Saint Patty’s Day!

My son LOVES Saint Patrick’s Day.  No really, probably better than Christmas!  Well, his birthday anyway!

He ADORES corned beef and cabbage.  It’s always been a tradition for Grandma to cook some up for him and he waits all year for it.

When I found this tutorial on Pinterest, I had to make it!  I substituted shamrocks for the flowers and they’ll be ripped off Sunday and replaced by cute little flowers.  My little granddaughter will NOT touch it!

Below is MY version – I did not use “Fun Fur” but “Yarn Bee’s Haute Fur” from Hobby Lobby.  It was the same price and double the amount.  I used the whole skein, so I was glad I did.

 

Happy St. Pat’s Day, everyone!

Robbie Marie

(Tomorrow it is back to my Just Takes 2 blocks!)

There are days when you are so glad…..

There are days when you are sooo glad your kids aren’t in high school any longer, right?

When I saw this on Pinterest, I had one of those moments.  My son didn’t do the usual TP displays like his dad had taken part in.  No, he and his buds would drop off toilets (left over from his dad’s construction remodels) in folk’s yards!  Really.  Am I proud?  No, but I guess it could be worse and they DID pick them back up. 

IF they had known this prank, they would have covered a lot!  Take a look for yourself!

And THEN there was my son-in-law!  He was particularly dangerous with bowling balls! 

Whatever happened to good old TP?

I hope you are having a great weekend!  We are!

Robbie Marie

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In Stitches over Pinterest!

Do YOU Pinterest???

I am in love (addicted) to Pinterest.  It is the best way that I know of to keep track of quilts that I adore.  I have come to the conclusion that I will NEVER be able to make them all, sigh, but I love to love them all!

One of the best parts of Pinterest is the “pinning” process. You “pin” pictures from the internet that link back to them whenever you want to go and at the same time, folks that choose to follow you can likewise “pin” them from you. 

It is sooooooo much fun to see what appeals to other folks.  Sometimes it DOES influence how I will proceed with a project.  If folks pin it like crazy, it must have something that is more universally appealing.  But not always!  Sometimes the pins are just random!  It seems the simpler a project, the more pins it may attract, too!

Here are some examples of my pins.

I captioned this pin: “LOVE this quilt - From Kim Schaefer's Calendar Quilts”

It has been pretty popular with 28 repins and 7 likes.

I pinned it 9 weeks ago and I get a repin on it every day or so.  35 people wanting to save it is pretty good!

 

This is a pin that shows where I got the baby shower announcement that I used for my daughter’s shower in 2009.

I thought it was cute and thought other folks might want to take advantage of the tutorial and pattern, too.

It has 13 likes and 52 repins!  Wow!

 

 

I pinned this one because it was just fun!  It reminded me of my tea drinking/duck loving daughter-in-law.  I thought about making it for Christmas, but couldn’t locate the parts in time.

It has 1 like and 10 repins.

Kinda cute, don’t you think??

 

NOW check out these two!!!!

My highest pin is a tutorial on how to make tulle balls.  It has 14 Likes and 122 Repins!!!

HOW is that possible?  Well, every time someone repins from a repin from mine, I get credit for it, too!  Whoa, right???

NOW, look below and take a look at of one of my daughter’s pins!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These vases are filled with conversation hearts have 306 Likes, 12 Comments, and 1485 Repins AND still counting!  (She actually is over 2000 repins on her account’s statistics, but on the board these numbers are what shows – still not bad, eh??)  Can you believe it??  Wouldn’t you think numbers like that would be for something – earthshaking????  Every day we check to see what her new numbers are.

Pinterest is addicting!  You can catch my 37 boards and 2730 pins here, or by clicking my button on the bottom of each blog page.

Robbie Marie