Well July went by too quickly

At Bee one of the girls (Tammy) shared a request for a Poppy quilt block that will be made into quilts for the beds once Camp Mystic on the Guadalupe reopens.  She's already made some and so far I have one.  I'll be making some more fefore she mails them in at the end of August. The flowers can be any color and the center I believe should be yellow. Anyone can participate so if you go to a bee and want to collect some blocks and mail them to the address on the Guadalupe River Quilt Drive Picture please do so.

 

 

Here's a picture of how they're put together. Several of us had issues by just reading the directions. LOL I'm one of them for sure. I managed to put the white squares on the wrong corners and it didn't look quite right.

The Sassy Stitchers were very creative at bee that day. Here's a few shots I captured of their work.

Thelma is showing off her butterfly quilt. Back and front.  So very pretty.

Shirlynn showed off her colorful quilt. I love it.

Connie made this adorable Log Cabin quilt. She made the comment it was hard. What?! This from the woman who made a bargello quilt top. That to me was hard with all the shifting of fabric. She's done an awesome job on everything she's made.

Sarah was making these adorable blocks. Ba ba Black sheep.

David said he needed to run an errand and he'd take me to lunch at Circleville Store on the outskirts of Taylor. I wasn't going to turn down lunch.

It was so yummy. We had their lunch special which was fried chicken with 2 sides. The served 3 pieces of chicken and I shared mine with David. You won't walk away hungry. You'll have to take my word since I didn't take any pictures. They had burgers and other food but chicken was the only thing fried they were serving that day. No complainants from us.

After this we hit a couple antique stores. I saw these two crockery bowls and I was tempted but I've got several now and I don't know where I'd put anymore. I never had the desire to collect bowls until I got one from my step-mother and dang here I am collecting bowls. But I did leave these at the store. Maybe next trip out.

Then I saw this doll. Nope Nope. I've never really had a fear of clowns but in the last few years they do give me the creeps. It's the eyes and the mouth.

But this sweet cookie jar made me think of my little sister who had told me she loves Noah's ark. I guess I need to ask her if she still likes stuff about Noah's ark. It's not like our tastes don't change and we find something else that draws our attention as the years go by.

Recently I sold some gold to the jewelry store of stuff I'll never wear for various reasons and got a store credit to use. That paid for the downsize of my ring. After losing weight I went from a 7 1/2 to a 5 1/2. David told me I could charge the balance of a ring guard I wanted since it had been a while since he had bought me any jewelry but I had enough  credit to cover the single ring guard of diamonds and aquamarine, Mine and Pamela's birth stone. A week later I went back and got a second one with the some of the credit I had left. I love the sparkles. The white gold ring was my mom's engagement ring from my dad. Perfect timing for a picture since I had just had my nails done.

Well that's it for now. I started this post in July but I ran out of time because I was headed off to retreat.. 

Until next post...  You know you’ve had too much coffee when you can thread your sewing machine while its quilting

Creativity Time and Completion

Got the quilt done for my honorary niece. LOL Long story but I claim her.  From her and Pamela's first meeting at one of my nephew's weddings in Missouri they became immediate buddies.  Hannah and Phil's little guy was born before they got the quilt. I was a tad slow but better late than never right.    The fabric is woodland creatures and so is the quilting theme. My friend Donna at Donna's Lavender Nest did the quilting.

If you look closely you can see the tree and below it is a bear. There's also a moose but I didn't capture it here. And I have started embroidering my labels so they won't disappear like they do after so many washings by using the marker pen.

 

This was funny. My quilter shipped me the finished quilt in this box and I passed it on to Hannah and Phil. They like me, questioning why they were receiving puppy pee pads.  LOL 

 

I got this picture from Hannah the other day... He's sew cute on his quilt. Look at that happy face. I hope that means he likes the quilt auntie Carla and Pamela made him.

How this silly sweet girl curls up on this tiny dog quilt amazes me.  Sadie can get in the smallest ball or upside down with no problem.

The 4th of July was family time. Kaleb, Pamela and Bri came up to have hamburgers and hot dogs. I even made a macaroni salad that I hadn't made in years. It has shell pasta, sharp cheddar cheese, onion, and red bell pepper. They didn't have the boys this weekend so we passed on having fireworks.  

It wasn't even planned but we all dressed in red, white and blue. It was a nice fun day.

I needed a case for my new airpods since the others died and the ones wouldn't fit in the case I had. I was going to get the one that matched my phone with silvery magnolia flowers on a clear case but it wasn't available anymore so I got the next best one. Books.. LOL.  I love to read and listen to audible books so it's appropriate. 

Thursday 7/10 As I drove down the road to exercise class I saw this crane. Sorry the shot isn't better but I tried. Anyway at first I couldn't figure out why it looked so big. 

It almost looked like it was standing on grass but I knew there was a pond there so when I pulled up I saw the tree stump. LOL. He kind of blended into the background of the trees. I moved up further to get a picture of the pond and him but he said photo shoot over "I'm outta here".  

That evening was the G3 book club meeting. This time we met at Maricela's in Rockdale. Food was good but instead of putting us in the back corner they put us smack dab in the middle of the restaurant. It was too loud to really have a meeting. For some reason the meeting went downhill quickly and we didn't discuss the book The Art of Mending by Elizabeth Berg. It was a book about family secrets, abuse, validation and healing. Most of the ladies said they did like the book.

Thanks to Jamie, the gal in foreground of the picture we have pictures

Friday 7/11. I put together two projects that I plan on taking to retreat at the end of July. I have two quilts I need to cut out so I can sew them up at retreat and hand over to my quilter Donna Lynn.  

But while sitting there getting stuff together I had to sew up some more strips but then I also had 2 other blocks I was working so I had a mess again behind my machine. I'd sew two strips together, then sew two pieces together of my disappearing four patch and then I'd sew 2 blocks for the Granny block. I was chain stitching away. I'd clip it all and sew more pieces together.  

I actually got all the strips I needed for the project going to retreat with me done and in a tub, 

also got 3 disappearing 4 patch blocks put together 

and  4 Granny squares put together. It's all scrappy. 

That evening we drove to Crossroads Tavern in Cat Springs to hang out with our friends Larry and Sylvia. It's been so long since we've been able to get together again.

It was nice catching up and having catfish for dinner. We got to talking and then it was time to leave and I forgot to take a picture of us but I did catch this picture of the rainbow just down the road. It looked brighter in person honest.

I also finished up my Wonky Star Bee challenge quilt. I really like the quilting theme for it. It turned out great. You can see the swirls and star in the second picture. Perfect for this quilt I think. 

On the label I listed the names of the ladies that made the various blocks in my quilt.

Well that's it for now.

Until nest post..  Many faces, many smiles/ Remember me across the miles  May this quilt warm your body and comfort your soul

Just hanging with Friends and Being Silly

 

Sunday (6/22) It was time to pick up wine at The Rising Sun Winery in McDade. The other Kennedy's joined the wine club too so we went together. This pick up the members were served pulled pork sandwiches, cole slaw, macaroni salad and a complimentary glass of wine or beer. Pretty darn tasty. And there was live music.  While the guys went in and grabbed our boxes of wine Kelli and I took a picture for my memories. Kelli loves it when I pull out my camera. Not! LOL

This past Friday I had a doctor appointment and a nail appointment. My right knee the one that has been replaced started popping. It wasn't really painful but was more uncomfortable and annoying plus for almost a year my biceps have been hurting. The pain would make it difficult to get my t shirts off, get a glass out of the cabinet and reach in general.  Finally got an orthopedic in College Station instead of driving to the Spring area which was a 2 hour drive. Anyway the knee looks fine and he stays artificial knees can and do pop sometimes but when it becomes painful I need to have it re-evaluated. For the biceps the doctor said it was my rotator cuffs on both arms. They are inflamed but why who knows so I could get shots or take a steroid pack.  I hate shots and if the pack relieves the pain that's even better.  Today is my last day of pills and I can lift my arms to reach and stretch.  Let's see how long the relief will last.  I go to exercise class Tuesday and Thursday and that will be the test.  

Now since it's the official beginning of summer I got silly with my nails. They remind Pamela and I of watermelons. What better way to welcome summer, right?  Something silly and fun what can I say.

The sunflowers in the raised flower bed have started blooming. They bright and cheery out there. They are all facing east. I don't know is that what they all do, face east? So pretty.

Some how they all but 2-3 ended up on the one end of the flower bed.

David needed help with the gates so he could feed the cows some cubes and keep the cows at bay while he poured the cubes in the troughs.  Here comes the stampede.... click on the word. Cows are crazy for crack.

This is Momma cow of the baby that was born 6/23. And since I was out in the pasture and the cows were happily eating I was able to snap a close up of the baby.

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I want to pet the baby but not gonna happen. Momma is gonna protect that baby and those horns are sharp. Just saying. But it's so cute.

David set up the big fan outside for the pups when they're outside and they know what it's for. Right this minute now just Sadie is using it to cool off. It's her aha moment.

This is said I started this post in June and still haven't finished or posted. Today I'll finish or July will be over before I know it. LOL

One of my friends name Donna left me a message on my Getting Healthy post but it came through anonymous and I don't know which of the 5 Donna's I know to email and say Thank you too. And yes we are both enjoying retirement.

I'll end this post with some nature. Aren't these eggs pretty? They belong to a Mockingbird and she never attacked me while I took this picture. I kept waiting for her to show up and start dive bombing but she didn't.

Until next post..Don’t let someone who doesn’t know your value tell you how much you’re worth