July Accomplishments

With a three day weekend at the beginning of the month, I had a great start to a productive month! Although, some of the productivity involved purchasing a bit of fabric!

Quilty accomplishments

1. Bound the fairy quilt for the shop
2. Assembled a green and brown yellow brick road top for the shop (Both 1 and 2 can be seen here.)
3. Made the June Thimbleberries blocks - 4 total
4. Made 2 blocks for the the Guild's Sew to Win (Both 3 and 4 can be seen here.)
5. Spent a lot of time cutting and organizing scraps
6. Pieced a backing and turned a quilt into the shop to be quilted. I can't wait to see what they do with it!
7. Finished my Jitterbug blocks!
8. Won a giveaway!
9. Went shopping with a peep!
10. Assembled the 2008 quilt shop BOM top
11. Quilted the Milky Way quilt!!!

Non-quilty Accomplishments

1. Saw "Up" in the theater with some great company!
2. Got flowers from a co-worker that brightened up my office for a week!
3. Got my new crocs and happy feet!
4. Watched the first 4 Harry Potter movies - very enjoyable!!

Books read

1. Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer - very enjoyable!
2. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult - made me cry
3. Where are You Now? by Mary Higgins Clark - very quick read and good like all of her books
4. Wesley the Owl by Stacey O'Brien - awesome! Very interesting look into an owl's life. I liked this one as much as A Lion Called Christian by Anthony Bourke and John Rendall!
5. Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith and
6. Morality for Beautiful Girls by Alexander McCall Smith - I am enjoying the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Series! I am almost done with the next one, too!

Now, I need to work on my August Goals. And get some sleep!