We did it! Wednesday - No sew rag quilt.

Last year my daughter Kaly needed a quilt for Grandparents day, being short on Grandparents and not having any 'family' quilts - or any, I don't have the talent for them - I modified the No Sew Knotty Blanket to make the No Sew Rag Quilt.

We went to Joann's and picked through their quilt squares, Kaly picked out a few different purple and blue patterns and then found a coordinating fabric for the backing and bought 2 yards and then batting for a baby blanket.

We took each of the pre-cut squares and cut one inch slits every 1/2 inch all the way around each. After each of the squares were ready we laid out the pattern and began knotting up the inside seams.

When we had all the squares together I measured the amount of backing material we needed and cut that out and added the one inch slits every 1/2 inch, placed the batting and tied up the edges creating a beautiful No Sew Rag Quilt.

For an added touch I tacked on a 1/2 inch by 2 inch strip of fabric onto five of the squares to tie, so there was a tiny bit of sewing but, nothing that is necessary to create the quilt.

All in all it took about 17 hours and yes all of those 17 hours were done in ONE day as my darling daughter told me about said quilt the day before it was needed. She got many compliments about it and won "Newest Quilt" there were many beautiful quilts on display and a few were over 110 years old.

Wordless Wednesday - School days.

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Beautiful Blogger Award

I am honored to receive this Beautiful Blogger Award!!

Thanks so much to Michele at "Minnesota meets California" for awarding me with this award!


The recipients of this Award have to state 7 Beautiful things around me, and pass this Award on to 7 other blogs who inspire me!

7 Beautiful Things:

My seven amazing, beautiful children because they bring out the best in me!

My beautiful husband because without him, I would not be where I am today!

My beautiful fur babies, because they are so cute!

My amazing and beautiful house that my a fore mentioned hubby built for our family!

My beautiful Blogosphere followers because you give me motivation to blog!

All my beautiful friends because each and every one of you have listened when I needed to vent, cry or just have a conversation that didn't contain 'like' and 'um' as the subject!

My beautiful God who gives me my strength and wisdom to do all that is right in my life!!

7 Beautiful Bloggers:

Lisa at Oh Boy, Oh Boy

Gena at Fairytales & Puppy dog tails

Sara at PS Mom Reviews

Janel at Full of Grace x7

Melissa at Mr. Magnificent & Comp.

Rose at Nostalgic Marveling

Kelly at Mommy's Kicking Cancer's @ss

Wordless Wednesday - Six months

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One of those days.

To say that I don't have many of these would be an understatement but as of late they have been few and far between. Quite the feet when you have just added the seventh child into the mix! I am sitting here with a toddler that can and does get into everything (just take a look at the various spots of multi-colored nail polish stained carpeting in our house), a baby that got shots yesterday and is very fussy, three other children that are tag teaming me on various questions at a mind numbing rate = one stressed out mom!

On top of the normal huge load that raising a family of seven children entails, I have taken on the task of three classes this semester. This is not a huge feat as I have taken four, or maybe it was five, at one point. This time it's for keeps though, if I pass these classes I will have achieved my A.A.S. The biggest problem is the main class this semester is speech. I loath public speaking, which is why I saved it for last, it has been dropped three times. When I try to give a speech, I don't know what really comes over me, but it's not good-or pretty. Just in normal conversation when I am the center of it and feel the least bit uncomfy my face turns red and gets redder and my level of comfort plummets. It also shows up when I'm embarrassed, nervous, mad or in pain but only my husband can distinguish the difference.

So I am sitting here trying to prepare for my first speech this Friday, which also happens to be the first day of school for the elementary kiddos and the second day of school for my middle and high schoolers. My topic is one that I should have never taken on- National Nutrition Month®. There is not much out there on the topic which makes putting the speech together a nightmare that I have to try and fill ten whole minutes with. TEN, TEN minutes! What was I thinking?

I am also taking the class online, so I do not have a specific venue to give the speech at so I will be going to the Lincoln campus and giving the speech in front of seven or so classmates that I have never met. I am beyond stressed about it all, even more so as if I don't pass this class I will be retaking it next semester. I do not want to repeat this class.

Well now that I have gotten the baby to sleep while one handedly pecking out this post I will attempt to set him down w/o waking him up and get back to finishing up the last touches on this speech. Wish me luck and if anyone knows of some great tips on how to hide my red face that normal foundation can't I would love to hear the tips!

Love this face he makes!

.:Sheila:.

Friday Follow - #9

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Wordless Wednesday - Cowgirliness.

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Who doesn't love a bargain?

Talk about excited when I bought 10 Vitamin waters, 8 Sobe Life waters, 6 Dove chocolate bars, and 1 box of Huggies wipes for $0.02!

I do love a great CVS bargain. I have been to IheartCVS.com for over a year now and will always snatch up the diaper bargains. Last week I finally turned in my rain check for the box of Huggies diapers. This purchase got me a $10 extra care buck. I used that to buy the 18 drinks and two of the Dove candy bars (I also used a $0.50 off of two) and 4 BOGO Sobe coupons (doubled with the current BOGO offer). Used the $10 ECB for a total of $0, Zip, Zilch, NADA! I got a $5 ecb for that purchase. I used that ECB on the wipes and 4 more Dove bars for a total of $0.02.

If you are looking for another good bargain on diapers, they are currently offering the same type of deal for Pampers diapers this week. Purchase $25 get $10 ECB PLUS I believe Pampers is Procter and Gamble? If so you can get a free 8 pack of Bounty paper towels for the purchase! Can't beat that. 

Little swimmer.

I always knew that Kira would not follow the path of my other kiddos and have that gripping terrified fear of the water that prevented them from enjoying the pool. She has proved me right. We were using a life vest for her but it seemed to be too bulky and cumbersome for her to use. I saw a few pictures from an online friend with their daughter swimming in a Puddle Jumper, so when I came across one for 1/2 price at Shopko I decided to give it a try. Three different times in the pool and now she is like a fish!