Savage Mill Mall – Savage, Maryland

Posted By on May 16, 2010

Catherine, Margaret and I went on a ROAD TRIP to the Savage Mill Mall in Savage, Maryland yesterday.  Margaret was quite skilled at getting us there in GOOD TIME!   Thanks Margaret G!  It was my first visit to Savage, Maryland and I found the Mill Mall to be fascinating. 

What an interesting historical setting this mall was in!  I took lots of pictures of the windows, walls, and doors.  Something about old buildings just fascinates me!  These walls hold so much information – so many memories.  LOVE LOVE LOVE the old wooden walls, floors and ceilngs!

This is what GOOGLE HAS TO SAY!!

Savage Mill

Savage Mill Mall, a 19th century textile mill, between Baltimore, Maryland and Washington DC, has been restored to a unique shopping mall featuring quality antique stores, home furnishing stores, craft galleries, artist studios, specialty shops, restaurants, banquet facilities and an authentic French bakery. Savage Mill is an historic complex of buildings with more than 175,000 square feet of space featuring the wares of 265 antique dealers, artists and craftsman. This is a great place to shop for gifts or decorative items for your home.

We really enjoyed shopping at the outdoor flea market as well as in the various shops……especially the mixed media art supply/scrapbook store and the quilt shop!  It was a lovely experience – no make that GLORIOUS!  A little BUG tried to join us – really – one attached itself to Catherine’s shoe – and she remained cool, calm and collected while driving with that little critter crawling around!!!

There was only one little thing – if you visit the Savage Mall, try to avoid BONAPARTE BREADS.  The “helpers” could not understand English enough to decipher words like HOT and COLD and Catherine’s HAM AND CHEESE tasted like cardboard and was literally HARD…..what was the owner thinking to hire these folks?  Other than this, the day was perfect!

We ENDED our day at Cracker Barrel and AC Moore in Fredericksburg, VA.  YEAH!  🙂

I hope you enjoy the pictures.  Remember to click on the pictures to see the entire thing.  🙂

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Remember The Cigar Boxes of Yesteryear?

Posted By on May 16, 2010

Do you remember in the OLDEN DAYS when we got a new cigar box at the beginning of each year?  For those of you too young to relate, we used these cigar boxes for our pencils, erasers, Crayolas, scissors and glue!    I am NOT SURE WHY we used cigar boxes but I am assuming it was because they were the right size, they were free, and there weren’t plastic alternatives at the time.  For WHATEVER reason, I have a nice memory of cigar boxes and had wanted one for my adult self!!!!  We always have STUFF that we need to put somewhere!!

This is what most of my GROWING UP CIGAR BOXES were like – without the cigars.  🙂

Traditional Cigar Box

My friend Catherine found three wonderful ones and she gave them to me!  And they aren’t just your everyday cigar box of the past!  LOOK!

Fancy Gold Cigar Box

Who KNEW Cigars Came in Flavors!!!

 This one is made of wood and the top slides open……fun!

Love this wooden one!

 Yesterday – at an outdoor flea market in the Savage Mill Mall (Savage, Maryland) I found this black wooden box.  I didn’t realize there were so many varieties of cigar boxes around!  Pretty cool and only $1.

From the Savage Mill Flea Market

 OH MY – did you KNOW that people collect cigar boxes   I didn’t.  You can sure LEARN A LOT if you  GOOGLE!  I was also unaware that cigar box art was a big thing!  I even saw one label on sale for $450.   Yes, I got the decimal in the correct place….that is FOUR HUNDRED FIFTY DOLLARS.      HM……I think the labels are cute – but I am going to settle for looking at them online.  🙂

Cigar Box Labels

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sao’s Quilty News

Posted By on May 10, 2010

 

Goodness – I haven’t posted pictures of my current projects for awhile – but I have been asked to update…….so here goes.

 

Inspired by the movement to GO GREEN and save on plastic and paper shopping bags (AND ENCOURAGED BY MY DD CHRISTI), I made FOUR shopping bags…….ta da

I am going to wait to hear from my DD Christi how these work.  I hope that they are sturdy and that they hold a lot.  It was fun to make them; however not too economical when you can buy GREEN BAGS at the various stores for between $1 to $3!!!  Of course, these are unique, one-of-a-kind bags.  🙂

 

I also finished the top of my Scrappy Chiclet Quilt……this has been in the works for 2 years – all 2″squares and 2″hst so it has been labor intensive…..however, I love those little squares!!!  As you can see I even made the sashing and cornerstones out of the 2″ squares.  Oh how I love these scrappy quilts – can’t explain it – I just DO!!!  I have this certain friend who does not like white – and so I KNOW she will not like this.  I heard her once say that she would DIE before using white for ANYTHING!  LOL.  🙂  I have to say that I had FUN making this and it was so relaxing to just sit and sew those blocks together WILLY NILLY – without a care in the world about anything matching.  The fun was in the memories from each if the snippets of fabric that I picked up!  I may have at least one 2″square of fabric from every quilt that I have made in this one!

Scrappy Chiclet

The TOP of Mason's Baby Rag Quilt

Mason Tyler Cook was born April 28th and here is his Baby Flannel Rag Quilt – I had a picture on my blog of the back – but not the front with all of the curly frayed edges!
 

Newborn Mason

 

Lyla Scotty for the CP ICU Project

 I finished the LYLA SCOTTY quilt for the Country Piecemaker’s ICU Community Project.

 

I also finished my ATC’s but they won’t be unveiled until May 23rd – so I will post a picture later alligator!!!

Singing in the Rain

I don’t know if this shows up very well, but there are saxophone and trumpet buttons, musical notes and treble clef buttons sewn on my SINGING IN THE RAIN QUILT (Thanks Catherine for the buttons. )   This was part of the MUSIC BEAUTIFUL MUSIC Country Piecemaker’s Quilt Challenge!  Singing in the Rain is my FAVORITE SONG (everyone who knows me well KNOWS that I LOVE RAIN) and some of my grandangels will tell you that they have vivid memories of riding with me in my mini-van (with the sun roof open and the rain falling INSIDE ON US) singing this song.  You will have to admit that it has happy lyrics – and if you were alive in 1929 (and I wasn’t) you might remember when this was a hit song.  It later became a movie in 1953 and some of us were around by then!!!  :):)
 

 Doo-dloo-doo-doo-doo
Doo-dloo-doo-doo-doo-doo
Doo-dloo-doo-doo-doo-doo
Doo-dloo-doo-doo-doo-doo…

I’m singing in the rain
Just singing in the rain
What a glorious feelin’
I’m happy again
I’m laughing at clouds
So dark up above
The sun’s in my heart
And I’m ready for love
Let the stormy clouds chase
Everyone from the place
Come on with the rain
I’ve a smile on my face
I walk down the lane
With a happy refrain
Just singin’,
Singin’ in the rain

 

Grandangel Shirley Anne "SINGING IN THE RAIN"

 
 So, there you have it – my projects!!!!!
 
JUST A NOTE ABOUT FUTURE PROJECTS 
 
I am so looking forward to my first POSTAGE STAMP BLOCK ONLINE BLOCK EXCHANGE (1 1/2″ squares.)  Subee, our hostess, will be mailing these May 15th – SOON SOON.  Don’t you just love when those SQUISHIES come in the mail.   I can’t wait to make Bonnie Hunter’s CRABAPPLE QUILT – yes, you guessed it, with 1 1/2″ squares.  The pattern is in Bonnie’s 2nd book “LEADERS AND ENDERS.”
 
AND NO – I HAVE NOT ACCOMPLISHED ANY BINDING – HENCE NO PICTURE OF THE PROGRESS ON MY BINDING CHAIR!  :):):)  OK – so that is going to be my NEW GOAL for this week – to do some binding!  I just have to get into the BINDING GROOVE!!!!  🙂

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Catherine’s RENEWAL REBIRTH Party May 9, 2010

Posted By on May 9, 2010

It was one year ago today that Catherine began her journey toward rebirth and renewal…..the infamous accident at the Clothes Closet in Powhatan was one year ago!    Catherine is an amazing, determined woman though and has overcome lots of pain and rehabilitation strategies to get to where she is today…..and that is what we were celebrating today. 

It was a GREAT celebration too with ice cream, carrot cake, strawberries, decorated water bottles, decorated napkins, decorated straws, scented bubbles, balloons and all kinds of toys and fun.  It was a celebration fit for a queen and Catherine has the crown to prove it.

It was a perfect party – I only wish I would have come home with some of those sunflower seeds…..LOL!!!  AND BTW the carrot cake was WONDERFUL!!!!

ENJOY THE PICTURES!!!  I have a new camera and for some reason – unknown to moi, you must now click on the picture if you desire to see some of the people’s heads……BIG sigh.  🙂

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Colonial Piecemaker’s Quilt Guild in Williamsburg

Posted By on May 8, 2010

I know lots of you come to my website to see SHOW AND TELL pictures – but UNFORTUNATELY I am sad to tell you that my camera and I had a mishap on May 1 and the battery pack got separated from my camera…..hence this big blank space where beautiful pictures of the Williamsburg Quilt Guild SHOW AND TELL for May 1 would have and could have and should have been displayed.    I now have a new camera and the old one has been reunited with the battery pack – so there should be no more future sob stories.    Stay tuned………

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