A Baby Doll

I got new pictures in the mail: Great grand son Nicolas Alexander T.

Artist Trading Cards

Once a month I post cards that I get from all over the U.S.A. and the world , Spain, The Netherlands , Canada and many other Countries. I have been ask to tell you what ATC'S are.

It is a new grown-up card collecting craze. A global art happening and it is call ATC exchange. We have stampers, scrapbookers and other artist that do this. There are classes for beginners. There are group swaps.

Conditions of trading cards :
A. size must be 64x89mm(2.5x3.5 inches.)

B. no thicker then 1/2 cm with embellishments.

C. open theme ( some times there is a one theme like on Thanksgiving)

D. put contact information on back of the ATC (sometime that is optional.)

For every card you send you get one back.

As you can see I keep mine in a large note book. Fun Fun. Click on picture to enlarge and see details of the cards.

ATC'S For January

This is the back of two of the ATC's

Quilt Day

Friends....they cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams. By Henry David Thoreau My dream is to get better at my quilting, and have each child in my family a quilt from me.

This quilt is very special The Bennie had it made for me in 1986 by the Lady's at the Hallsville Methodist Church. This is a very small town in Texas, we lived there from 1985 to 1995.

This is the throw I was binding . I still have to embroider my name and date on it. I think I will sew the little button here by my name.

Now to start a new one ,but first there is a blue and white full size quilt that was giving me a fit trying to quilt it. I must get it done .

Spring

Has come in my window, some time back when I was cleaning up the flowerbed and putting in bulbs for spring. I took one and put rocks in a old glass with a little water.

and the smell of spring is in my window.

and the pretty pink of a flower.

Laugh

Be joyful aways. 1Thessalonians 5:16

A good laugh is sunshine in a house. By William Thackeray During the Victorian era, Thackeray was ranked second only to Charles Dickens, but he is less read and is known almost exclusively for "Vanity Fair". He is call William Make peace Thackeray 1811-1863

William and his mother Anne Beche in 1813

Quilt Blocks & Borders

This book was given to me by my secret pal for my birthday , who was Charlene at the Village.

I got it out to look at the binding tips.

It's so much fun to go through the pages and think I should do this and that.

Cute little lady bug.

and hummingbird

There is so much more I could be doing. Charlene later gave me her fabric stash.

Thank you Charlene, it was fun to be a Red Hat pal.