Encyclopedia of Me Meme

This fun Meme was started by Bella Dia (http://belladia.typepad.com/bella_dia/) and was based on a book that I might just have to check out of the library. I mulled it over a couple of days, and decided to join in. There's still time if you'd like to check out her site for the explanation.

A---American, and proud to be one!

Albuquerque, where I lived for over 19 years, and which is the home of the International Balloon Fiesta!



ALIENS--one of my favorite movies. I never get tired of watching it.

THE ABYSS--ditto

Academy Awards--one of the two events in the year I always request time off for. I have been watching this for probably 30 years, but am so disillusioned with the recent hosts, I just might have to bag it.

Alabama, state of my birth, and where most of my relatives still live.

Apple. Trite, maybe, but I live in the most apple-producing county in the state, and one of the top 5 apple producing areas in the country. We have an apple festival every September, and I started this wall-hanging during the festival last year. It was my own design and will hang in my entryway this apple season. (Click on the photo to enlarge and see the little worm!)


Oh, and I have canned some very tasty apple butter in the past, made from an old Farm Journal canning and freezing guide.

I'll have to do the B's tomorrow.

Fair entries--Show and Tell

Hurray, it's Show and Tell Friday over at Kelli's place--"There's No Place Like Home"! Click on that logo to the left, and enjoy the eye candy! Here's my Show and Tell.

Well, as I said in my last post, I decided to enter a couple of my wallhangings into the regional fair this year--my first ever competition. Tues. was the last day we could enter anything, so I planned to finish hand-sewing the binding down and take it over after getting off work Tues. morning. Usually there's a lull between about 1am and 4am, but not that night. No problem, I'll just finish it after work, because it would be 9am before they'd accept it anyway. Oops--forgot to bring needles! Dashed over to Wal-Mart, picked up some needles, then parked in the parking lot at the fair and spent 1 1/2 hour in the increasing heat, sewing down the binding, and attaching labels to the back.

Here is a photo of the "window" quilt I entered:


It's draped across my cutting table at home, before finishing the binding.



At an estate sale, I bought a tin of old jewelry bits and pieces that someone had obviously intended to craft with. I took old clip earrings and pulled the 'curtains' back with them when I finished the binding. The fabric is from the State Park line of, I believe, Northcott's fabric line. I think the name is either Blue Ridge Mountains or Smoky Mountain state park. I used the attic windows layout, but hate y-seams, so used half-square triangles to make the window sashings. It's machine-pieced and hand-quilted. I used metallic thread for the water--I think you can click on the photo and see it.


The second item was one I've shown before--it's the apple wall-hanging I designed for my house. All items had to be made between last September and this September to be eligible, and I started this at last year's Apple Festival.


See the worm? My own little joke. Was he in the apple just eaten? Or did he eat the apple?


Judging was Wed. and I haven't heard anything, so probably didn't place. But it was fun, and it's the first time I've publicly displayed anything I did, so that alone was an accomplishment for me. I'm planning on going either tonight or tomorrow, so will report back then. Wish me luck?