Amsterdam Bricks with Cheddar

Happy 2009 to everyone. I'm not going to list resolutions or what I want to accomplish this next year because I am nearing freak out trying to decide what has to go back to the states with me on the plane, what should be mailed, what can wait until whenever it is that my husband gets moved out. eeeek.

So instead I give you more pics from my trip to Amsterdam last month. I love the brick combined with cheddar-colored details:

I adore this in particular: the lavendar bike parked in front of a canal house:

I just wish I'd had sunnier weather and more time.

In tv watching, I marathoned the first season of 30 Rock and absolutely adored it. I don't know (and don't want to know) what happens next but I love the relationship between Liz Lemon and Jack. They are both such great characters and remind me of Mary Richards and Mr Grant.

My husband and I just finished with Monk Season Six. It was okay. I wish they'd give the OCD stuff a rest and focus more on the mysteries. We thoroughly enjoyed Jonathon Creek Season Two - that one I can wholeheartedly recommend. Jonathon creates magic tricks for a magician and uses his skills to solve crimes that no one else can.

Yesterday I started basting Raspberry Rumspringa. I shouldn't have - would have been more efficient to pack the backing and top - that would take up far less room. But I really needed something mindless and I have to have something to hand quilt or I'll lose my mind. I'm really noticing the pain in my middle finger - I'm sure it's arthritis.

I have a bunch of links to share with you all. In the last post I showed you how my L-O-V-E Letters Challenge quilt turned out. Thank you all so much for your lovely comments and compliments. It was so much fun to see what Kristin, Karen, and KathieB all came up with for their letters. While you are at Kathie's do check out the link to her inspiration - it's wonderful. Meanwhile, Bonnie lost some of her love and hasn't made a quilt just yet. No wonder since she's probably working on ten other projects not to mention all that travelling...

Brown Dirt Cottage Belinda finished a wonderful quilt for another Bonnie, this one a baby. It's hard to believe this is Belinda's first finished quilt - she did an amazing job.

Speaking of baby quilts, I love this 10 Wishes quilt that California Girl in Oz Dianne just completed. She used the free-pieced letters in the border and it's fabulous.

Finally, I love my friend Siobhan's quilt-related top 10 list for 2008. Go check it out - you may just find some new online resources you didn't know about. What would your number 10 be?

Ya'all take care. I adore you all, thank you so much for visiting my blog and leaving me comments. It means a great deal. Have a safe wonderful 2009 full of quilty goodness.