Grandma’s Day Out with Sarah Oct. 24, 2010

| October 24, 2010

Today was the day that Grandangel Sarah and I celebrated her 11th birthday with a day – just for us.  We started out with BREAKFAST IN BED (Cooper joined the party!) Here we are – ready for our adventures……. Sarah got to choose where we went and what we did! We started with a cruise [...]

Pre-Halloween Celebrations 10 23 10

| October 23, 2010

OH MY – will the sound of happy music and the VERY LOUD voices of “HUNDREDS” of third, fourth, and fifth graders ever depart from my memory.  I don’t think so.  The kids were having SO MUCH FUN.   There was popcorn, hula hoop and costume contests, dancing, and balloon animals (only SOMEONE got the idea [...]

VA Scrappers October 23, 2010

| October 23, 2010

My sides are still aching from laughing so much – this seems to be a general HAPPENING when we have our once a month VA SCRAPPERS gathering.  It is always fun to get together with friends and quilt, talk, eat, shop, laugh; and of course we always spend a good bit of time OOOOHING and [...]

Thread Head

| October 21, 2010

This is just a snippet from one of my new favorite quilt blogs…. http://joanne-threadhead.blogspot.com/ I just love this name – Thread Head!  and there is a REPRODUCTION QUILT A LONG going on there – and this is just a sample from her blog for the third block.  I think I am going to do it [...]

A SOCK HAPPENING at www.patchworktimes.com

| October 21, 2010

OK – it is REALLY GOING TO HAPPEN!  I have been talking about knitting socks – starting and stopping  knitting socks……collecting patterns, needles for knitting socks…..I have even received special patterns and recommendations from friends.  Apparently when it comes to knitting socks, I am ALL THUMBS!  Do you get the picture?   So far I [...]