Still here!!

Hi all... I'm still here - just computerless for about the 3rd or 4th week! GRRRRRR!!! The Dell Dude is making housecalls...hopefully I'll be back up and running by next weekend! Meanwhile - I've been working on:

Road to Oklahoma - top is in the last stages - will post soon.
Catching up on my Crazy Quilt Stitches - will post soon.
Stripe of the Month - January needs redone (OK, I admit, I cut my diagonals one too many times!); working on February
Purchased backing and linings for My Scrappy Quilt & Civil War quilt - so off they can go to be quilted - the first time I've had this done! How exciting!
Purchased backing for Starz Wall Hanging - plan to quilt that myself over the next few months...

At Saturday's artzy event at my friend Joyce's, I joined my mom, Joyce and a few others... I decided to finish up several scrapbook and photo projects that had been started - finished my "Friends, Wedding Pix" - will post; made progress on my WKKF goodbye/engagement/Happy 50th photo albums; started my "Notes - 2008" book of lists.....

That's about it for now - sorry no photos tonight... using my work PC and don't have any to post quite yet! Have a wonderful week!

Blessings: friends you can move away from yet they're always there... hobbies to ground you... good books, and special moments...

It's been too long....

...since I've posted! I'm having major computer troubles and only am online at home when I bring my laptop home - which is not something I have been doing after working 55 hours a week for the past month or so. Supposed to have a new motherboard (and a man to install it! wow, what a deal) early this week, according to Dell. Spent 3+ hours (i could have been stitching!) on the phone to India w/three different helpdesks - the router, who blamed it on the satellite ISP provider, the the satellite ISP provider who blamed it on anything but them, and finally w/Dell... luckily, my system is still under warranty until 8/08, so I'm going to take advantage of it!

Hope you all had a restful and pleasant Valentine's Day! My dh was out of town, and I was working out of town in Chicago that day, but did manage a dinner at a fun New Orleans seafood house for some great oysters!

My only stitching this month in the wee hours of the nite has been catching up w/my cq stitching lessons, working on my Road to Oklahoma Quilt, and doing a few strip of the month/block of the month things... While I was on hold to India several times I did lay the phone down (could hear the muzak playing) and made a dent in cleaning/picking up my art room - and does it need it bad!!!!!

The fun news was I invested in a sewing machine - a new Husquvarna (Viking) machine... has all sorts of bells and whistles and I have made one block w/it - from my fall quilt hop... will post photo as soon as I'm back in business on home machine! The other sewing highlight was receiving some of Suzanne's threads - beautiful colors!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ta ta - I see Candi tagged me, so that will be my next post!!