I have to say that I was amazed at the comments from yesterday's post. I loved what everyone shared. And yes, a lot of us have been thinking the same thing. Either some people don't sleep, or they have more hours in the day then I do :-)
All that being said, yesterday had me pondering. Do you ever ponder?? You see last year we shared a word that was to be our flagship for the year. Mine was JOURNEY. What is really kind of funny is that my Journey last year was partly involved with helping my daughter with her journey. She traveled to SE Asia last summer and just a couple of weeks ago she was off again, this time to Australia.
I was not going to think of a word this year, but a word just kept coming to me. And yesterday it formulated. Do you want to know what it is??
SHARE
And I'm going to tell you how I will use my word. We have a Quilting/Blogging friend who is going through a series of treatments for cancer. Her name is Kaaren and she has a beautiful blog
The Painted Quilt. Kaaren is one of the most creative and giving gals in blog land. She designs a Block of the month for her quilty friends (us)!!. So while she is going through treatments, Shelley at
Red Quilts would like for us to shower Kaaren with words and cushy packages of encouragement. Won't you help?? You can contact Shelley at
Red Quilts or Mary at
Quilt Hollow and they will give you Kaaren's mailing address.
We can all share in some way. It doesn't have to be a quilt or some large project. After Kaaren returns home, find someone to share a little love with. There are so many lonely and hurting people everywhere.
Love you, peeps!
Now how many times have you made a project using Charm packs and had those little 1.5" pieces left over? What a great way to use them up :-)
I finished binding this Winter Landscape, adding the borders so that the light and the dark ran off the sides. It's a little difficult to photograph the quilting on the white fabric, but here is a little closer look.
Every year we travel to Snowshoe West Virginia for a family vacation. My children love to snowboard. We usually arrive late in the day, so everyone heads to the slopes and does some night snowboarding. I created this wall hanging as a memory quilt for our fun family times together.
How do you DO it!!! I can hardly keep up with my sewing/quilting projects. PLUS regularly cooking and cleaning for my family!! It blows my mind with all the amazing quilters that get SO much accomplished!!
Okay, I'm going to let you in on a little secret................
Now what we need to keep under wraps is that this same size batting at the big "JA" store can be a little pricey. I looked online and they are carrying Warm and White for $26.99 (sale price $16.19), and Warm and Natural for $34.99 (on sale for $20.99). The price at Michaels for the Hobbs Heirloom QUEEN size cotton batting is regularly $16.99 Whenever "JA" issues a 50% off coupon, I trot on down to Michaels and buy the QUEEN size batting for $8.50. 
I was recently asked to review the My Memories Software. I have done a little bit of scrapbooking over the years, but this was my first adventure into Digital scrapbooking. As I am not all that great on the computer, I found this software was very easy to use as well as being very impressed with the amount of artwork that was available. There are a lot of digital decorations and papers included in the software, and a large selection of free digital papers to access from the My Memories website. You can make scrapbook layouts, photo books, cards, videos, you name it! Plus you have the ability to add a slideshow and music.
The people at My Memories have offered to give one of my readers a free downloadable copy of My Memories Software.
