i love animals and i have strong opinions about preserving wild animals and rescuing domestic ones, with spaying and neutering a must! i love contemporary, love 50's, love exotic animals, and i nearly forgot, i love dragonflies and flamingos. i adore my children and especially love my dgd, olivia, 17 mos. old and adorable! in the past i have collected teapots but my husband has convinced me it is time to start giving them away. be forewarned my partner, there may well be a teapot heading your way!! lololol

oh I hope I have you Nancia I need a tea pot! um if you came into my house you would see photographs of vintage western gear, art my children painted in elementary school framed and hung proudly. You would see my pink 50's stuff in the kitchen and the handmade tablerunners. I would probably show you my sewing room with the doll quilts on the walls and the newest projects. My watercolors my dh and I paint, charcoals, hung with tape all over the wall. I always and I mean always have seasonal/holiday decorations up. For every holiday. I love the happy spot it takes me to.

And my partner is a non poster again. So other than the room and one color I am winging it. I love the suggestion of posting more about you. Who doesnt want to get to know their partner more? I love the idea of next round having partners not secret partners. I find the emails back and forth are truly a nice way to make another quilting friend. Plus silly thing is its so much easier to make something for someone that you can chat with and feel out what they like.

Mine is getting trashbag liners. KIDDING. dont have a clue but I do know.. what color it will be.. the style posted earlier is a great thing to tell your partner. saying I dont like modern helps a whole bunch. or I only like modern. if you only like modern then maybe a soft ruffled pink and cream thing isnt your thing. I personally shy away from modern if possible. old fashioned girl here with old fashioned style. lol if you could say I have style. I am one ecclectic mess :)

About me:

This is what I had sent with my sign-up.
Your décor colors and/or theme: Black leather furniture with red accents, think bachelor pad-like. Black cube bookshelf, big screen tv. Needs something pretty, red and black.

If red/black aren't fun for my partner... I also love primitive stuff. Homespun, owls, pumpkins, crows and such and am totally open to something different in my husbands 'spot'!!

I not having any trouble about colors or the room she gave alot of info. Now the only decision is should I do the kitchen things or a runner, and if I do a runner, should I just make an oblong runner or should I make one of my spirals??? What should I do,hmmmmm

I know you're talking about me... so the spiral would be amazing.:thumbup:

Dear Lord... I hope I wasn't so bossy she makes it out of scraps with pickles and cows or some such.

jaba jan you can make me one of those wonderful spiral runners - it would be perfect for our dining room table and if the length is just right it might make it to the coffee table in the livingroom.

Hey hey brat - the phrase "old fashioned" doesn't seem to agree with your spunky personality - it makes you sound like the elders and you're far from that - maybe a little more traditional with your style. I would love to see your charcoals and painted pics that you and your hubby make; I appreciate that style of art and I'm sure the rest of the swap gang would like to see them as well.

My partner hinted at color and theme in their signup information - just need to decide what to make.

oooo! I hope that you have me... me.me.me. i LOVE your spirals!

Well now, I know it's not fair that I know who my partner is, so I'll just post a little more about me to maybe help them out. Hopefully this won't be the same as what I posted before, lol.

Our house consists of my boyfriend, my 20 year old son Dusty, and myself. Between the three of us, we're a musical bunch. My boyfriend plays drums, Dusty plays drums and guitar, and although I haven't in years, I used to sing competitively and in church (yes, even solos) in high school. I think it's safe to say that for all three of us, music is a huge part of our lives. It's hard to walk into our house and not hear music playing somewhere at all times.

In the fall, my boyfriend and I are big Auburn University football fans. (Unfortunately, Dusty is an Alabama fan...I blame his father, lol.) We have season tickets and go to almost every home game. There's orange and blue sprinkled here and there all over our house, among lots of dark wood, chrome, and black leather. I'm slowly bringing in more bright colors though. In the summer, we try to go to the lake as much as possible. We have a bright red Yamaha 212 SS jet boat that we use to zip around Lake Martin, then I get on my float and my boyfriend ties a rope from a cleat on the boat to my ankle and I take a nap in the sun. :D (Stop laughing Elisabrat! I can hear you form here, lol!)

oh dear orange and blue like together dustysmom? lol ..how colorful is right. how about musical notes for you? WAIT a minute that bugger b..t ties a rope to your ankle. I would tell him he has to sleep eventually. smile and close my eyes. that would be the last time he tied a boat to my ankle. napping in the sun sounds grand though.

Tracibug you have a mancave like decorated like a man cave and its your room? you definetely need a bit of whimsy in there. hey my chicken fabric is black and rust/red with well hints of yellow in their beaks. polka dotted chickens. which would beat a mix of cows and pickles. I think that would not be good.

Kiwi you should be a breeze to work with you love all sorts of stuff! Darn you guys. this is so unfair. All of you who post here make life so much easier for the rest of us. I think oh heck I could use this for this one, oh wouldnt that fabric from be perfect for.. and I am stuck wondering .. what to use for my partner. to bad you cant say when people sign up its nice if you post every so often get to know the group and they can get to know you. silly concept.
wait there was someone here SANDY you have a christmas wall hanging oh that fits nicely in the livingroom or family room abeit not immediately but surely it works. :)
I have this stack of about hand sized pieces bright red and white polka dots. the stack is about five inches high. what would you do with all that stuff if it was yours? also a smaller stack about 2 inches high of a muted moss green with white polka dots dime size dots I might add. these are cut outs from designer childrens clothing the neck piece. its a lot of polka dots and I love dots but I am stumped. I figure I can toss about 1 inch of the dots into my christmas quilt. the rest....I can get up to I think 4" squares out of each one or 2.5 x 4.5 out of it ..Sandy any ideas....

pickles and cows, hmmm, probably could find some pickles but don't want cows here. Not in the sewing room just in the freezer. Made up my mind and started cutting and sewing away. Today, quilt it . Maybe yes maybe not, the decisions are the worst. I think my brain works to hard sometimes. It's hard on an old lady you know? Oh and I like those purple tulips.