The Coffe Cup collection was surrounded by a lot of metal. . .art?

What do you see?

You can place bets as to when the car will fall through the ice. When the clunk disappears you know spring is here, lol.

Looks like the collection has gotten a little smaller over the years.  A little town in Kansas.

I just remembered I had these sitting in a file on my computer. This past summer, I found this fellow sitting on the bubbles in my kitchen sink. I plucked him out and snapped some photos. :0) Unfortunately, I think the bubbles did him in. :0(

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The walkways are built over the ruts left behind from all the wagons.  Isn’t it amazing to think of all the hoofs and wheels that crossed through here so long ago?

And on the other side of Dodge City is the 100 meridian marker.

Wyatt Earp

There are discs like these on a lot of the corners.  Dodge City is full of history!

Would you rather be known as Big Nose Kate or Soiled Dove?  lol

El Capitan

I love to spend time outside.

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Have you ever stumbled across a project in your unfinished box that you you didn’t remember starting?  When I first came across these butterflies I had totally forgotten about them.  There were some pieces cut out and I finished sewing them up.  I now have 46 butterflies.  However, to make a king sized quilt I need about 60 more.  I would like to continue with only having 1-3 butterflies out of each fabric, and fat quarters are great for this, but they’ve really come up in price since I started this project 6 years ago.

I have been searching the remnant areas too, but a friend suggested that I ask my friends to donate fabric swatches and turn it into a friendship quilt.  So here I am asking if you happen to have a 10″ square piece of fabric you wouldn’t mind mailing me to make a butterfly, I’m sure it would only cost one postage stamp to mail such a small piece.

If you’d like to help just send me an email lisa(at)lisaschaos(dot)com.  It takes a 10″ square for each butterfly, 20″ for two, etc.  The fabric should be cotton, cotton/poly, etc as long as it’s a non-stretchy fabric we’re good.  I love recycling fabrics, so pieces of old shirts, napkins, etc are welcomed.  Above, you see the fabrics I have used so far.

Sticking my tongue out :0)~

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I found some dates on my papers amongst the quilt stuff, it was 2004 the last time I worked on my quilts.  I completed my first quilt that year, sent it off for quilting and my youngest son ran off with it when he moved out, lol.  I completed one more quilt top, and nearly completed two others.  The quilt that was completed and two others were all in plaids, the first one, nothing but blue plaids.  I just love plaids.  But I had a hard time finding any in the stores.  So I had to find shirts at rummage sales and in our own closets, lol.

I decided to start with the top that was already all put together.  Husband and I decided to just back it in flannel so we’d have a lighter weight quilt.  Here I have it draped on the table, getting ready to pin it so I can quilt it.

Pinned and about half way done quilting.

I did this one in a diagonal pattern, rather than stitching in the ditch.  I was going to do diamond shapes, diagonal one way then back the other way but we thought it looked fine after once across so I stopped there.

All the blocks to this one were done and the first three rows were sewn together.  I had to finish putting it together before I could begin pinning the quilt.  I finished this one up and gave it to my grandma for Christmas.

I was sitting on the porch this fall, just enjoying the warmth of the day when I glanced down and saw a small heart in my plant. Do you see it?

How about now?

After I took the photos I forgot about the heart and cleaned some leaves and berries out of the plant, the heart was lost. I believe the heart was a reflection of the bright day on a berry.

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My handsome grandson.

As different as different can be these two are, lol.

My dainty granddaughter. ;0)

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While I was working on these log cabin blocks. . .

. . .my husband was shaping these hickory boards into a bed frame.

While I was pinning the layers of the joined blocks, batting, and backing, to make a quilt. . .

. . .my husband was planning the headboard of hickory and aspen.

While I was quilting my first quilt (wow, what an experience!). . .

. . .my husband was staining and assembling the headboard and attaching to the bed frame.

Together, we created our new bed.

Sidenote – All the photos were taken with my cell phone – the most convenient camera while crafting, lol.

Second sidenote – Although the head/horns had been hanging above the bed for about 4 1/2 years, the wire recently broke and the horns crashed onto us – they are no longer there, lol.