Here’s to remembering the fun times of reaching into “the Halloween box” and putting together a costume. Here are my three little ones back in 2000.
And here is Andrew yesterday as “Retro Runner”. He used my husband’s mid-70’s running outfit and ran with his Cross Country team.
Happy Halloween to everyone!
Look what the workers did today…
Here’s a picture of my son, daughter and me in New River, NC Sunday when my wonderful sisters drove for dinner (8 hours one way). Hopefully, this isn’t classified info and we can live a few more years.
I have returned from my “sister’s weekend to celebrate my upcoming 50th birthday”. My daughter escorted me to BWI where my youngest sister picked me up and drove us to Waynesboro ~~ our family home to be with my parents and spend the night.
Then off to Mauzy for some shopping.
This was followed by the The Virginia Quilt Museum www.vaquiltmuseum.org and a tea lunch nearby. Then off to two quilt shops on the way to Seneca Rocks for a rock climbing/chili cook off. We hiked, drank a lot of beer and listened to a blue grass string band. http://www.seneca-rocks.com/srcs_site/information/chili.html
After church, due to a mix-up, we swung by Liberty Mountain for a look at the new ski resort that is opened year-round.
Then, the biggest suprise: a trip to New Riverm NC to have dinner with my USMC son. It’s an eight-hour drive from Northern Virginia. WOW! Aren’t my sister’s great?!?!!!
Thank you sisters, nieces and daughter!
Demolition was finished on Friday and today the jack hammer is in full swing!
My four sisters are flying me somewhere (I suspect the DC area because that is where three of them reside) to start a tradition as we each turn 50. My birthday isn’t until January, but it’s dicey as to the weather that time of year, so this is THE weekend! I am very excited!
I don’t do many customer quilts, but last night I finished a quilt for a gal. She embroidered each leaf and it is gorgeous.
And it looks like while I’m gone, the rest of the walls will be coming down. Here is today’s episode. Yes, the porcelain is still out front???
Pretty cool! Perhaps they’ll save some for Tuesday?
Off to bed to be picked up by my sweet daughter at 4:45am.
Our booth had so many generous donors and patrons! The raffle quilt sold $819 tickets included in the $3900 grand total. All of our table runners sold and many of the larger quilts.
Saturday was potato peeling. My crew of over 20 peeled 1,000 lbs. of potatoes in 1 hour 45 minutes! Cutting was a little different, but it went fine. Here are the potatoes in the buckets ready to be cooked.
My son and his friend worked Kids Carnival for two days. Here they are fooling around. An older woman told me yesterday that a young man saw her carrying a large box and offered to help. She asked his name and he answered, “Andrew C”. Way go go, my sweet son!
Guild tonight, so off to get my round robin finished…
Just a little headache… probably not enough water today…
I asked a woman to make one afghan for our quilt booth at Fall Festival because she does wonderful work. Look what she brought me today! They are each folded in half and are absolutely gorgeous!
And this is the view out of a room upstairs.
And this, well, just an interesting find this morning.
Two days until our church’s Fall Festival. It’s better running the quilt booth than the kitchen for 2000 meals which I did for ten years. I still coordinate the making of applesauce and the potato peeling/cutting for the diner, but that’s EASY !
Here are the notecards I made. 30 will go to my quilt booth volunteers and the remaining 70 are for sale. If they don’t sell, that’s fine, there are lots of options for them.
And on the demo scene. Here is where the safe was in the school.
And, look, the AC unit finally fell out of the window.
Today, they took down a big center wall, but it was raining and pushing four toddlers in a stroller didn’t sound appealing to me. We did drive around back and the “lead” did is still going on from the gun range.
Other than the label, the Fall Festival Raffle Quilt is finished. I’m in the process of making cards out of the picture.
In addition, my friend and I have completed a LOT of quilted items. Here they are on my dining room chair.
And more demolition… They are doing something with the gun range (lead) that was under the school.
My friend and I are working on a quilt for her daughter from the book, Material Obsession, and one block is complete. She’ll be here in a few minutes to see it.
Of course, another demo picture. This is the side of the school.
Yesterday, I stopped two toddler daycare boys from stripping my roses. Later, we found this…
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