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I met Charlaine Harris!
01 year ago
by Erin
Charlaine Harris Signing my book
On May 8th, 2010 I met Charlaine Harris at a book signing in San Diego, CA at Mysterious Galaxy Book Store. Harris is the author of the popular Southern Vampire Mysterious, which later became the basis for the HBO show, True Blood. She was there signing her latest release in the series, Dead in the Family.
I was so excited to meet her! San Diego isn’t exactly a short drive for me, but once I heard she would be there, I had to go. I was actually at the LA Times Festival of books when I heard about the event as I walked by the booth Mysterious Galaxy had there. Charlaine was so sweet, I loved her Southern accent! There were so many people there to meet her, and she stayed for HOURS signing books, I was amazed!
Charlaine and I!
I can’t wait to meet her again and have her sign my next book 
Halloween costume!
02 years ago
by Erin
I wasn’t planning on doing anything for Halloween this year, but we were suddenly invited to a costume party and I had to think of a costume I could make out of things I had laying around the house. I came up with a funny one: pregnant white trash!
I stuffed my shirt with extra batting I had left over from quilting projects and made my black eye with some black and purple eye makeup. I even had a tramp stamp that my husband drew on for me!
Hope everyone had a fun Halloween
Scarlett’s Quilt!
02 years ago
by Erin
Right after I finished Jason Jr.’s Quilt, I had to begin on another one because my husband’s brother and his wife were expecting a baby! We were going to have a baby shower in June, so I wanted to have it ready by then.
I used the same book as before, Quilts for Baby: Easy As ABC by Ursula Reikes, but a different pattern.
Again, I went to Joann’s again to buy my fabric. I tried to get some better fabric than the last quilt, I felt like the patterns in Jason Jr.’s quilt weren’t bold enough. These were the ones I came up with:
I usually like to use flannels or equivalent for the backing on the quilts, to give it a cozier feel. For this quilt I used thinner batting, so I was able to machine quilt it rather than having to do it by hand, so the process went by a LOT quicker! I still need work on the actual quilting parts, though. They still end up a bit crooked.
The finished product:
Can you spot which of the squares was put on upside down? Despite that error, the mom-to-be loved the quilt and I hope the baby girl will too, once she is old enough!
