Bad Blogger!!

Little self-scold there… seeing as I’ve been such a crap blogger lately.

Not a whole lot new here. Been working on my quilting a lot and doing some knitting.. my scarf should be done just in time for when I’ll need it hehe.

This is the example of the block I’m working on this week. I’ll pop a pic up of mine when I have it completed. It’s a bit of a pain with the curved sides and it needs to be measured so -exact- so that everything matches up properly. So far so good though, I think I’ve got this one nailed. It looks better with my fabrics, in my opinion, than those ugly blue/yellow flowery ones … but I guess I’m a bit biased.

I also have a photo of the shop where I take the class. The area we work in is in the basement so you can’t see it. You can, however, see the quilt I’ve decided to work on as a side project. Here is a closer photo. This is the first one I saw when I first walked into the shop and really loved it, so I’m going to have a go at making that one as well. I’ve started collecting the diff fabrics for it and will cut out all the triangles and see how it goes.

Myself and a few of the girls have decided to start swimming. There is a place here in Rotterdam called Tropicana, which is basically an indoor tropical paradise, from what I hear. We are going to go there maybe 1-2 times a week and just have some fun splashing around. I’m sure the exercise wouldn’t kill me and I think the whole tropical (fake) sunny atmosphere might work well in battling my winter blues this year.

A few weeks ago I bought our first proper diningroom table, from Ikea of course. I’ve always wanted a white table with a pedestal leg and when I saw this one I absolutely had to have it. It can be made bigger as well, which is great. Not that we have company that often but when we do it will be great! The extension parts fit into a compartment under the table, I love that. I remember what a pain it always was lugging around the extensions for my mother’s wooden table.

I planned to get these chairs to go with it but they weren’t available at the time. I actually just checked as I was getting the photo and they ARE available now, so I’ll definately be going to get those this week!! Right now we have the brown wooden chairs from our old table with it, but it looks crap. They are full of paint and stuff because we weren’t too careful with them when we were painting the house. They are shitty chairs anyway so we weren’t too concerned.

Tonight my friend Lynda and her boyfriend are coming over to hang out. We are doing DIY Pizza and Xander is going to give James a look at our game (World of Warcraft). He likes games as well and after Xander was telling him about it last time, he wants to check it out. Lynda and I will prob watch a chick flick or gab while the boys do their thing.. That game is like crack and Xander is like… a dealer. I’m sure Lynda will hate us after James starts playing and she never sees him again.

November isn’t going by quickly enough. I want to put up my x-mas decorations but I know I have to wait till there is at least a December in the date. I’m petsitting the weekend of the 2nd so I figure when I get back from there, it’s fair game for the deco. I want to have it up for as long as possible because the x-mas deco just makes me so damn happy. When I sit in my livingroom at night with the tree lit up, I could just burst… it’s so nice. Is it December yet?!