I've been tagged!

1. What was I doing 10 years ago?

I was living in the house of my step-grandparents. My mom and Tom had just gotten married, and there was drama with the new house and the tenants not leaving, so we were living with them while it all got sorted out. It was fun. We would swim in the pool in the back and hang out with the cousins who were close. I remember Little Mike teaching Emily and I how to talk like new Yorkers, and batting at fireflies with a bat. It was also the short time we had to spend with Grandpa Ciccotelli before he died later that summer. I remember the time with fondness.

2. Five Snacks I Enjoy

1. Almonds

2. Carrot Sticks

3. Texas Sheet Cake

4. Red, orange, and yellow pepper slices

5. Sweet Peas (not the pods)

3. Five Things On My To Do List Today

1. Go running

2. Read Scriptures

3. Take a shower

4. Relax and hang out with family

5. Enjoy North Dakota


4. Things I would do if I were a billionaire:

I don't really like to think about this. Though I would not mind having more money than I have, I don't think I would do well with being rich. I guess I'd like to donate a lot of it, and buy lots of land, build a community greenhouse, and have an indoor swimming pool at my house.

5. Five jobs that I have had.

1. MTC Cookie Maker

2. Cutco Salesperson

3. Tanner Building Custodian

4. Net Marketing Alliance Phone Rep

5. Vision Security Credit Checker

6. Five of my bad habits.

1. Picking at the skin around my fingernails

2. Talking with a harsh tone without realizing it

3. Not eating when I am emotionally stressed

4. Comparing people (though I am a lot better than I used to be)

5. Not brushing my teeth everyday

7. Four places I have lived

1. Maryland

2. New York

3. Colorado

4. Utah

8. Five People I Want to Get to Know Better: A nice way of saying “Tag. You’re it!”

1. Jana

2. Heather

3. Mom

4. Jason

5. Monique

9. 6 Random Things:

1. My sister and I have aspirations to own a cow, and I would like to make homemade cheese with the milk from that cow.

2. In Middle School, I used to eat potato chips, animal crackers, and a coke or mountain dew for lunch. This compared to my preferred fare of nowadays of fruits, veggies, and good bread with yummy cheese.

3. My freshman year of college, Janardan and I went on a bus trip (where we just get on a random bus and let it ride us off), and missed the last bus back to Provo, because I had left my purse at the church we had found. We had apparently gone to Springville, and walked the entire 9 miles home.

4. When I was probably around 4, my best friend Whitney was over, and I was changing my clothes. I had taken off my shirt, and was just going around without putting a new shirt on. She said, "Jennie, if you don't put a shirt on, you'll turn into a boy." For some reason, her saying that has just always stuck with me.

5. My roommate and I once started an elevator club. We would do our homework and play games in the elevator, and then do weird pranks with people on the elevator. It was a fun, if short lived, club.

6. I tore my ACL in 8th grade fighting for a rebound with a guy who was probably at least 8" taller than me. In that same era of me playing ball with the older guys. One night I blocked two shots of a guy who was probably 9-10" taller than me. I miss playing basketball.

I Love Running In North Dakota

It is beautiful. It is cool. It is windy, so it keeps me cool, and there is so much to see while I run, and so many people driving past who wave. I can't wait to run again on Monday.

Day 1 -- Classes Start!

Today was the first day of classes. I took a class on needleturn applique. My teacher was really awesome. She taught us how to do curves, points, straight lines, and circles. I didn't take any progress shots, but below are some shots of the work I did today. PS Curves take forever! Once I got back to straight lines, I was going much faster.

Also my thread was not great. It's good there are some vendors around so I can buy some better supplies. So because of not great thread, my stitch would sometimes be more invisible than others, but that was also because of my learning.

But I am really excited. I have decided I need to start another tree for my North Dakota trip so I won't have to just be hand quilting all the way there, but I can hand applique as well!




So I thought I didn't really take many pictures at the quilt show today, but I guess I still did take pictures. So, yah.

This quilt below had over 20,000 jewels on it. It was gorgeous.

I probably should have put my finger or something in this picture, but this quilt was mini! Those little little pieces were 1/8" pieces. Tiny!

Yep, so that is it! Day 1 was great. Ready for day 2!b

NQA Quilt Show -- Preview Night!!

Today was the preview night for the quilt show. My pictures aren't great. I might double some up if I get pictures off of Mom's camera, which takes much better pictures. But for now, I'll just put up a ton of pictures.

So after going through a small portion of the show, I have decided I really like bright colors, and that color is the aspect of quilts that draws me in the most. Like, use of color has the most impact to me. Regular old quilt patterns done in bright and good colors are much more exciting to me.