I'm spreading the word, because this was FUN!  But please, it's a year long committment, so if you want to play, COMMIT TO THE WHOLE YEAR.  I'm opening this up as a public entry because this swap is open to all.  :-)

As incentive, here is a link to the blocks that I have made and received this year:

Birthday Blocks!

This is a repost from macbeaner:

Are you ready for the 2010 Birthday Block swap? Are you getting excited? I know I am. I have all these patterns I'm considering!

Okay. So here is what you need to do!

Email me at (macbeaner at gmail dot com) the following information.

Your name
Your LJ user name
Your birthday
Your email address
Your mailing address
Your phone number (will be kept confidential)

Your block choice (and size if need be)
Your color choice.

Would you be willing to be a swap angel for any lone 2009 missing blocks?



Please keep in mind that this will be for quilters of all skill levels when choosing your pattern choice.

This is open to quilters of all skill levels and US and International. This is a YEAR long commitment. If you cannot make a block, please consider sending Fat quarters and a copy of a block pattern if the block choice is Quilter's Choice. 

Ladies, PLEASE spread the word about this to other communities. It is with your help that we can make this swap a great thing this upcoming year!


COME JOIN US!!!  :-)

Um...Wow. Watch to the end, you'll be amazed!!

So I've been saying I need to make a post for a while now, I guess I will. :)

I've been busy with work and quilting. That's my time.

Oh, and I've taken up bird watching. Since I live on a bluff with a tree-filled view, I see lots of birds, so I've started taking pictures. They're entertaining to say the least. At least, so long as the gimongous (must be radioactive he's so big) squirrel doesn't chase them all away. We have cardinals and wood peckers and yellow bellied sap suckers and some other little birds I haven't identified yet.

On the home-front, things are going well. Ray and I are still getting used to having another person around to be responsible for, and we have a bit more "alone time" where we go off and do our own things. I think that actually works well for us, and keeps us happy. :) He goes off to the golf course, I hole away in my sewing room. It's a nice balance. I've been getting a LOT of things done!

I miss my Bakersfield friends tremendously. We keep in touch, though, so that makes me happy.

Not a whole lot else going on...Just working and quilting...Oh, and trying to find a proctor so that I can restart my online classes. That rocks my socks. :)

So, I have been working from home for a while, and a lot of times, I just set up shop with my laptop in my lap in the livingroom. It gives me a great view, with the East facing wall being nothing but windows. We're up on a bluff, so from the livingroom the majority of the view is treetops.

It's really nice and peaceful.

But recently...I keep getting visited by a female cardinal who REALLY wants to get inside my house. She starts her visits between 530 and 630 in the morning. Many mornings I am woken up by the sound of her trying to get into the window in the diningroom (keep in mind this is the first set of picture windows). We have a wooden bench on the balcony, and she sits there a lot, and pecks at the window. Then she'll go to the railing on the balcony and try to fly into the window. Over and over and over.

I've tried closing the shades, and she still says "let me in!" When the shades are closed she prefers to sit on the bench and peck at the window. Tap, tap, tap. At first if she'd see movement in the house, she'd fly away. Ray was banging around in the kitchen one morning and it spooked her so much she didn't come back for three days. But, last week she started coming back, and now she wants in even more!

She created such a spectacle this morning that she gained an audience. I had about 10 birds outside, watching and heckling her. It was crazy! And now when she sees movement in our apartment, she'll either fly at our upstairs bedroom window, or she'll go to the picture windows on the condo below us.

I'm tempted to put a feeder out there, but I don't want to draw her in and have her try even harder to get into the house...I wonder if the feeder would distract her from the window, though. I don't know what she thinks she sees, but she seems determined. She tries EVERY DAY. As I said, she starts between 530 and 630 in the morning, and she comes and goes up until about 1130 or 12 noon.

I guess I feel bad because I don't want her to get hurt, but she's so determined that now movement in the house doesn't scare her away (unless like that one day, you're banging pots in the kitchen). I don't want to totally scare the birds away- they are fun to watch, after all, but I don't want that poor bird to kill herself trying to get in, ya know?

My favorite vocalist ever!! My hubby singing a song that his friend Mike wrote. :)

I'm posting a link because this picture has copyrights...

http://newsminer.com/photos/2009/jan/04/6496/

But just for clarification, that first number is a 6, and yes, that's also a minus sign.

sgtjesse, what do you think?  ;)

Because I have a lot of new friends on my list who prefer to keep their journaling lives private, in respect for them, I'm making my journal friends only.

I had hoped to not do this, because it's hard to meet new people this way, but, comment if you want to be added.

I've also done a friends cut. If you haven't posted in forever, I've cut you. If we don't talk anymore? I've probably cut you, too. No hard feelings. If you were cut and didn't want to be? Comment and I'll add you back.