Shirley Anne’s Heart

Posted By drsao on June 18, 2011

This has been a happy, exciting, busy, wonderful, memorial and special week!

THE GRADUATION

Sarah graduated from Elementary School!!!  Proud moments for sure!

Sarah Graduated

 

I cried…..tears of excitement, happiness and nostalgia – all rolled into one!

Happy Feet at Graduation!

THE SCHOOL PICNIC

5th Grade Picnic

 

 

 

Each 5th grade class had  a different color t-shirt…..that really helped identify WHO was on YOUR kickball team!

 



 

NOTE:  I made it through an event without crying….LOL

LAST DAY OF SCHOOL

The LAST DAY OF SCHOOL was a tear jerker.  It was Sarah’s LAST DAY EVER to be walked to the bus!  Next year she will be in middle school and we will be driving her to an off site location to catch her bus!

This marks 6 years of walking Sarah to the bus!

Sarah and Kevin

Bye Bye….have a great day!

Did I cry?  Do turkeys have feathers?  🙂

THE SWIM MEET

The day ended on a happy note – the grandangels swam in the first swim meet…….and yes, I cried again….tears of happiness!

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Posted By drsao on June 18, 2011

If your Dad is, or was, a hard working man, and is your hero   ……..   post this to your status.

You can replace a lot of people in your life, but you CANNOT REPLACE YOUR DADDY!!!  I am thankful for mine.

My Friend posted this on FACEBOOK this morning and I copied it

–      I couldn’t have said it better.

 

 

HAPPY FATHER’S DAY

To my Daddy – the BEST THERE IS!

 

Here is my dad with my three brothers…..THEN

 

June 1990

 

……And now

May 2010

 

And just as a matter of interest, the plaid shirt from this next picture of my parents with some of  their young grandchildren  (the one my dad is wearing)  – is now residing in a quilt!!!  LoL

 

Grandchildren THEN….

 

Some of the Grandchildren NOW….. (I am in there too….)

May 2010

And HERE are just A FEW OF MY FAVORITE PICTURES OF MY DADDY!

 

Doing tricks…….and YES my mother’s favorite color was ORANGE

and YES that carpet and the chair that my DD Christi is sitting in is ORANGE!

Playing drums ……that my DS Rob got for Christmas when he was a little boy!

 

My Parents with me!

 

Father’s Day 1969 – Daddy holding my son Rob

 

 

My parents with my baby Christi *DD

 

 

The beautiful flowers at 106!

 

 

 

My parents with their FIRST TWO Great- Grandangels Harry and Leanna

 

AND TA DA….this might be my favorite!!!!!

And Happy Father’s Day to the other great dads in my family!

 

HAPPY FATHER’S DAY ROB

(father of FIVE of my grandangels)

 

HAPPY FATHER’S DAY TYLER

Father of my THREE Great nephews

and Great Niece

(and yes, it was difficult finding a – shall we say, NOT FUNNY – photo!)

 

Amanda and Tyler 2010

 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GARY

(Father of SIX of my grandangels)

 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOHN

(Father of THREE of my grandangels)

 

HAPPY FATHER’S DAY MAX

My DH

AND……HAPPY FATHER’S DAY GREG

the daring and courageous father……

(Father of THREE of my grandangels)

 

 

And last but not least – my FAVORITE  FASHION STATEMENT PHOTOS

My daddy in his infamous checked jacket….

Daddy in his CHECKED JACKET - on a cruise

and like father like son – my FAVORITE PHOTO OF ALLLLLLLLLLL TIMESSSSSSS

my brother Fred!

Fred at Homecoming 1973

 

 

 

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Posted By drsao on June 13, 2011

I made myself a promise that I would never let quilts that are  AFBB “All Finished But the Binding” sit around and stack up.  I don’t want a stack of quilts to fill up my binding chair like  last year.    BUT ALAS, I think it is happening again!  Binding is my least favorite part of quilt making and I have TRIED sewing the binding on by machine – but to be honest, I just don’t like it as well as when it is sewn by hand in the traditional method.  I am trying to be positive though and so instead of saying ” I DO NOT LIKE BINDING” I am now saying that it is my least favorite part.

SOOOOOO…….this week on my design floor I have decided that THREE quilts should get their binding on………so that is my goal!  I have 3 or 4 more ready for binding too – but I didn’t want to overwhelm myself (as if 3 quilts wouldn’t already do that …..:))

The first is for my grandangel, Caden, for his high school graduation.  He has been a Green Bay Packer’s fan forever (since he was a young boy anyway)  – so I decided to make the quilt in the SUMMER JEWELS PATTERN but in Green Bay Packer colors!  Summer Jewels is a pattern from Augusta Cole’s Cutting Bee!     (Yes, those are my toes in the picture – I was standing on the quilt….LOL)  Do you like the footballs in the quilting pattern?

Caden's Green Bay Quilt

The second is my Pinwheels and Posies Quilt…..this is for my great-grandangel (someday when I have one!)  I don’t even have a grandangel who is married yet – but with 17 grandangels, I figured that I should get an EARLY START on the great-grandangel quilts!  This was a mystery quilt started a few years ago with my Powhatan Quilters group!    I like all of the tiny pieces – but 1 1/2″ half square triangles are probably as small as I would want to try!

Pinwheels and Posies (GREAT GRANDANGEL)

And the third quilt to be bound is also for another FUTURE Great Grandangel…..my Eleanor Burns Scrappy Quilt #3

Eleanor Burns Scrappy Quilt #3 (GREAT GRANDANGEL)

All three of these were quilted by Karen Murray.

 

So, that is what’s on my DESIGN FLOOR THIS WEEK.  If you want to see what is on the Design Wall of quilters across the country go to Judy Laquidara’s website….

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Posted By drsao on June 11, 2011

I did it – I finally made it to Powhatan for the Country Piecemaker’s Quilt Guild meeting.  I am so glad that I did too.  It was fun – inspiring – impressive – entertaining – gratitfying – productive – and the food was wonderful!  Today, for the program, Bonnie and Sandie shared tips on making scrappy quilts and  we worked on a Bonnie K. Hunter pattern “CHUNKY CHURNDASH.”  The pattern is free at   www.quiltville.com

SHOW AND TELL Monthly Blocks

I was REALLY impressed with the BLOCK OF THE MONTH LADIES AND QUILTING *I just made up that title, it isn’t the REAL title…..oh my.  I wish that I had been making these blocks….they are wonderful, aren’t they!

AND LOOK AT THE NEXT ONE – Donna really made a great block!

ICU Baby Quilt Donations

The baby quilts being donated to the ICU this month are so cute……we had eleven this month!   YEAH!

Scrappy Quilts

Here are some pictures of Scrappy Quilts made by  Sandie and Bonnie!  Ask me how much I LOVE Scrappy Quilts.  In the program today Sandie and Bonnie gave us lots of tips for using “everything but the kitchen sink” scraps in our quilts!

I wasn’t a part of the program but I made a couple of Scrappy Quilts too….the first one is Bonnie K. Hunter’s Roll Roll Cotton Boll Mystery Quilt (November, 2010) quilted by Sara Parrish.

….and the second one is from a pattern called HIDDEN PINWHEELS from Augusta Cole’s CUTTING BEE…..Sara Parrish also quilted this one.

 

Here is our Christmas raffle quilt……Nancy is going to quilt it.

 

MORE SHOW AND TELL

Good vest!

 

We liked Cindy’s Quilt AND HER PURSE MADE FROM A JUMPER…….isn’t it cute!!

 

 

 

Nancy’s quilt is now hanging in the library!

 

The Program :  CHUNKY CHURNDASH

Here are some random pictures of our sewing time!

Here is the CHUNKY CHURN DASH QUILT…..really cute!

Sandie and Bonnie – GOOD WORKSHOP….. and thanks to Bonnie Hunter for allowing us to use her pattern.

 

 

Some of us, not mentioning any names, are not that comfortable with KITCHEN SINK SCRAPPY…

…I call them the “reflective organized quilters.”  Doesn’t that sound MUCH BETTER than “controlling!”

 

I think this is so impressive….Mildred quilted this on a regular sewing machine!

The room was COLD TODAY – thank you Cindy, for the sweatshirts…..*I got a green one!

sao's blocks

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Posted By drsao on June 10, 2011

 

Here is a message from AMI SIMMS that quilters will be interested in!

AAQI Awards $60,000 Research Grant!

Dr. Alan Saltiel (Director of the Life Sciences Institute at University of Michigan), Dr. Mi Hee Lim (Principal Investigator), Ami Simms (Founder & Director, AAQI), and Dr. Jung-Suk Choi (Postdoctoral Fellow)

 

It was quite a day!  Anytime I write a check with a comma in the amount, my heart skips a beat.

When the number in the little box has five digits, apparently I hyperventilate.

All I had to do was sign the check on behalf of the Alzheimer’s Art Quilt Initiative (AAQI).

Treasurer, Debbie Chenail had to write it out!

I’ve never been so happy to spend so much money.    And if you’re keeping track, the actual amount was $60,160.00. It was made out to the University of Michigan for Dr. Mi Hee Lim and her team to continue work on small molecules that break up deposits of amyloid plaque in the brain. That’s the substance that seems to cause cell death in Alzheimer’s. In smaller chunks, perhaps the amyloid plaque can be removed from the brain.

Maybe they can figure out how to keep it from clumping together in the first place.

As before, volunteers from the AAQI hand-delivered the check, met with the team of researchers, and toured the lab.

We also brought quilts.

We hung quilts donated to the AAQI by quilters whose work was part of our first traveling exhibit, “Alzheimer’s: Forgetting Piece by Piece.” We brought some of the Name Quilts and smaller quilts from “Alzheimer’s Illustrated: From Heartbreak to Hope.”

And we brought Priority: Alzheimer’s Quilts.

 

Several small quilts found new homes and the AAQI collected more money for research!

 

This research grant for the University of Michigan is the largest of the seven grants your quilting has funded so far.

YOU have made this possible by donating quilts, by purchasing quilts, and by making monetary donations.

With your hearts and your hands you are making a difference. For all of us who have lost someone we love to this horrific disease….THANK YOU!

And to the talented and dedicated researchers on “our” team…GODSPEED!

Celebrate this tremendous achievement by writing your own check to the Alzheimer’s Art Quilt Initiative. Here’s how.

If everyone reading this today sent just $5 we could make a pretty good dent on the next research grant award.

Better yet…BUY A QUILT!

Pass it on!

 

Ami SimmsFounder & Executive Director, AAQI

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