Mare's nest: HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME

Today is my birthday! I got all this great stuff in the mail, but I wanted to wait for my actual birthday to show it off.

I got two cool packages, one from my blog sister in Florida and one from my snot sister in Australia!

From Australia I got a cute card, chocolate koalas (MMMMMMMM), stickers, an Australian coin, a cute pattern and some fun origami type dealie things. (not sure what to call them, but they are cool)

From Florida I got a cute card, fabric, blocks (she talked me into joining a block swap) stickers to put on the back of my finished blocks, a pen for writing on my 365 quilt ( which I talked her into joining), and the neat tote bag- which says "green bag".

Thank you, thank you Susan and Leigh!!!!!!!!!!

Tonight my sweetie husband took me to dinner at Old Chicago, I had 3 more beers towards my summer beer tour! I'm only 3 away from earning a t-shirt!!!!!!!! Yippeeeee

When I get it, there will be pictures~

14 comments:

Kim said...: Happy birthday! Sounds like a wonderful way to spent the day, getting gifts from friends and drinking beer with a goal in mind--which seems like a really worthy excuse for getting sloshed! LOL! Party on!; July 18, 2007 at 9:52 PM
Leigh said...: Since when have you needed an excuse to drink beer????
Happy birthday sis :-); July 18, 2007 at 11:29 PM
Chookyblue...... said...: happy birthday to you...hope you have a good one.........sounds like it........; July 19, 2007 at 2:33 AM
Sweet P said...: Happy birthday to you! What wonderful presents and great dinner you had.; July 19, 2007 at 4:04 AM
swooze said...: Happy Birthday!; July 19, 2007 at 8:02 AM
Beth said...: Happy Birthday!!!! Can't wait to see the Tshirt!!!; July 19, 2007 at 8:16 AM
atet said...: Happy belated birthday! Your camping trip looks like such fun -- too bad the nosey guy had to report ya! Sigh. Oh well, you have the memories at least!; July 19, 2007 at 10:23 AM
Susan Freebery said...: And you are ever so welcome, birthday girl!; July 19, 2007 at 4:55 PM
Carole said...: Happy birthday! Wow, drinking beer to ear a t-shirt!?! Really, is it because the beer isn't good in your neck of the woods? LOL Have fun!; July 20, 2007 at 7:09 AM
Meredith said...: Happy Birthday ! Enjoy your day; July 20, 2007 at 8:58 AM
Rhonda said...: Happy Birthday. What wonderful friends and family you have.; July 20, 2007 at 7:28 PM
Jeanne said...: Hope you had a wonderful birthday!; July 20, 2007 at 8:45 PM
Quilter Kathy said...: Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday dear Mare
Happy birthday to you!

Kathy - singing loudly; July 21, 2007 at 10:08 AM
Molly Mandeville Fryer said...: Sorry I am late with my greeting. I am having a hard time getting around to leave comments. You have a great blog. I will be back!; July 21, 2007 at 12:42 PM

Three pennies a day

I have been trying to give my three cents worth lately. I read about this movement to change the world by 3 pennies.
What you do is, every morning you put three pennies in your left pocket. During the course of the day if you do something nice for someone you move one penny to your right pocket. So, it can be something big and nice, something unexpected and nice or even something small and nice like opening the door for a stranger. Then at the end of the day your goal is to have the three pennies in your right pocket.
Kind of neat huh? Just a little pocket reminder to be nice to people and go out of your way a bit. I also tell myself sometimes, "ooo that wasn't a nice thought, I should have to move my penny back!" ;-)
I hope whoever reads this has a three penny day.

Up date on one of the Worlds Smallest Quilt Guilds

Our membership is now officially 50% bigger than previously noted! My good friend Susan from Florida is now an official member of the guild. Initiation took place at the International Quilt Festival in Chicago. Flori, as she is lovingly called in our guild brings a special imitable style to our most exclusive guild. She hob-nobs with Alex Anderson, rubs elbows with Pink Flamingos and knows me! Guess that last part wasn't too humble now was it? ;p Flori is our official Officer in Charge of Coffee and she did her job remarkably well at the festival, finding coffee for us when the situation was getting quite desperate. She also found coffee fabric which was quite the feather in her cap. Well, it would be if she was wearing one. Good job new officer!

History of One of the wolds smallest quilt guilds

I once believed I belonged to THE worlds smallest quilt guild, 2 people- my favorite cousin and myself. Then Mary Stori came to my local guild as speaker and she pointed out that she and a fellow quilt friend were the worlds smallest quilt guild. So, I had to revise my thinking. ONE of the worlds smallest quilt guilds consists of myself and my favorite cousin, we don't have regular meetings as the distance is a bit far for either of us to commit to on a regular basis. She lives in gorgeous Colorado, with a spectacular view of Pikes Peak, I live in lovely Wisconsin, within a short drive of beautiful Lake Michigan.
As a guild however, we are working on 2 or more round robbins. I say 2 or more because I forget exactly where we are with them. I have 2 at my house, and if I remember correctly she has 1 at her house. When we get together, usually in CO, we do a lot of quilt retreating as she has a longarm machine. We don't pay dues, and we haven't decided yet which of us is president, but I think I'm going to run for that office this year. I'm pretty sure I will win as she is awfully busy homeschooling 5 kids, taking care of a baby and running her longarm machine daily. She does most of the charity quilts, quilting donations on her longarm, though we have done several prayer quilts together for people we have heard about.
Now for a name for our little group........ I'm thinking, there will be more on this in my ramblings