Happy New Year's Eve

 Blue Rope for $12.49

I thought I  would share my good deal.  Last night I made my third blue rope bowl. I was able to make 3 rope bowls for the above money from one bundle of rope..Pretty good if you ask me.

Above are some little bags from the Irish oil cloth Eithne brought me years back.

The Rip Stop lining will be tacked down with a bit of Elmer's glue stick, then sewn.  The little bags will close with Velcro.

Once again, our family has been shaken by terminal illness.

Out of the blue, as life tends to happen.

As is my custom, sewing and making things to give away calms me.

Ending 2024 with sewing.

Starting tomorrow...2025 with sewing.

Like my man used to say..."Just go Sew!!".

Lucky with in house friends to brunch with today and tomorrow

Lucky with other friends busy with their holiday lives.

Hoping to share friendship and love  in the New Year.

Happy New Year!!

Holiday Season Week 4

 

My oldest grandson, Evan is 19.  He works hard and owns his own tiny house.

As I so miss seeing my son for the past 2 years, I see him in my Evan..The eyes, the voice...the heart.

Therapy for Grandma O'Quilts these past two days as hip pain disables me.

Two rope bowls using my cool and awesome blue rope...This is my meditation and my relaxation.

This has been a very difficult pain day.  I am thinking that doctors do not care about the elderly...We are just extra parts.

But, then, it is midnight and I should know better than to post now..

I did not leave my apartment all day.  With shades drawn, I heard Pearl knocking at my door.

The blue rope bowls helped keep her at bay.

Tomorrow I will try to hobble to lunch.  I so need to see people.

At my age, Christmas is just not like it used to be.  I am missing my past, I am missing my youth.

Tomorrow is my sister's birthday.  Unfortunately she is alone as she watches her daughter get sicker by the day. It breaks my heart that she has such little support.

Hoping now that the morning light will bring me clarity...It usually does.

Holiday Season Week Three

Beautiful tree, beautiful granddaughter!

Linda Swanecamp's stunning hand painted Christmas card!!

This year is the very best.

MP holiday card says all the right things.

My friend Carolyn  gave me this for my birthday .  It is a pocket hug.

NC grands came to visit for my birthday....Oh, yes...a selfie...and love.

Not made quite in time...but maybe next year..

My hip joint pain is so bad now that I can barely walk even with a walker.

Called another doctor in another agency.  I am meeting him next month.  Meantime I have had two shots for weight loss;

Somehow, I had missed that I was quite the substancial woman.  Can you believe that in this clinic, there are two doctors who will not see anyone over 50!!! OMG

First I weigh too  much;  then I am too old;  maybe  next I will have been too political???

Meantime, I am trying to bloom where I am planted and celebrating all the wonderful things that make up my life.

Friends and family...so the best!!

 

A Holiday season : Week Two

Grandma O'Quilts is still potholder crazy.

Tree potholder process below.  I think I will sew a little button on top for a star.

I sew love my electric Accucutter!!!

I could not let these scraps go by.....

Good use for my cat cut outs..,

Today, I got  my first shot for losing weight.  I am still alive...

It has been 12 hours and I have not yet lost any weight and my joint pain still flares.

Friends gathered at lunch for a very fun "shot" support group,.

I am so very lucky!!

I had the medication, the needles and the instructions from the pharmacy.

The mean nurse here insisted that I learn to give myself the shot....No way!!!

She said if I did not learn, she would charge me $27.  I told her that I would pay the money

The nurse got meaner.  She insisted...So today was my first lesson in giving myself a shot....OMG

I am waiting for the awful side effects that google told me about.......waiting....

Tomorrow I just may put away my box of Christmas and Hannukah fabric.

I should do it before I get holiday potholder- making crazy,  out

 of control!!!

It has been rainy and cold here in Charlotte...brrr.

I, however, am snug as a bug by my sewing machine.

xoxo

 

A Holiday Season....Week One

With great excitement I show the cool swag on this tree...Variagated thread and my little star stitch..Perfect!!

Some of my work in the art room display...Accuquilt snowflakes for Christmas and Hannukah!!

Plus little hanging made for me by my girl many years ago.

The little snowmen are memories from yesteryear...When  my son was in fourth grade.  He hunted the acorn hats..Together we sprayed the clothespins and dotted the face with marker...I love them still

My improv tree quilt was chosen for exhibit this year.

Housewarming potholder for a friend who changed apartments.

She loves to embroider so I put this scrap piece together with a snippit of my grandmother's doily.

My talented grandmother lived from 1896 to 1996.

And, in Portland, our four year old Aoife visits the Llama holiday get together...A  yearly event for them.

Her Irish sweater celebrates the season with the Irish word for Christmas.

Mrs O'Quilts is finally getting an attitude adjustment.  It is not just old lady me with pain and grief..

The world is full of it and so is my apartment complex...

Getting a grip for the holidays with my new role as potholder queen.

Found my name here on one of the doors in our main building.

Why, I have no clue....but it kinda makes me smile:).

Continuing my prime goal of :  "Bloom Where You are Planted"

Already first week of December.

xo