Snow Day

Yes, everything goes crazy in Atlanta when it snows.  It really isn't the snow it is more a problem with the ice.  Yesterday was wild, there are three major interstates going through Atlanta, plus everyone decided to go home early and it created awful traffic.  Some students had to spend the night at schools,  glad I made it home and didn't have to stay at school overnight with kids.  I got a lot and I do mean a lot done today.  Before I hit the sewing room I went outside to check out the birdfeeder.  We have some beautiful cardinals that I tried to catch at the bird feeder but no luck. 

Bottle tree in the snow.

I finally got my Yellow Brick Road Swap sewn together.  I love this quilt can't wait to get it quilted.  I am trying to decide it I want to put borders on it or not.  What do  you think?  This is the swap that we did last year out of shirtings.  I made mine bigger since I had some extra fabric, I was lucky and found some backing fabric at Sweet Home during their going out of business sale a few weeks ago. 

Photos don't do this quilt justice. 

Snow Day!!!

 Over the last few years it seems that the meteorologists have gotten much better at predicting the weather.  The last few days they were predicting snow, sleet, and freezing rain for the Atlanta area.  I was watching for it all day yesterday, finally at about 9:00 last night I told my hubby, "It's not going to snow", less than an hour later I looked out the window and it was pouring down.  It was beautiful!!  I love snow and for this to be the second big snow that I have seen in less than a month was wonderful.  Not wonderful that we will have to make today and tomorrow up later, but I have enjoyed playing in the snow.  These are some of the trees in our backyard. 

Bird feeder that my dad made for me.

After walking in the snow and helping some of our neighbors shovel their driveways I worked on organizing my sewing room.  School closings have already been announced for tomorrow and I plan on getting a lot of sewing done tomorrow.

Snow Day!!!

Usually I am all for a Snow Day, but for some reason today I really wanted to go to school. I can't believe that I am saying that. We missed two days earlier in the year due to flooding, I really didn't want to have a third day that we have to make up. We were scheduled to have our school wide spelling bee today in the media center, everything is all set up and the make up day isn't until Wednesday. The first thing I will have to do on Monday is put everything back they way it should be . Oh well, at least I got some housekeeping done. I really haven't done that much cleaning since Christmas, today gave me an opportunity to get that done. After a morning spent cleaning I went into my sewing room to work on Glory Bound, I thought I only had five more blocks to make, I was so wrong, 5 of one kind and 15 of another kind. I did manage to get the five made and have the pieces laid out for the other 15. I decided instead to finish the bed skirt that I had started for our new bed. (at least it was finishing something, not starting a new project.) I almost have the bed skirt complete now and hope to get it one the bed tomorrow.