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Musical Christmas Star
What would Christmas be without music? What would my blog be without Pandora? Today I am so grateful for Pandora. They have some wonderful holiday music stations that keep me smiling while I write. Musical Christmas Star is my reminder to keep music in my heart.
Christmas Garden
Doesn’t look like that snow is coming to Atlanta. What’s the silver lining of no snow? The flowers are happy. Enjoy my quilt Christmas Garden.
Wishing For One Day of Snow
We all wish for snow on Christmas, but that rarely happens in Atlanta. I try to work around potential disappointments so I have a snowman quilt for when Mother Nature does not come through for me. My quilt Happy Holidays is the next best thing to real snow. Now add Hot Chocolate or Cognac. And since [...]
Christmas Traditions
By the time the quilters arrived, I had all of our traditions in place. The “Fabric is Better Than Food” Christmas tree was up and decorated with the hand crafted ornaments the quilters have made over the years with a gift for each quilter under the tree. The Honeybaked Ham was on the table as [...]
A Life of Simple of Abundance
How much does any one person need? That is a question I try to focus on daily. My quilt A Life of Simple Abundance is my reminder that MORE, MORE, MORE does not equal HAPPY, HAPPY, HAPPY.
Open Your Purse 2011 Donated to the YWCA
Each year the Greater Atlanta YWCA holds an event that is both worthwhile and fun. It is called Open Your Purse. Attendees bid on designer hand bags that have been donated to the YWCA. Proceeds benefit the wonderful works of the YWCA. I donated Open Your Purse 2011 to the YWCA on behalf of the Clara [...]
Good Bye Summer!
I know fall is on the way to Atlanta when I feel just a little crispness in the air when I go out for my morning paper. By noon, it will be unbearably hot again, but I know fall is just around the corner. Since I have been such a “slacker quilter” this summer, I [...]
India Spends Week in the North Georgia Mountains
My daughter India will not even sit on our patio, but she loves the Atlanta Young Singers‘ summer camp. She attended as a camper and has returned two years as a counselor. This year, she is enjoying being Head Counselor. When she was forced to go camping during her junior year at the Lovett School [...]
Stars in My Heaven Shipped to Its New Home
I shipped Stars in My Heaven to its new home in Maryland last week. Shipping a quilt is both a happy and a sad occasion. I truly love all of my quilts, but I am always happy to know that someone else loves them too. Upon seeing the quilt, the new owner said it was [...]
Forever Young
Last night we celebrated the birthday of my friend and neighbor Connie. Connie is turning 60 and wanted to do something extra special. Always the planner, months ago Connie commissioned me to make three quilts that would become family heirlooms for her and her two daughters Gina and Erika. (More about the quilts in a [...]
