Catch Up of Other Activities!

I went to the Strong Tower Gaming Convention this year.  It was super fun.  I stayed in the hotel with Ashley and Miranda.  I was super tired by Sunday, but really enjoyed the experience!

I attended my either online Zoom Retreat with the Booktube Besties.  It is more fun every time!  So nice now that my entire book club (created several retreats ago from retreat people) also was there and we all chat on the side and really have a blast!

I also really wanted to see VE Schwab so I bought a ticket to see her online.  She was promoting her book Victorious (which I bought but have not started yet).  She was every bit as amazing in person as she is on youtube and in her newsletters.  

I attended a lecture about Willa Cather online and they since I was on a roll one put on by the Cozy Reader Book Club with Nina LaCour.

She wrote these two books which I loved!

                                        

Really enjoyed her talk too and will be reading her future books!

Bumpa and I went to the grandparents' breakfast at the girls' school again.  They are growing so fast!  Nice to see the new building and classroom and meet their teachers!

A few days ago Kathy, Hannah and I went to see Alice Austen at the Civic Theater for Waukesha Reads.

She was a really interesting speaker who has lived quite the life!  Will be reading and watching her work--she is brilliant!

Here is Hannah getting her books signed.  

and here is my book!  33 Place Brugmann was 5 star and I already want to read it again!  This is our second time participating in Waukesha Reads (last year was The Seed Keeper which I apparently did not post about so will do so now!).

For 2025, Kathy and I went to see Diane Wilson talk about "The Seed Keeper."  This book was also five star!  Hannah was out of town so she was not with us.  Hopefully though it will now be an annual event and one day the girls will come too!

                                        

Chunk Churn Dash, Easy Breezy and a Whole Lot of Other Stuff

I pulled out my leftover blocks to see what I could use to make a bunch of Christmas stockings for the step grands, honorary grands and grands.  I have lots of stockings in progress now but no pictures yet.

Found these churn dash blocks left over from I do not know what in my bins.  Could not find another project with this size churn dashes on my blog so no idea why I made them.  I need to make at least one more in order to complete a tiny top....or make more so I can have a baby size or something.  

I also made two more soft books and brought two (one is a duplicate) over to Hannah and Jeremy's house for Hazel.

We visited Hazel last Tuesday night and I held her for a long while.  I am going to see her tomorrow again.  Cannot get enough of this little face!

BJ and I have been doing a lot of sewing on camera.  I did the next clue for the Morewood Mystery and now have to wait for another month for the next clue!

Three of my four Chunky Churn Dash baby quilts are quilted (by me) and bound!  Pretty happy with how they turned out and the time quilting them went fast while chatting with quilting buddies online.  

We turned the heat on last Friday night...Wisconsin is in the 50's!  Arizona is still over 100.  CRAZY!  I made there Halloween bags from panels that Barb gave me.  Put them in a box with a bunch of other stuff and sent them off to the Ohio grands.

Speaking of cold...Kathy asked for handwarmers so I made us each a set.  We will be using them on the dog walks soon!

I also sewed up the Easy Breezy blocks until I ran out of friendship star blocks to go with them.  I will need to make more and then I can grow this one.
 As you can see I was all over the place in my sewing but I got a lot done!  I also made simple ornaments for the grands from the Scrabble tiles.