Fabric Diet!!!

Yesterday when I was upstairs in my sewing room and cleaned up some of my mess, I decided I have to go on fabric diet. I have an old wooden 2 door locker from my grandmother and and there is no way that all my fabrics will fit in there. Fabric diet is the solution - no stash building shopping for the rest of the year (exception: I might be on vacation in November and defently gonna buy some fabric there). I´m only allowed to buy some fabric if I need something specific for a special project - I hope I can resist those great deals the online stores are always offering. I´m awaiting my last order of batiks - no, not stash building - its for my Lazed Star batik quilt I plan to sew and the pp-pattern are already printed and waiting to get started. If I look at my WADs-List 2009, for all those projects I already have the fabrics - all I might need is the backing.

So..... let´s get the diet started!!!

Tour de France

Since Saturday the Tour is on the road again - the last two years I wasnt really interested to watch the Tour but this year - Lance is back - with a very strong team.

Astana-Team

021 - Alberto CONTADOR
022 - Lance ARMSTRONG
023 - Andreas KLÖDEN
024 - Levi LEIPHEIMER
025 - Dmitriy MURAVYEV
026 - Sergio PAULINHO
027 - Yaroslav POPOVYCH
028 - Gregory RAST
029 - Haimar ZUBELDIA

Columbia got also some strong cyclists in their team

071 - Mark CAVENDISH
072 - Bernhard EISEL
073 - Bert GRABSCH
074 - George HINCAPIE
075 - Kim KIRCHEN
076 - Tony MARTIN
077 - Maxime MONFORT
078 - Mark RENSHAW
079 - Michael ROGERS

When I checked the teams I noticed that one of my favorite german cyclist is part of the tour again Jens Voigt he is such a great and nice guy.

This gonna be some really interesting 3 weeks.........

A Big Clear Out

On Saturday I started to clear out a shack on our property. Its amazing what you keep (in this case the collection of my grandparents and parents) when you have the space and not be willed to throw anything away.

A almost cleared out shack

I found trash.........




....... and treasures


an old wheelbarrow



an old wooden beer barrel and an old harness (whencever this come from)



an old whetstone



an old wooden wheel (since when we have cars and rubber tires??)



and two old hand saws for the big trees



Besides trash & treasures I run into those creatures too



Bizkit checked if the job I did is acceptable



and declared it as well done *lol*

Hungry Soren

This is Soren, my godchild, I took this picture on Saturday, when I was visiting my friend and Sorens Mom Nicole. Soren must have been really hungry because he was already chewing on the tables edge *lol*

Fuzzy Tree

Saturday when I was strolling around my home town I saw this tree. It got leaves and some blooming and some fuzzy things and it looks weired but nice.

Close up

Clouds

Look at those clouds - they look like huge cotton balls, they look so comfy and make me wanna jump in there for some snuggeling.

Happy 75th Birthday Paula!!!

I was at the sewing maschine until 0:45 tonight to finish Paulas memory-pillow. Quite tired but happy to be able to give it to Paula after I get off work. I´m looking forward to her reaction because she has absolutly no clue what she will get from us. When we were at her DIL house´ for the pics - of course Paula showed up too and ask what we are doing. DIL told her its not her business - it wasnt really nice but otherwise we wouldnt keep her off being nosy what we are doing. I hope Paula likes the pillow.....

Well - I should´ve iron the backside before taking a pic. I put some weight on the pillow to flatten it a bit and all I got is some wrinkles