Oh my, I have been gone way too long!

I cannot believe it has been so long since I have written. No I did not fall off the face of the earth, and thank you to all who emailed me with concerns. I was given a new task at work dealing with a massive grant and it has drained me of energy and time.
           Then last fall the hubs and I found out that we are expecting! Now this was a surprise. Things have been going great with the pregnancy other than huge amounts of morning sickness. We did find out it is a boy much to my hubs pleasure and I know I have never been so sick with a pregnancy in all my life. So needless to say there was not much sewing going on in my life.
             Until now, I am not 100% certain where the motivation and energy have come from, but I will take it.we have a little over two months this before baby boy comes and I wanted him and my youngest daughter to have quilts. My youngest daughter's quilt has been in the mind works for over 2 years now. I know bad mommy moment. So over the past week I got busy. I had to pace myself because of working full-time and swelling in my lower legs, but things got accomplished. I had won (a very long time ago) a small set of Flea Market Fancy charm squares from Heather @ alamodefabric. I had since picked up a few more pieces of the line. They were just screaming at me to make a boy quilt. Then I was reading some of my favorite blogs and saw a lovely quilt on Blueelephantstitches, sized down from Camille Roskelley's "Playful" quilt in her book "Simply Retro". What!?! I own that book!

...bam it hit me. I want to make that quilt with my Flea Market Fancy squares! So I got to working... This suddenly appeared.

Then this was sitting in front of me...

 

and finally I had made this in what felt like record time!

But it didn't stop there...I kept cutting and now I have this lovely pile of fabric sitting on my table for my youngest daughter's big girl quilt.   
I hope to get these lovelies sewn this week.  Thanks to all of you for the continued encouragement, and if I keep this current pace up, I will have more to share real soon! Happy Easter! 

I am still among the living...I think!

I am sorry to each of you for this being my only post in what feels like forever... this has been the worst month in a long time.  My supervisor has been off work dealing with some family health issues, and that has piled the work on me, I am miserable at my job and really pondering whether I want to go back to school and obtain my RN or find a new job. I did get a call back interview the other day, and I liked what they had to say about the position..so do I take the offer i feel might be on my way? or do I find a way to work and go back to school. Oh I wish I had a crystal ball. 

And as if all that was not enough, my oldest daughter was hospitalized last week with walking pneumonia. Praises to God, she is out of the hospital and much better! but have you ever spent the night in the hospital with a 3 year old? It is definitely an experience I hope never to repeat again. 

I have only been able to do a little bit of sewing, a project for a dear friend of mine that I want to do for my creative 2011 resolution!. As soon as I have the top pieced I will get you pics.  

Again, I hope you all understand my absence and please forgive me.  I hope to be up and running creatively very soon. I think I need some catching up on sleep first! Happy Easter and Welcome Spring. :-)