Dragonfly beauty

Ahhhh finally done, well almost. I have completed the top, and I Love It!!! Looks just like I wanted, well actually prettier. Pictures probably do no justice, whatsoever. This was completed in 2 afternoons, however without a little high maintenance 6 year old, could be completed in one afternoon. Simple design, but I loved the fabric so much I didn't want to chop it up.
Wow...it even matches my daughters room...no this isn't hers. Somehow it will be mine, but I'm sure she will steal it from me.




















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Dragonfly in progress

Well it's finally in progress. Started tonight, found myself a short amount of quite time. I have about half of my friendship braid complete and everything else is already cut. Should have this together in no time. Yay!!!

Here's a simple look at what the finished quilt should look like.













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Park day

It wasn't as hot of a day today, so a good day to go to the park. She has so much fun playing, and lots of new friends played with her too. Her favorite is the merry go round. Which is an all time favorite for so many kids.




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Birthday and being sick

Well another birthday has passed, possible good for that. Took my sweet princess to Build a bear, where she picked me out a cute bear for my desk. Sooo sweet.





The following day we all got a nasty little stomach virus. Stayed in bed all day and all night. To the point your body hurts to get up or lay down.



But we are doing much better that day after and should be back to our ole self in no time. Good thing too, little princess wants to go to the park and I believe it's close to 100 outside. Oh joy!!!!!


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Bath bombs!!!

Yes that is right, bath bombs. As known as bath fizzes, but to a child bath bombs. This started as a simple thing, as all projects do. Buy something at the store and then want to figure out how to do it cheaper, and maybe better. So let the search begin.

Found several good ideas on Pinterest, and I'm not sure where I ended up with mine, but it's a cross from several recipes I found on Pinterest and online. I wanted to use ingredients I could find, well that ended up being the challenge. See the main ingredient I needed was citric acid...after doing some research and was suppose to be found with the canning supplies, I went to several stores and nothing. I ended up at Lowes, having done a trusty search and found that my nearby store had in stock, or did they. I arrived and walked the store several times. Canning dept, canning dept...ok I've been in this store a hundred times, where is the canning dept. After giving up my each on my own, I finally asked. My wonderful sales associated found it on their computer and called a few people to find out the canning dept is now in back stock. Meaning they took the stuff they had and shrink wrapped it on a pallet and stuck it way up high on a shelf to collect dust. They didn't question my request, just got to work getting what I needed down and made me a happy person. Now with all my ingredients in hand...off we go to make something cool.






All common ingredients baking soda, witch hazel, food color, body oil, fragrance, and of course, citric acid.

I found a body oil with fragrance, so that made my list of items a bit shorted.

How I made them.....

1 part citric acid
2 parts baking soda

Crumble up and make into smooth mixture.

Add body oil, I just eyed it about 1/3 cup

Add a few drops of food color...I used a gel food color which worked fine for me. Avoid the liquid kind, as that will active your fizz.

Squish and mix well...very well.

Now the fun part...take the mixture and put into models, or make into balls which ever you like. Pack them really good, don't need any loose pieces on this. To get it packed really good, spray lightly with witch hazel, just a little but. Remember that liquids activate the fizz..




Oh this is a messy process. If you are a clean freak, you may not enjoy all this.. After you pack this real good, I would suggest the molds, since that worked much better for us. Pop out and start again.






I'm not sure how many we ended up with, but for around $20, we have enough to do this 4 times. It's worth it, and I think they work much better than store bought.

The oil in them leaves your skin super soft....NICE.



Little guy moves fast, which was fun to watch....enjoy




Simply a project I'm sure I'll do again, and gifts heck yes!!! Next time, I'll order my citric acid online, and not bother with the store hunting.

Baby, Babies, Babies

Hello everyone. Another app to try out. Just where would we all be without exploring apps, gadgets and all the new things each day. I'm one of those that likes to pretend I'm technologically advanced, but yet just learns a bit along the way. The app I was actually trying would only post the title and nothing else. Then come to find out there was a site linked to mine that had a virus so I needed to fix that. Well, if that wasn't enough I was posting on the wrong Facebook page....sigh....hopefully I've got some bugs worked out and can get on with the playing around and crafting. 😃

Well I have my work cut out for me, I decided that I would make baby quilts for our employees that are expecting. Much to my surprise, and others I'm sure that there would be 2 expecting moms. Well sure no big deal, I can handle 2 quilts. Then to find out that one is expecting twins....sigh...ok, ok, I can handle 3 quilts. Then my cousin is expecting now, dang 4 quilts oh this is getting out of control now. Sure hope that is all. I have to gather ideas, colors, what size I want them to be. So much in such little time. Sure hope they give me till October to get these done.

I'll be on the web and pinterest getting ideas.....so off I go.


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Another day.....

Well another day is here, with so much to do and seems like so little time. I'm trying to learn to use all my techno items I have to get more things done. On that note, more pictures of what I have going on to be posted. Check out my Facebook page, Quilting Queen B. I post there first, but trying to figure out how to integrate my blog as well.

Pinterest anyone??? I have found that I love pinterest, so much to dive into. Great ideas for quilting, DIY projects, recipes and fitness motivation. Not that I have worked out much lately, which leads to many other issues.

As I was browsing some pics, here is one of my mom and my daughter taken about a month ago.







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