Blue, Green and a Bitty Bit of Purple

What Tonya should be doing today: cleaning (yet again - why does it never just stay clean?) and making a phone call (I HATE making phone calls). Has Tonya accomplished those things? No, instead it's much better to play with fabric and then go on a fabric shopping expedition (yet again - woohoo!) so as to not see the filth and the phone.

I am really missing my sweetie. It's been more than 3 months since I've seen him and I know people go much longer than that separated from their loved one, but it's still hard. He should be arriving here in Florida in less than a month. He'll get some beach time and then all of us will be off to Paris. (No, I am not taking 4 cats to the vet myself and then getting them overseas.) Not that any plane reservations have been made yet, so the dates are still up in the air.

So here I am missing my sweetie and wanting to avoid housework. Time to make another X and O (hugs and kisses) quilt. Or maybe L-O-V-E or maybe all of that combined. Choosing boy colors, not that he'd actually like these colors: too bright. Still, he won't hate these colors like he does the reds, pinks, oranges and yellows my last three quilts used.

These are the fabrics I already have. Wish I had more cyan/turquoise/blue (you've heard me whine about the desperate shortage of blues before) and I'm almost out of one of these fabrics so just gotta go and get more of it. Hopefully.

I know I sometimes make quilts with too little contrast, so I used my beloved Picasa (fabulous free photo software - go download it from Google) to check what these look like in black and white.

Works for me. I'm loving how these colors look together. In color, not black and white.

I had three wonderful phone calls this morning before a dreaded telemarketer made an appearance. The good ones were from my husband and dad (all doing well) and my wonderful friend Bonnie who is coming down for another sewing retreat next month. Woooooohooo!!!!!

Before I sign out, a quick reminder to everyone who switched to the new Blogger: if you haven't changed your email preference in your profile you're coming up as "no reply" in your comments. Everything else worked so smoothly I didn't realize there was a problem until someone let me know. So there you go.

Finally, some Smallville Season 5 geek talk. Lauri Ann (you are no-reply), yes Lana bores me too. Be interesting to see if she turns out-and-out evil. I'm still adoring Chloe and I'm glad they gave her more to do this season. I like Lois much better than I expected to but hate all this political stuff they did in the show this season. Like it's not bad enough with politics in the real world with their never-ending campaigns.