Gettysburg Battlefields

Yesterday, my grandparents took me on a bus trip to the Gettysburg Battlefields. It was such a beautiful day to do it! I was able to learn a lot of new and interesting things.

We visited some different places that are located right on the battlefield. Above is a picture of a peach orchard. It was a really cool experience to stand right in the place that soldiers would have been standing so many years ago in the Civil War.

Another spot we visited was the Pennsylvania Memorial (above). The names of all of the soldiers are listed around the base of the monument.

I really enjoyed my time there and I would like to go back there in the future to look at more! Thank you, Grandpa and Grandma, for taking me along on this trip. I had a wonderful time! ☺

Strawberries....and more strawberries!

Every year my mom, brother, and I go strawberry picking at a local strawberry patch. Freshly picked strawberries taste soooooo much better than the store bought ones. Yesterday was a great day to go picking. Unfortunately, we went a little overboard! ☺ We picked a total of 11 buckets of strawberries! After we got all of them home, it sunk in. What in the world were we going to do with all of them!!!

So we got to work cutting them so they wouldn't get smushy in the heat. My mom made some strawberry pies.

And I worked on making strawberry freezer jam.

I still have a few more batches to make. We have a huge bowl filled to the brim with sliced strawberries just to eat by themselves or with shortcake. We gave some to my grandma and my brother went around the neighborhood giving them away. But still, we had some left! We concluded that next year we are not going to pick this many! ☺

Finished and Moving On

Hello everyone! So sorry that I have not updated my blog for what seems like a century! I was very busy with the end of the school year activities, so I did not have much time to be on the computer.

My 5th commissioned baby quilt has been completed and given to the lady that asked me to make it. Here is what the finished product looked like.

I have to say that out of all of the baby quilts I've made so far, this is one of my favorites.

I now have started on my 6th commissioned baby quilt. It needs to be completed by August. The baby is going to be a boy so I chose the colors green, blue, and cream. I'm going to use the same pattern that I used for my 2nd commissioned quilt (square inside of a square). I thought it would be cute if I quilted one letter of the alphabet in the center of each square.

Today my grandma took my shopping for the fabric. Here is what they look like.

I washed them when we got back from shopping. I decided to hand wash them in my bathroom sink because when I wash smaller pieces of fabric in the washing machine, the edges tend to fray a lot. Hand washing is much gentler and it does just as good of a job.

It was such a nice day that I decided to hang the fabrics outside on the line to dry.

I'm hoping this quilt will turn out as good as the rest of them did.

Have a great day!!! ☺

Check Mate

Last Sunday was an absoultely beautiful day! My brother and I both were bored, so we decided to take advantage of the wonderful weather and play a game of chess outside. We spread out a blanket in the middle of our lawn and sat down to play. In the end, my brother ended up winning because a wasn't paying enough attention! But that was ok because we had fun anyway.

I hope everyone can enjoy the spring weather wherever you are! ☺

1960's wardrobe

If any of you read my grandma's blog, she had talked about how she was fixing some cloths for me for the musical (Bells are Ringing) that I am in. She had promised a fashion show, so here it is. ☺
This is my cha-cha outfit. In one of the songs, we all dance the cha-cha and all the girls were suppose to find a very full skirt. This skirt was once a dress, but my wonderful grandma cut the top of and transformed it into a skirt for me! I love this outfit because when I spin, the skirt poofs out and twirls around.

This dress will make an appearance in a fancy party scene. All we did was add the purple ribbon to it. We did not have to alter it at all. It fits perfectly! One of my friend's sister is letting me borrow the dress gloves.

This outfit is for an "ally" scene. We are supposed to be "bookies". They wanted the outfit to be plain and rough. I think this will do the trick.

This outfit is for a party scene in an apartment. I found these great tapered leg pants. All they needed was a crease so my grandma sewed them in for me. (If you were wondering, I will have shoes on for the musical! ☺)

This outfit is just a fun skirt-shirt outfit. I love the polka dot skirt!

This is another skirt-shirt outfit.

So there you have it! A 1960's wardrobe for the musical Bells are Ringing. I want to thank my grandma for all the work she did to make these outfits just right. Love ya Grandma! ☺

Excited!

Last Saturday I went shopping with my mom. As we were shopping I saw this dress and I thought I would try it on just for fun. Then, after I had tried it on, I fell in love with it so I bought it. I have not had a dress since I was like 8 or 9 years old. I am really excited!!!

I think it is absolutely adorable. It's made out of this great polka dot fabric and a has a little red cardagan to go over top.

It is slightly big, so all I have to do is take it in on the sides a little bit. That won't be hard to do! ☺

Baby Quilts

Hey everyone!!! So sorry that there hasn't been anything new to read in over a month. I have been extremely busy with school, dance, and musical that I haven't had any time to post.

If you read my grandma's blog you probably heard about the new baby quilt that I am working on. This quilt is another pattern out of Alex Anderson's baby quilt book. The pictures I have are not very good because it was dark outside and I had a spot light shining on it, so the color is a little distorted and dark around the edges.

Last Saturday I was able to get the whole top layed out on the design board. Now all I have to do is sew all the tiny rectangles and squares together!

This is kind of a scrappy quilt, but I think it is really cute for a little boy. The rectangles are all different blue fabrics and the tiny squares are a mixture of all red fabrics. The bigger squares are off whites and WOW mixed with some tan.

This is my fifth baby quilt. I have had two ladies that have been keeping me in business. I have done two quilts already for the lady who asked for this one and I have done two quilts for the other lady. That lady has now asked for another quilt. I don't know if I'll be able to keep up! ☺

I have some pictures of the other baby quilts I have done.

The first baby quilt that I did I don't have digital pictures for, so I can't show you that one. But it was a pinwheel quilt with blue, yellow, and green fabrics.

This is baby quilt #2. It was for a girl and I used red, black, white, and green fabrics to match the nursery.

This is baby quilt #3. The nursery was a farm yard theme that used the colors in the quilt. The backing fabric was a barnyard print. This quilt was very easy to put together.

This is baby quilt #4 (the most recent one I finished). The lady wanted pastel colors that would work for either a boy or girl. I chose to use blue, yellow, and green.

Hopefully I will have more progress to show on baby quilt #5 soon (and better pictures ☺)!

Have a good weekend!!! ☺