I wanted to post a Vlog today, but I didn’t have enough time to figure it out. Instead I wrote this up, although it is technically being posted after 12am, I think it still counts as the 15th seeing as how I did try to video it already..

Today (December 15th!) is Annual Quilting Bee Blog Day! The Quilting Bee is an online club that I am so glad to have found. I have been a member for almost a year and a half now, and I wish I would have joined sooner!

I first found the quilting bee several years ago, but I didn’t join right away. I would always check out members’ blogs by checking out the member list, and one day it occured to me to sign up so that I could actually meet these people that I had admired from afar. Each member in the club trades pixel patches with one another, so we collect patches and make our quilts. We also participate in many themed club activities.

My favorite part of being a quilting bee member is the sense of community that comes with it. I have met so many wonderful people just by being active on our forums. Some of us chat daily, showing off pictures of pets or asking for advice. No one is EVER rude, and it is so great to have such a wonderful group of people to call my friends! This year some of us sent winter holiday cards out to each other.. I sent out over 20 and I look forward to receiving them too. I will proudly display my cards that come from all over the world, all from my considerate and funny friends from the club!

This year’s entry was short and sweet, but I’m sure there will be many more to come.

You can learn more about The Quilting Bee (and join! ) here!

I am a member in the online club The Quilting Bee. In this club we make little pixel patches and trade them to have a beautiful collection of patches for our own online quilt. Our club also has activities, and this month we are making sand castles. Here is the one that I made to enter in the contest:

Check out my sand castle ‘collection’ here! Or check out my quilt page here

I have been working a lot lately. And when I am not working, I’m often preparing for work. We have had a few training meetings in the evenings lately, plus I teach music classes.. So, I work on those lesson plans because I have to remember all of these songs for the different level classes. But, I love my job! It’s so great to see familiar faces from week to week. I also do such a mix of things. I teach music classes, art once a week, and I also teach classes in the play area. We have to know about a million songs, but that hasn’t been hard so far. I would love to have my own classroom someday!

I have a few entries that I want to post, but I need to upload some pictures first. There are several crafts that I have done that I would like to make entries for, plus some yummy meals to go in the cuisine section.

I’m so glad tomorrow is Friday (and payday)! I’ll try to get a few of those entries in this weekend

December 15th is Annual Quilting Bee Blog day!

The Quilting Bee is an online club in which the members trade pixeled patches to make electronic “quilts” on their websites.

I joined the club on July 29, 2007, but I knew about it way before then. I came across The Quilting Bee a few years ago. I wasn’t confident enough in my ability to pixel, and I also didn’t think that I had enough time to devote to being a part of the club. I also didn’t know much at all about the club, or I would have known those were silly reasons not to join. However, I would often go to the site and look through the members list to find new, cute sites to look at.

I sort of drifted away from updating my website completely when I went to college. This past summer I decided to revamp sillylittlepanda.com back into a blog. I was trying to decide on a new set up for everything and decided to once again go through the Q*Bee’s members list to see how some of the sites that I used to visit were doing. Then I thought, I’ve been lurking for years; why not just join?

Since I have been a member of this club I’ve made lots of new friends. Some of us even exchanged some Christmas ornaments, and I have Christmas cards from as far across the globe as Denmark and Thailand, not to mention all over the US.

I love the activities, too! I have participated in the aquarium activity in August (here is mine), and also the one for Halloween (my page here). Soon I will get my Christmas page set up aswell.

If you aren’t a part of the bee already, check it out!