Grandma O'Quilts is so Slowing Down

Finally my aches and pains allow a posting...Below is a bag made for a friend...Evidently, the bag must be about 4x7 and clear to enter some events.  I was going to make it from scratch when  I saw in our recycle store this bag for $4...  I cut the bag to size, added pretty laminate with glue and thread, jeans needles.  Voila!!  The next time I was in the store, I bought a handle to match from another bag.  This was so much fun.  The color is much brighter...a perfect birthday present.

Thank you Candace for the very first bloom this season of "Just Joey"  It reminds me so much of the rose my husband won a prize for at a rose show in Miami 40 some years ago...and since it was just the death date for him on the 14th,....11 years, this was a timely gift. xo

A true find from the art studio..Thank you Joyce...I cannot  wait to invent a project on which to place them.

A man upstairs turned 95 yesterday.  He had painted one wall in his apartment a watermelon color.  I call him Mr. Watermelon, thus a jar opener for his birthday.

Trudy and I went to the dollar store the other day.  I bought 2 pkg of pens and some artificial flowers.  That store was a rough experience, however, with a bit of electrical tape from  there, I came home to the fun and quick job of making flower pens for easy recognition.  I gave some to the receptionist  here and to others....I love them.

Very very proud of my daughter-in-law, Stasi...She laid the bricks, found the flag and planted her own garden in her very own home...So wonderful!!

This Portland hen goes by the name of Fig.  

Gathering eggs and patting chickens must be tiring work for a 5 year old.

And so,  Tell me how  the weather  can go from 4 days of almost  90 degree weather to a windy 60...brr..Ninety degrees spoiled me...

Grandma here and her arthritis wish you all happy sewing from the Carolinas.