Another Girl's Camp Over!

Well we survived another year of hosting our stake's girl's camp. We spent the 5th through the 12th at Camp KoHoLoWo. The girl's and their leaders didn't arrive until Wednesday morning so Stuart and I had a couple of days to ourselves before all the fun began. We had almost 240 girl's and leader's there the rest of the week. Here are some of the highlights of our week.(I'm warning you in advance of the picture overload ahead. There are so many I want to share, even the bear skat. Yup, we had a friendly little visitor one night.) This is Stuart and I in front of the lodge. We all gather here for flag and chapel, meals, programs, etc.

The meadow hadn't been mowed in a very long time. Stuart was lucky enough to be the first one to do it. He was on the tractor until after dark on Monday evening. He so could of been a farmer! He loved every minute of this job.

Doesn't it look so beautiful and green. He really did do a great job on it.

It was my job during camp to make sure the toilet paper and paper towel dispensers were full. Wow, I didn't realize just how much tp those girl's go through. One word, alot!!

Stuart did a little painting on the benches outside the lodge. They needed a fresh coat of paint, they haven't had one for sometime.

We had a little grafitti during the week, so we had to patch that up after the girl's had gone on Saturday.

And a couple of loose screws on beds to be tightened. The girl's are lucky enough to have these bunk beds to sleep on. These beds are so old, I slept on them when I was going to girl's camp!

We baked cookies for the girl's as a little gift as they left on Saturday. Then we packaged them in baggies and put a label on each one. You can read the little poem below:

We even had some visitors during the week. Kaitlyn and McKinley drove up from Levan. They spent a couple of hours with us. McKinley was showing off her new trick. Hum, should we call that walking! What a little smartie pants, she's only 9 months old.

Grandpa, Grandma and McKinley outside our home away from home.

During the week we participated in several activities with the girls. They had some really fun things going the whole time.

The beauty of the outdoors was all around us, the wildflowers were so pretty. We enjoyed some wildlife as well. We did see a few deer out in the meadow playing tag.

Surprise! A bear was in camp one night. He left his mark on the lawn in front of the lodge. With all that was going on I still found time to sew. I made a few fun things while I was away.

All set up and ready to sew! Just the perfect work space.

This is the Black Forest Bag from Melly and Me. I am going to be teaching this class at a Quilt Retreat in a couple of weeks so I wanted to make one that I could give away as one of the door prizes. I love how it turned out. The name and color of the bag are just fitting for the back drop of the picture. The forest, get it? The inside of the bag.

And this is a quilt I started for one of Jacob's co-workers in Idaho. I need to finish it up and then I'll tell you the story behind it.

I made this cute little purse pin cushion. I found the tutorial here if you are interested. The pouches were really fun and easy to make. The pattern is from Lazy Girl Designs, the zippers were so easy to put in. They have a fast zippy way of doing it. Way cute don't you think? These could be used for just about anything.

This is a mystery quilt I made at a quilt retreat last year. I finally got it quilted so I took it with me to finish binding. Look for it at the Fiesta Days Quilt show going on this weekend. If it's one of your favorite's please vote for it, ok.

And the last couple of things I got done were these cute tote bags. The pattern is from Whistlepig Creek. Each one is made from charm packs and a little extra yardage.

This bag I'm keeping for myself, it's made from Soriee from Moda.

And this one is on display at the Corn Wagon. It's made from Moda's Flag Day Farm.

So as you can see we had one busy week, but one filled with fun and laughter and memories that will last a lifetime. We look forward to doing this again. It was so quiet after all the girl's left on Saturday we just sat and enjoyed each other's company.

Catch Up!

Sorry I haven't blogged for a couple of weeks, just lazy I guess. Anyway I think I've caught you up on some things that have been happening around here. Not much though. Stuart and I are headed for Girl's camp this week, we are the camp hosts at KoHoLoWo up Santaquin Canyon. This will be our 4th year of doing it. There are host quarters to stay in but I'd rather stay in our trailer. We will be eating most of our meals with the girls, so not much to do there. The job isn't hard, change the t.p. in the holder when their empty, turn the generator off and on, you know maintaining stuff. My sewing bag is packed plum full of stuff to work on. I can even take my machine to sew on. Oh the luxuries of home. I will have alot of time to do whatever I want. I guess you could call this a mini vacation. I will blog about our adventures when we return. I hope everyone had a wonderful 4th of July. By the way, where did June go? P.S. Do you want a good laugh or two? Check this sight out if you haven't already. http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com/

July's Bag!

Take a look at this cute bag, this is the bag we will be doing in our Bag Ladies Club for July at the Corn Wagon. The class in on July 30th. The bag is on display at the shop. Come in and check it out, I know your going to want one for yourself. This is a Melly and Me bag. It's called "Candy", these girls have some really great patterns. We have alot of their patterns in the shop already. It's hard to decide which one to sew up next.

This is a smaller bag, so I lined my with iron on vinyl so I can use it for a make up bag. Suzanne made it a tad larger to use for a travel bag. Oh by the way, we have the vinyl in the shop now. Both of these bags were made with Joel Dewberry's new line Deer Valley, do you think he spent sometime in Utah getting his inspiration for this fabric line?

Bag Ladies!

Junes Bag Ladies Club was another successful one. We had enough sign up that we ended up doing two classes again. This happened in May to. Myself and Suzanne didn't know what to expect when Marsha approached us about this back in February. But I think this little adventure is going to do well. It will probably be on the fall class schedule by the looks of things.

A little time for sewing!

I've been doing a little sewing lately, or is that all I do lately. I had a couple of quilts that needed to be bound so those got done and I made this cute bag out of some of my scraps that are piling up in the corner again. It's another Melly and Me bag.

Check out the zippered pocket and the cell phone pocket sewn on the front of it. Tricky huh!

And of course another pocket.

We have neices having babies on both side of the family so I'm quite sure these will be going to them as gifts. How do I decide which goes where?

It's Over!

This post is kind of a picture over load but it will be worth your time to look at all the fun photo's of the shop hop that took place the 17th through the 20th of June. We had so much fun getting the shop all dressed up to look like a toy shop. I contributed quite a few things I had around the house that I had kept of the kids as well as mine and Stuarts. Enjoy shop hopping. The first few pictures are of some of the employees working late the night before the big event.

Marsha and Lynette trying their very hardest to hula hoop, I think Lynette was the winner.

Hey, does this guy look familiar to anyone? What a good sport Sturat was to come help us hang our kites. Look how high we had him up on that ladder. What in the heck were we thinking. I'm sure he thought we were nuts, but he didn't complain. At least not while he was in the shop that is!

The bag lady hanging bags!

The following pictures are some of the display of toys we had through out the shop. I'm sure seeing some of them will take you on a trip down memory lane.

These dolls were some of the ones Marsha played with when she was a little girl. And the one with the bonnet belonged to her mother in law.

Say cheese Mary Ann and Megan!

Everything in the corner hutch came from my house. We had so many comments on all the old Fisher Price toys. I had one lady ask me if I wanted to sell the baby Tiny Tears on the top shelf. The quilt hanging up was our shop hop quilt. Each store had to make a quilt using each of the other stores blocks. Of course ours was the cutest quilt out there! You need to see this up close, the picture doesn't do it any good. Stop in and see it sometime. Mary Ann will be doing a class in the fall if you are interested.

The next pictures are of some of the quilts we had hung up for the shop hop. We featured Emily Herrick of Crazy Old Ladies, so we had several of her quilts up as well.

This is the fun hopscotch quilt that I made for the shop.

This is the quilt Marsha taught on their cruise back in February, she entered it in the Springville Days Quilt Show and won a ribbon. I don't think she liked the idea of us leaving the ribbon on it.

This quilt is called If the Shoe Fits! Isn't is so cute.

This is Emily's newest, she was binding it the night before so we could display it. It's called Holiday Line Up. This is on my holiday list for sure!

Emily's Postage Stamp in the background and one of Amy Butler's patterns in the front. And Fig Tree Sweet Sugar Swirl is hung on the shelf.

And the day is here, look who we have to greet us, Clarabelle(aka Mary Ann) and Clarence (aka Marsha). What good sports Marsha and Mary Ann were. Marsha is the store owner and Mary Ann is the manager. They dressed up all four days and were so into their characters it was hard for us to get back to normal the following week. We had lots of fun things going on during the shop hop. We had games, hula hoop competitions, hopscotch outside, and cracker jacks for refreshments. I think everybody had a real good time when they came into shop at the Corn Wagon. I know they left happy anyway.

We already have our theme for next year and ideas are popping in our heads already. It's going to be another fun is all I can say. You will have to wait a whole other year to find out what it is. I know the suspense is killing you already, huh. Stayed tuned, I might be needing you for ideas!