CBQ charity auction and sale

Here are two pictures of the same group. More realistic is the first one, yes I am trying to orchestrate the picture, even though the kid snapping the picture is perfectly capable of point and shoot. But in reality, I handed him the camera, but failed to tell him which of the several buttons to push. So there is a reason...but my husband and children will say that is me all the time....it is really unfair. Sort of.

Needless to say, we had a great group, they all did a fantastic job, and the charity will get some money....which they need desperately.


the third picture is there to show some of the quilts that were for sale, but always try to get in a picture of my BFF, Linda, she is always so great about helping me out when I get behind..Thanks, Linda

Cobb Show Again

More pictures from the Cobb Show.
This is DB our president, she is doing great, and am sure she will have a great year. The rest are the quilts that really caught my eye

Oh, and a correction, we ate at "Sugar Cakes", not "Baby cakes that I said in the last post.

Lost in the Chaos

I have been having a lot of fun these past weeks, latest thing was the every other year, "Cobb Show". It is a wonderful quilt show, with many amazing quilts and lots of vendors selling all kinds of new stuff in quilting. This is 4 of our 8 members of our sewing bee, aren't they gorgeous! Wonderful women and quilters all.






Just acouple of the quilts on display, took tons of pictures, will post more later.

I had to include a picture of dessert. We all had to have it, but it was so rich and filling, we all felt about to burst. Isn't it beautiful, and so decadent and tasty. We had lunch at "Babycakes" on the Square in Marietta. Lunch was delicious, the ride home not so great, but we stopped at Red Hen, like we needed more fabric after the show, but every shop seems to have something we had to have.

It was a wonderful day and next month we are going to The Ga State Fair in Perry, they have a quilt contest there that we will have to check out.
Hopefully, not too long until I post again, but , fun is fun.

backyard revisited

okay this backyard business has been going on since April, and it is almost done...finally


the first two pictures depict how it looked 3 days ago



The next two are how it looks with the grass in. Great, huh? I wanted to include a picture of the inground sprinklers going, but they are still putting in the new sprinkler box.
To think this whole area used to be just trees, and nothing but trees...now we have a backyard...hooray!

Kaleidoscopes

These single kaleidoscopes have become....

These... at the retreat where I had quiet and the ability to concentrate I finally was able to implement the setting I wanted for these lovely blocks. I think it looks pretty striking!


the background color and the stripe work well together. of course block out the light color of my design wall,

See retreats are a good thing, you get so much done

Clare is a model

Clare is spectacular in her new backpack. She will now be able to carry stuff on our walks, like keys, phone,camera, poop bags and of course some water. She loves it, just wishes it were pink,(her signature color)

This is my BFF L, she is so happy to be at our Quilting Retreat over the weekend. There was great food, many other quilters and lots of inspiration. hope we can go back next year

when a good dog goes bad

 Clare, my dog , is a great joy in my life,  But this is a picture of the aftermath of a period of time when I left to run errands this afternoon.  It has been rainy yesterday and today.  We took all the dogs to walk last evening but it was very short, because the lightening became too intense.  So this morning, no walk, this afternoon, high humidity and temp and then rain, so nobody got walked.  This is what happens when Clare goes too long with out a walk.

So the next time I say to anyone, "My dog ate it" I will refer them to these pictures. ]

'Nuff said, she is still a wonder dog! even if only to me.