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Wow, I feel like a stranger here. Life somethings interrupts life but we go on anyway. My life has been full of caring for my mom. She's not having a good month and we just cant seem to find what the cause is so it's one appt after another. We live in a small town, with not very many doctors so we drive 1 1/2 hours to get to major medical. She's been in and out of intensive care a few times. Mom is home now and hopefully on the mend. It's amazing what some drugs can do.

Anyway, things

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Gottcha...not really eye candy for quilters but it doesn't get much better than this. Eye-sushi?

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Okay ladies....here's another puzzle although this one is a lttle harder with more pieces. My time was 9:41. See if you can beat that. I know you will. I thought I did really well on the last puzzle and you blew me out of the water. So....have fun http://www.jigsawplanet… Continue

I got my Quiltie award in the mail. I'm pretty sure it came Friday, but I didn't have a chance to check the mail until Saturday. My mom was here and we had a great laugh. She had some comments on my award...... "What's that mean? That you talk too much? Just tell them to talk to your brothers. They'll get an ear full. Didn't you have a teacher once that said you talked to much? Or was that one of your brothers " Then she changed into this other person saying ..." Oh that is sooo adorable. You;ll… Continue

Is it really Saturday? Where did this week go? I've missed so much the last few weeks that I'm fearful I'll never get caught up. I have a few more parent things to take care of in the next week or two and then maybe....just maybe, I'll be back to normal. I do have some amazing new to share though......If you don't know, my patterns were picked up by JoAnn stores and for the last several months have been in a "test market". Well, in the last two weeks I've had two huge pattern orders...over 700 e… Continue

I only have a second or two so this is going to be real short. I don't know how many of you like doing miniatures but a friend of mine is doing an on line RETREAT and I love her work and wanted to share it with you. Go to http://gallopingpony.wordpress.com/2010/01/18/201th-post/ and you can read more about it. You will have to cli… Continue

HOUSTON..........MISSION ACCOMPLISHED......THE MOTHER SHIP HAS LANDED (HOME)
It took me all day but I got her out of there last night at 7:00. New meds, and lots of papers and all is well.
All of you are so nice with your thought and prayers. I survived this experience and I'll hone up and be ready for the next. Let's just hope it's not this week. How about some eye candy to get into a better frame of mind.

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Well, it's been a hectic and scary couple of days. My mom ended up in ICU last night. On Friday she complained with a really sore shoulder and I wanted to take her to the Dr. and the tough old bird absolutely refused. Then Saturday, it was worse and still she wouldn't budge. Finally Sunday we ended up at emergency and they poked and prodded and admitted her after 5 hours. She had to have her shoulder drained of fluid and it ended up being blood as her INT level was a 5 and should be 2-3. They to… Continue

Okay, here's an on line quilt puzzle from The Quilt Show newsletter. It took me 5minutes 41 seconds. See if you can beat that time. I'm not very good plus I had to answer a few of hubbys questions along the way. Darn men! (http://www.jigsawplanet.com/?id=277253db5fb769d… Continue

I posted this International Quilt Festival 2009 Quilt Photo and have had lots of questions on it so here's the scoop.
"Garden of Dream by Fusako Takido, Shizuoka-Shi Shizuoka-Ken JAPAN
In a white footpath o fthe garden, flowers perform a play. The leading part is the cattleya. Supporting players are… Continue