What a difference a week makes

After the beginning of last week being SO beautiful, it ended up in a deep freeze. Monday was in the 80s. We got new bunnies and the boys just love them.

BUT by Saturday, our high was 28!! SNOW for EASTER! We got between 2-3" but the gound was so warm it didn't stck. It sure was piled on the cars thou =) Patch was having a blast out in the snow.

This picture was taken the day before Easter just south of Abilene by some hunters. Isn't this an amazing picture??

Spring is HERE!

We've had rain here in West Texas. It's been great and made everything so green! Enjoying it while we can before everything turns brown in summer. We took off after church yesterday to go bluebonnet hunting. We took some great pictures of the kids. The flowers smell just wonderful!!!!!

Life gets in the way

Wow, where does the time go? I can't believe it's been so long since I last posted. Life has kept me so busy. 5 kids and a business. whew. =) On Feb 24, my daughter, mother and I went up to Munday, Texas to the Cotton Pickin' Quilt Festival. So happened to have had a terrible dust storm that day. This is a blurred view. I apologize. I had it on auto focus, so it focused on the inside of the suburban. I was in the very back seat. =)

The dust was awful but the quilts were wonderful. I will try to give appropriate credits when I can. If I have missed some PLEASE let me know.

I fell in love with this Sunbonnet Sue Redwork quilt. I didn't get the quilter or the designers' name. Please let me know if it is yours.

This quilt was made and quilted by Amanda Bibb:

These darling handprint quilts were hanging in the school hallways.

Kids Say

The saying is SO true: "Kids say the funniest things." My 3 year old came up to me and out of the blue said, "we don't eat yellow snow, we only like white snow." Who knows where he heard that but it sure tickled me.

Go with the Flow

Boy, this has been a totally non productive week. i cannot get rid of this bronchitis and pneumonia. I've taken all the medicine that I want to take. I am laying in bed and not getting much done at all except recuperating which is going very slowly. I want to be digitizing. I want to be quilting. I want to be embroidering. I want to be cooking and baking. I want to be doing crafts. I need to get a yard together this year. I have WAY more interests than I have time for. My dream is start designing fabric. I have so many ideas my head is swimming. Having ADD can be a blessing and a curse at the same time. i get working on one thing, but remember something else that needs to be done first. By the time I finish that, I forgot where I was in the first place. Life reminds me very much of standing in the ocean. The waves come in and push against you. Standing still is nearly impossible. I don't want them to knock me down. Fighting against them wears me out. If I just give in and relax, I'll go back and forth and end up somewhere else which may lead to a very exciting new venture. Maybe I should just go with the flow and leave it in God's hands.

sunbonnet Sues

I got my new set up and am pleased with it. I really like digitizing redwork as well as stitching them out. This set of Sunbonnets is from McCalls circa 1933. I got a call one day asking me to digitize these designs. It was from a lady who is best friends with Governor Perry's mother. How cool is that??!


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Vintage Transfers GALORE!

I'm SO excited. I got this huge lot of embroidery transfer patterns off ebay. They are all in public domain! There are cute kitties, kittens, Pickaninny doll dish towel designs-all 7 designs are here and they are unused, Also an Angel crib quilt that is unused, other childrens, nursery, crib quilts, more dish towels, pillowcases, monograms, Topsy and Eva potholders, more kitten dish towels, puppy dish towels, Circus crib quilt, lots of floral design, one large Sunbonnet Sue with trellis design, Cherub dish towels, Apron patterns, Quilt patterns, Mexican designs and lots more. Almost 2 pounds of transfers in this lot. Most of these are older, 1940's and up, some from Workbasket magazine, the Superior are in poor condition, so are the Vogart cross-st patterns. Some are fragile. The old age has made them more brittle and crease lines do tear on these but I'm going to try to preserve these and sell them as both artwork and as digitized embroidery designs. The exciting thing is this entire lot was only $5.50. Now the shipping was almost double. LOL



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