New Challenge to keep my mind busy

So I got too busy with work to do 26 quilts in 12 months...however...I have a more attainable goal set for myself.  Last night I purchased the new book Tula Pink's City Sampler: 100 Modern Quilt Blocks.  I've been wanting to buy it for a while now and it took a lot of digging to finally find it at JoAnn's so that I could use my 40% off coupon.  I was so excited.  I haven't had the chance to sit down and really go through it yet.  But, I have decided that I am going to make a quilt that includes each one of the 100 quilt blocks. 

I am hoping that this will help me keep me busy.  Anytime I have any down time recently I just keep thinking about my brother and getting sad...sitting in traffic jams crying sad.  Tomorrow is the 1st anniversary of his passing and I've been thinking about him a lot lately.  My husband said that eventually that will pass...then he said "nevermind, I still remember the day my dad died and that was 30 years ago."  I just keep telling myself that my big brother was proud of me and he wouldn't want me to be sad all of the time.  So I have to keep busy.

This will also give me something to write about here since I seem to keep getting writer's block and going for months without posting anything.

Here's what I've been up to since last I wrote:

I met Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Linus and Lucy.

My youngest niece and nephew got to be elves in the CMA Country Christmas Special which airs on December 2nd at 9/8c on ABC

We had an awards show...

Here is the stage right before the show:

Oh yeah...and I did a walk by during the Hunter Hayes/Jason Mraz performance:

So now that the show is over and I'm just working on wrapping up some paperwork, hopefully this little blog won't be too neglected.

Until next time.

How many quilts can I make in one year?

So I am giving myself a challenge. I want to make at least 26 quilts in the next year...that means at least one every two weeks. I have been on a quilting kick lately and armed with the knowledge I got in my free motion quilting class last week, I wanted to make this challenge to myself. I've been really bad about posting lately and I'm hoping this new challenge will also help me be better at this whole blogging thing. To kick off my challenge I am working on a new quilt top today. I hope to have completed 26 new quilts between now and April 1st, 2014. I'll post pics as I make progress.

For starters...I'm pretty dang proud of this quilt top that I made last week for my husband. He's been wanting me to make it for him since last May and I finally got up the courage to give this "challenging" pattern a go. Looks pretty much like the picture in the magazine did.

I get so much joy out of seeing something that I made. If anyone out there is reading this, I hope my quilt challenge will bring you smiles and perhaps make you think of something that you enjoy that you can challenge yourself with.