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??!


read more about the history of redwork here: http://www.patternbee.com/HOR.html

copyright ok: http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/training/Hirtle_Public_Domain.htm

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



copyright info: http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/training/Hirtle_Public_Domain.htm

Quilting Hearts designs

It's a new year and I'm ready to delve into the world of blogs. yikes! I introduced a new embroidery design set last night and it seems to be well received so far. I'm pleased with the designs. You can take a look at them at HERE . Be sure and get your free embroidery design while you are there

Ice storm 2007

Life today. ....let me back up a few days. Friday it was in the 60s and rained most of the day. A cold front hit and by late afternoon it was freezing. All the rain turned into ice. The kids had yesterday (MLKjr day) off which was a good thing because the roads were solid ice. Today they were finally clear enough for them to go to school and at the very last minute they called school off because of no water pressure in town. So, it turned into a 4 day weekend. it did warm up to 30 today which was warmer than we had seen since Friday night. Bryce went out and got some icicle off the house that were 18" long. I put pictures of the ice storm on my webshots album. It hasn't gotten this cold and remained this cold in such a long time. I sure hope it kills some of the bugs. The weather is not expected to get above freezing for the next 4 or so days. wow! They are forecasting some snow, but who knows. This is Texas and it's always changing.