Blue Nickel StudiosQuilts, Life, and the Meaning of the Universe (condensed version) all images copyrighted Scott Hansen (c) 2006-2012
Welcome to the rambling world
of Blue Nickel Studios where you will find the quilts, projects, musings,
rhetorical questions, more quilts, and various diatribes and wonderings
of color and design and family that inhabit the world of Scott Hansen. Comments are always appreciated and surprise giveaways happen once in awhile too.�All images copyrighted 2006-2010.
Heard this song on the radio coming home from work….remembered that I hadn’t done Watch It Wednesday this week yet, remembered seeing this very fun video by these Great kids….and thought I’d share it with you.
If you follow me on Twitter and/or Facebook, you know that life hasn’t been playing along so well over here, but I will not break, even though the bending has been pretty intense. So even if right seems to be going wrong….yup…I’ll keep dancing anyway…
what makes you dance when life doesn’t play along , huh?
I will get a chance to write some in here too about all the stuff going down, but it may be awhile…the good news is I have a couple fun posts coming up…so stay tuned..
Did you miss Watch It Wednesday last week? By the time I remembered, it really was too late. And I almost missed today’s this morning. I am not sure if I will continue these, but I will try. Life in general has been rough around here a bit lately. Without being a “Debbie Downer” as my daughter calls it, I have been struggling with feeling like a loser. I know that many of us probably feel like that at times, and after the holidays, I think those feelings get overinflated as well. I think those feelings are why I have picked this song. It is a Veggie Tales song and the graphics on this video…..well, not so good….but the song in all its Vegetable Gospel-i-ness helps me to remember that feelings are just that, feelings, and it is NEVER too late to change things for the better….sometimes our choices send us down roads that we’d rather not have traveled, but the NEXT choices could bring something fabulous that we never would have expected.
So join with me in hoping and believing for some great Second and third and fourth chances in 2012, will you? And even though I don’t have any prizes or anything, if you have a moment to share, what are your hopes and plans for 2012? What second chances are you hoping for. Maybe we all can gather our hope together and carry it with us for the coming year.
More Modern Starlings?? What the heck am I talking about? Well these little babies of course!
My friend John Adams of Quilt Dad Uber-fame designed this block for our Generation Q kickoff block to 2012, and I had to get some made to check his instructions and just to see how wonderful they are. So I made these, and while I was doing that, I came up with a great setting for the blocks incorporating these leftovers created from the blocks.
I talked to John, and I am going to make up my idea and write up instructions and then we will jointly share Modern Starlings II over at John’s home away from home Fat Quarterly later in the year! I am thrilled to see how this comes out. Anyway for now, you can make John’s block your way and he would love to have you post your versions on his Quilt Dad is My Home Boy Flickr page when you do. We would love to have you post it on our GenQ Holiday Blocks Group Flickr page as well!! Happy Sewing in 2012! May you sewing soar the skies!
Over at Generation Q today the staff is sharing some of our favorite ornaments made by our kids. (okay I thought it was supposed to be ornaments, but it was just something made by our kids) So while I was taking pix of those, I found a lot of ornaments that are handmade by various peeps in the family, so I thought I would share the rest of them here…
From the cross stitching years…..
I guess you could treat this post as a Wordless Wednesday post as it is mostly pictures. But knowing my, you knew it couldn’t be entirely Wordless, and well, of course, it is Saturday…. Almost Silent Saturday??....wait, no the anagram for that would NOT be good, would it??
This is probably my all time favorite Christmas song since about 1985 when I first heard it. This video is very rough, and I am amazed that the dude can actually sing that low with his pants as tight as they are (did guys really wear pants that tight back then? I sure didn’t) And his hair? wow!
But the song is awesome! I love hearing it on the radio this time of year!!
So today is the day to announce the winners to my two giveaways this last week. And while I have only two winners of fabric, I have been messing around with my Illustrator program, and I came up with these gift tags for you to download and use for free.
Just click on one of the tags and you will be sent to a PDF that you can download and use to your heart’s content. Printing on card stock would be best, and if you print on the blank side of a printed card stock, then your backside will be pretty too…...not that your backside isn’t already pretty…but you know what I mean.
So….now to the fabric winners…
Camelama wrote:
Fun giveaway! My favorite holiday song is “Hacia Belén va un borrico”, a Spanish carol about a burro and a pot of chocolate!
I signed up and got in on a pay it forward from Sharon ... and now I get to give something handmade out to 3 of you!!
Okay, so I got in on this back in SEPTEMBER….and have had the post sitting here waiting to be posted that whole time. October and November have been Rocky months around here and December….well you know how that month goes…but here I am finally posting this….I am not going to promote it or anything, I am just going to post it….so if you are are regular reader…then you get first shot!!
1. I’ll make something handmade for the first 3 people who comment on this post. What I make will be a surprise and will arrive to you when you least expect it. Doesn’t everyone love a surprise?
2. I have 365 days to make and deliver it to you. But there’s a little catch, to get a handmade giftie from me, you have to play too! This means you take the pledge to send something handmade to 3 of your blog readers. It doesn’t have to be a quilt, just something handmade! Easy right?
3. As stated in #2 you have to have a blog.
4. Once you comment here, you have to post about Pay it Forward on your blog and keep it going!
So leave a comment and get ready for the gift
I will email the first 3 commenters for your addresses, then post them on the wall in my studio…and sometime in the next year send you something handmade by me!
I will be the first to admit that I don’t know very much about Hanukkah. I have a few friends that celebrate it, but I don’t so I don’t know much other than my traditional joke with my friend Howie, to whom I usually send a “Happy Chewbacca” message to. You have to know Howie to know why that is a funny joke (something between Howie being a Monty Python/Star Wars fan and knowing correct Hebrew pronunciation better than anyone I know) That and chocolate, potato latkes, and the most beautiful Hallmark cards. I know there is much more to the celebration, but my knowledge is again, very limited.
Anyhoo…today’s Watch It Wednesday is very cool Hanukkah video I found on YouTube awhile back, and I just have to share it. Very fun visually as well as very catchy musically. I love it…although I did find myself worrying about the quilt being damaged by the ice skates…you’ll have to watch to see what I mean.
And don’t forget I have two giveaways going on here and here this week still. I will be drawing Saturday the 17th AM and letting peeps know by email. Also be sure to check out our Generation Q piece on Betz White and get to our GenQ Facebook page to sign up for that drawing as well as our GenQ Sew Mama Sew giveaway here. Told ya, lots of giveaways going on this week!!
Blue Nickel Studios Quilts, Life, and the Meaning of the Universe (condensed version) all images copyrighted Scott Hansen (c) 2006-2012.
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