frosted fabrics . . . they're great!

Ooooh ... a fun happy in the mail . . . 

All that Fairy Frost fabric!  Oh the plans I have for you, my pretties!  But first I will pet you, and unfold and refold you, and gaze on you lovingly. 

Ah yes, fabric is one of my *Favorite Things*!  :)

The rain FINALLY started Tuesday evening and has just been softly but steadily falling ever since.  It's absolutely glorious!!  And with the rain have come much cooler temperatures . . . driving home from church last night I looked down and my car's temp gauge showed 68°F  - we haven't seen temps that low in over a month!  Last night I slept without the a/c running ... just the sound of rain hitting the roof of the RV.  What a wonderful sleeping backdrop!

Before the rains, though, came the winds.  We'd had a little bandit visitor out back, but when the winds came up -- very suddenly -- sent him running to the safety of a tree!

He wasn't sure what it was he'd heard coming -- and he sure couldn't see it.  They are such cute little critters (for the most part and in their proper setting)!

We also had a rather unwelcome visitor at our hummingbird feeder.

She's been parked here for two or three days.  At first she didn't bother the hummingbirds and they didn't both her.  But yesterday we noticed she was very aggressively guarding the feeder and chased off every hummingbird that came in.  Time to take care of that.  I don't know if you can see it or not, but her stinger is quite impressive! Todd will be taking care of it -- not me.

Quiet day today . . . perhaps I'll go dream up something fun for that Fairy Frost fabric!

:)

live from new york . . .

Tonight is guild meeting night!  I'm especially excited because we've got a real treat for our program.  Our guest lecturer is none other than Paula Nadelstern, queen of kaleidoscope quilting.  Our board takes the speaker out to dinner before the meeting, so I get to have dinner with her, too!  *sigh*  She's doing her lecture tonight on Kaleidoscope Quilts, and then two workshops.  Friday's is NeedleStars and Saturday's is Simple Symmetry.  The only thing is ... she's requested that no photos be taken during her program or of her display quilts.  So I won't have photos to share ... just lots of exuberant chat!  :)

The kids are all back from their trip to the beach.  I got to spend a little time with Sawyer yesterday.  I got there and he was napping, and he did not wake up until his mommy returned!  I stayed a couple of extra minutes to get some Sawyer-loving!

He's super sweet and snuggly after he wakes up ... my favorite time!  Tomorrow will be an Ellie day, so I'll be balanced again.  :)

I wanted to share a slice of nature out here at good ol' Camp MACOBA!  We recently had to move both our platform feeder and the hummingbird feeder.  The squirrels were emptying the first and the raccoons, believe it or not, were draining the hummingbird feeder NIGHTLY!  We moved them both over to our picture window.  Consequently, I'm able to get shots like this . . .

and this . . .

and this little female . . .

and this . . . 

There were three sitting here on the feeder, but I didn't move fast enough and only got two.  

And finally, I thought I'd share a look outside our window first thing in the morning.  It's the squirrel brigade!  I purposefully didn't compress this picture, so if you click on it, it'll be full sized.

How many squirrels can you see?  There were actually four more that I couldn't quite fit into the picture.  We have quite a community!  But they're so darned entertaining!

:)