Siggies are in da house!!!!

Well, this week these arrived in my mailbox!...

I was so excited to open the parcel! These are the result of the wonderful siggy swap organized by Connie over at Cootie Bug 2 . There are about 60 blocks in there from bloggers all over the world and I am sooooo excited to get them into a wonderful quilt! hopefully it won't be too long! Just wanted to say a great big thank you to Connie- I am sure this was a lot of work but in the end I am sure it is going to be well worth it! Thanks for letting me be a part of it Connie!

I know I was going to post more about market too! I am a little behind on blogging this summer. So I will try to be back soon and I will share some more pics- also hoping to reveal the finished product from this post very soon!
Hope you are all enjoying your summer so far!
Cara
P.S. Looking for a great giveaway? Head over to my friend Jennifer's blog and enter her awesome giveaway!!!

I'm Back!

Wow! I guess I took a little hiatus! LOL! We had family vacations, illness and of course Spring Quilt Market- but I am back now and hope the coming months are going to have lots to blog about!

First, I am late in posting this, but I wanted to share the Siggy blocks that I sent of to Connie of Cootie Bug a few weeks back. I was in group 1 so I had to make 60 of these! Whew! Can't wait now to get the blocks back and make my quilt! I know customs has given Connie some grief with receiving some blocks and I hope that she has now received them all!



In other news, last weekend was the Spring Quilt Market in Pittsburgh. My DH and I went fro a couple of days and made it back in time for our daughters ballet recital. It was a whirlwind but an amazing couple of days! Here is a sample of what we experienced....


We made it to sample spree (which is the lines of ladies from the top) and of course on the opening of the actual market we got to meet a plethora of quilty celebs! I will leave that for another post though and give some better pics! Lets just say that there is a lot of great things happening this summer in the industry!
Well, off to put supper on the table and get little ones to bed...my 5 year old graduates from pre kindergarten tomorrow- eeek! She is growing up too fast! I cannot believe she is entering kindergarten in the fall!... Well, more later!
Cara

A Big Thank You to Margaret!

A little bit ago I signed up for my first swap since coming to blog land - a pin cushion swap! Yesterday the post-lady handed me a parcel and I immediately was excited! Of course I rushed inside, grabbed my camera and proceeded to open my parcel. Here is what it contained....

GORGEOUS! Is about what I can say! And so a great big, huge THANK YOU! to Margaret for my wonderful pin cushion! I love it! It is so very 'me'! She is so sweet to also include some other little goodies that are just delish- a porcelain Espana thimble for my collection, a cute 'I Love Quilting' book marker, a pretty fat quarter and some sweet hand-dyed flosses for my next stitchery! (I have just the quilt to use them in: ) ). I must say Margaret, you made my day and also made my first bloggy swap so nice!

Here is a closeup of the beautiful pin cushion and it's perfect stitchery!

Before I go I also wanted to say THANK YOU as well to Linda for organizing such a wonderful swap-ortunity!

Happy Swapping!
T.T.F.N.