June 2007

Wavy Borders

June 29, 2007

As a longarm quilter, the thing I hate most are wavy borders. I never understand why people don’t take a bit of extra time, measure the borders, pin them and make them fit correctly instead of just slapping the strips down, sewing and hoping for the best. Well . . guess what I did? When [...]

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Building an Ark . . almost

June 29, 2007

Chad has been talking about building a canoe. He comes up with some funny ideas. He and his friend, Jason, took the plunge and started the canoe over the weekend. Here’s their progress so far. It surprised the heck out of me how good it looks. It’s 9’4″ long and they’re having a blast building [...]

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Back Home

June 29, 2007

I arrived back home Wednesday night. The drive back wasn’t bad at all — just long! I was worried about a section of 271 south of Paris, TX where there are flood gauges along the highway, which makes me think that area floods but it was not flooded and I was able to pass right [...]

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My Purple House is now .. BLUE!

June 24, 2007

Remember my purple house from a post I did a year or so ago? I know once you sell a house, you can’t control what happens but look what they’ve done to my purple house. They’re painting it blue . . kinda bluish gray! Not everyone would like a purple house I suppose, and when [...]

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The Aunts

June 23, 2007

My mom and dad have a farm/camp that is about 2 hours north of here. It was actually my grandparents’ old home place, though the house is gone and mom and dad put a mobile home up there 8 years ago. When I was a kid, I loved more than anything else to spend summers [...]

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Mom’s Yard and Quilts

June 22, 2007

I took this picture hoping to get a good picture of my quilting but then when I saw how pretty the back yard is, I didn’t want to crop it all out so it’s a not so good picture of my quilt but the background reminds me of how tropical it is here. The banana [...]

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