We took the grandchildren back home yesterday. I missed them the minute we shut the doors of our car to head back. Actually we took them to the half way meet point. Their visit was a prayer answered. Our 5 weeks went by in a blur. Our next visit time is Thanksgiving weekend, that is if their mom and new dad make the trip here otherwise we will have them a week after Christmas. They made it home safe as did the 4 of us. They were such good travlers at least for the first half. We had videos, songs, coloring, munchies, and lots of laughs. It broke my heart to see them crying when we left. I cried only after we were out of their eye sight. It wouldn't do to let them see their Nana and Daddy crying. It is supposed to be a good thing to go back home. I am sure they were fine and I pray they had a great trip the rest of the way.

• Oh my it has been forever since I posted anything. We picked the girls up for their 5 week stay with Brain on July 3. We have been having a good time. They have gotten so big and even more beautiful than when they left on Dec. 11, 2009.
  This is Lily.

This is Avory. To make this a little quilt related here are some of the little projects I started this summer. I am also working on Bonnie K. Hunter's last mystery. Carolina Christmas. I believe you can still find it on her web site. WWW.Quiltville.com. The red string pattern is on the EQ 6. I saw the drunkards path below in pink on an Amish site and I had to do one of my own. I am loving it and it is teaching me a lesson in humility. I am not very good with 1/4 inch seams on small machine curves.

Happy New Year.

Happy New Year to all.

I must say sorry to anyone who has come by my site in the past few months. Time slips away from me. I plan to try a little harder in 2010. What will it bring?

First purchased quilt

This is my first purchased quilt. I found it at Mosquito Creek Antique Shopp in Indiana over the Fourth. It is almost completely hand stitched and quilted. Only 9 seams done by machine. I paid $125.00 for it. Donnie the Antique store owner got it in an estate sale from a 90 yo women. I just wonder why she didn't sign it. I love it. The plaid clothes type fabrics make me think she was a seamstress as well as a quilter. I love the Bubble gum pink.

It is quilted in a wonderful variety of patterns. About 1 and 1/2 inches apart. What was she doing during all the stitching time?

It has found a good home with me. I just can't believe that she had no family that wanted it and wound up in an estate sale.

This is Lily. She and her sister just take my breath and energy away. It is late and I couldn't go to sleep so I got up and played around with my pictures. I took this one yesterday May 31, she is now 3 yrs and 1 week old. She has the biggest brown eyes and the deepest dimples when she smiles.

I guess it is time to try to go to sleep. I have to go to work in a few hours.

Hug someone close

Charlotte

Proud Mother

One of my friends said yesterday that she woke up to a misty morning outside and that it reminded her of her daughter named Misti and then she got misty. I wrote back to her that, We as Mothers get misty one minute thinking of our children then in another minute we are proud of them and full of happiness, Or at least that was the gist. I don't have the memory I used to. Here is my proud mother moment, it happened Friday. My son Brian graduated from the SC Department of Corrections Academy.

He and his little girls came over yesterday and we took this picture, Avory is 21 months now, her big sister turned 3 last Sunday. Avory got on the bike without help.

Lily was having fun in the Tupperware cabinet a few weeks ago. She sure was having fun. These girls are the sunshine of my life and I am so proud of the way Brian and Mandy are rearing them.

Another Finshed Top.

Today I finished the top Works in Yellow and Blue. Here is a pic. Someone on one of the quilt sites I follow asked the question last week. Do you have to have a cat to blog about quilts, or something like that. I did not have the wrinkles out of this one until Garfunkle was on it.

I don't think that I have posted a pic of the finished pattern Orange Crush by Bonnie K. Hunter of Quiltville.com. Mine I call Strawberry Limeaide. here it is. My neighborhood friend and quilting buddy decided the last border choice for me. I was so completely tired of working on it that I just threw the fabrics to her and said pick. I like it but I some how think that the lime or pink on the outside would have been better although I am going to bind it in the pink, lime and aqua strips, So that will liven up the outside.

My wonderful kids gave me this for Mother's day. To the left. It is so pretty and now I don't have my wine on my kitchen counter anymore. I had fun buying extra wine just to put in it. The wine glasses in it are my everyday ones from Kmart, I think. I didn't put my crystal in it cause I was nervous that the grandbabies might sneek in there and play with them. I keep the door closed but you just never know.

Time now for me to go to bed. Hug someone you love, Good night.