Now that apple season has begun Thursday has turned into Apple Cider night. We make unpasteurized cider at our orchard so we need to press it every week. Thursday seems to be the best night since we’re close to the weekend when we’ll sell most of it. Unpasteurized cider should be consumed within 2 weeks […]
Sleepovers
The last few nights the girls have been into having ‘sleepovers’ with each other…I just had to snap a picture…
Time To VOTE! Project QUILTING Nursery Rhyme Challenge
The last challenge of the season has not disappointed me. Some amazing entries have been submitted and I don’t envy the judges one bit… For those of you just tuning in you can read more about Project Quilting Here: http://kimlapacek.com/2010/04/project-quilting.html and about the eighth challenge of Season 1 Here: http://kimlapacek.com/2010/08/season-1-challenge-8-nursery-rhymes.html CHALLENGE WINNERS: There will be […]
Meet Will and Mairwen
A good ‘virtual’ friend of mine AlltheNumbers (or theMeasure) had two beautiful babies not too long ago. My Quiltsy Team is like ‘aunts’ to her little ones so we decided to make Heritage Block quilts for the little ones. Can you guess which one’s I made? (the apple trees of course). Are these two little […]
Meet this week’s Project QUILTING Guest Judge – Michelle of SFOQuilter
I was lucky enough to find another fantastic Guest Judge for this week’s Project QUILTING Challenge (the last one of season 1). I wanted to let Michelle of SFOQuilter, tell you herself about her beginnings in and love for the art of quilting: Modern Framed Block Quilt in Amy Butler For a whole bunch […]
Hand Dyed Dresses
I finally got Cedi and Capri to wear the dresses they dyed at our Summer Dying Day AND to ‘pose’ for me! I’ll apologize right away – I’m going to be showing you A LOT of pictures of my girls in the post. I could have just showed you one or two pictures of them […]
Random Drawing Winners and Public Comment Winner
Sorry for the delay in posting the random drawing winners and Public Comment winners for the Black and White Project QUILTING Challenge. I vended at the Summer Craftacular yesterday and was just beat when I got home. So, with no further adieu, let’s see who won!All the names are in the hat (except for this […]
Season 1, Challenge 8 – Nursery Rhymes
Here we are. The final Challenge of Season 1 is about to begin. Let me say that I have been amazed by the quality of the past entries. There have been public winners and judges winners and even random winners for every challenge, and a season winner will be declared in a couple of weeks, […]
The Judges have Spoken – Black and White Challenge Winners
And now I’m going to announce the top three place takes in the Black and White Project QUILTING Challenge. In third place with an average score of 8.38, is… LoveBugStudios! Here’s what the judges had to say: Judge 1: I love to visit Chicago and this is a great mini model. Yes, it is […]
Public Winner – Project QUILTING Black and White Challenge
It’s time for me to start announcing the winners of the Black and White Project QUILTING Challenge. I will announce the Public and Judges winners during the remainder of today. I will wait until tomorrow to announce the random winners as my adorable name pickers are spending some time with their grandparents until tomorrow night. […]