Amy Currioman

I’ve spent most of the last two days sewing a quillow. Do you know what a quillow is? It is a quilt with a pocket sewn in so that the entire quilt can be folded into the pocket. Once that is folded in, the quillow now looks like, and can be used as, a pillow. So it is a quilt/pillow, therefore called a quillow. I’ve made several quillows in my life. I’ve sold some, and I’ve given some as presents.

This one I just made is being sold to one of my husband’s friends. He is planning to give it to his wife as a Christmas gift! I made a matching pillow case for it, so he can get a pillow form from the local fabric store to put inside it, or they can insert a throw pillow that they already own inside it.

Anyway, here is a picture of my lastest quillow! I hand-tied this one instead of machine quilting it. I thought that the pattern of the fabric lended itself to hand-tying. When I make a quillow, I let the fabric “tell me” what type of quilting would be the best suited. I hope the wife enjoys it!

My hubby loves chrome because it is shiny. I can’t really blame him, I like silver and gold shiny jewelry too! So for him, chrome is jewelry for his motorcycle and his truck! In the house, however, my hubby is all about stainless steel. Especially whenever we have to replace something. When we moved into this house we needed new appliances. I didn’t care what color they were, I just needed some appliances that worked! So we trotted off to the store and it became obvious that he would agree to just about anything as long as it was stainless steel!

So now that Christmas gift time is approaching I’m thinking about buying him some bloomus stainless steel fireplace accessories to set beside the fireplace in the family room.  Or perhaps a nice shiny bloomus stainless steel mailbox to use as a drop box beside the garage. I’m sure he’d also love a nice bloomus stainless steel birdfeeder for the back yard!

While I was putting the boxes of items on the new storage shelves I tried to take a peek inside them to see what was in them.  I wanted to use a marker to write on the outside what was inside to make it easier to find later.  It really has been a mess down there!  I was pleased to find several boxes marked “Planters” and “Garden Statues.”  I’ve been wondering where my favorite Decorative Planter had gone to when we moved down here three years ago!

We’ve been putting off buying any new Outdoor Planters until we found our “stash” of planters, and now that we’ve come across it we can sort through them and clean them up and see if any are salvageable to use on the front porch or back deck next spring.  Now I’ll be anxious for spring to come again and it isn’t even winter yet!

We recently bought several of the 5 shelf plastic heavy duty storage shelving units to put in the basement to help to de-clutter it. Well, today I decided to march down there and start the de-clutter battle. I put together four of the units and started piling boxes and boxes and boxes on them! Although I would ultimately like to organize them, my mission for the moment is to clear up floor space as much as possible. It’s going to look pretty good when all is said and done!

We have a small herd of deer that we enjoy watching in our yard every day. They seem to be such gentle creatures; it’s a shame that they have those stupid ticks that carry lyme disease! This morning I went out to run errands and found a dead deer alongside the road just a couple of houses from our house. A sick feeling hit me as I realized that poor thing was probably one of “our” deer. I always feel so bad for any animal that I see lying beside the road, but it is much worse when you’ve started to feel like it is ‘one of ours.”  I am now anxious to see the herd again later today, to take a head count.