It works!

As you might recall our refrigerate has not been working for the past month or so.The freezer was over freezing and the fridge was not getting cold.We have been getting used to managing our family food needs using a little dorm fridge.About a year ago our big fridge had the same symptoms and we paid a repair man a little over $100 dollars to come and fix it.Did not have the money to do that this time around.What to do...A friend thought maybe I should try defrosting the freezer part and see what happens! Well I did and now like magic our fridge is cooling again! Well,I feel silly for not figuring this whole thing out sooner! One thing I did learn this past month was even a family of 16 does not REALLY need a big fridge full of food to eat well.I wonder how many more things I can fix around the house...

Today...

I finished up with most of my back posts.I guess there were not as many to put on as I thought!My life is rather dull at times.I still need to do our Waseca Marching Classic Parade post.Elena was the photographer and took some great pictures.

I decided I enjoy making baby fabric books.There are so many different books out there.I have a few Christmas and a few general baby ones on my Dragonfrye Quilts site.I ran across a few other cute fabric book panels on Ebay that I 'won'.I saw a few real neat Australian fabric book panels that were REAL neat but very expensive.I will admire those ones from afar.One of my zillions of craft goals will be to try my hand at a soft fabric busy book.One with snaps and buttons,or maybe an ABC one.

On my sewing plate this weekend is to finish up a few Halloween costumes for the kids.I have just two more capes to make and a fairy costume.Anya is Tinkerbell and Elena is going to be Tinkerbell's friend so actually Elena will make the fairy costume I will supervise just a little.Elena is very good at her sewing.Elena has been a great help with the costume making.Most of the boys made their own costumes and some of the younger kids are wearing costumes from previous years.Sop my sewing skills have not been needed as much as they have other years.

If I get the capes done I have a few quilts waiting to be quilted.I have a log cabin Christmas quilt,a quilt called 'Hip to Be Square' that I made a few weeks back,and a few baby whole cloth quilts.Hmmm....my project list seems to be longer than the time I have.

I already have a great quilt planned for my November quilt giveaway.If it turns out the way I imagine it will (which is usually a hit or miss type of thing) it will be very pretty.

Tomorrow Jeff and the kids have 8 paper routes to do!The kids picked up a sixth permanent route and Jeff picked up two of his own.Jeff thought it would be good exercise and the two route locations were close to our house so he thought that when the bigger boys were old enough to do a whole route by themselves they could each take one.Right now the kids all share the six routes.It is not bad work for the kids.We dropped allowance once our family got bigger and the paper routes give the kids some spending money.I believe the 5 biggest kids earn about $17.00 each a month and the younger ones earn less but soon Nolan and Josh will be doing as much as the bigger kids.It won't be long before we deliver The Waseca Shopper to all of Waseca!

Here I Am!

I know I have not blogged much this past month.I did not realize how much time actually passed.I plan on back posting a few things in the next few days.There were some fun things like the Waseca Homecoming Parade and the Waseca Marching Band Classic Parade,Anya's birthday,and a few other fun things!

For some reason I just could not sleep last night so here I am at 7:40 in the morning.I think it will be a long day.I did make use of my sleepless night and put a bunch of things on my Etsy Shop.Grant and Alan have been working hard painting pictures so I gave them a little 'corner' of My Little Dragonfrye to set up their own art shop.They were exited to see their paintings on the computer.

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What's Going On Here?

Lily,why are the kids all SO quiet today?

Happy 6th Birthday Anya!!!!

Anya, I love you SO SO much my little princess girl!

Anya's birthday spot!

The birthday table.We are all anxiously waiting for Anya and her dad to come home from their birthday date at Pizza Ranch.

Anya's bunny cake

...Happy Birthday to Anya.Happy Birthday to you!!

Anya's gifts

Good-Bye Uncle Avery.We Will Miss You!!!

In Memory of

Avery A Hall

August 23, 1918 to October 7, 2008

God looked around his garden
And he found an empty place,
He then looked down upon this earth,
And saw your tired face.
He put his arms around you
And lifted you to rest.
God's garden must be beautiful
He always takes the best.
He knew you were suffering,
He knew you were in pain,
He knew you would never
Get well on earth again.
He saw the road was getting rough,
And the hills were hard to climb.
So he closed your weary eyelids,
And whispered, "Peace be Thine."
It broke our hearts to lose you
But you didn't go alone
For part of us went with you
The day God called you home.*

Uncle Avery will be very missed by us all.




*This poem was from Uncle Avery's Memorial service.

Movie of the Week!!!

Cute little movie of Joel and Grace singing to Lily. It is a pretty accurate demonstration of how our 'twins' interact with each other.

And The Winner Is...

The winner of my October Dragonfrye News Quilt Giveaway is...


Carol of libertythreads!!!


Thank you Carol and everyone who took the time to enter my Dragonfrye News October Quilt giveaway!

I would like to say a special Thank You to Debi who organised Fall into Fall Quilter's Blog Giveaway and her kindness with including my blog giveaway on her site.

Debi is hosting Whirl into Winter in January so stay tuned!! There will be a lot of fun giveaways!



Also my next Dragonfrye News Quilt Giveaway starts November 3rd so don't forget to check back and enter!

Video of the Week!

We all enjoy a little ladybug hunting on a nice fall day!



And what mom doesn't let her baby girl play with bricks!

October Dragonfrye Quilts Drawing!

I have the privilege to have my quilt drawing included in
Fall into Fall Quilters Blog Giveaway! After you take a moment to enter my drawing stop by Fall into Fall Quilters Blog Giveaway because there are links to a lot of other quilters blogs who are having giveaways between now and October 15Th. There are a lot of fun giveaways!

On to my giveaway!



Here it is...

My Dragonfrye Quilts Free Quilt Drawing for October

If you are interested in entering my quilt drawing all you need to do it either leave a comment below or email me at waseca9@yahoo.com requesting to be entered.Please leave an email address that I can contact you if you are the winner. That is it!

I will leave the drawing entry open until midnight Saturday, October 11, 2008. I will draw a winner Sunday and post the winner on this blog Sunday evening or Monday.I will also email the winner to get a mailing address.

As with all my quilt drawings past winners,extended family,and all ages can enter.

Good Luck!

My Little Cowboy

This quilt is perfect for the little cowboy in your life.

Measures about 37 x 52

I used Warm & Natural batting and quilted in the ditch by machine.

The backing is light tan with navy blue stars