Shirley Anne’s Heart

JBA turns 89 December 8, 2010

Posted By drsao on December 18, 2010

The Albertson clan (and sprouts from the clan) gathered in Kansas City to celebrate my daddy’s birthday – he was 89 years young last week! What an inspiration he is to us all. He is doing amazingly well after his TOTAL HIP REPLACEMENT this summer! I was impressed by his joyful spirit – and his wit too – he gave us all quite a few giggles….! Thanks to EVERYONE who sent cards and called – it really made the birthday celebration lots of fun!

We really had a great time – multiple birthday celebrations – including a trip to Cascone’s (our favorite Italian restaurant in KC) and a drive through the Plaza to see the Christmas lights. We also enjoyed watching the snow fall! Yes, I got to see Kansas City SNOW this year!

Daddy even gave me an organ concert and impressed us all with his feats of memory…..I don’t know anyone else who can spout off phone numbers like he can – including the number of his pharmacy! WOW!

Here are a FEW pictures to highlight the birthday celebration! We were happy to all be together, but of course we missed having Mother with us too.

PS – and that is my brother Fred with the HUGE piece of birthday cake – I have to say that Elaine makes a great carrot cake *my favorite too!

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UFO Patchwork Times 2011 Challenge

Posted By drsao on December 18, 2010

OK – so here is my UFO list for 2011

1 Jared Takes a Wife – Bonnie Hunter – blocks made

2 HAPPY SPOOLS Eleanor Burns – needs to be quilted and bound

3 Eleanor Burns – Strip Quilt 2- needs to be quilted and bound

4 Eleanor Burns – Strip Quilt 3- top in process of being sewn together

5 Hidden Pinwheels – Cutting Bee – a few blocks made

6 Milky Way Pink – Cutting Bee – several blocks made

7 Pinwheels and Posies – Powhatan Quilter’s Mystery – pieced border in process

8 Grandmother’s Flower Garden – needs to be bound

9 Snowman Angel Wallhanging – started on embroidery

10 Green Christmas Fairy Wallhanging – started

11 Bonnie Hunter’s Spider Web – 2 blocks made

12 Bonnie Hunter’s Hop Scotch Butterscotch – cut out

13 Pat Speth’s Black and White All That Glitters – some blocks made

14 Thirties Something – some blocks made

15 Christmas Mystery 2010

16 NYE Mystery 2010

17 Bonnie Hunter – Roll Roll Cotton Boll

18 Bonnie Hunter – Roll Roll Cotton Boll Jr

19 Curved Log Cabin – Augusta Cole – some blocks made

20 Sunshine *yellow and blue string pieced crib quilt – needs pieced border

21 Christi’s Blue and Yellow Flannel Rag Quilt – some blocks made

22 Jannae’s Art Quilt

23 Carolina Crossroads 11

24 Connect the Dots

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Brunch with Santa at the Boathouse

Posted By drsao on December 5, 2010

WARNING – there are LOTS OF PICTURES here so if you are not family or a REALLY REALLY REALLY good friend you might want to skip this……

We just got back from Brunch with Santa at the Boathouse. OH MY WAS IT EVER JUST ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL….lots of fun and special memories were made. Santa was awesome – even told us jokes – AND HE POSED WITH Mr. Clicker (at that point my SIL was trying to give me away – but hey, Mr. Clicker has to have fun too!)

ENJOY!

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Roll Roll Cotton Boll Step 3

Posted By drsao on December 4, 2010

Isn’t this paper piecing fun? I was standing tonight – patiently waiting for my DH to FINISH reading the paper so that I could have some more newsprint to sew on!!!! 🙂

I believe that this is the first time that Bonnie Hunter (www.quiltville.com) – or any of the other mystery quilt hostesses, for that matter – have ever had a step where we did paper piecing *at least not since I have been participating….and I will have been quilting FOUR years as of March, 2011! It really is fun! What I am enjoy the most is the MEMORIES…..every strip of fabric has a story – “this went into Sarah’s first quilt….and that went into my parent’s bedspread quilt….etc.”

It has taken a lot of will power to DO WHAT BONNIE HAS ASKED US TO DO and that is to use ALL of our stash – even the wild prints on light fabric. Once I talked myself into it I am enjoying. There is such a good feeling that comes with using up scraps of fabric. I sure am making a mess though – that is for sure!

LOOK AT MY BASKET OF SCRAPS…….and I will post a picture after I finish my 120 *yes 120 8 1/2″ square blocks! Remember I am making ROLL ROLL COTTON BOLL and ROLL ROLL COTTON BOLL JR!

: Will I use ALL of this – we will see!

: Ready to trim!

: Love the variety – can’t imagine the outcome!

: After making 8 blocks I sure have made a mess!

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SNOW SNOW SNOW

Posted By drsao on December 4, 2010

If you KNOW me you KNOW that I LOVE SNOW. It is on my list of FAVORITE THINGS – probably a tie between RAIN and SNOW. I just love to watch things fall from the sky *nice things, that is. AND – did you ever notice that it SNOWS on my BLOG year round – yes even in the summer.

AND TONIGHT IT SNOWED FOR THE FIRST TIME – OOOOOOH how wonderful. I just took a lot of pictures so you could share in the fun!