One Lovely Blog Award

Nancy over at Pug mom Quilts! nominated me for the One Lovely Blog Award.  How very cool, but also a bit intimidating.  I had to think on it for a few days, since I do not always have time to blog with my freaky schedule. Then there are times I get distracted and/or very focused and put things off.  By the way Nancy always has great projects going on, and I it is so inspiring when she posts about her sewing posses she hangs with.  I am green with envy about all her fun sewing friends. 

Anyhow part of the One Lovely Blog Award is that you are supposed to provide 7 facts about yourself.

1.  Between DH and I- we have 5 daughters and eleven grandchildren 7 girls and 4 boys.  Only six of the grandchildren live near us.  (Shh don't tell anyone but I have only made quilts for 4 of the grand kids and 2 of those were lap quilts)

2. I will tell on myself when I do something really super creatively dumb.  I figure if I cannot be a good example, I can at least be a horrible warning. Here is my most recent escapade! Should I or Shouldn't I?

3.  Growing up I lived on a small farm with chickens, cows, geese, horse and a garden.  I hated it!  I swore that I would never live on a farm, never have chickens, never have a garden, never can.  I had to eat those words a few years ago when I met the love of my life.  We live on a farm.  The first year we put in a garden, the second year I learned to can, the 3rd year we started raising chickens.  Do you see a pattern here?  I will say I love my life, even with the chickens, garden and all that goes with it.

4.  I have a thing for vintage/antique sewing machines.  There have been 3 or 4 purchased, but most of them have been found by DH. This is my newest acquisition.  Yep she was a freebie. 

5.  I am married to the most amazing husband ever.  He can fix almost anything, and he is a great person to find stuff and make it over to suit a different purpose. I kept telling him I wanted a quilting machine, and frame.  DH made me one, and we retrofitted a machine to fit on it.

6. My great grandmother taught me how to hand sew, my mother taught me a bit, but most of my sewing I learned by trial and error when my girls were little. Sewing dresses, shorts, and moving into quilting once they were older, but my first quilt I started making was handwork, I still have the blocks all hand sewn, but not put together.  No one in my family quilted until many years after I started.  Now my sister and mother quilt too.  

7. I am Native American, from a group of tribes in Northern California. I have been the holdout in the family regarding getting my tribal paperwork turned in.   Long story about providing the original copy of my birth certificate.   I will be taking care of that imminently. 

Finally part of the fun and games is that you are supposed to award 10 other bloggers.  Unfortunately I do not read 10 other bloggers on a regular basis, and the few I read have already been given the award.  I am going to nominate Dawn at Sew You Quilt 2.  She blogs regularly, and I love her pics of her kitties, and gardens.