So, here are a few random pictures from my last downloads to my iphoto.
I went to my sister's graduation from nursing school and afterwards I spotted this fabulous car in the parking lot! I took several shots of it being careful not to show their license plate. Tell me that isn't the cutest thing you ever saw! I should have put a note on the window with my number in case she wants to ever sell it. You know that car is 99% likely being owned and driven by a girl, right?
Then at the graduation party at my mama's house we took some family photos. Here is one with me, two sisters, one brother and brother's girlfriend.
One of the other quick little trips I have taken this summer was to a wedding. The bride was gorgeous, the bridesmaid dresses were also very nice. But then I spied the shoes. I wish I could convey to you how much I detest these shoes. They have been popular for a couple years now, and it is seriously time for them to go. My friend Elaine and I, when we lived in Chile used to go to the mall just to walk around and look in the windows of the all the shoe stores and choose the ugliest shoes in each window. These plastic-y, uncomfortable shoes below that are in that horrid shade of neutral-doesn't-match-anything-on-the-planet beige have just got to go.
A few years ago my small girl-child Miss Rachel Pie went on a Vision Quest and we made her a quilt to take with her. And this past year the boy-child Sparky made the same commitment to do this and so I have been busy making him a quilt as well. Here I am on the night before he leaves making the very last stitches to the binding. Nothing like getting things done at the last flipping minute.
Here I am holding up one side of the quilt. Please to ignore the obviously white bra showing through my dress.
And here is Sparky holding up the other end.
When we lived in Minneapolis I started going to the Senior Center because that's where the little old ladies would hang out and quilt. And I was determined to learn how. They used to get donations of books and books and more books of fabric samples. These sample books would get taken apart, washed and then randomly sewn into long strips and then sewn together to make the cutest quilt tops that were then donated or raffled or whatever. Anyhoo, they gave me a couple of those books and that is what I used to make both the kids' quilts. I didn't do an over-all quilting design. Instead I just quilted each fabric rectangle with a different pattern. It turned out really cute and obviously very home-made looking.
One day I will learn to piece together a gorgeous quilt top.
That's it for me today. I am glad to be back blogging and hope to get some good posts together to share with you. Enjoy this HOT August!
That car is amazing!
ReplyDeleteLOVE seeing your family's smiling faces! What an amazing accomplishment for your sister. I'm so proud of her, and I know you must be, too!
What a great quilt. Awesome journey for Sparky.
I definitely understand going blog-quiet when you're sorting through things internally. Sometimes it's good just to throw it out there, though, and see what comes out :) It's good "hearing" from you here!