What’s New in My World? Cats, Leaves, and History Being Made

| November 6, 2008

It is pretty hard NOT to love cats.  What personalities!!  My DH bought two nice little kitty beds……….   Brand new – clean, soft, beautiful….and where have Tonto and Daisy May been sleeping?  In my basket of Christmas fabrics!  Well, what can I say?  We quilters know how WONDERFUL it feels to touch good fabric…LOL.  […]

Chippokes Plantation Craft Festival, November 2008

| November 2, 2008

After the Colonial Piecemaker’s Quilt Guild Meeting, Marla and I went to the Chippokes Plantation Craft Festival.  Oh my – was that ever just TOO MUCH FUN. I LOVED the ride on the Williamsburg Ferry across the James River.  I was so excited because it was my first time!  And to tell you the truth, […]

A Couple of Things That Are Fun!

| October 29, 2008

I mentioned recently that I was looking for cookie jars to collect coins from the years of each of my grandangels’ births in.  Since Leanna (12) collects rubber duckies I wanted to find an antique duck cookie jar.  I searched EVERY SITE online – and FINALLY found a duckie cookie jar.  It is rather old […]

Quilty Things in SAO’s World: Fred’s Boxy Stars and Fred’s Ts Quilt Back – AND My Birth of a Sampler Quilt is FINALLY finished!

| October 25, 2008

I am doing the HAPPY DANCE tonight because I finished my brother Fred’s Boxy Stars Quilt top (another Bonnie K. Hunter free quilt pattern on www.quiltville.com).  I actually had finished  the center of this quilt – all except the outer border while on the Massanetta Springs Country Piecemaker’s Retreat!  YEAH!  I wasn’t sure that I was […]

Scrapbooking PINK at Memories Galore 9 28 08

| September 28, 2008

Making Photo scrapbooking memories has been on my List of Favorite Things for fourteen years now.  My oldest daughter, Jan, provided the first bit of inspiration for this FUN HOBBY back in the days when using scissors with decorative cutting designs was popular for cropping photos!  LOL.  I think we have moved way beyond that […]