Mare's nest: Catching up on some things

Friday, August 8, 2008

Catching up on some things

Finally I am catching up on some pictures I meant to publish. This one is from last month.
I got all this great stuff within 3 days!! Yes, birthday treats extraordinaire!! But other treats too, see that pack of cute fabric tied with the bright green and buttons? I got that from some of my favorite records ladies at one of my clinics. I made them all bags and they obviously liked them! I got lovely things from my very own OCC (see my sidebar) Flori. I got more lovely things from my local guild secret pal. Now if someone would have given me some extra time so I could play with all this stuff!!

This gorgeous drink is rhubarb juice from a recipe Kathy gave out. You can visit Kathy here:
http://kathysquilts.blogspot.com/
Isn't it the prettiest color? I mixed mine with some diet Squirt and it was awesome!!

And last, but only because it just got here is this lovely Australian haul from my friend Leigh. Aren't those calves with the quilts adorable?
Leigh used to have a great blog, but alas, she retired from blogging. Luckily she emails (and sends loads of cool stuff!!) so I can keep up with her exciting life. She recently broke her wrist bungee jumping off of kangaroos. Wasn't that the story we decided on Leigh????

4 comments:

Leigh said...: Yes that's right Mare.
Next time I'm using wombats...........they're closer to the ground.......not so far to fall!; August 9, 2008 at 3:04 AM
Susan Freebery said...: You OCC just wishes she were sewing at your house when all those happy gifts arrived! How fun it is to have birthdays!; August 10, 2008 at 4:15 PM
Quilter Kathy said...: So happy to hear you tried out the rhubarb juice! Great idea to mix it with some soda!
Cheers!; August 17, 2008 at 3:47 PM
Quilter Kathy said...: So happy to hear you tried out the rhubarb juice! Great idea to mix it with some soda!
Cheers!; August 17, 2008 at 3:47 PM

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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