Laundry Room is Done!!!

I finally finished my laundry room, the way I want it to look like. I am very happy with the results. We had one of those stupid wire rack. So we got rid of it and put up 2 white cabinets for storage and in between them I can air dry clothes. We also put in a counter so I could have my laundry detergent ingredients out, to make it easier when I have to make it. I love homemade laundry detergent. Then I finished up with some vinyl.

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AFTER

CLOSE UP

Birthday's, Retreats and Fundraisers

Oh, my gosh so much has been going on this month. Let's see, Ashley turned 2 on the 1st. I can't believe my baby is growing up so fast.

Ashley loves Mickey Mouse and she got her very own dress up dress. She was very excited!

I think the BIGGEST news is that Austin is potty trained...Hooray!!!

While everyone was enjoying the fair, my mom and I were enjoying ourselves in St. George at a quilt retreat at ScrapApples. It was a blast. It was my first one of many to come. Our teacher was Carrie Nelson, she is the designer of Schnibble quilts you may also know her as Miss Rosie.

This is her new book Schnibbles times two

This is the class room, on the far left you can see some quilts hanging on the wall, the big quilt is my moms and the small one next to her's is mine

It was a two day quilt class, there were about 15 of us. Most of us were doing a quilt from the new book. I chose to do the quilt "Imagine" using the Civil War line by Moda. Although I did a small quilt it took me just as long as the other gals who did a large quilt.

My quilt(without the border)

Later in the evening on the 1st day ScrapApples fed us dinner and then after we had a trunk show. First Carrie showed us all the original quilts from her latest book both the large quilts and the small quilts and some others. After she was done everyone else could show off they quilts.

This is Carrie holding a small version of Open Season

After the trunk we had dessert and continue our projects. And the 2nd day was many sewing, sewing, and sewing. Not to mention all the wonderful prizes that were given away. Carrie gave us all 3 patterns, some bobbin bikinis, some wonderful tips and advice and she autographed our books. Some of the prizes I won were a layer cake (Martinique by 3 Sisters (Moda), a turnover (Kansas Winter by Kansas Troubles Quilters (Moda) and 3 fat quarte rs. This was so much fun and I am excited for the next one.

I finished the top of my quilt before leaving...What do you think?

On the 17th, Lexie had a fundraiser for her ONH. Here are some Pic s for it

The quilt that was being raffled

Kira and Michaela helping with rock climbing and bungee jumpingThe wonderful goodies for the Bake SaleBeside doing all for these wonderful things, Craig and I managed to paint his mom's master bathroom, help Gary and Chanell tile they floors, make shelves for they pantry and move some furniture in they house, view they blog to see the pics. Finished the quilting machine (it needs a few parts). Have stuff!!

Painting

This is what I've been doing for the last 2 weeks....painting, painting and more painting. My mother-in-law wanted a NEW LOOK to her house so after remodeling her bathrooms she wanted to paint the whole house one neutral color. She decided to go with a little brown, which looks actually beautiful. We started to the formal room moved to the dinner room into the kitchen nook, living room and down the hall. We then come back to the kitchen which we repainted a deep red. For as much work as it was it looks really good and Tanya is very happy with it.

This is the formal room

After

This is the dinner roomCraig using the spray painter in the dinner roomDinner Room AfterCraig and I taping in the kitchen nookThe living room before paintingAfterCraig & I after painting the hall (this is what we will look like when we're old)Hall AfterKitchen and Nook After

Ending One Thing To Start The Next

I finally finish the Relief Society directories for my ward and I have to say they look pretty awesome. A lot of good improvements from last year and I got a lot of help assembling them this year. They've been done since Tuesday of this week and being handed out tomorrow at church but I think the Relief Society presidency was a little too excited to give them to everyone that they just started giving them out. But the good news is I'm hearing a lot of good things about them.

This is one of the 4 different note cards we used

Front page with the Relief Society Emblem
Added the Young Women's theme & Relief Society Declaration
Different kind of phone numbers & Sunday Schedule
Our Stake & Ward Leadership
Both of the Temples Complete With Address, Phone # & Endowment Schedules
A Handful of Websites & A Full 12 Month Calendar
Relief Society Presidency & Other Calling Under The RS
17 Pages of All The Sisters including emails
Another Page of The Sisters
Birthdays
More Birthdays
And More Birthdays
3 Pages of Our Wonderful Winter Sisters
Our Stake Presidency has asked us to read the Book of Mormon so I included All 25 Scripture Mastery & a Reading Chart
Monthly Goals: Spiritual, Provident Living, Food Storage & 72 Hour
72 Hour Kit & Food Storage Info
$10 a week food storage
The rest of the weekly food storage
Extras
Visiting Teaching

And that's the directory. It was a lot of work and took some time but it was way worth it.

Now that that's over, I can start working on a new project. I know it make be a little early for Halloween but I'm so excited to get started on this Halloween quilt. I find the pattern about a month before last Halloween but knew I couldn't get it done before Halloween that and I was waiting for my mom to buy the pattern. Now I can take my time with the colors and sewing and quilting it.
Not only I am planning on making the quilt so is my mom, Stephanie, my mother-in-law and my sister-in-law Tracie.