Just Sewin and Crafting

Again, I am in a blog challenge.  I need more people to challenge me to do other things in my life.  So, I'm doing this and hoping I can remember to do it daily for the month of August.

Today's challenge is to tell you one food I refuse to eat and why.  So, here goes.  This was a no brainer and for anyone who knows me half-way they will know that I do NOT eat liver.  PERIOD.  It makes me gag.  The smell of it makes me gag.  As a child, when liver was served for dinner, I didn't even bother going to the table for supper.  I would just go straight to bed.  It was a rule at our house that you ate what was cooked (some of everything) or you could go to bed without supper.  Not to bed at bedtime, but straight to bed when the meal was served.  I would come home from school, smell the liver and not even wait for supper time.  I would just go straight to bed.  Liver is nasty. 
The End.

Our favorite link is some place other than the usual, e-mail, bank, etc., that we visit almost daily.  I think my favorite, though I don't go there daily, is Pintrest.  www.pintrest.com 

For starters it is an amazing place to share neat finds from the internet with a ton of different people.  I find it an especially fun way to find new crafts ideas, share things I love (like food that I will probably never make, but will drool on my keyboard over), interesting decorating ideas (that I have no money to do). It's also a place where I can check and see what my sister loves, since she lives clear in Mississippi and I don't get to see her often.  It's also a place where my daughters can show me what they like and beg me to make for them...hahahaha!  I just find it an awesome site.  If you are not a member and are interested in joing, do NOT, I repeat NOT, ask for an invitation on the page.  The waiting list is very long.  However, if you want to join, please feel free to send me your e-mail address (via facebook) and I will be more than happy to invite you...which means automatic inclusion to the site, which is free, by the way!! 

So, go check it out!!  You'll be amazed at the things you can find there!!!! 

If I had one special talent I would want to be a fabric artist. I love fabric and sewing.  However, I don't have the "creative mind" to be a fabric artist.  Yep, that's the talent I would love to have at this stage of my life!

Ahhhh, it seems I've written a lot about trips this challenge.  I love to travel, though I really didn't start traveling until I met Randy.  Our dream trip is Hawaii.  So, according to the challenge we will have two free round trip tickets and $25,000 to spend on "fun, food and transportation" while at our destination. 

So, we arrive in Hawaii and we rent a Harley Davidson.  Yep, the best of the best!  Where do we head? To any and all out-lying areas.  We love back roads and sights!  We'll surely have to try some Polynesian food and attend a luau.  Of course, we'll take breaks to sit by the beach and have the beach boy bring us drinks.  :)  If we're feeling up to it we'll take a chopper ride over a volcano, I think Randy would get a kick out of that, more than me!  lol 

Yep...Hawaii it is!! 

Easy and fast (since I'm behind by 3 days now)!  Perfect morning...being woken up by my husband with a huge cup of coffee and the command to just lay back and relax while he finishes making me breakfast!  lol 

Well, I must admit that I have been on quite a few nice vacations since having met and married my husband, Randy.  We've been together since 2004, so it's only been a few short years.  In those few short years we have traveled more than I had in my entire life.  But, far and away I believe my favorite vacation was to Las Vegas in 2008.  Yeah, yeah, I know, who wouldn't love Las Vegas, right?  Well, I for one like a few things about Las Vegas, the town itself, mainly Fremont Street and the light show at night.  I'm not a big gambler, nor am I big drinker and I must admit that the time difference really messes me up.  But, each time we have gone to Las Vegas, we've managed to get some side excursions in and those are the best!  You see, when we go to Las Vegas, it is on business, but we always add extra days to the trip for some sight seeing! 

In December 2008, we decided to just "explore" the areas around Las Vegas.  We traveled way out on the Extraterrestrial Highway in search of "aliens" and Area 51. 

Day #4 of the challenge is, if you had $20,000 what would you buy?  It has to be fun stuff and can't be used for paying bills.  So, this is what I'd buy and why.

The very first thing that I would buy would be the Babylock Ellisimo.  It is a combination sewing/embroidery machine.  It has a large throat, plenty of room for machine quilting a quilt larger than a twin size and has great "stadium" lighting.