And now for something completely different!

I am taking up residency...

over here!

Unplugging....

for a while... 

not sure when I'll be back....

My 500th post!!!!!!

Hard to believe!

It all started here one fall day in October 2007...

I began blogging!

The idea was to chronicle my quilting journey as it fit into my every day life.

I named my blog with the name I had given myself on my yahoo account.

You must all know the story by now...

too many Lisa's,
settling in upstate NY
and voila!

Hey, I became so famous that I had my own bus!

(yeah right!)

The first quilt I ever blogged about was my Elvis quilt

And when I wasn't blogging about big quilts
I was blogging about smaller stuff to swap with new friends on flickr.
 
 I blogged about my first doll quilt swap that I entered...


(and boy did those swaps become addicting!)

I introduced you to my family...



(and how they have grown since this photo was taken!)


Nature Boy

and some of his quilts...

A teenager with lots of stuff
and her quilts...

(the first bed quilt that I ever made!)

and last but not least,

Sugarbaby (the former "Sloppy")

and her quilts...

And my,

how I have grown too!!!

Well not taller 

and I have been working on not getting wider too!!

But I have evolved...

I have gone from simple...

and scrappy...

to wonky...

and free pieced...

tried some solids...

 and more recently,
 worked on more free form...

And now,

there are all the other areas of media 

that I have added to my repertoire

painting...

art journaling...

monoprinting...

hand dyeing...

and even some homeschooling on the side!

I might even be found striking a pose on my blog...

hoping to find myself on the front of a Wheaties box ...

appearing incognito as the infamous garbage bag fairy...

and often,

on the floor of my sewing room...

And even though I am constantly getting older

and older 

and older...

I have managed to get faster!

Yesterday, I shaved 1 minute and 28 seconds off

my time from my last 5k run

(and this race started at the bottom of a hill, no less!)

But what makes blogging so much fun is that
blogging has opened up a whole new world of friends!

I appreciate you all!

I am grateful for the inspiration and friendship

you have brought to my life!

From my clean (ha,ha!) studio...

to yours....

Thank you for popping by!

veni vidi vici

That is...
I came,
I saw,
I conquered!!!
 
Yes, I did!!!

It's true!!!!

I have finished one month (30 days!!!)

of NaNoJouMo

and I never missed a day!

Today, after completing the last page,

I bound my canvas pages with string...

and tied the string with a variety of fibers...

What fun!
What a challenge!
I tried to vary the kinds of techniques I used

as well as the materials...

And now....

it's time...

to pick up the pieces...

and move on...

Gotta run!

Is anyone still out there?!!!

It seems that a little time has passed since I blogged last!

Readers come
and
readers go

but I always seem to return.

I just haven't had much time to post

nor much to post about lately.

But it seems that I am up to my 498th post, crazy as it seems (!)

so it was high time that I blab a bit.

Sugarbaby and I went on a little trip

to my homeland


(the great WHITE north)

to check in with my family


(Ottawa at night)

see a friend


(Michele and adorable Milo)

visit some sites

(the National Gallery of Canada)

but

I am still journaling every day this month for NaNoJouMo

(it's day #27 of 30!)

I am still piecing this pinwheel quilt

(and discovered that I need to make 11 more pinwheel blocks! ...sigh)

I am still making crumb blocks for my Crumb Along quilt

but now I am wondering
how I might celebrate my 500th post....

Got any ideas?

Gotta run...

and get back to my regularly scheduled life!

MIA

It doesn't seem like I have been around much

but that probably means that I have been busy....

sewing more crumbs for my Crumb Along quilt...

(130 quilt blocks and counting...probably will make about 24 more!)

piecing (finally!) the 242 quilt blocks together 

for Teen's (not really a teen anymore) 

queen-sized quilt...

creating journal pages for 

day #14...

day #15...

day #16

(of NaNoJouMo)

winning books!!!

(from Kelly)

and winning a zip pouch and fabric!!!

(from Brenda in my homeland! as Mr. U affectionately calls it)

And that is only when I am not

homeschooling, chauffeuring,

working out at the gym,
volunteering,

laundering/cleaning/cooking........

............

And I am sending some big hugs, extra love out
to my mom and our family today...



Gotta run...

goin' missing again!