drsao | June 5, 2008
I am such a sap – I cried at tech. rehearsal tonight because I was so overwhelmed with JOY at my grandangels’ dances…..go figure. Here is Sarah standing at the top of the stairs ready to go on stage and the blonde with the pony tail in the middle doing her CHINA TOWN BALLET…. ….and [...]
drsao | June 4, 2008
Sarah (8) was so excited when she saw me making YO YO flowers for my BIRTH OF A SAMPLE QUILT (pictured above)…….that she wanted to make one too…..and so she did (and she wore it in her hair to school today.) I had a PINK CAT BUTTON that we pinned in the middle of the [...]
drsao | 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 [...]
drsao | May 10, 2008
The saga of Bonnie K. Hunter’s 2nd Mystery Quilt continues…….step 4 was 120 3 1/2″ triangle blocks combined with our step 1 2″ four patches to make 30 SPINNING STAR blocks. This is what my step 4 SPINNING STAR for the PINEAPPLE CRUSH MYSTERY QUILT (my controlled scrappy quilt) looks like. I went back to my [...]
drsao | April 29, 2008
TA DA…..My Step 3 of Bonnie K. Hunter’s (quiltville.com) second online ORANGE CRUSH mystery quilt is accomplished. Hip Hip Hooray! I am seriously cheering because getting all of these triangles sewn on the correct side was not easy for me (I am a bit directionally challenged and hopelessly spatially misguided!) In fact, I made an entire extra [...]
