Flat Stanley has arrived

I just wanted to let Jan & Princess know that Flat Stanley arrived in Arkansas last night. He was tired and slept very well to be in a strange place. He is just relaxing and getting to know us right now. However he does have something to tell Princess.

Princess, I want to let you know that my travels in Arkansas will take a little longer as I am going to a birthday party Saturday. Mz Freda’s grandson, Cade, will be 5 and I am invited. I am so excited. I will miss you but I will be on my way soon.

Happy New Year Everyone

Just a short note to tell  everyone I hope all of you have a Happy New Year. If you party tonight please be safe.

Mini Pinwheels

Today I sewed the third square to my leader-enders. Now I have 160 3 patches ready to sew into 9 patches. I am making progress on my zig zag nine patch. I also worked on my oriental quilt. In the center block there is 2 1/2 inch squares sewed to the corners, then the excess is trimmed off. That leaves the cutest little triangles that I just couldn’t throw away. I sewed 4 of them into the pinwheel block. I have a finished 3 inch block that I think is as cute as can be. Tell me what you think?

                                     

Dog Day Afternoon

You can tell by the new header what kind of day Jazzy thinks it is. Of course, she don’t know she is a D-O-G. It didn’t start off too well. I got up and of course the first stop is the bathroom. Do my business, flush, am washing my face when toilet makes a weird noise. hmmmmm  Water is running not stopping. Take the back of the tank off and yep, the fill valve is broken. Shoot! Get the water turned off. Good thing we have 2 bathrooms. We live in a rural part of the Ozark Mountains and the nearest Lowes or Home Depot is 60 miles away. We do have a couple hardware stores but it is Sunday, they are closed. Well, Walmart is only 16 miles away so that is where I go. They have it. WOOHOO

Today isn’t a good day for Lynn. He has chronic fatigue which could be caused from the coronary artery disease, the emphyzema or the brain tumor or a combination of all three. Never the less, between the two of us we are back in business. Now I think I will go sew some more. Hope everyone is having a great day.

Lazy Saturday

I have been lazy today. I have been working on my oriental themed quilt. I also have been doing the leaders and enders technique of Bonnie Hunter while sewing all those triangles.  One of these days I will have a zig zag nine patch quilt. We went and visited with our youngest son Kris. He travels all over doing electrical work. He wires in conveyer systems for big distribution centers. He will leave early in the morning going back to Lumberton, North Carolina. We really miss not seeing him very often. Well I guess you can tell I changed my blog. Maybe I can get a better pix of Lynn & Jazzy. Gotta go for now and get back to my cooking. I’m fixing ham & beans for supper. Yep, it is left over Christmas ham.

Back from Memphis

Lynn had a Drs. appointment today. His last MRI shows no new growth of the tumor. It will have to have something done with it, surgery or Gamma Knife Radiation, but it is not  life threatening at this time. It does cause a bunch of symptoms but they have time to make sure that he gets the best treatment for him. We are relaxing right now. It is a 257 mile round trip for us and we are always tired. Well. I’m gone for now. Have a great night.

Christmas Day Bounty

Well, I am truely thankful for what we have today. I hope all my family and friends have as good a day as we have had. Lynn is feeling fair today so life is good. Santa brought me 4 new pantos, Fantasia by Hermoine Agee, Baptist Fan by Kathie James, Holly & Ribbon by Patternman, and  Feathered Flowers by Deb Geissler. I also got diamond stud earrings, the Dale collector tin about Dale Earnhardt who I loved to watch. I was a huge fan. I got the Eagles new CD and the new Sue Grafton book, T Is For Trespass. She is one of my favorite authors.

Lynn is napping with Jazzy after filling his tummy. Not hers, she don’t get table food. We had spiral cut ham, mashed potatoes & gravy, stuffing, deviled eggs, greenbean casserole,cranberry sause, homemade hot rolls, pumpkin and pecan pie. He may sleep the rest of the afternoon. lol

I have also included a couple pix. The first is Jazzy in her Christmas dress and her Christmas toy. The next is the two loves of my life, Lynn & Jazzy.

            

Hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas.

Christmas Eve Travels

Well, the Quillows were a big hit. All the kids loved them. We opened some gifts at my oldest son, Brent. With 5 kids, needless to say, there was wrapping paper everywhere. Lynn got new jeans and shirt, a fancy flashlight and some tools at Brents. I got a new gown and robe and some new soft flannel sheets. I’m going to put them on my bed in a little while. We both got money from my dad, the perfect gift. We went to the nursing home and visited with Lynn’s mom. She’s doing good since her other leg was amputated but her mind isn’t just right. Dementia is such a sad thing. Well, will post more when I open some more gifts. I know I have new pantos to ohh and ahh over. lol

Quillow, Quillow, Who Gets The Quillow

All 5 of them do!!!! Some of you know that my oldest sons wife left him and their 2 boys last January. Out of the blue she needed her “space”. Brent had a very hard time taking care of the boys, work, activities, all that but he did it. He met a girl, Stephanie, and they got married. She had 3 children so that more than doubled my grandchildren. Now they have one on the way, Taylor, which was a surprise to both of them. Stephanie is a good Mother to Cody & Jacob, better than their own Mother right now. Tabatha just causes grief if she don’t get her way now and uses the boys as pawns. Her new husband is a druggie. I still can’t picture Tabatha leaving her kids and marrying someone like that but she did and now she drinks and God knows what else. Jacob will not spend the night with his Mother at all.  He will stay at his other Grandmothers house and let his Mother stay there with him. It’s sad for everyone to have to go through this. I have been asked by other family and friends if Brent did the right thing. I don’t know but I do know that Stephanie helped him through a very rough time. If they don’t make it work at least they tried. Believe it or not all the kids get along great. Brent treats her kids like his own and she does the same. Also they have 5 dogs! Go figure.

Sorry this turned out so long. I really didn’t intend for it to. I have included a couple pix of the quillows.  

Finally Friday Edited

I have worked at the school this week for sick ladies and wouldn’t you know now I have the sinus thing. Just what I needed. When I say I sub at the school, I work in the cafeteria. Yep, I’m the dreaded lunchroom lady. I have worked in the library but mostly the cafeteria.

I saw a quilt I really liked in the Dec.-Jan. edition of Quilt Mag. It is called Down the Rose Path by Toby Lischko. It is done in beautiul browns and pinks.

Wouldn’t you know I have no browns and pinks but I do have a stash. Like Randi, I am doing a little stash busting. I have some beautiful Oriental themed fabrics in reds and golds that I love. So now to figure out where to use my fabrics. O.K. got that figured out. Where the dark brown is I will use gold, where the pink is I will use red print.

I have tried to put these pix in order between the text but I have not got that figured out yet. The first is the quilt in the magazine, then my cut pieces. Finally there is only 2 different blocks but they are in different colors, then you alternate the layout.

Now I have to work on 2 gifts I like for 2 of my grandchildren. I will posts those later. Have a great day everyone.

I just realized I said 2 different blocks. Actually it is 1 block, 2 colorways. Just confused today.