An Almost All Better Lovely Day

Thursday's visit with  Susie...a fine time...below  treats she made for me....lunch out and friendship...nothing could be better....well, maybe pistachio baklava!!!!

Always have to include Ms Aoife and her dog Rosie.  They are having fun at the beach.

Cheap and fun fans for my sister and me...The battery charges on the computer...Amazing.

Thursday's addition to my potholder stash...it is so depleted.

Isn't this a great backing. If I was not so old, it would be being saved on my shelf!!

Great visit today from one of my favorite quilters, Mac Barnes.  If you are on Instagram, Mac Barnes Art is where you should be headed....This is the best T-shirt quilt I have ever seen..All YMCA T-shirts!!

Way too tired tonight to finish this....a good tired....tomorrow is another day.

OK. then:  Friday  night!!! This donation quilt came out just fine with a bit of value in the border.

Giving the top and batting, etc. to a WV  holiday giveaway.  As you know, value does the work, and color gets the credit!

This potholder top is the very reason, my friends, that we should keep every bit of fabric we have forever and forever.

Never would have dreamed that this striped pink/brown fabric would just make the potholder!!!

Tomorrow is our Guild monthly sit and sew.

No matter how I feel, I will go.  So need some quilty companionship and love!!

Love..It Just Comes Out of the Blue...

Queen Bee friends going thru my 3 large scrap baskets...TBTG

So happy to be able to share.

Also, makin" a bit of room for more scraps....Lordy!!

Above, look what Susie brought for Lynsey..

Daughter and dollie  matching apron patterns.

And, fabric for them.!!  Thank you Susie!!

Above, one of Heather's brilliant quilts  Lucky Heather is in Austin now, at Quilt Con

Next year it is in Atlanta...so praying I can ride with someone...

These are Kathylynn's creations...both for her friend at the pharmacy.

New baby quilt..and apron...

This life has been so crazy for 7 years...Finally I am able to cook again.  Dylan was complaining tonight that he had had to load and unload the dishwasher twice today.  And then there was the laundry. He had to bring down the laundry and sort it.  Lynsey started it and folded it..I told them that Granddaddy and his younger brother had to cook all the evening meals for 11 people every night.  Granddaddy was 12 and his brother was 11 when their mother died of stomach cancer at 47. She left 10 children behind....   And Ms Stephanie, by the age of 8, was cooking and cleaning and caring for her baby sister.  I told them that cooking saves us money and cooking makes lots of dishes.  Everyone has to do their part and sometimes more. 

Best to know how to do things, life as we know it, can change in a second.

They said that I make the best steak ever.  It is Chuck Eye instead of Rib Eye...marinated for an hour in a garlic salad dressing.
They are learning how to save money cooking.
I told them that no one knows the future..and that great-great Grandma and Grandpa lived through hard times..They had their own chickens and eggs.. We talked about saving...so Lynsey put $30 of her birthday money in her credit union account...I matched it...Now she has $60 to leave and grow.
Money growing money

I am however exhausted.
Evan has a stomach virus and missed all week at school..He is still at his mother's house.
  Lynsey is sniffling in her nightie..hmm,
Dylan has a cold.
 My son fixed my sister's car, now is trying to fix the garbage disposal...Life...

It is easy to get bogged down in despair....but,
 when we are able, gratitude and the morning light, lift us up.
Tonight's meeting was about gratitude....I am grateful that my son is healthy and helpful
A miracle.
 I am grateful for how well my grands are doing.
And, with grief being so much about anger and despair, I am so grateful for the friends who have stood beside me in spite of my irascible moods as I keep on doing the best I can.
Grateful for 50 years of fabric collecting and our 5 sewing machines.
My five quilting groups and all our combined creativity and outreach.
If we are lucky, tomorrow is another chance at a lovely day.

Meantime, folks are giving me things.  I do not like to accept...Finally, I have decided to look at those things as gifts from God...I am humbled.