Happy 2013 and Continued Blessings

Happy New Year,

May you find this year filled with all the fabric, thread, and yummy goodness that your heart desires.

I am sitting here listening to my church service via internet...love technology...and I am always thankful for the last few days of the year...as it  provides a moment of reflection and stillness.  I find that i am most happy and most thankful when i am in my house leading into the new season.  The only other place that rivals that is church service...but with technology...thats not a problem.

I look forward to a year filled with lots of quilty goodness and loads of creative energy.  I also pray that i am able to find the time to complete the multitude of projects that are flying through my imagination.

So i look forward to a year of health, continued blessings, and the continued expression of the god given talents that I have been so lovingly blessed with.

The 12 days of Christmas

Hi all,

Whew, it's Christmas Eve already. Where does the time go? Hmmm am I ready for Santa tomorrow, eh not really, but who cares. Tiz the season for love and good tidings. I can always finish stitching on Christmas Day. Lol with a lovely IOU..

So here's a quick pic in review.

Starting with a fabulous dinner party for my ALOC friends. Decor food and the like courtesy of moi.

Them some stitching scenes. Some sipping scenes. And a teaching session, with a bit Of sipping In between.

How to Shed weight in just 15 minutes a day

Hi blog world,

It has been a while since I have posted anything about play here. During my absence I have managed to get a bit hefty around the fabric area. I know, I know with all of the holiday fabric goodies, I guess it was bound to happen.

Fortunately, a friend told me about this new fabric slimming diet, a great stash buster to get rid of all that excess fabric weight. So I decidedTo go at it again after fallin off yet another fabric diet wagon.

So I pulled out my ingredients and in just 15 minutes this morning I was well on my way to losing fabric. This is so awesome, I can do this in the morning in just 15 minutes.

Thanks Victoria...and for those of you that have not gotten your diet plan together, pick up the how to ..."15 Minutes of Play" by Victoria Findlay Wolfe.

Fine print: this is not a paid advertisement. No animals or people was harmed in the making of this post. Smiles

Giving Warms the Heart

I love when people dig deep into their spirit to give to those in need. I often wish it could be a year of sustained giving. Today was charity day at the Empire Guilds meeting.

With hurricane sandy and all the displaced families, this guild has been busy making and giving quilts. So today was no different, as it was the day to stuff the stockings that we deliver to homeless shelters. Toys and fun for the children and toiletries for the adults, complete with gloves, socks, and gloves.

Giving truly warms the heart. Happy giving season.

America's Leaders of Change

Yeah, 18 months and this weekend we have graduated from one of the most amazing leadership training programs. A congrats to my 49 Cohorts from across this great nation that participated in this journey with me.

So, of course I was nominated as one of the people to create the class gifts for our fearless leaders of the program. And with Walmart foundation as a program founder, we had the pleasure of going to Bentonville last year and saw the opening of the Crystal Bridges museum. (I am sure I posted some cool art pics from it.)

So we had great quotes and inspiration throughout the year and a half. So I created a mosaic of a picture I took and a mosaic of another image of the bridge and altered a picture of a river, as that was another of our quotes.

Here are the results...hardly a dry eye in the room. Yippee.

Time to make the quilts...

My heart and prayers go out to all that have suffered loss during this storm. My Facebook post says it all.

For all you quilty folks, stay tuned.... And get to stitching... Bumblebeans will be organizing collection and we are looking to identify organizations for distribution of these warm bundles to those affected by the storm.

Dear Jane...am I close to done....

NOT. Ha Judy asked me if all I had was the blocks you will see below. Only 201 to go. lmao

You see, Monday was my second class of the second session (yes beginning of my second round of Dear Jane) and this is what I have.

It is important to note that 6 were completed last week and another three in class on Monday. I would say perhaps in a year. Depends on how many holiday gifts I make. Lol

But I am truly enjoying myself.