Lovin the Links

My sister is going thru her things for a garage sale...hmm...she is quite careful not to exclude me from family heirlooms...ha!
She found these dyed fabrics she had made like years ago and brought them to me.  I washed them...no bleeding and now I have something new to experiment with.  I just love that.
Thank you Charmaine!

 When I try to get happy and look for brilliance..I go to
 Rachel at Blue Mountain Daisy

And, now a calling for fabric for a friend in crisis...
 Fabric for Bea

I hope you will send her some like I did.

Oh, and by the way..I decided not to make Grandma's homemade chix soup or even Susan Branch's yummy stock.  I decided that I was just too exhausted this time.  So I went to Trader Joe's for stock and frozen veggies and did a big pot dump.  Result:  There is just nothing easy in life that is worthwhile(:  sad face.  Grandma, you were right!

 M&M time for me!!! 
  

Carpe Diem

Snow is a big deal in Charlotte.  This is the first snow in two years and it will probably be gone by tomorrow afternoon!

 So...we gotta strike while the outside is cold!!!   Homemade chicken soup from Susan Branch's chicken stock that I started yesterday in anticipation...  A very clever potholder by Karen:)

Mr. O'Quilts made the wonderful  pretzel bread

 Aldi furnished the fruit:)

 Himself made the fire....

 A glass of cheap wine...Thank you Dear Ol' Ma...*

 Then, since this is a quilting blog, not a snow blog and the old fashioned movie is over and the coziness enjoyed..I thought I would take some pix of my vintage cat pillows...  The blue one below made by a friend's grandmother in Miami...1979

  God knows where I got this one.......or..................................This one???  I told you I kept everything!

* My mother wins these bottles of wine at the Assisted Living auction.  They give the residents 100$ fake money to bid on donated goods.  It is one of my mother's favorite activities.  She takes her fake money and buys wine and baubles.  She never gets around to have it opened and she can get a glass of wine if she wants at dinner...so she gives it to me.  Good thing as I am not on a million Parkinson's medications!!  And, it comes in handy on a Charlotte snow day:)