Puzzle Quest and Quilt Pics

First the quilt pictures! It was the most beautiful quilt EVER!! 

Ducks! Or more specifically, LOONS!

This patch was specifically pointed out to me.
Its of Family Circus and it was supposed to say "He's playing catch with God"
Little kids are funny :)

Second! I started doing a puzzle. As in, a jigsaw puzzle. Do you remember those? The one I picked was a 2000 piece (yes, two thousand pieces) of van Gogh's The Starry Night which is my absolute most favorite painting ever!

I also wanted to see how many hours it would take to finish the puzzle so I made a spreadsheet with things like date, time started, time stopped, total time spent in minutes, who was working on it, and when it was completed. I am also taking a pic when I start and when I finish that session, all the way until the completion of the puzzle. Then it's going to go into a time-lapse/slideshow video.

I spent a little over half an hour today looking for the border pieces and I only got about a third of the way through all of the pieces. It will be a challenge :) Brian wants to help too and I think there will be plenty to go around!

Of course, there will be blog updates about it.

Tomorrow is Brian's dad's birthday party and we are going to a Chinese buffet! I am going to have to seriously think about what I want to eat before I go and do my best to stick to WW.

I also still have to Zumba today. I haven't all week! :(

Of Blog Designs and Quilts

Today is a special day. I am getting my eyes checked and my new glasses! Hurray! I woke up much earlier than I planned. My eye appointment is 11:10 AM and I planned on waking up at 10, getting ready and then running to the bank where I could withdraw money from our HSA. The debit card we have is only in Brian's name, so I can't use it at the store. But I can use it at the ATM, since I know his pin. (What? We are married, there are no secrets!)

Turns out, however, because Brian had to leave for work at 7:00 am this morning, he forgot to give me the debit card. And I forgot to remind him last night. So poo- I can't even go to the bank. Had I known this, I would have just stayed in bed.

It didn't really matter what time my alarm was set, anyway, since I woke up at 8 and was unable to fall back asleep. I lay in bed muttering to myself and finally got up at 8:30. Got dressed, took the dog out, came in, did "Internet things" - checking mail, bank accounts, etc, and it turns out we got our State Refund today! Hurray! That makes up for the debit card debacle.

I started getting ready at 9 am, thinking it would take me a while to do my hair. I forgot I lopped it all off! So hair and make up only took 15 minutes. It took that long because I am virtually blind and I held the hand mirror as close to my face as possible while trying to put on eye makeup :)

At 1 pm (ish) I am meeting my great-aunt for lunch. She made me a quilt! She made my mom one a while ago and now she has finished mine! I am so happy!! I was talking to her on the phone and she mentioned that she couldn't find any duck fabric, but found fabric with loons on it. She was sorry but I am ecstatic! I love all the feathered friends :)))) Don't worry, I will be posting pics of my lovely quilt and I have to find someplace I can put it where it won't get ruined. I really cherish and appreciate hand made items these days. Maybe I'm sentimental now :)

I got a few ideas for a blog design- a permanent one! You may or may not have noticed that I tend to change my background quite a bit on my blog. I just am not liking the template designer. So I am going to spend a lot of time designing my own and may have to spend quite a bit more of time re-learning all the coding... Believe it or not, I actually took a web design course or two, and was pretty good at it (even though I HATE tables with a passion!!) Looking at Blogger's code, there isn't too much I don't understand; even so, my idea is pretty intense, so it will require a lot of thinking on my part, and maybe a domain name is in my future as well.
Of course, Brian will be coerced recruited into helping me!

Have you any hand made items that you treasure? Who made it?