See, I did finish something

Ok,so its not really finished yet. But the top is put together. You can't see much of the border, except on the bottom, but it looks like that all the way around.

Quilt Block of the Month, number 1

Hi, for those of you who don't know, I signed up for a quilt block of the month club, it runs from July to December. I honestly have no idea what this thing is going to look like when its done, only that it will be in fall type colors. Here is month one.
This is all a direct result of one of my coworkers taking it upon herself to introduce me and one other lady to her addiction... quilting. She took me around on a "shop hop", which means going around to all the quilt shops on the list to get free patters and/or fabric to make blocks. The one we went on was a state wide thing over the course of two weeks. (No, we did not do all 39 shops, there was no way that we were going to drive across the state. We only hit 21 in the Portland/Eugene/Coast areas. And yes, I spent way to much money.) I picked up some patterns and fabric, if I actually get anything done I will post it here.
In other news I participated in I-Serve, which is a program at my church for community service. So the last weekend in June, I spent the day painting the boys bathroom at the local middle school. It was fun, (hot, muggy, and smelly, but fun.) A lady painting the girls bathroom was singing and it echoed into the boys bathroom, so I joined in and we had a lovely little surround sound thing going.