Budding

I see small buds on my indoor tomato plants! These are the ones I started in November. The other tomatoes I started much later because I want to put those outside to grow. These however will stay in the house. I want to see how easy it is to pollinate the flowers myself. I also want to see how long a tomato plant will live indoors. I'm thinking I may have to get bigger pots for them soon though.

A picture of me

It's rare that I share pictures of me because I pretty much hate all photos of me. Mostly because I'm fat and my eyes tend to do funky things when the flash goes off. I'm pretty much the worst subject there is to take a photograph of. So here I am with my husband. Bet you didn't know I was so short, did you? Lol

This photo was taken at aunt Dolls (family) party. Doll is pretty much a fruit cake, as are the rest of the family. Not long after we got there Steve's other aunt, Carol (Dolls sister) was motor boating everyone who wanted to smash their face into her massive boobs. This was before the first bottle of beer or wine was opened.

Last weeks birthday girl

It's hard to believe but Evy turned 1 last week. Steve and I went to Ohio to spend some time with her to celebrate. Actually we had three things to celebrate. Evy turned 1, Easter, and tomorrow Casey turns 21. We had three days to celebrate so we celebrated one thing each day we were there. I still don't have any of the pictures off my camera but I stole this one from Anna, Evy's paternal grandma.

Waiting on a new toy

A long time ago I got rid of my sewing machine because it was more expensive to fix than it was to buy a new one. Problem was, I didn't buy a new one, I just went without. Being around people who quilt often I've been getting the itch to play with a sewing machine again. All the little money earning apps I have on my phone I have finally saved enough gift certificates to order this ((photo below):
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000F7DPEQ/ref=pe_309540_26725410_item

My first project is going to be with my daughter and were going to make a rag quilt for her bed. I figured it would be a good beginner project for the two of us considering neither of us are skilled with the sewing machine. She's never been taught to sew and I haven't done it in years. You can google "rag quilt" if you want to see what it is we will be making. When we get some fabric and the machine I'll post some pictures of our progress.

Rug done

Usually Dorothy weaves 4 rugs on the loom before cutting them off but the strings on the end were getting kind of loose so she snipped it early. No doubt because I'm new to weaving and probably screwed something up. Weaving looks pretty simple but its easy to loose tension on ends or flub something up. I made a couple of mistakes and the ends aren't exactly even. Not bad for my first attempt though.