i've moved

here so please come and visit me on my new blog!

snake on the porch and new fan on the ceiling

this snake was on my porch the other day when i went to let the dogs out for a potty. 

and this is my new fan that me and justin put up last sunday. it's a hunter and i just think it's the beesknees! best part! it doesn't making me feel like my life is in danger everytime i turn it on and it's very quiet. 

ok thats all! 

heather marie 

par vue, livie lou.........

(thrifted owl family from forget-me-nots)

because you'll keep asking untill it's done. not that you ask alot but i always feel bad when you do 

(thrifted needle work book from salvation army)

(vintage fabric thrifted from forget-me-nots) 

(vintage coats thrifted from goodwill)

(handsewn quilt thrifted from forget-me-nots, multi-colored afgan thrifted from salvation army)

so there you have it some of my most recently aquired junk as justin would say, but oh how i loooooooooooove my junk :)

later gators!

heather marie 

little old me

most resently

see normal, nothing special. just a girl from the south. 

awesome pictures of my bees

later gators,

Heather Marie

the bees swarmed and the E.E.'s layed some eggs

All the little black dot's in the sky are our bee's flying away. Justin came inside and told me to go look at the bee's and when I got out there I was not prepared for this! You could not get with in 3feet of the hives there was so many bee's in the air. Thank goodness it was the middle of the day in the middle of the week because I do not know what the neighbours would have thought of all the bees flying over there house! 

Anyway we got pretty lucky, because we had our queens wings clipped so the bees had to come back to the hive, and we got them into a new hive box so now we have three hives instead of two! Which is super exciting if you ask me. That's my Justin scooping up the clustering bees to put them in the new hive with my dustpan.  

and my second super exciting bit of news!  My Easter Egger Bannies started laying! I've been waiting months to see these pretty little blue-green eggs, and now that there here well I'm just so happy! They look like little jewels next to the peach/brown of the silkie eggs. Yay!

oh! and yesterday we got this from the UPS man! Justin has been all over the net looking to order us some hatching eggs. I'm hoping for some fancy silkies or some wellington bannies, but i know he's been looking at some malay bannies so we'll see. But how exciting to have our own incubator!

Well that's all. I had a few other pictures on here for this post, but thanks to the stupid way the pictures are working , they keep deleting when I'm trying to get text in, so boo about that:( 

later gators,

Heather Marie

at my sewing machine

So this is what i'm working on these days.  This quilt is the cover quilt for bh&g american patchwork & quilting apr 2009 issue. The pattern is for a lap quilt, but i'm attempting to make it a full side quilt. I'm hopeing to be done by winter so we will have a nice warm new quilt on our bed. It will be my first full size quilt.    

Mermaids and cream quit.

So, I am in love with this one I used the blush color set of the Heather Ross Mendocino line with cream cordaroy and chocolate brown cotton for solids. The backing is the coral print from urban outfitters I'm using to make curtains for the living room. Totally matches my orange chair i got for my birthday.  

Well thats whats up on the sewing table these days. Actually my sewing table is really my coffee table, but thats a story for another day. oh, and dear blogger it sucks that i can't move my pictures around anymore. 

later gaters,

Heather Marie

sup homeslice

it's been awhile so I'll break it down.

1. i turned the big 26.

2.got a Wii fit for x-mas(supper fun i have all the yoga and strength exercises now)

3. Justin turned the big 29.

4.had 6 baby chicks hatch.( my joy these days)

5. made my 4th quilt and started my 5th(this one is going to be full size, fingers crossed)

6. gage turned 5 ( this is a milestone for the whole family)

7.Thrifting

8. actually finished a mini album

9. ate 2 of our roosters one is in the freezer still.

10. still trying to coax my creativity out of hiding.

so thats whats up i'll be back on monday i hope and i'll have some pictures of said events. or maybe tonight i don't know. we'll see but right now i have a winey little white dog at my feet that wants a game of fetch. 

later gaters,

heather marie

eggs, old bottles, baseball cards, and star wars

the silkies have started to lay! i wish i could say this was eggs one and two, but they are not. these are eggs three and four, because Justin ate one and two before i could take any pictures. ( silly man, doesn't he know how important pictures are!)

so yesterday i went to help Justin's mom and sister clean out the attic, and came home with a box of treasures for the old man. it was super fun to go through it with him last night. this is his prized bottle collection, well the bits that didn't make it home with us when we moved.
i like this bottle because the glass is purple. i think it was some kind of liquor bottle.

i don't know anything about this one.

this one Justin tells me is worth a bit. i like the hill billy on the front.

Listerine bottle with stopper. very cool, i think.

ship bottles. i think I'm gonna hang these bad boys on the wall and put flowers in them:)

Justin loves is baseball(and football) cards like they were his kids. this is not all of them just what we sorted last night!

vintage star wars. loved and played with by Justin then his sister and now they have come to stay with us and be lovingly put on a shelf until there is a little Justin to play with them again.

well I'm off for today with the return of cold weather in our area, I've had a return of my cold and have been feeling out of sorts today. so I'm gonna catch some rest.

later gators,

heather marie

monday thrifting

i love monday thrifting better than any other day of the week. i find my most favorite things on monday. today i got a great old quit and lamp.
i love this lamp, and Justin is gonna be so happy. we used to have one of these old glass lamps with the light in the bottom, it was an amber colored one, but i broke it on accident and he was so mad at me. kept saying i did it on purpose. but now i have this one and i think it's better. i was so pleased when i spotted it in goodwill, they had a green one also but it was bigger and this one was big enough. if I'd had it i would have bought both but i went out with $20 and i wasn't gonna spend more than that. (the lamp was 10.00 and the quit was 12.00 luckily i had an extra 2.00 in change for the quilt. )

this quit was marked as a cutter quilt, but it really was in good condition with need of a few repairs, so I'm just gonna do the repairs and keep it.

i just love the fabrics used in it. i wish, wish, wish i could fine some of these prints today.

and the number one reason i needed this quilt: cowboy print on the back! i could of died when i opened it up and saw this. i love love love all cowboy prints, one of my soft spots. but the colors of this one are just brilliant!

now I'll leave you with a picture of a squirrel up in my tree eating a pine cone.

later gators,

heather marie

dogs with frisbees, curtains revisited, and cushion covers

this is my Winnipeg. she found her long lost Frisbee last week. since she has wanted nothing more that to act like a psycho dog with a Frisbee. she would love to be allowed to bring the dirt thing in my house and keep playing with it , but mommy (that's me :)!) will not allow this and has to chase her down at times to take it away. yesterday she brought it in and i took it away and set it on top of her kennel. after awhile my fil came to drop some stepping stones off (I'll tell you that story later) and i had to go out side and help him unload them. when i got back in the house she had stolen her Frisbee off the top of her kennel and took it inside her nigh-night to play with. i heard her as soon as i walked and knew what she was up to but she,hoping i didn't, poked her head out and gave me the I'm innocent face. i laughed so hard she forgot about the Frisbee and came to give me kisses for pets. good times people, good times.
my kitchen curtains! so i put the lace trim on. trying to get a good picture from the sink nook is near impossible. the cabinets flanking each side just suck the light right up. but here is what the looks like now.
i added the lace with a decorative leaf stitch in green (perfect with the trees).
they have me smitten.

and here is one of the cushion covers i made yesterday for the couch. i made two matching (one for each side of the couch, i have a thing for symmetry, it drives Justin crazy at times that i always need two)
they are still a bit experimental in design. but i like them.

well i guess that's all. we will be gone most of the day once Justin gets up. we have to go pick up the rest of my pavers and we have to figure out what to do about Justin's car, he got 2 (yes i said two flat tires coming home last night. so his car is some where on the highway waiting to be dealt with.

later gators,

heather marie

getting back the creative energy

After months of just not feeling it, I've suddenly had a burst of that good stuff. my head has been swimming with ideas for the house and for gifts for friends and family. I'd been trying to force it for a while and that was just not working. But now, the mojo is back!

So onto the reason for a second post today.(that's right second post)

My new kitchen curtains!

The tree fabric are tea towels from Target, part of there winter collection, and the green houndstooth is a home dec. weight cotton I found at Wal-mart awhile back. i think i would still like to add a lace trim to the bottom and maybe get an "inside the window frame" rod. but over all a quick and quit lovely set up. over all i think this set of curtains cost me about $12.00 so I'm pleased. (sorry about the pictures it's raining out side and my kitchen doesn't have the best light to begin with)
Now for the paper crafting crowd. These are the invits to our annual "Southwell family holiday gathering". This year is especially important to us because we lost our beloved papa over the summer. So in an effort to keep up family traditions Marla (my mil) and I have teamed up this year to make it extra special for everyone.

i did them in three styles, just using what i had at home. since we don't have a lss anymore. (plus i have enough scrapbook stuff to scrapbook the next ten life times )

i used "Stampendous" stamps "N163 modern invite" and "journaling block OR1025" for the information side. My ink is Colorbox "chestnut roan" fluid chalk ink for the jounaling block and Tsukinek Brilliance pigment ink in pearlescent olive for the modern invite and the edges.

this one is: background paper basic grey fruit cake line.

circle tab my minds eye; Bohemia Christmas believe line.

cookoo clock stamp; poppyink in moss Adirondack embossing powder

date stamp; Heidi Swapp in warm green Colorbox fluid chalk ink

family gathering; making memories magnetic stamps rummage font in charcoal Colorbox fluid chalk ink.

this one is : background paper my minds eye; Bohemia Christmas believe line

deer head stamp; poppy ink in copper embossing powder

everything else the same as above.

this one is: another Bohemia Christmas paper but it is from the "merry" line

bird and branch stamp is from zingboom. the branch is in copper embossing powder and the bird is in verdigris embossing powder. and everything else is the same as the other two. all my embossing powders are ranger in case you where wondering.

i think the cookoo clock ones are my favorite. they are flat cards (they don't open) and the fit an A2 envelope. my inspiration was a calender square.

anywho, that about it. hopefully I'll have something later for a third post! (oh wouldn't that be just grand 3 posts in one day)

later gators,

heather marie