary movies(cheesy scary movies are good too). a few fridays back my one friend kelly wanted to know how to crochet, so she could make a plastic bag, out of plastic bags. per usual, she sent me the link and i checked out how to do it and told her what she needed to bring......

first pic is of what i accomplished

and what kelly made....

isnt it great??  its made entirely of target bags! it is a nice sized bag too. i cant imagine how many she used. the little circle that i made up there was i think two bags. i did make it a bit bigger but not much

her daughter has of course confiscated it, but i just love that it is a bag made from bags that might have been thrown out . i need to finish mine. i think i need to start a list of things i need to finish!!

while we were at barnes and noble tonight there was a storm and then this lovely double rainbow

you can tell i took the photo from the window inside as there is a backwards cafe sign in it!! nice photography skills, huh? in case you cant tell im being sarcastic

this is the doll quilt that i am sending my partner in the lemonade stand doll quilt swap. i had originally made it for doll quilt swap 3, but wasnt happy with how many seams it had, since i like to hand quilt. it would have been a bear to hand quilt!! but this swaps quilts are more likely to be actually used by a child, so i decided that it would be ok to use this one and machine quilt it.

here's the back. the fabric is dick and jane. thats a battery on top of the label to hide my partners name