Feline Friday - 12/5/14

Last week, during Momma's staysewturkeycation, I discovered that her dinosaur of a laptop makes a nice warm bed. Every time I tried it, tho, she shrieked nononononono. Something about goofing up her EQ7 design...

With a big push from Momma, I finally moved over to the middle of the table and sat on a big pile 'o stuff.

Shortly, with a heavy sigh, I rolled to my side, wiggled a bit and settled in.

You have got to be kidding me!? Am I just some toy to entertain you or what?

Just for that I am going to hold the dinosaur hostage!! Hah!!!!!! Love you Momma!

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The Bibliophile Files

Guess What??!?!?!?!?!????!!!???
I am exactly 201 pages from finishing my reading challenges for the year!!!!

Not bad considering the original challenge I modified was meant for 2 years and it's only been 11 months. I'm fairly certain that with 4 weeks left and the next tax season looming, I'll get several more read before the end of the year and beat last year's record of 75 books.

I had really hoped to be able to hunker down and finish reading the last book, Ill Wind, by the end of my vacation last week. Given that I kept waking at 6 or 630am (w/out an alarm!!) one would have thought it was possible but the draw of my Bernina ended up being stronger than my last book. I still accomplished a lot over vacation - enough to the point that I ran, not walked, to the library for more audiobooks just in case I ran out late at night or something drastic like that...

In case you haven't heard about my personal reading challenges before, please read last months post, read the BF tab above, or check my shelfari.com page.

So here's the second to last list:

Agony of the Leaves (11/9/14)
Six Years (11/15/14)
Echo Burning (11/22/14)
Exit Ghost (11/23/14)
*Everglades (11/24/14)
Every Little Thing About You (11/27/14)
Alex Cross' Trial (11/28/14)
Bury Your Dead (11/30/14)

Your turn...What did you read last month??

Design Wall Monday - 12/1/14

Here is is, the first Monday after Thanksgiving. Sew what you say???Well, it's the first linky party for Bonnie's 2015 mystery quilt: Grand Illusion!!

It may not look like I got a ton done on Clue #1 so far but, with everything over my 5 day vacation, I made progress on a lot of things and finished virtually nothing. No worries - I had a blast!!

I finally made it to the city yesterday and popped into Lowe's for some paint chips. Mind you, I've already picked fabrics to start with but I wanted to compare to Bonnie's colors. I'm using just the one yellow but I only grabbed my fav 2 FQs of the other three colors for comparison. I'm stoked about the colors. It will be bright and just up my alley!!

Probably hard to tell by the aerial view but all 100 of my yellow and black squares are cut. I was happy to find some blacks with yellow and teal in them! I have only cut 100 HST pairs, hence the button, (I count by 10s using old thimbles and change for a large button when I get to 100. Harder to explain than to do it in my sleep.) Anyways...180 more HST pairs to cut. I don't have a lot of rose pinks yet so I might stall cutting them until I get to a different quilt shop.

PS - be sure to pop back in tomorrow for Bibliophile Files!!