`This Life of Mine

Thiought I would post to cheer the day.

Below Aoife and her cousin in Ireland at Christmas.

They are learning to get along.

Dublin airport at New Years...Aoife hugging Santa!!

Christine showing us her latest quilt.

I had such a lovely dinner last night with friends, that I was  motivated to finish a few of my things just sitting around.

I think the "love" applique is a good touch.  I found more online at Walmart.

Below, a potholder gift for a friend:

My sister is destashing....she is preparing her home for a hospital bed for her daughter

Hospice is involved.  We are all so sad.

I asked her for one cup of her Christmas china before she sells it..

Lovely  memories.

Sometimes a quilter just has to make a potholder...not done, but therapeutic

So here it is...my latest.:...My awful hip pain keeps me from going to dinner, to the art studio, from leaving the apartment.

No pain medication helps at all...And so a friend loaned me this...OMG

My poor ego.....I have to talk myself into being grateful it is available to me at no cost.  As I practice on it so I will not kill someone else, I should be able to be less confined and thus less depressed.

I think I will adjust to this better if it is bespeckled with quilting items!!!

Surgeon and doctor will not replace my hip if I do not lose 50 pounds, but I cannot walk..

Jeeze...I offered to sign a waiver, but no dice.  Me thinks the insurance companies now own the hospitals.

Instead I have to take these shots to help me lose weight.  I do not want to but the pain says , "just do it"

Now they are making me give myself the shots....OMG  OMG

Good things today include a visit from my friend Michael...Thank you Michael.for the friendship, the lunch and the visit..xoxo

Visitors came from my bldg....

And all was well until I tried to walk again after my nap and ended up in tears.

Guess what?????  Dinner fixed that....crazy me..

Now, as my dear man said....I will just go sew. xoxo

Peace in My Day

Our Aoife in Ireland, checking out the land.

and hanging with her Irish kinfolk...

Aoife Dineen and Abby Dineen, cousins just a few months apart!

Some people go to Ireland and the beach and Iowa and everywhere.

I go to Zoom and my sewing room and am oh, so happy with the peace it brings me!!

Messing around here with my 16 patch blocks.  There is nothing like starting twenty new quilts when I have millions of tops all done waiting for quilting.  Now is the time for a long arm,  unfortunately that would not be for me without my man.  He was  the guy to figure things out!!  Plus I have no room... One day I might wake up and start quilting on the great machine I do have!!  Too bad our quilting groups are not yet meeting in person . It is so much more fun  to quilt with other quilting friends.

My sister came by today to help me organize.  She is certainly good at that!!  She took some of my mother's things and some of my dearly beloved items  to enjoy as I try to simplify

Tomorrow will be another day of peace as I sit outside  going thru my old quilting books.

Maybe I will start randomly sewing scraps together...or maybe not. 

 Nice to feel relaxed

This is ALS awareness month.  ALS is a thief of money and peace of life.

A disease of torture and paralysis of all muscles...Your legs,  your arms, your lungs, your throat, your everything but  usually not your brain.  In 150 years there are no cures and no one knows why it exists.

ALS is a fatal disease, each day being worse than the day before.  There is never hope

Ice water is good for donations and awareness, but nothing seems to ever be enough.

I pray for a cure.

Life is so unfair.  I miss him so much. xo

 What is this with "Be Back Shortly"  So annoying for Bloglovin to keep me from my favorite quilting blogs.!!!!