Yard Sales – Model T Battery Jar – or a Pretty Jar for Leftover Yarn Balls?

| May 19, 2012

I went out to visit the local neighborhood yard sales this morning.  I was looking for tennis rackets for my DD.  I found TWO but both needed to be restrung – so I left them for someone else.    I did not go looking for this but I came home with an antique GLASS  BATTERY […]

Where were you when the EARTHQUAKE HIT VIRGINIA?

| August 26, 2011

Catherine and I were in a quilt store in Gloucester, VA………and the earth shook……where were you when the earthquake hit Mineral, VA?  If you have to be in an earthquake, this was a good place to be.  The good thing is that we didn’t see any damage in Gloucester. Catherine and I had a wonderful […]

A Totally Catherine Day

| December 24, 2009

The day started out in a rather humorous way – Catherine and I met at Quilter’s Corner to start our big day  – BIG CHRISTMAS FABRIC SALE AT QUILTER’S CORNER (GO THERE!!!) – but we were parked on OPPOSITE sides of the building and didn’t see each other.  Once I went inside I discovered that Catherine was […]

Powhatan Power Antique Show – April 25, 2009

| April 25, 2009

When I left home this morning I was expecting to enjoy being with my Country Piecemakers Quilt Guild quilting friends at the Powhatan Power Antique Show.  What I wasn’t expecting was HOW MUCH FUN I would have.  AND…..this might be some kind of a record for me to have GREAT FUN when it is 91 […]

The Corolla, NC Beach Retreat, February, 2009

| February 24, 2009

We had a wonderful time at the beach in Corolla, North Carolina the past few days.  We quilted, we ate some fantastic brunches and dinners , we laughed, we sewed, there was even a walker or two to be seen on the beach.   I loved the sunrises and the sunsets – the dolphins playing in […]