Don't know what's up with blogger!

I tried to post all my pictures for my last entry but blogger wasn't cooperating so I am going to try to post them on this entry.
Notice my handsome supervisor!!!

All but the bindings!

Well, I have two quilts finished except for the bindings. I HATE HATE HATE putting on the bindings. It is my least favorite part of the job. I wish I had a binding fairy who could do it for me! I will get to them eventually. The Our Lady of Guadalupe quilt is for the Pastor at the school where I teach. His birthday is in December so I can procrastinate a bit longer on that one!!! The Harry Potter quilt was for my son's girlfriend, who has since moved on, so I think I will donate this quilt to the auction at my school in the spring or I will try to sell it. I am not sure which yet. I might make more money selling it than giving it to the auction and then I could just donate the money. We'll see. I hate to get the blasted binding on it first!!!
This weekend I am travelling to Notre Dame University with a coworker for the Excellence in Education conference. We were nominated and chosen to go and it is an all expense paid trip. I was looking forward to it when I was chosen but now I don't really relish the drive. It will be nice to stay in a fancy hotel having the room all to myself though!!! And no cooking!! Even with my funky diet restrictions, they assured me that they would provide excellent meals for me. Hmmm, I'll let you know about that!!!
I don't look forward to returning to school on Monday and dealing with all the paperwork from Friday. It takes days to get caught up again!! Plus, this weekend, we have to finish report cards. At least they are done online so I will just take my netbook with me and finish them in the hotel room in the evening.
When I return on Sunday, I have to rush off to confirmation. I am a sponsor for a former student so and it just so happens that confirmation falls on the same weekend as this conference. There goes my weekend!!!!

Please help my school win $20,000

Hi everyone, I am asking everyone who takes a look here to please click on the Our Kids deserve the best and vote for my school. We are really late getting into the running so I need a lot of help. The school with the most votes wins the money. My school is very small and we have a very diverse population. Many of our children attend on scholarship. Just like everywhere else in the U.S., our school has been hit hard by the economy. Many of our parents have lost their jobs and are barely making ends meet. This money could really help out our school. So please post this on your blog if you would like to support my school. Thanks to everyone that helps!!!

Where did the time go?

I don't have any pictures to show today. I am lucky that I even have time to attend to my blog. I haven't been very loyal! I have finished the Harry Potter Quilt and will try to get a picture of it up this weekend. I have a 3 day weekend so I might have a little time to do things that I want to do instead of just school stuff. Although, I have an ample amount of that to do too!!
My sister encouraged me to start selling my things so I am seriously considering that. If I decide to open an etsy site I will certainly post that here!!! Anything to bring in a few extra dollars with the dear hubby still unemployed.
I have a lovely group of children this year in my class. So talented too. I am really looking forward to doing lots of fun projects with them this year!
I hope anyone who reads this will stick with me over time. I hope to make this a better blog if life would just slow down a bit!!!

Vacation pictures!

I thought I would post a few of the photos of my husband and I on vacation in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Unfortunately, we couldn't get any photos together so they are all seperate!!!

July!!

June just flew by. I haven't gotten as much done as I would have liked but I have been resting. My son's darling girlfriend was here this weekend. She is an absolute doll. She arrived Friday evening and on Saturday we all went to the Renaissance Faire. It was a nice day, long, but nice. At one show, called the Mud Show, she was kissed by one of the very muddy actors. Actually, I was the target, but I wouldn't come up out of the blanket so they leaned over and kissed her instead!! I feel bad about that, but I had no idea they would get her, I just knew I didn't want it to be me!!

I made her a rag quilt and gave it to her when she was here. She seemed to like it. I have put a picture of her holding it along with a picture of her and my son. Since she is now reading my blog, I figured I can now put her picture up!!!!





I have several quilt tops to get working on plus bible covers for my incoming class and only 2 more weeks until I am back in the classroom!! Oh the time just whizzes by!!!

I am hoping to keep this updated a little more regularly, even if that means there are no sewing projects, just news on my life!!!

Where has the time gone???

I can't believe my last post was at the beginning of May. Well, I finally got through the end of the school year. The room is packed up, my paperwork is all done and I am HOME!!! The end of the year always has so many things to do, report cards, supply lists, ordering supplies for next year, collecting books, assessing fines for damaged or lost books, etc..........
Now I have a few weeks before I have to focus on next year. Yes, for all of you who think teachers get the summer off, you are wrong. We may not be in the classroom, but we are working on curriculum, taking classes and planning for the next year most of the summer. Some teachers add tutoring and summer school to that list also. I will be mentoring a student this summer who is taking a class through Duke University. I will meet with her once a week to help her stay on target and with any problems she may encounter. I absolutely love this young lady, she is gifted, beautiful, classy and just an all around lovely young lady, so this will be a joy for me. If I had had a daughter, I would have wanted her to be just like this young lady. It is not often you have students like this, maybe one or two in your whole career, so I feel blessed to have had her in my class.
I have several sewing projects on my list also. They will have to come in spurts though, because I am still battling the back pain. I have it down to about a 4 most of the time, but I don't want to push it and end up with it at the unmanageable level again. The drs. still haven't figured out what it is and why it is occurring, so it is still a bit frustrating for me.
I will post pictures of my in progress work as I move along. Thanks to all of you who still check out my blog. I promise to be better about posting this summer.
Happy June to all!!