An Update

Well, evidently I have been neglecting my blog!  The surgery slowed me down, despite the no pain thing.  My hip joint was so damaged, that the operation was the old fashioned way...thru the back muscle with 50 staples...taking much longer to heal.

Here  is one of Margaret's new twin granddaughters....on the small doll's quilt I made each of them...The twins are 2.5 months old.

Forever chicken pictures out of Portland:  Aoife felt her mother needed a chicken cuddle, so she ran around the  yard catching two chickens for her mother to hold......in the family room!!

 

A treat I bought myself at Trader Joe's....Stock..lovely smell...this plant grew in Phoenix when I was growing up.  Below, also the lavendar my girl sent me from  her yard in Oregon.    

Someone here asked me how I was....zero hip pain....but now I have to have a tooth pulled from grinding during stress...Jeeze Louize!!  My feet hurt, etc....but a friend told me that that was the OA virus...The old age virus..something always hurts.

Just when I was about to work on my key fobs and washcloths...the electricity went out...It locked my sewing machine into the updown stitch...OMG  I do not want to go thru all the effort of taking it in..to the shop for one stuck button...The electricity going out did it.  A  big tree had crashed the wires in our neighborhood.  I have to sew!!!!  The lady across the way from me...put my red Janome travel machine on a table for me...Whew...!!

I have lots of recovering to do after this operation...I hate slow, but I love pain-free!!

Goals for self:

bind scrap quilt

finish key fobs

finish wash cloths

make a child's quilt for the guild

start tons of new projects as my mind keeps discovering possibilities!!

The quilting life keeps me going.

My joy is to make things to give away!!

PS:  I am losing it. It took me an hour to set up the little red...remember how to do this and that...OMG  In this pix  just one key fob is sewn.  I had planned to whip out 20 tonight...no power; messed up expensive machine by the power outage...re-learning machine number 2..  .Now I am irritated...gotta do a gratitude list...or maybe just go to bed.

This picture says it all...Maybe my mind is going??  Maybe I  tried to do too much...Maybe I should realize that it is almost  12:30 at night..

Just ugh!!!  (Thank you for listening)

Thursday Stuff

 Our movie star...age 3!!

We were talking the other day about the tulip fields in  Holland.

Well, my sister and I shared the idea of beautiful Stock fields we travelled to see in Arizona

No one had ever heard of that!!

Below pictures of stock:

Bingo!!  Look below at my treat I found at Trader Joe's this morning:  Stock!

Lovely smell reminds me of growing up in Phoenix.

Trader Joe's also offered these small tomatoes...perfect for me.

Tonight I finished one of four promised donations for a fundraiser.

(potholder/trivet/mug rug....)

That's it  xo

And They Called the Wind....Florence

How Grandma O'Quilts practices  "self care"!!

A $4 bunch of Stock...I was going to get my favorite Sunflowers,

But this reminded me of my childhood in Phoenix

when we would all take a ride to Baseline road to

view acres of Stock.

Thank you, Trader Joe's.

In my grandmother's aluminum coffee pot vase.

When children sneak their I-pads under the covers to watch
U-tube in the night, the next day, the I-Pad fairy snatches them.
Lynsey's was lost for a month...Found this morning when I
went to look for scraps for potholders.
You know, it was not my fault...
The dog ate my homework.

The Queen Bee met Monday at my house.
Here is Linda's super fun quilt.

The backing from Kathy Doughty's new collection.

Potholders...saving grace for my anxiety.

ALS is a dragon to be dealt with.

My way is to poke him with a needle in revenge..

And burn him with a pot...as in potholder...stay tuned.

Just so you know....
The real reason I am a substantial woman.
It is how I was born.
Here I am...all fluffy at 4 months!!!!

Ok Ok Ok
There are other reasons too
Cuz...
At the end of the day...with no control in sight...
The old grandma with her grands slay Florence with candy corn.

Our dear Ms Florence is headed smack dab toward Charlotte
and my house in the woods with my dear darlings and two cats and a dog
and...me, old Grandma
We are planning a downstairs family sleepover...
TBTG my son is with us....it is supposed to be quite a ride.

THIS IS WHY I SO NEED A TREADLE MACHINE