Just Hatched Just Thinking

A Picture of Married Life

Why can’t it always be this …. Simple?   OK, so after yet another 2 week hospital stay (that’s for another post this is WAYYY more important that that!) I’m back in the saddle again and have FINALLY put all the pieces back together again to this humpty dumpty of a blog.  Some of you might have been gone along with me but the last time I came on to “bring spring to the winter look” of Just Hatched, Just Thinking” my lovely laptop blew it’s lovely mind and the end result was that my entire blog was blown to bits. (I love my computer and it loves me… I love my computer and it loves me….)  Sooooo after biting the bullet and spending a day or two or getting it all pieced back together again(is it still 2011?)  I was wandering about the studio today wondering what I was going to write about when this whole scenario took place. 

As I walk by my husband’s home office door he shouts out –

HUBS: Hey, honey… How come you just don’t use this camera?

ME: What camera?

HUBS: The one I got you for your birthday last year.

Which stopped me in my tracks, thinking frantically…some foggy memory coming to mind…then wait for it… clearer…yes, yes,… the HUBS absconding with said camera for … HUBBY PROJECTS!   Why?  Because the WIFE has an iphone with a perfectly good camera on it!  OK, so…  

ME:  Hand over the camera. 

End scenario.

 Yes, it’s a common American household occurrence, this ahem, misplacement of goods.  And yes, family members SHOULD share but oh… when the HUBS is so darn HUBBY????   Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhh.   Belly up to the girl bar, with me, won’t you?

For the past 2 months I have been fussing about how I cannot get good photos of my quilts for website marketing, heck for any marketing because I DO NOT HAVE WHAT?

A decent camera.

I have spent the past week trying to redo a non-existent budget, using all of my wiles to con it into producing funds for what?

A decent camera.

Lost sleep surfing E-bay, and burned my brain out looking at cookware, jewelry and easy-pay BBQ grills on QVC hoping to find…. A decent camera.

And all this time Mr. Decent Camera was living a scant 10 feet from my own studio door.  Who knew?

Ah…now we come to the heart of the matter.  WHO KNEW?   That handsome face has  been hiding this secret for almost a year.  He and his cats.   Pirating my birthday booty!   Keeping me from my very own Kodak moments!   Easy Share technology hoarders!  Hah!  See where that gets you now that you no longer have it!  Har, har, har….

Lord, knows I love the man.  But when I asked him WHY on earth he hadn’t said anything oh, like,  “RED, YA ALREADY GOT A CAMERA! “ during this entire period of  photo sturm and drang his answer was simply “I just thought you didn’t like the one I had gotten you.”  Well, shut the front door!  This lovely man has gone an entire year thinking that I didn’t like his birthday gift.  WHOOOOOOPS! (The pirate wench will be leaving us now.)

   Sometimes I wonder how we manage not to burn this place down! LOL

And so, my quilty friends, I’ll be going now.  I have some photos to take and some snuggling to do with the HUBS.  After all, he did get me one heck of a birthday gift! AH…these are the times of our lives, are they not? Wishing you the same. Pamela

Babechick In A Brand New Barnyard

I'm So Excited

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I'm so excited, I just can't hide it... I'm about to start a brand new blogging life in a brand new barnyard (so to speak) LOL. " Babechick on the loose...babechick on the loose!" should be in biggo red letters across the top of this post but I'm trying to add just a bit of restraint.  Remember later that I only said "Trying."  :-)  I've been blogging on my Artfire Store site for a few months now but I've been encouraged  to "Hatch" and bring my scratchings into a real blogging venue... SO  HERE... I ...IS!

My "bio" at the top is pretty straight on but the real me in a nutshell is this: <deep breath> Kids/grandkids critters quilting teaching trying not to snort when I laugh whupping the HUBS butt on any wi-fi game on our iPhones exploring my faith  (still...yet...always) meeting other fabric artists collecting bracelets Parrish art growing my knowledge base in photo/graphics still with the snorting and the ever present search for the perfect night's sleep....I'm breathing, I'm breathing!

IN MY HOUSE

Here in the windy city 'burbs we have a crazy household of "The Hubs", me, and my youngest daughter, Natalie.  I'm a native cheesehead, Hubs is a Cowboy. Met in AZ now live in the Chicago burbs...where he is simply a child fascinated with all of the colors of GREEN!!!!!!!  This photo of my beloved Mr. Ben "surfing" ON a friend's boat "up nort"says it all! 

 

                           THE OTHER REDHEAD

Natalie, nicknamed "Songbird" is our youngest daughter; we have many adventures together and I'm loving having her home again.  She's also working full time and is growing a relationship with her BF, Joe,  who all but lives here (whom we adore).   Joe's family name is Billy Bob Joe John Jr., the third,  but WE call him Billy Bob Joe John for short.  (Man, I wish I could see the look on your face right now! )  Why? Because when my cowboy Hubs was faced with this lovely young Polish man's last name he about fainted... check the archives if you want a good giggle; they'll be up soon! Natalie is back home attending college; she changed from vocal theatre to NURSING... follow the passion, we say. 

LIONS, AND TIGERS, AND BEARS, OH  MY!

 I also admit to being totally critter crazy. We have a small problem tho; the Hubs is a Cat person while I am a "Woof" woman, myself.  So we compromise and have BOTH! lol  We just removed all carpeting and vacuum everyday... every...day.  Like I said... critter crazy.    We have 2 puppies; a crazy Shorgie mix (um...that's a German Shedder- Corgi party), she's named Hooli!  LOL, and a little Corgi boy named Swatch!  ...and a passle of seriously old kitties who we'll be saying goodbye to soon, sigh.  The Songbird's two kitty boys are also residing with us; they are known as "THE BOYS"... said with fear and trepidation.

 

THE HOOLARINAS!

Jocelyn & big sister, Molly

We left our families behind in AZ and that includes our Moms, eldest daughter,  Briana, and our 2 HOOLARINA granddaughters... Hoolarina, you ask??? What the heck is a Hoolarina???  Why it's  a combination of a hooli-gan and a ballerina!  And THAT is the perfect description of a little girl who wears Carhartts and cowboy boots with her tutu's and fairy wings while playing safari hunter out in the backyard!  

 

  AH YES, JUST HATCHED PRODUCTIONS... (Usually known as JHP)

Hmmm, what else? I have a great quilt studio built into the house where I design quilts, create memory quilts, design and create church banners and paraments large and small and (most fun of all) teach quilting and machine embroidery to other crazy crafters like ME!  Best way to understand JHP?   LOL...well, everyone seems to like my "rules":

1) Laughter is a part of every project.

2) Experiment? Heck, yes!

3) If you sew fast enough it IS aerobic exercise!

4)That screen door  and squirt bottle hanging from it keep the critters out- Close the first and Use the second!  As you can see, however, it did NOT keep that pesky RUTH out....

Here's are our shops!

Just Hatched Productions on ARTFIRE

Just Hatched Quilts on ETSY 

Just Hatched Productions FANPAGE on FACEBOOK

SO.... that's my world.   I write about whatever is happening in it... quilts, kids, Crohn's, or cats...it's a crap shoot, as they say, but I'd sure like to have you along for the telling of it.  Rodeo on!  Pamela