Top Soccer Shoot Out Ever

Mr. Cactus received two degrees from Brigham Young University.

That is one reason I love to watch 

BYU's TV Studio C

Our Son-In-Law was a top Soccer player.

Now our Grandchildren, even at their young ages, are playing soccer too.

Top Soccer Shoot Out Ever

Scott Sterling, Face of Steel

Make sure to especially watch the very last play.

To watch more 

Studio C 

*I especially like their Hunger Games The Musical clips

 go

HERE

Kitschy Scissors

"Kitschy Scissors"

as opposed to 

"Kitchen Scissors"

*Austin, Texas

Definition of Kitschy (noun)

"Things (such as movies or works of art)

that are of low quality

and that many people

find amusing and enjoyable."

Well, If the scissors fit, 

wear them :)

Quilting Anonymous by Superior Threads

Before moving to Arizona

I used to work for 

Superior Threads

The names in this video have been 

changed to protect the innocent,

but I know these men 

PERSONALLY

Can you help me to help them?

Things Quilters Really Think

 When we were visiting

Amazing Quilts 

in Lakeside, Arizona

they had this fun wall hanging

Things Quilters Really Think

hanging on the door

 It had me pondering

What do Quilters Really think?

I suspect our thought process comes from a unique perspective.

(*Panel's are available for purchase at the store.

You provide your own setting.)

 You know, this really is true statement for me :)

 I agree!

Now that you mention it....

Refer back to the first picture for more amusing ideas.

Inter-pre-nating Quilts

 The other day I was sitting around a table

with a group of friends

and one of them said, describing another

"She is really good at Interprenating quilts"

My friend laughed at her own faux pas

stating "I don't think that is a real word."

but we all knew immediately what she meant.

Do you?

 The reason she might have wondered if 

Interprenating 

is a real word 

comes from our experience of constantly learning new

Quilt Lingo

Sometimes it can make your head spin.

I can remember the setting and where I was 

when I first learned the meaning of the words

Stipple

Wonkey

and

Fussy Cut

In Linguistics, new words are regularly being formed 

all the time, and as quilters

we like keep up with current trends.

A Portmanteau word or Blend Word

is formed by merging the sounds and meanings

of two or more words.

Think:

Sharknado (Shark +Tornado)

Infomercial (Information + Commercial)

Brangelina (Brad Pitt + Angelina Jolie)
So if you are good at
Interpreting quilts and Communicating pattern design
you just might be an
Interprenator!

So, I ask you, is Inter-pre-nating a real word?

If used often enough, it can become one!
(Although I might have to run this idea past our daughter Elizabeth
who has a degree in Linguistics)
But for now,

I think I need to get busy and start

interprenating a few more quilts.

The Sewing Machine Song

Betty Hutton 1947 

from the movie The Perils of Pauline

The Sewing Machine Song

Too funny!

It certainly made me wonder

how many lives would

"come to a no good end"

if it wasn't for our sewing machines.

I can only speak personally,

but I am well aware

my machine has provided years of 

calming therapy :)

*Wouldn't this song be fun to sing at Quilt Retreats?

Ohhh the sewing machine, the sewing machine
A girl's best friend
If I didn't have my sewing machine
I'd a come to no good end
But a bobbin a bobbin and peddle a peddle
And wheel the wheel by day
So by night I feel so weary that I never get out to play

Ohhh the sewing machine, the sewing machine
A friend in need
If I didn't having my sewing machine
A wicked life I'd lead
But a bobbin a bobbin and peddle a peddle
And dream about romance
So by night I feel so weary that I never get out to dance

Ohhh the sewing machine, the sewing machine
Me pride and joy
If I didn't having me sewing machine
I'd a married James McCoy
But a bobbin a bobbin and peddle a peddle
And that's the end of Jim
'Cause by night I get so weary I don't even look good to him

Cow Stampede Quilts

 Quilts can be quite humorous.

I heard some 

deep hearty belly laughs

through out the aisles

while viewing the

Cow Stampede Exhibit

Looking at Cows From A New Perspective

during AQS/Phoenix Quilt Week

**

This special exhibit is a hilarious

and very creative interpretation

of anything "cow"

Using the whimsical cow block from Mary Lou Weisman's book

Out of The Box with Easy Blocks

Mary's students have been

original 

 clever 

and offer a great play on words.

I saw a similar exhibit at Quilt Festival in Houston

and AQS provided even more ideas.

This post is a quite picture heavy,

but I wanted to share with you every funny inch:

COWafornia

by Sue Cresse

 MOOlah A Cash Cow

or

COWculator

by Charlotte Lorenzo

 Notice the numbers on the cow's body

 and the udders!

 Eat More Veggies

by Kathy Collins

 Carrot udders :)

 Cow Tipping

by Terri Jones

made me think of the movie "Cars"

 PanaMOO Canal

by Susan Typpi

 complete with 3-D

parrot earrings

 Cow Town

by Mary Lou Weidman herself

 Neighborhood houses with names like 

Bessie

Bossy 

and Lulu

 Hot Dog udders :)

 Zorro the BOOvine

by Eilene Hamilton

 Who is that masked man cow?

 Captain

AMOOica

by Julie Post

 Caped and Flying

 MOO-rage

by Rebecka Schafer

 Sunglasses with a desert view

 The Three COWballeros

by Jane Tenorio-Coscarelli

 Who would not love

a three headed 

mustached cow?

 Especially one adorned with a bird

wrapped in a Serape?

I seriously have to come up with an idea

and make one of these some day!

The basic cow block can be found

in the book 

Out Of The Box with Easy Blocks

HERE

Quilting By Osmosis

My mother used to tease me and 

suggest that

"if I put a book on my head

maybe

I would  learn by *Osmosis"

*Osmosis: unconscious assimilation

I'm wondering if the same process

might work with quilting?

**

Do you think there is a possibility that

all of those

"WIP's"

(Works in Progress)

or 

the hundreds of quilt ideas

floating in my head
would magically 

get done if 

I put a sewing machine on my head?

"Quilting By Osmosis"?

Might be worth a try.

Mahafaly woman/ Southern Mdagascar

Image found on Pinterest

That's What It's All About :)

*image found on Pinterst

Live Christmas Trees

 Did you have a nice Christmas?

Ours was wonderful!

After a nice dinner on Christmas Eve

 we gathered

everyone together in the family room 

for a program.

We talked about the Savior and discussed the

celebration of His birth.

From stories to music 

we were reminded of the

True Meaning of Christmas

For our Grand Finale we ended with a

family game

that provided new visuals to the words

Live Christmas Trees

 Our youngest son Paul, 

who flew in from

Salt Lake City to join us for the week,

kindly allowed us to use him as 

Tree #1

 Our daughter's boyfriend Kevin

was also a good sport

and let us use him as 

Tree #2

The original idea for this game came from Spoonful

called Family Tree

Divide the group into two teams,

and give each a supply box full of

crepe paper

aluminum foil

ornaments

 ribbon

and other "trimmings"

 The contest is to see which team

can decorate THE BEST

Christmas Tree

One of the great things about this activity is that

you can involve all age groups.

The grand kids had as much fun as the adults.

 We were a lot more random

and not as tidy

 in our decorating as 

the Spoonful model's example...

but the hysterical laughter 

that increased in volume

with each bow and bell

made our hasty attempts 

well worth the effort.

 Kevin couldn't move 

after being draped in a string of blinking lights

that were plugged into the wall.

Long glass icicle ornaments

were even hung from Paul's ears

 If you were judge,

who would you pick as the best

Live Christmas Tree?

 It must have been the

impressive 

Aluminum foil Star Crown

or the hand written signs

because Paul took the prize.

We had so much fun we think

 we need to make this activity an

Annual Christmas Event in our family

Next year: stay tuned

Bigger and better decoration choices will be coming our way.

Disneyland Humor

 Some days

are happiest when started with a

Smile :)

Because a trip to Southern California

is not on today's agenda,

Disneyland Humor 

is a good second best.

 If Mr. Cactus

had an ECG

there is a good possibility

this might show up.

And this would be me :)

*images found on Pinterest

MOO-ston Cow Quilt Exhibit

 The Exhibit that made me laugh

the most at IQF/Houston

was

MOO-ston

a Cow Parade of Quilts.

 Friends and students of 

Mary Lou Weidman

created

"Bovine-Inspired" themes

of her Purple Cow pattern.

Each one was unique and hilarious.

Who would have thought you could dress up

a cow in so many ways?

 BOO-MOO

by Molly Evangelisti

captured Halloween

 Right down to the 

witchy shoes

 pumpkin cow udders

and spider webs

 The Purple Cow pattern

is found in the book

Out Of The Box

with Easy Blocks

by Mary Lou Weidman and Melanie McFarland

This was the kind of exhibit

where the viewers were

allowed to be noisy.

 There were rows upon rows of 

Whimsical Cows

Bovine Intervention....Cow Pie

they all brought a chuckle.

 Moody Blues

by Laurie Latta

 My personal favorite

COWmen Miranda

by Sue Cresse

With a flamboyant

tutti-frutti hat

 and jeweled leggings.

I almost had to hold myself

back from dancing samba in the aisles.

Mary Lou even recreated

a version of Purple Cow.

MOOdern

brings us right up to current day trends

What will they think of next?