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terror on my face lol the goofin offs ride guardians of the galaxy cosmic rewind november 3 2022 now for a few updates jazzy blues quilt my first quilt of 2023 waiting to be finished is my jazzy blues quilt here i have cut the strips from the fabric yardage this simple pattern uses strip sets for a quicker assembly jazzy blues focus fabric jazzy blues blue strips fabric the picture does not do this fabric justice jazzy blues black strips mickey and pirate friends cross stitch project and here is a quick update on my mickey and friends cross stitch piece i continue to make slow and steady progress here is up close the area that i have been stitching on up close of area stitched mickey and pirate friends total progress as of january 21 2023 time to get myself in gear and get back to some quilting and cross stitching headed out to enjoy some karaoke tonight with mr goofin off and the kiddos are they still kiddos when they re in their 30s hope you re enjoying your new year i can t wait to catch up and see what all my blogging friends have planned for the coming year have a magical day andrea linking up with scrap happy saturday midweek makers posted by goofin off around the block at 3 01 pm 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday november 26 2022 goofin off with a kindred spirit if you re here for the project updates just skip on down i promise they re there anne of green gables and my kindred spirit lucy maud montgomery wrote in her book anne of green gables an intimate you know a really kindred spirit to whom i can confide my inmost soul i ve dreamed of meeting her all my life i have always felt a kindred spirit in my mother in law from the day we met we shared a love of quilting cross stitching anne of green gables and mr goofin off of course the one bucket list item she had mentioned over and over and made several attempts but never made it which is a story for another day was to get to go visit the home that inspired the stories of the anne of green gables book series well i was determined to make it happen for her this trip was in the making for years originally book for 2020 and then covid hit last may as my father in law was in hospice in our final conversation he told me you make sure she gets to see the anne of green gables house well we finally made it happen anne of green gables house prince edward island myself and my mother in law as we stepped up to the green gabled home owned by lm montgomery s cousins my dear mother in law became very emotional as did i we hugged we cried and i opened up to her why the anne of green gables books were so important to me it is deeply personal and i rarely share i cannot tell you how much of a kindred spirit she is to me i get choked up just thinking about it there were six of us girls from the family on the tour and we opted for a private tour it was actually cheaper than if we had purchased the big group tour offered by the cruise line we were on our tour guide margaret did not disappoint and timed things perfectly we made a few stops along the way and arrived just as the big tour busses were pulling away we had the place nearly to ourselves it was amazing if you re an anne of green gables fan you may recognize some of these places lm montgomery wrote about in her books cavendish beach path down to cavendish beach the green gables house the path leading from the green gables house to the haunted woods of avonlea as we sat around our thanksgiving table this past week we were reminded of what a fantastic year it s been for mr goofin off and i we were able to cross off so many items from our bucket list we are truly blessed and have so much to be thankful for while mr goofin off and i ticked many items off our bucket lists in 2022 i know that 2023 we be much quieter i hope to have a lot more time for quilting and stitching and blogging of course now about quilting and stitching jazzy blues quilt i came across this fabric last year i think it was a last year s black friday deal i just knew i had to have this fabric i like to make quilts for project linus and so many of them tend to be girly it was nice to find a fabric combo that could be used for any music lover while i have started cutting out the quilt i ll save that for my next post the pattern is checkmate by fabric cafe here is a picture of the fabrics fabric for jazzy blues pattern is checkmate by fabric cafe in addition here is a close up of the jazz inspired fabric i fell in love with this fabric as i love jazz i had recently seen the disney movie soul when i purchased the fabric i m pretty sure that played a part in my fabric pick have you seen soul jazz inspired focus fabric for jazzy blues quilt mickey and pirate friends cross stitch update and since i do have a small update for mickey and pirate friends let s get you up to speed here is where i left off last time progress on october 18 2022 progress on november 26 2022 more of mickey s pirate hat is showing it s coming along nicely albeit slowly i am hoping to get progress much quicker now that we are finally home for a bit my final thoughts on kindred spirits one thing i ve realized over the years is how important it is to find friends with similar interests kindred spirits if you will people we can share both our projects and our personal lives people we can laugh with cry with and offer our prayers or positive thoughts to and i truly think of my blogging friends as kindred spirits during this season of gratitude i want to thank all of my blogging friends for their inspiration kindness and willingness to share of themselves the internet is an amazing thing without it i would be missing my blogging kindred spirits thank you linking up with slow sunday stitching posted by goofin off around the block at 8 50 am 13 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday october 18 2022 goofin off with a whale of a tail can it really have been two months since my last post time does fly or swim or splash have you ever heard a whale of a tale i ve got one for you but it s more of a whale of a tail however if you re not interested in my whale of a tail feel free to scroll on down to see the pictures of my updates whale of a tail in august my sister and i were talking on the phone about bucket lists she s always wanted to see whales in the wild and it had been pre covid since we ve taken a sisters trip she had planned on coming up to seattle for a visit and i was just going to book a whale watching excursion out of our hometown of edmonds then i received an email from royal caribbean about huge discounts on end of season cruises to alaska they had been marked down more than usual this year i checked out the rates and couldn t believe what i saw well we could take a 4 hour whale watching tour for around 150 or we could take a 7 night cruise to alaska for about 349 i called my sister and asked her what she wanted to do i think it was pretty much a no brainer decision for both of us and while i ve seen whales a few times what we experienced was like nothing i ve ever seen before we boarded the boat and had a fabulous time we booked three excursions and i actually checked two things off my bucket list the food on board the ship was great as always and our waitress was nothing less than amazing we managed to get a window table every evening i think my sister thought i had some sort of special in with the wait staff nope just good luck or good karma i m guessing it never hurts to treat staff well did i mention we crossed off two bucket list items one of the items was dog sledding with a professional iditarod team i have to admit i was hesitant on this one i was so worried about the treatment of the dogs i much prefer to see my animals in their natural habitat except let me tell you these dogs were in their natural habitat from the moment they could hear our vehicle approaching they got so excited we could hear them so excited in the distance and they were literally jumping with excitement as we pulled up i mean jumping with tails wagging excitedly once we got buckled in the dogs were so ready to take us for a ride it was so much fun once it was over we got to give them lots of pets hugs and snuggles i am not a dog person but these ones were just so happy to be with us as a bonus all of the dogs on our team had disney names i believe this guy s name was baloo cruising to alaska is very scenic the weather cooperated and so we were able to spend a lot of time out on our balcony listening to music and or reading books this was a typical evening view from our balcony my sister was so excited to finally see some whales she d look out over the balcony and see a wave breaking and think it was a whale having seen a few whales before i assured her it wasn t she didn t believe me until our first encounter with whales we spotted them off of beluga point they were skimming the surface occasionally can you guess what kind of whales we saw belugas of course lol but she really had no idea what was coming in the next few days we had booked a whale watching excursion out of ketchikan i think it was you can book whale watching excursions from pretty much any port in alaska the first hour went by and the only thing we really saw was a whale spout water from a distance i was getting nervous that she wouldn t get to see any whales but i worried for no reason the captain spotted some action in the distance we slowly made our way over there there were three whales over there most likely feeding a mama and her baby and a third whale all humpbacks within about 10 minutes the word must have gotten out to the other whales because all of a sudden there were about 13 whales around us at times they got pretty close my sister learned the signs of how to spot when a whale was about to surface and now i m pretty sure she ll never mistake a wave breaking for a whale we had about 45 minutes with these whales before we had to head back in and then as our ship was making its way back south to seattle we had some gorgeous weather we were again outside on our balcony just enjoying the sounds of the water and the scenery i look out and see some spouts so we stand up and get over to the balcony and watch whales in the distance and then they got closer they d pass us by we d sit down and about 5 minutes later there would be another small group the running joke was that if we wanted to see more whales we just had to sit down but on one particular trip out to the balcony we can see we are getting closer to a whale but unlike the other whales this one came right up near the ship if you don t know the tail of a whale goes up in the air when it s about ready to go back under the water for a few minutes they can stay under for up 10 minutes now this particular whale apparently wanted to be sure we got our pictures because before he went under he put his tail in the air and literally waved it back and forth about 10 times like you d see at a sea world show it s like he was telling us he hoped we d had a good trip here s the best pic we got of it it was soooo close it s our whale of a tail now let s see how all my projects are coming along mickey and pirate friends cross stitch where i left off on last post above is my last update and below is my current progress i ve got another page finish and mickey s pirate hat is beginning to come into view in the lower right corner of the last page finish goofy s finally getting a friend to join him whale of a quilt finish or make that fish i had been working on a quilt in my last blog post that had fish in the blocks kind of fitting given my whale of a tail story here is what the finished blocks looked like well i was lucky enough to find a little time to finish off this quilt top before i went on the cruise i haven t been able to get my sewing machine out yet since then but i hope to in the next few weeks i have been cutting up scraps into pre cut sizes like 5 squares and 10 squares etc trying to clean up a few things before i start a new project i like the way it turned out all assembled and with the border i think i might have changed the borders if i had done a little more planning rather than following the pattern i would have made the inner border yellow and the outer border green but since this one is headed to project linus at the next drop off i m more than happy with it and to have another finish so that s what mrs goofin off has been up to can t wait to catch up with all you awesome stitching and quilting buddies linking up with needle and thread thursday posted by goofin off around the block at 5 19 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday august 12 2022 goofin off and cruising thru 2022 i am always surprised how long it s been between blog posts but i really enjoy being here and sharing with my blogging friends that i always come back it s been a great year so far with little complaints and can i just say that this year has become the year of cruising for the goofin off family it was totally unplanned with some cruises come in at a very inexpensive price including one completely free courtesy of royal caribbean which even included gratuities and taxes and port fees and well pretty much everything let s just say that even though i am officially no longer selling travel somehow i ended up on their short list for a return to service cruise for their cruise ship ovation of the seas it was only at 13 percent capacity and we felt we had the ship to ourselves we re two cruises down and have two more to go this year mr goofin off getting ready to board our free cruise in february mr goofin off with our caribbean cruise in may we feel so lucky and blessed to be able to do this i got a great deal on a cruise to alaska in the off season for a trip with my little sister and then in october we re cruising to prince edward island to take my mother in law to the only bucket list item she has ever shared with us to visit the home of anne of green gables i ll let you in on a secret here it s been on my bucket list too but i don t think i could have ever talked mr goofin off into going with me but since this is the trip of a lifetime for my mother in law he agreed actually all of his siblings are coming too we re looking forward to making memories of a lifetime with the family there is so much to share but i know what you all really came for are the updates to the projects i ve been working on i started a new job in october and have been busy getting settled in and learning so much it hasn t left me with a lot of time to work on projects but i do have some updates for you mickey and pirate friends update 08 12 2022 mickey and pirate friends latest picture 08 12 2022 this is the most recent picture i have of mickey and pirate friends i have actually done quite a bit more but i ll save that picture for another post because progress just doesn t seem to 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