Ten Days, Bee Blocks, A Giveaway & …more
Ten days and counting until my blogiversary folks! I told you 23 days ago during Sunday Stash #33 there would be:
- fabric stashes
- a QAL announcement
- some major finishes
- works in progress new and old
- gimme gimme giveaways
- parts of David Butler you’ve never seen
- and some sparkling guest posts
If you thought this eleganza extravaganza was over just because that list is complete, think again! It’s about to get hardcore! What else can be crammed in? Hahaha … more.
Today, here are some of my latest bee block finishes. That’s 196, 2.5″ squares, and 48, 1″ squares. Time to change that Olfa blade! (QSA: Have you changed yours recently?)
Right now? How about another pop up giveaway? “So tell me whatcha want, whatcha really, really want,” To enter to win a yard of fabric of your choosing from Intrepid Thread, I want you to leave me a comment with a favourite song lyric! My favourite of the moment? “All my bags are packed, I’m ready to go…” Foreshadowing … more.
I might have a reckless streak,
At least a country-mile wide.
If you're gonna run with me,
It's gonna be a wild ride.
Tim McGraw – Real Good Man 😉
http://www.metrolyrics.com/sewn-lyrics-feeling.html#startvideo
"…..and God knows you've got me sewn….."
Includes a creepy video about entanglement…watch for the lips at the end…
"If not for you
The winter would hold no spring,
couldn't hear a robin sing
I just wouldn't have a clue…if not for YOU"
George Harrison If Not For You.
Oh, and Molli….in case that didnt get you interested….more of the lyrics include "…Dannyboy dont be afraid to shake that ass and misbehave….."
Honey, I haven't stopped by in a bit bu thought I woud in honour of our last bee block. Vale rainbow bee. But my oh my how you've grown! Did you know you broken herringbone was a quilt along?! Well, likely, but I didn't so cudos grande to you! Ok favourite song lyric right now would have to be by the divine Clare Bowditch… Along the lines of "you think you have to be everything but you just have to start something" or words to that effect. Lovely. Grounding. True. xx
Doubts will try to break you
Unleash your heart and soul
Trouble will surround you
Start taking some control
Muse–"Panic Station"
Though I'll admit due to the 'N Sync appearance confirmation, I had "Bye Bye Bye" in my head most of yesterday, especially after my dentist and dental hygienist started singing it while working on my teeth.
Hey – I just changed my blade too! Thanks to my children repeating it after they heard it on some tv ad, my favourite lyrics (well, the lyrics that seem to constantly be in my head!) are "I don't care – I love it" by Icona Pop.
You know that it would be untrue
You know that I would be a liar
If I was to say to you
Girl, we couldn't get much higher
Come on baby, light my fire
Come on baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire
haha lovin' my blocks Molli!
So much colour. Great blocks!
Favourite song lyrics, well atm I'm listening to Hall of Fame by The Script ft. Will.i.am:
Don't wait for luck
Dedicate yourself and you can find yourself standing in the hall of fame
And the world's gonna know your name
Cause you burn with the brightest flame
Your tiny squared blocks are looking super! Did you press your seams open or to the side for those? I need to get some new blades, myself!
You've got to accentuate the positive
Eliminate the negative
And latch on to the affirmative
Don't mess with Mister In-Between
Spent a week in a dusty library
Waiting for some words to jump at me.
French Navy, by Camera Obscura
I can't stop listening to this song and these words are basically my life… I need to change my blades. Always.
hugs and kisses and early congratulations on this momentous anniversary.
I love you, you love me, we are a Happy Family, a kiss to you and a kiss from me !! ( I bet that will stump you)
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. Sarah thriftstorecrafter at yahoo dot com
don't you just love it when you can say just one work and a whole song comes to mind? Try "Crazy"…yeah, I am an older groupie but love your energy!
I know you want it
I know you want it
I know you want it
Controversial song of the summer.
I've always thought these lyrics were good words on how to live life to the fullest:
"Be a best friend, tell the truth
And overuse "I love you"
Go to work, do your best
Don't outsmart your common sense
Never let your prayin' knees get lazy
And love like crazy"
Lee Brice "Love Like Crazy"
Thanks for the giveaway!
"I laugh to think of crying my eyes out" – The Darkest Space by Jason Mraz
Not a favorite but stuck in my head for today: And I don't need this life, I just need somebody to die for, somebody to cry for … BTW I'm doing well, I'm not depressed or commiting suicide, it's just a song by group called Hurts 🙂
Listened to a favorite 80s group "station" on Pandora the other day, and this song came up. I don't think the meaning of the song resonated with me as much in my teens as it does today. Anyway, aside from giving away my age, this is what's in my head:
You are on one side
I am on the other
Are we divided?
Why can't we live together?
There are no rights
This isn't your decision
We need to talk of changing things
But no one wants to listen
…etc, at least talk of changing things is happening now.
Let's prog this up, how about some vintage Genesis:
His skins all covered in slimy lumps.
With lips that slide across each chin.
His twisted limbs like rubber stamps
Are waved in welcome say Please join in.
My grip must be flipping,
Cos his handshake keeps slipping,
My hopes keep on dipping
And his lips keep on smiling all the time.
P.S. That should have read stumps … dumb kids making lyric websites. I know it's creepy and did not need correction, but rubber stamps just seemed too stupid to leave there.
Just saw Julie yesterday, lucky enough to live 45 min from Intrepid Thread. Picked up my MSBHQAL bundle yeah!
Song well so stuck in my head Escape from Planet Earth has been on an endless loop at my house for the last couple of weeks
Flying through the galaxy
With supernova energy
Under pressure
Together
We're so much better
So much better
You know
Ahh the only one that's on my mind is one of those sad ones – the text is in German so I guess I could post part of it, if you can't understand it it can't make you sad. Ahh but better not – who knows what happens when google starts to index the comments …
well there is one other one – still sad but not that much
"Pour ne pas vivre seul
On vit comme ceu qui veulent se donner l'illusion
De ne pas vivre seul"
(Pour ne pas vivre seul – Firmine Richard singing – great voice, great actress)
Ok it's French so the translation problem is probably still there…
(Is your quote from Spice Girls? – Ohh got it's embarassing to even know them – my only excuse is they were "in" along with back street boys and later aron carter back then in 3rd grade .. well yeah I hope the sins of my 9 year old self wil be forgiven … Well the quote is no-telling enough to be from almost anyone .. )
At the moment it's:
I take it in but don’t look down
‘Cause I’m on top of the world, ‘ay
I’m on top of the world, ‘ay
Waiting on this for a while now
Paying my dues to the dirt
I’ve been waiting to smile, ‘ay
Been holding it in for a while, ‘ay
Take you with me if I can
Been dreaming of this since a child
I’m on top of the world.
Imagine Dragons
You're gonna miss me by my walk,
You're gonna miss me by my taco…
I know those aren't the real lyrics but my husband started singing it like that and now I can't hear it any other way 🙂
LOL. Not sure I will be able to hear it any other way again.
It's the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse… Come inside it's fun inside.
Sorry, it's the best I can do at 3:30 in the afternoon with 2 toddler boys going crazy.
I'm enjoying the following lately. Grace Kelly by Mika
I could be brown, I could be blue
I could be violet sky
I could be hurtful, I could be purple
I could be anything you like
Gotta be green, gotta be mean
Gotta be everything more
Why don't you like me?
Why don't you like me?
Why don't you walk out the door!
I've got two bottles of whiskey for the way.
"I just want to play on my pan-pipes
I just want to drink me some wine
As soon as you're born you start dying
So you might as well have a good time…"
~cake, "Sheep Go To Heaven"
Another one bites the dust by Queen the chorus
Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust
And another one gone and another one gone
Another one bites the dust
Het im going to get you too
Another one bites the dust
This s the theme fr my life at the moment
"So you see, Your Honour
It was all in fun
A little bit of drag meet
Down on Main street
Was just to see if the cops could run
Well, they brought us in to see you
In a alcoholic haze
I sure could use those 30 days
To recover from the party"
Wasn't that a party? Irish Rovers — Oldie but a goodie. 🙂
Thanks for the giveaway!
Mama mia, here I go again, my my, how can I resist you. Mama mia, does it show again, my my, just how much I miss you.
You can't beat Abba for catchy lyrics.
I go out walkin' after midnight, out in the moonlight, just like we used to do.
I'm always walkin', after midnight lookin' for you.
Love me some Patsy Cline! I just changed my blade.
Miley Cyrus recently ruined "Blurred Lines" at the VMAs, so that song is out. How about some "Heaven" by Bryan Adams – "Oh – once in your life you find someone
Who will turn your world around
Bring you up when you're feelin' down"
I'm too sexy for my shirt, so sexy it hurts! 😉
I've got the magic in me
every time i touch that track it turns into gold
everybody knows I've got the magic in me
(I have watched Pitch Perfect FOUR TIMES this week, true story.)
Thanks for the giveaway.
smjohns63 at yahoo dot com
Hmm, this one's been in my head all week:
You wanna run away, run away
And you say that it can't be so
You wanna look away, look away
But you stay 'cause it's all so close
When you stand up and hold out your hand
In the face what I don't understand
My reason to be brave
Brave by Josh Groban *swoon*
And yes, guess what I need to buy on Saturday?!
In my head is the new song out by Katy Perry, "Roar".
Now I'm floating like a butterfly
Stinging like a bee I earned my stripes
I went from zero to hero
I also love the line in Kelly Clarkson's People Like us line:
Keep your head up nothing lasts forever
Big Bottom, Big Bottom, Talk about mudflaps my girl's got 'em,
Big Bottom drives me out of my mind
How could I leave that behind?
Yes, sorry, I'm a complete Spinal Tap nerd. I took pity and didn't post the more offensive lyrics from that song. heeheehee!
There's a problem with this miniature bread.
heeheehee! I do love Nigel and his green ribcage.
Tuna fish.
We're off to Cornwall soon so for me it's 'We're all going on a summer holiday, no more working for a week or two'
I can't wait!
I've not changed my blade recently but I have sharpened it – that's not a song lyric in case you were wondering.
"no one ever said it was gonna be easy" takes me back nearly 20 yrs to an Inspiral Carpets gig in London – oh to be young again!
'I don't want to say I love you, that would give away too much…'
and I would choose a yard of something to go with my B&W&red Grandma Sparkles stash…
Well, we're doin' mighty fine, I do suppose,
In our streak of lightnin' cars and fancy clothes,
But just so we're reminded of the ones who are held back,
Up front there ought 'a be a Man In Black.
Man In Black – Johnny Cash
You're still the one that can make me laugh. Still the one that's my better half. We're still having fun and you're still the one. Orleans.
My song after 29 years of marriage!
You're still the one that can make me laugh. Still the one that's my better half. We're still having fun and you're still the one. Orleans.
My song after 29 years of marriage!
I'm sitting in the railway station.
Got a ticket to my destination.
On a tour of one-night stands my suitcase and guitar in hand.
And ev'ry stop is neatly planned for a poet and a one-man band.
Homeward bound,
I wish I was,
Homeward bound,
Home where my thought's escaping,
Home where my music's playing,
Home where my love lies waiting
Silently for me.
~Simon & Garfunkel, Homeward Bound
"Touch if u will my stomach
Feel how it trembles inside
Youve got the butterflies all tied up
Don't make me chase u
Even doves have pride"
Sums up how I feel when I'm about to start a new quilt! lol. From my all time favourite artist.
When you don't know where you're going,
Any road will take you there.
Dawes
I am a patient boy
I wait, I wait, I wait, I wait
My time is like water down a drain
Everybody's moving,
Everybody's moving,
Everybody's moving, moving, moving, moving
Please don't leave me to remain
In the waiting room
Fugazi – Waiting Room
Damn Molli, now I've got Wannabe stuck in my head. I'm young enough that I was not embarrassed to be a Spice Girls fan back in the day. Lyric that's been in my head today after watching the VMAs earlier this week:
Love is patient
Love is kind
(not cryin' on Sundays)
Macklemore with Ryan Lewis feat. Mary Lambert
Ok that's back in my head, much better than zigazig-ah!
God only knows what I'd be without you
Reminds me of sweetie who I've been with since I was 15 🙂
"Kodachrome
They give us those nice bright colors
They give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, Oh yeah
I got a Nikon camera
I love to take a photograph
So mama don't take my Kodachrome away"
classic Paul Simon
"UNDER PRESSURE" love singing that song, but you probably don't won't to hear it. I can't wait to see what you got on your Tokyo trip probably better fabric than what your friend tried to pick up for you.
You Are My Sunshine, My Only Sunshine, You Make Me Happy, When Skies Are Gray….
Sung To My Girls Every Morning To Wake Them… Now I Sing It To My Fabric!!!
You Are My Sunshine, My Only Sunshine, You Make Me Happy, When Skies Are Gray….
Sung To My Girls Every Morning To Wake Them… Now I Sing It To My Fabric!!!
And then the gypsy queen in a sea of Vaseline performed the guillotine, what a scene, what a scene. I know… I'm weird.
At last, my love has come along
my lonely nights are over,
and life is like a song.
And as long as I've got my suit & tie
I'mma leave it all on the floor tonight~
Suit&tie – Justin Timberlake
So kiss me and smile for me
Tell me that you'll wait for me
Hold me like you'll never let me go
Everyday you must say, oh how do I feel about my shoes? They make me awkward and plain. How dearly I would love to kick with their frame. But I once had a dream and it never came true – and time is against me now.