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    scrap basket block#2

    Ok.. I am getting ready to leave to CA tomorrow…i have added a scrap basket block #2 to the blog below…the first is in the newsletter if you did not know about them.  We are using scraps to make them, so if you start making them you will make a quilt from what we already…

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    the family album

    Here are a few photos from Christmas Day…I did sew a little this morning.  I sewed the binding on the Dolly Madison Quilt and finished the 6″ block from the newsletter.  Did you make yours yet?  Maybe after looking at mine and you will want too!  Time to get in the shower and get ready…

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    christmas eve morning

    It’s way too early to be up, but i still have lots to do… here is a little glimpse of what’s been going on in my world the last couple of days… getting ready for Christmas… Well I hope you all have a great Christmas…I will for sure…I have to get my last chance grocery…

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    winter wonderland…

    winter arrived in one big hurry here last week…we had 40 and 50 degree weather and then we were dumped 16″ of snow on Wednesday, with lots of wind…see the greenery on the house blowing in the wind…Nick got to play on his four wheeler, which died in the middle of the job and had…

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    retreat weekend

    I got a chance to get away after the crazyness of the open house.  Carole and I went to Homestead Cabin Retreat in Hillpoint WI- hosted by Patsy and Marty McCluskey… I love it here…I sleep so well in my nest..here are a few pics from the weekend.  I got a good start on a…

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    the party’s over…

    Wow! What a wonderful Open House we had! Thanks to everyone who came or participated via the internet!  It took us all day Monday to sort and pick through orders, and we still didn’t get to them all.  We are cutting kits for the “I’ll be home for christmas” quilt.  We had to make 61…

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    Getting ready for Christmas at D&D Maintenace, my yearly stop…

     Every year I go to 922 Grove St. in Appleton, behind Memorial Florist on Hwy 47, just outside of Menasha.  I love the service and the unique evergreen decorations they have there.  Dave and Debbie Korth, along with their son’s, Craig, Jeremy, Chad and daughter Sheena and a whole bunch of grandkids help them with…

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    I’ll be home for christmas….theme for Christmas Open House…

    Here are the FREE-patterns that we are giving away with any purchase at our Christmas Open House on Sat the 28th of November.  We also are giving away our coupon book…I have finished them up today and they have lots of good deals.  If you miss out on Open House you can purchase a “coupon”…

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    3/4″ triangles

                          Here is my latest Christmas Open House quilt.  I bring home a half yards of all of the reproduction fabrics that come in the shop…these are my bennies of owning a shop…anyway…i never get to use them because I have to always use the…

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    life after the quilt shows…

    Its been awhile since I have posted…took me this long to get my s&*t together.  I basically took the last two weeks off, after being gone for 3 weeks for Houston and DesMoines. I think I needed to decompress…so this week things are getting back to normal…I am getting ready to decorate for Christmas..yah..Christmas…I figured…

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