Remember

I am so very grateful for the efforts of the armed forces of Canada in keeping my country free. Remembrance Day ceremonies make me cry. I am always overwhelmed the few days leading up to it too. This year a Soldier that went to school down the street had just passed away in Afganastan at 23. Being a Mom of two young men makes watching the Silver Cross Mother place her wreath very heart wrenching. One of my sons' good friends is in the process of entering the reserves. I wish him well and pray that he along with those who serve with him are kept safe.

Thank you for Standing on Gaurd.

BOO BOO and buttons

I was hitting Garage Sales with DH two weeks ago and when we got home I could barely lift my rt leg. Some how I strained something. It felt numb and alittle achey. I went to the MD and he told me to ice and put it up and to keep up doing as much as I could.... Friday I felt great.

I noticed an ad on kijiji for buttons. Turned out that an older lady that had worked at the acution Mart was downsizing and I purchased her whole collection of Buttons. Oh my there are some nice military buttons, carved shell and glass ones. There are many vintage plastic and bakelite in all colours and many patterns.

Three days of sorting with bent knees and I am not done yet. However I have to stop sorting for a while as my leg is now killing me. Oh how could I be so stupid... I will post some photos soon.

It is a very large collection.... not sure just yet what I am going to do with it all yet...

My entry for City Park Girl's Quilt festival

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This is a Double Irish Chain Quilt I finished last year. It is a Queen sized quilt the largest one that I have made by myself. This is my entry for Park City Girl's Quilt Festival.

Some of my more recent work

I want to add more to this Iam thinking some beads or something to the rick rac and some BE in the centre.

Good Things Come to Those Who Wait

Look what I found at a garage sale. A lovely thread cabinet. Seven drawers 2 1/2 inches deep. If I had planed it I would have put in 9 one for each colour and black and white but for $15.00 who can b*+(h.
Unfortunately the inside of the drawers were really rough and damaged so I had to line them so as not to snag my beautiful threads. Now to wind all my thread. I am trying to use Sharon Boggon's idea for storage of my threads as I just cant imagine a better one that doesn't take up tonnes of space.


I plan on keeping my BE threads separate though as they are steamed to straighten them and I think winding them on skeins defeats the purpose of steaming them. Plus I cut them into ~ 1 m. speaking of which I have so much BE thread now I simply must get to work on it.

Boy am I glad blogspot has a spell checker as I can't spell or type.

Birthday Give Away for Crazy Quilter Winner

Congratulations Diane Baby Cake!
Dianne from http://dianesdecoratingdiary.blogspot.com/ wrote :

Happy birthday! And many more! My favourite cake was a lemon cake I made for my daughter's baby shower. She wanted a baby so much and waited so long. When the time finally came for a shower I put my heart and soul into that cake! http://tinyurl.com/o4zy3h

Your name was chosen from a hat. So you need to contact me with the link on my profile with your snail mail address so I can deliver the goodies. By the way I love the baby cake you made. My sister is having a baby in January so I have some ideas for her shower.
I will post a photo of the stash tomorrow Sorry not sooner Dh took the camera fishing and Ididn't get to it.
Melisa

places to find Books for BE

JDR has some books and they describe them a little for U.S. people they also have Brandie's Video.DVD
I have this book JDR Brazilian Embroidery Book 1 by Ria Ferrell.
The video has much of the same things. what is not in the video By Brandie is explained in the pdf files on the DVD. The only flower Iam not sure of being in there is the carnation.
I have North American Flowers in three dimentional embroidery also and I think you want to try some simpler things first at least that is how I feel.