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Just Call Me Quilty Quilter

It's Finished!!!! It's FINALLY finished!!!  

I had this great idea. I had left over material from making Asher's crib bedding and Asher needed a good quilt to go on him for winter.  Originally I hadn't cared to make a quilt cuz, c'mon - I made the kids bedding for crying out loud.  But I thought 'ooo I can make a super awesome crazy quilt with all these left over scraps!'

This was back in December. 

Well, after thinking it through, I knew I needed a pattern of some sort because quilting with a bunch of odd pieces of material doesn't really work.  So on went the search of a simple, boyish quilt that I could use with my leftover scraps.  

Well, to make a long story short, I needed more material (the darker green) to go with it, and then I didn't have enough check material so I needed more of that, and of course, I needed a large piece of black for the backing (so it really cost more than it should have - yay me for being frugal!) and THEN I could only work on it Tuesdays and Thursdays cuz my mom's sewing machine is better than mine and THEN there was lots of trial and error with the font and the pictures and forgetting pieces at my house and then forgetting something else at my mom's house.....sigh.  It took a long time.

It is now near the end of April.  

So it's done...just in time for spring! Holla!!  Which is okay cuz it actually didn't turn out to be the heaviest of quilts.  It will be perfect now :)

Ladies and Gents.......

Asher's very own, very personal, matching quilt:

TADA!!!!

He loves it.  See??  (maybe it's the colors or something but while I was working on the binding he would constantly crawl over to it and roll himself all up in it. So I also blame him for making it take so long.)

Close ups of the dragon pictures on his blanket.  It's also monogrammed and I made him a personalized tag. 

I think it looks pretty good!  The new green makes it look a little more boyish and gives it a pop...in my opinion.

Asher wanted to model for everyone and show off his room :)

I don't remember if I posted pics of his room before...I thought I did but I went back and I can't find anything so if I do this twice, my apologies!! But there are several things about his room that I love and want to show off ha ha.  Like his name for one, along with the dragons.  The name vinyl was done at EAD Designs  suggested to me by my friend, Amanda, and I couldn't be happier with it.  The dragons were done by Amanda herself cuz she's cool like that. 

These are his dragon pics that I LOVE LOVE LOVE.  No silly cartoon baby dragons here - just awesome looking mystical ones cuz dragons are ferocious!!! Rawrrrr!!!

I love how this blue dragon turned out and so I included it on his blanket:

When you walk into his room you see the main dragon pic and the corner with the rocking chair.  I think it would be unbelievably awesome if I could find some sort of hanging 'flying' dragon to hang from the ceiling above the rocking chair.  I looked into making something, either with fabric or paper mache and it is totally out of my territory so if anybody happens to see any type of hanging dragon decor that goes along with what  I have LET ME KNOW!!

And the teddy bears don't really go with dragons but I already had this ginormous teddy and he was given a little teddy from Morgan and Sam so I placed it here along with his Hallmark recordable books he was given - one from each set of grandparents.  If you don't have one of these for you little one, I highly recommend it!!  Asher loves his and he lights up when we grab it to read and he sits still (95% of the time) to sit and listen to the voices of his grandparents. 

On his cube dresser I have these pictures and dragon statues.  The little 'hear no, speak no, see no evil dragons were sent from Colorado by my friend Monica.  They are perfect!  I love these hospital pics of my baby.  I picked this metal frame because I liked that it gave it the 'knight with a sword and armor' feel.

A roaring stuffed animal, gifted to Asher from Truman (his best little bud), a dragon pillow pet (holla!!) with Andy the dragon (another gift from Morgan and Sam), a super cute little pic of a dragon staring at a sign that says "No Fire Breathing Beyond This Point".  Sigh...what's a dragon to do??

Hoppity-Hop

The Easter bunny came to our house!!  Just in the nick of time, too, cuz I think 'he' forgot that there was a kid in the house now that needs to be remembered for these type of things.   

Thankfully, we had a basket full of eggs for my Primary Sharing Time, Peeps I buy ahead of time so that they have plenty of time to dry out (as is the way Paul loves his Peeps) and a Hurley outfit and Hurley pajamas (that may or may not have been purchased a month ago and not used yet, making it the perfect last minute gift....for the Easter bunny to give. 

Our friends had just returned from New York bearing gifts and I threw this into the pile because, well, it rocks.   

And Asher in his Sunday clothes, ready for some Easter goodness!   

Mmmm...so tasty: 

Handsome little mug: 

Playin' In My Pod

It's been awhile since I've posted any music but guess WHAT???

Eric Hutchinson is back with a new album!!! Holla

I'm so happy!!

I was starting to think he was going to be a one time wonder.  

His new song Watching You Watch Him is awesome - love it!! 

Hungry For Change

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