Shackles, Cake and Best Bee Block Ever

My husband admiring my legs,

Husband:  What is that all over your ankles?

Me:  Those are my shackle scars from my gang days.

H:  You were not in a gang!

Me:  Well, if I was this is what the shackle scars would look like.  

H:  What is it really?

Me:  Bug bites.

H:  Were you bit by a scorpion? Because it looks like shackle scars.

Me:  Well, initially, I thought it was bug bites, so I scratched like a mad woman.  But really it's poison ivy.

H:  Wow.

Me:  Then it spread.  Everywhere.  

H:  Can you go sleep in the other bed?

Me:  Can you massage my ankles with a stick, because they itch like mad?

H:  You would never make it in a gang, by the way.

Me:  Already in a gang, the Quilter Gang, we have rotaries and we will cut you. 

H:  Is that your motto?  Because you have cut yourself more than anything else with that thing.  

Me:  While you sleep tonight, I'm going to rub you with my ankles.  

I would show you a photo of my ankles, but it is really gross.

I can show you the cake that I made I ordered for the baby shower for my Grandson.  The local cake shop Dream Cake in Virginia Beach put their creation on Pinterest, too.  The cake was delicious.

It was a great weekend, except for the whole poison ivy deal (seriously, who gets poison ivy in November?).

And on Monday, I received two packages from Bees to make blocks.  I checked in with the Bee threads and noticed that one said 'EASIEST BEE BLOCK.  EVER'

And it was.

I went and made that one right that second.  

While I love all the bee blocks (almost) and I have learned new techniques and tried blocks I never would have attempted outside of a Bee, this one was fun to do, took 10 minutes, because my iron had to heat up.   I am wondering what she has in store for these strips of fabric.