Tent Camping in VA BEACH Sept 24 – 26, 2010

| September 26, 2010

We spent the last three days camping in Virginia Beach  and it has been LOTS OF FUN!  Here are a few of the highlights of my birthday trip….thanks to my DD Christi – she is such a great organizer and she had fun and food planned for our camping party!   My SIL took the coffee maker [...]

Birthdays are SPECIAL

| September 26, 2010

I had a great birthday – thanks everyone for the birthday e-mails and cards!  Here are a few highlights ….. just a few! Catherine left an AUTUMN CELEBRATION on my front porch on my birthday eve – what a surprise!  It made me feel so happy and festive!  Also – note the apple gourd that [...]

sao’s QUILTY FINISHES

| September 13, 2010

Hallelujah – I finished binding two quilts – MIRACLE UPON MIRACLES!  I am doing the happy dance!  I will be taking a picture of my BINDING CHAIR – just as soon as the stack goes down just a little bit more.  LOL  (For those of you who don’t know – I have a chair in [...]

Colonial Piecemaker’s Retreat – Williamsburg, 2010

| September 13, 2010

The Colonial Piecemakers Quilt Guild celebrated quilting, eating, laughing, jewelry making, shopping – well, you name it because ANYTHING can happen on a quilt retreat!  Catherine even staged a birthday celebration for me!!  I was truly inspired by the beautiful works of art – and that is what I saw being created this past weekend.  [...]

Fran’s Carolina Christmas Quilt

| September 7, 2010

I just had to share a picture of my friend Fran’s Carolina Christmas Quilt – it is Bonnie K. Hunter’s Mystery Quilt, but Fran did not use Christmas colors.  It is just stunning!  She, Catherine, Margaret and I met at Panera’s for breakfast recently – and did we ever have fun hosting our own show [...]