I do not know why I cannot hang on to my camera for more than ten minutes at a time. However, I am supposed to get a smart phone sometime this weekend so I will be snapping pics with my phone along with the rest of you in no time at all. Today I am going to start stuffing sharks for the boys. I got my sewing corner upstairs all cleaned out yesterday, even swept the floor AND picked up all the pins! Now I will sit there and stuff all the sharks that are left to do. Eventually I will find my camera and post pictures of sharks and grandsons. Once the sharks are done I will be able to find the other projects that are filling the bins in that corner. At least 7 quilts that are started and are sitting there taking up all the room, plus some garment sewing that is cut out and that I will need for the coming winter, I also need to accessorize hats and things.
I finally got a mirror downstairs where we live, now I can see if I have too much makeup on or my hat is crooked, such a luxury!

Wow the quiet book for Kael and Wyatt is done a week ahead of time. Well almost done. Ambrosina is going to write the captions and I have a ton of buttons to sew on it before I bind the last 4 pages and put the eyelets in for the binder rings. It turned out pretty well considering I haven't used some of the skills I needed for a while and I was a bit rusty. But I made it bright and colorful and busy and I doubt anybody but me and maybe Ambrosina will see the imperfections. What a mess the sewing corner is! I will clean it all out and put everything away tomorrow morning before I start on the next project: a pair of winter pjs for myself, I also have 5 full sized sharks to stuff that I want to get done. I will have so much more room for more unfinished projects when I am done with them.
I'm getting some progress on our little sitting room and the closet organizers in our bedroom too. For someone who hates mess as much as I do, it's amazing how much mess is in my living areas. Tomorrow after finishing the odds and ends on the quiet book i will clean my sewing corner and start thru the last few tubs of fabric before I start sewing on something else but it will be worth it in the end.

We have all the new closet shelving that i bought at a rummage sale hung on the wall of our bedroom and i cannot believe how much extra room it has given us i have several quilts cut out that i can make accessible now that i have room to store it. There is also room to store the other knitting and crochet projects started and not finished so when i want to do something like that i don't just start something new to do but can go back to what i have already started.
It's just putting everything back that is the problem. Our little sitting room is jam packed with STUFF and Ambrosina told me to get rid of everything i didn't want to move again. A new house is in the future for the family.
She and i have been going thru the 50+ tubs of  fabric and have cut and planned our winter's sewing. Several tubs are now empty and we have some of fabrics that we will donate so someone else can use them. We even have projects planned that we, gasp, will have to buy fabrics for. Not something we have had to do much in the past, since we are both such fabric hoarders, and shop rummage sale and thrift shops for most of our fabrics and sewing notions. I think it will be fun, fabric stores being our main source of recreation. I still have several tubs to get through and I will do that this week while i work on finishing the quiet book for our little boys in Washington, i want to get it wrapped up and ready to mail payday.
This month I am going to get a smart phone because i lost my phone in Washington when we were out there in July. I will be able to use it to take pictures, because i still can't find my camera. Maybe then i will be able to post pictures more regularly, but for now this will just have to do.

Mid September already, the boys are in their 2nd week of school, and the house is very quiet. I decided not to put another quilt on the frame and a good thing too it has been unseasonably cold and wet. Leon decided to repair the back porch so I can't even walk out there for now. Soon Ambrosina will start putting plastic on the windows ready for winter. Malachi's quilt is finished, but as usual I can't find the camera to post pictures.
A couple of weeks ago I found a wonderful buy at a rummage sale: tons of closet organizing shelves for 35 bucks. So the bedroom is torn up while David was hanging them and now I have to put it all back, but wow! can I ever get more into the closet wall. Ambrosina told me not to keep anything I don't want to move again so a new house is on the books somewhere down the road. It has also made me look at all my junk with fresh eyes, so, yes I am unloading a ton of stuff. When we moved David's wardrobe we found the bed frame wouldn't allow him to open the doors of it so we took all the stuff from underneath and took the frame out. I will miss my beautiful bed, but we really needed the space more. David took it to a consignment store and I hope it will sell soon because we need to make a frame to set the mattress on, it's a little hard to stand up as low as it is.
I am not working on a quilt right now. Etina wanted me to make a quiet book for the boys so I hauled the pattern out of the tub it was in and hunted out my felt. I am about halfway done and I want to get it done so we can mail it in October. It's kind of a fun thing to do and I am about halfway done. I will take some pictures when I get it done, hopefully I will be able to find my camera to take pictures so I can post. I will try to post more regularly after this!!