Posted By drsao on January 5, 2009
My CALIFORNIA grandangel, Harry, turned 14 yesterday, January 4th. VERY COOL! I love this picture of Harry with his pet dragon – what a hoot! I didn’t know that they even made leashes for dragons! Have you ever seen such a thing! Harry takes Lizzie for walks too! LOL 🙂
Harry has COME A LONG WAY since we let him out of his cage (see below) ….Just kidding, Harry!
Posted By drsao on January 4, 2009
Today marked the kickoff meeting of our 2009 Thimbleberries Club fun. As always we are enthusiastic about our upcoming projects – and Susan had us SIGN new year’s resolutions…….HM…..I vow to finish. Is that good or what!
We had fun seeing show and tells and eating the GREAT FOOD! And we got serious after the meeting doing our monthly shopping. We are SERIOUS about earning these Thimbleberries Bucks!
Posted By drsao on January 4, 2009
Saturday Marla and I took three quilts to Sara – a fantastic long arm quilter in Midlothian, VA. Sara does fantastic work and has quilted for several folks who have published in quilt magazines.
I have written about Sara’s Cottage before. I LOVE IT. I always longed for a life-sized playhouse when I was a young girl – and now I am longing for a LIFE-SIZED QUILTING COTTAGE. Until I win the lottery I am just going to dream about it and visit Sara once in awhile. (HM – it might be a good idea to buy a lottery ticket once in a while – I will put that on my TO DO LIST! LOL)
Look at the wonderful pictures inside Sara’s quilting cottage – and in particular look at the quilt on Sara’s quilting machine. That is one of the quilts made from ORPHAN BLOCKS by the Country Piecemaker’s Quilt Guild….I posted about that in December! Sara added words, a border, and some applique at the bottom. I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS QUILT. I think we should raffle this quilt and give all of the money to the shelter! Let me tell you, I would buy a lot of raffle tickets – it is a wonderful quilt – and to think that it was created from orphan blocks!
Enjoy the pictures – I am disappointed that you can’t see Marla’s THYME TO WATER QUILT – the sunlight was just not right – it is so impressive! My Thyme to Water Quilt is still on my UFO LIST!
Enjoy the pictures of Marla taking a tour of Sara’s Quilting Cottage Jan. 3 – after our Williamsburg Guild Meeting and day exploring the shops in Williamsburg. Do we know how to have fun, or what!
Posted By drsao on January 4, 2009
The new year continues to be jam packed with fun and adventure. After having so much fun at our January 09 quilt guild meeting in Williamsburg, Marla and I were primed for further excitement. We set out for LUV2 Quilt – and were enamored with the decor of this lovely quilt shop. We were ooohing and aaahing over all of the Singer sewing machines and especially a hand crank one. I came SO CLOSE to pulling out my credit card – let me tell you!! LOL I took LOTS OF PICTURES.
After the quilt shop, while on a quest for an outstanding sandwich shop, we wandered into one of the most wonderful knitting stores ever. HM…..I cannot believe that I don’t remember the name – KNITTING SISTERS? They had EVERYTHING in that store including felted beads. I have to say that I was inspired and if I hadn’t just made a list of SEVERAL UFO QUILTS that I wanted to do, I would have purchased a book on how to knit socks. Knitting a pair of socks is on my TO DO LIST (I think the more popular and current term is BUCKET LIST.) Some of the patterns for socks that I saw were unbelievable!
Following the knitting store we found an absolutely MAGNIFICENT needlework store. I took several pictures – I was SO AMAZED. PATSY – did you know about this shop? I am putting a “SMALL NEEDLEWORK PROJECT” on my TO DO LIST as well! Some of these displays just took my breath away! I hope you enjoy the pictures of our adventures in the Village Shops in Kingsmill.
We finally found a wonderful WINE AND CHEESE SANDWICH shop in the same little strip outdoor mall where we enjoyed the other shops – which was so enjoyable. The decor and the food was wonderful – loved the bread! We had SO MUCH FUN and after lunch we headed for Midlothian so I could introduce Marla to Sara and her OUT OF THIS WORLD TO DIE FOR QUILTING COTTAGE. I will write a separate post about that because I took SO MANY PICTURES!
Enjoy the pictures of Marla and sao’s shopping adventure in Williamsburg!!! Actually I should say exploration adventure because we really didn’t BUY anything…..and looking back on this, that is quite surprising, don’t you think?
Posted By drsao on January 4, 2009
Our Colonial Piecemakers Quilt Guild had a great meeting in Williamsburg, VA on Saturday, Jan. 3. Over 90 members enjoyed fellowship and fun – in addition to the ever inspiring show and tells.
AND……thanks to Sherry, the Colonial Piecemakers had a shaving cream party too. Can you imagine over 90 women playing with shaving cream….and did I mention that we had little bottles of ink that we were mixing into our shaving cream?! Actually Sherrry taught us how to marble fabric using shaving cream and ink and it was absolutely fascinating – and it could prove to be a quite therapeutic activity – do you remember your finger painting days! To find out more about this process you can go to http://softexpressions.com
I hope you enjoy the pictures of all of our fun.
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