Some less blog-o-genic activities

While I have made a couple of small finishes, to be posted later, mostly I've been working on things that are less suited to blogging (less blog-o-genic, like photogenic. Made that word up myself).
That includes spending WAY TOO MUCH TIME on photo puzzles at Jigsawplanet.
There are lots of quilt pictures there, and I just uploaded my GFG as a large hard puzzle. Hint: the pieces must be rotated.
Links:
     Jigsawplanet
To play puzzles I've created, go to http://www.jigsawplanet.com/karenotto

Do a search on the keyword quilt. Lots of nice puzzles there. I mostly search on the keyword color.

Other activities:

• Inching along on projects like my Mola and Ula Lenz BOM
• Organizing my sewing room a la Flylady
• Going through a major change at work  (we're going Japanese)
• Administrating the web page for our local Blackforest Quilters guild 

That last item takes unpredictable amounts of time. I thought that adding a photo gallery (sorry, members only) would be hard, but it was easy. But then setting up all the needed email addresses was easy, but time-consuming. And a million other things. At least we are using the site, and very well. We have tens of thousands of hits a month - makes it all worthwhile.
And we have a free page now, so go take a look. http://www.blackforestquilters.de/free_public.htm

4415 New Things to Do

Some days are Christmas, and some days feel like Christmas. Today was one of those second types. Walking back to work after lunch, I got an SMS - DHL was telling me my package had arrived at the Packstation.
My long-awaited, deeply-desired package had arrived!!!
Buecher.de is one of my favorite online stores. It's much easier to use than Amazon, and doesn't have nearly the crap that Amazon puts on its pages. It's far more pleasant to shop there, and I watch the prices carefully to make sure I'm getting the best deal possible.
This time I got lucky. I was looking for a couple of quilty things, and ended up finding the quilt book of my dreams - Jinny Beyer's The Quilter's Album of Patchwork Patterns: More Than 4050 Pieced Blocks for Quilters

Additionally, I had already ordered Nancy Martin's 365 Quilt Blocks a Day perpetual calendar.
Both of these packages came today, and I'm in quilt block heaven.
Jinny has 4050 blocks, and Nancy has 365. Do the math and I now have 4415 wonderful new blocks to play with.The nice thing about these resources is I now have thousands of public domain quilt patterns (not Jinny's or Nancy's own designs, of course) at my fingertips.
Here are some pictures of my lovelies. I showed Feb 3 in the calendar, because that's my birthday. Heehee.