Month: December 2010


  • farmers’s wife sampler blocks-january

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  • the holidays..

    Here are my boys and their girls friends on Christmas Eve….how nice to have all of them in the same place at the same time…we had a wonderful night…                                                    …

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  • 2nd round of winners…

    Are you scrambling girls?…Wish I was….I can’t do a thing… here is the extent of my day…i can type…upload a picture or two..read my e-mails….can’t cook….can’t drive…can’t pick up the dirty laundry….I am not very useful at all…I was up and around way too much yesterday….helping Carole pin baste her quilt…i sat in a chair…

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  • and some of the winners are…

    First of all I would like to thank all of you for your wonderful comments and recipes…This is a present for everyone to get a bunch of great recipes…I wish I was cooking more this year, but that’s just the way it goes…I think I am finally starting to feel what I would call better…

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  • Gifts from me to you!

    I have found a bunch of presents for YOU!  I will be picking names from my comments section, so you need to leave me a comment …I would love it if you would give me your favorite Christmas Recipe…cookies, salads, main courses whatever…and you can win one of these prizes!  Names will be randomly picked…names…

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  • christmas decorating

    Hey everyone….I hope you are all busy busy busy…doing your thing for Christmas…I am recovering from some girlie surgery I had on Monday…so there in not much going on here…but before the surgery I had accomplished a few things…like cleaning out some drawers and cupboards…decorating and making my favorite chocolates for Christmas….and a little present…

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  • FYI

    Just thought I would do a quick post about a new Primitive Magazine coming out!  I am so excited for these girls…go to their website and subscribe!  They will be coming out with 4 issues a year starting in April I believe…and you will see projects from Primitive Gatherings and other great designers in it!…

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  • projects from retreat….

        Here are most of my projects that I worked on at this past weekend retreat…bunches of blocks for a little Featherweight Club project…then I made a 6″ star block for shop hop…I don’t really care for the block.  I wish the star points were the same instead of alternating…but if I would have…

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  • Pics from Retreat

    Nancy’s Civil War Tribute As always, a fun weekend was had by all…here are some of the attendee’s projects…i will show off mine tomorrow…enjoy… Cheryl’s festive quilt

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  • Jan Schneider’s Bed Turning at Primitive Gatherings

    Jan Schneider is a remarkable quilter.  When I was thinking of who could pull off a bed turing for our open house, her name was one of the first on my list.  I had to prod her a little and tell her is was not going to be all that bad and that once you…

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