Holiday Happenings – Memorial Day Celebrations – and Quilts
Posted By drsao on May 26, 2008
It is amazing how much fun that can be squeezed into a three-day weekend!
Here are some highlights…..
Grandangel Vincent had his 8th birthday in California (we sang to him on the telephone.) He was SUPER-SIZED excited!
My Great Nephew and Great Niece celebrated their birthdays in Kansas….Preston is now 3 and Tara Lynn is 1. Birthdays are so much fun! We should all get this excited over balloons!
Sarah and I went to a yard sale early Saturday morning…..and was that ever TOO MUCH FUN! We actually made it home on foot – without a wheelbarrow! Sarah was really excited over her butterfly bulletin board – still in its original wrappings!
The FIND of the day (week? year? century?) was a chenille bedspread in A-1 shape that had belonged to the grandmother of the yard sale hostess….and she sold it for $1.00. ONE DOLLAR. Now what am I going to do with it? I could make little rabbits out of it…..or use it as a back to a quilt? HM…..I have no clue what I will do with it, I just know that I have always wanted one and that I love it! Here it is on my bed.
Since Sarah and I found a candy making machine at the yard sale – we just HAD TO MAKE CHOCOLATE CANDY. whoo hooo! Leanna looks like a “mad scientist” pumping the chocolate into the molds!
Grandangel, Sarah was SO EXCITED. We finished her first CAT QUILT over the weekend. I showed her how to tape the backing down and then add the batting and quilt top. Here is Sarah pinning the layers together!
Then she chose decorative stitches for her quilting! She loves my Brother Duetta sewing machine…..she put a different decorative stitch on each line of quilting! You can tell by the look on her face that she is totally thrilled with this project! We cut around the edges with pinking shears (I figured traditional binding might be a stretch.)
Sarah’s WEBKINZ CAT, “Meredith,” seems to like her new quilt!
Our holiday also included a barbecue with friends. Oh, did I mention that Spiderman and Darth Vader attended our party?
And going to the opening of the swimming pool is a must on MEMORIAL DAY….hm…..except that everyone else had the same idea……so the pool party ended up in our back yard with a new slip and slide and ring sprinkler. I think that ended up to be way more fun anyway!
Sliding, hula hoop fun, backyard baseball games, croquette games, popsicles, pizza, and water gun fights……it doesn’t get much better than this! Now if ONLY I could have had some HOME MADE ICE CREAM…..then I would have thought that I had died and gone to heaven!
This is the view LOOKING UP from our backyard hammock (REALLY!) I just had to post this – the sky was so pretty and the weather was perfect!
AND WHAT DID I SEW?
Quilting – well – I did get a start on my Step 5 of the ORANGE CRUSH and the PINEAPPLE CRUSH…..and yes, I CHANGED THE ACCENT COLOR AGAIN on the Pineapple Crush – this is the THIRD and final change – because now the blocks are partially completed! LOL
TA DA….Here is Step 5 – Album Block of my PINEAPPLE CRUSH MYSTERY QUILT (I like this.)
And here is my Step 5 Album Block for the Orange Crush Mystery Quilt (yikes – I wonder if I will ever in a million years grow to like these colors?) This may be my FIRST AND LAST time to go scrappy (of the everything but the kitchen sink variety!)
I am not trying to guess what the MYSTERY QUILTS will look like – but I added the previous blocks in a little arrangement – just to CONVINCE MYSELF that I might like it….::)
Pineapple Crush..Step 4 Spinning Stars with Step 5 Album Blocks……it is pretty calm and subdued and my accent color (the red plaid) is similar to the red check……but…….I really think that I am going to like this one!
And now for the Orange Crush – Step 4 Spinning Stars Blocks with Step 5 Album Blocks…..oh dear, this sure is BRIGHT…..I may need to wear sunglasses to work on this one! Do I like this?
THANKS TO THE FOLKS IN THE MILITARY!
It has been a nice holiday …. and I have enjoyed watching some of the special programs on the HISTORY CHANNEL the past few days that have called my attention to the wonderful heroes, past and present, that have and are serving in the military. I am grateful and am in awe at some of the stories of bravery and valor. Since I am related somehow to Robert E. Lee, I was especially interested in the special program that featured Lee and Stonewall Jackson!
And now….back to the REAL WORLD…..how many of us will think that Tuesday is Monday all day tomorrow! 🙂 Happy 13th Anniversary to Christi and Greg May 27! Here is a SILLY family picture……and like I always say, “A MERRY HEART DOETH GOOD LIKE MEDICINE.” (Just for the record, this isn’t my original saying!”) 🙂
Hi Shirley,
Thank you for leaving a comment, you are in the draw.
What a beautiful family you have,
I love your step five OC, I’m still agonizing about about what colour to do, orange is not my colour.
Happy anniversary!
thanks again Julia