At long last, here is Retreat Pt.2

Below is a pic from retreat, but where is everyone?  Retreat fell on the same weekend as the OU/Texas game, so they are all out in the lobby in front of the TV.
Cindy was working on a UFO and it gave me an idea of how I can use all of my 80’s floral’s.  It is 8″ [...]

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Skrappy Ladies Fall Retreat 2009, Pt.1

Yes, I know I’m slow.  Just can’t seem to get in gear, too much to do and not enough energy.
Today’s post will be the reveal of the panel challenges.  The challenge was that everyone supplied a pre-printed panel, pillow size, wallhanging, etc…..    Then envelopes containing clues joined the panels as they were prepared for the [...]

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Silently Stitching

Oh, how I wish I could post about the panel challenge.  I especially like the way my work on the current panel is turning out, even better than I imagined.  There will be one more panel arriving soon and it will be the last.  The reveal is still 2 long months away.
The Skrappy Ladies have decided to [...]

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I Can’t Believe I Pieced the Whole Thing!

The project at the Skrappies retreat last fall was a mystery quilt.  We all worked for days before the retreat, cutting and sewing, thinking we would finish the mystery that weekend.  Were we ever WRONG.  By the end of the weekend no one was close to being finished so the mystery was revealed to give us [...]

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Goodbye old friend

I can remember bringing you home 30 odd years ago, you were bright and shiny with a red exterior and a clear plastic lid.  The lid broke ages ago and your paint peeled into non-existence, but your aluminum usefulness persevered.  I could always count on even heating and easy clean-up.  Then your edges began to [...]

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Living Stitches

Kerry had never been to the Oklahoma Aquarium in Jenks so earlier this month Bill and I stopped by and picked her up and went to the aquarium.  I like seeing all of the fish and sea creatures,  this time they even had beavers and otters.  My favorite exhibits though are the corals and anemones, [...]

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Who’ll stop the rain?

This song has been playing in my head a lot lately.  We have had rain for 17 days in a row.  The sun has made an appearance here and there, but not long enough to dry anything out.  Our backyard looks like a very weedy pond.  The three tomato plants that we got in the ground [...]

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A Finished Project

I finished the February Lady Sweater that I was knitting for Jessica.  I took the picture before it was washed and blocked.  The above picture is pretty true to the color, but in the picture below the color variations show up better, especially when you click on the image and then on to the large size [...]

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O-O-O-Oklahoma…..

where the pollen wind comes sweeping down the plains.  Yes folks, it’s that time of year.  The beginnings of an early spring and the tree pollen levels are through the roof.  Seems like this year is worse than usual and everyone you meet is sneezing, coughing, has red swollen eyes and look like they should be home [...]

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My State of Mind

 lethargic – deficient in alertness or activity; dazed, foggy, groggy, stuporous, dreamy, lackadaisical, languid, languorous, listless.
There has been very little stitching, knitting, reading or much of anything else.  The first few weeks after lowering my Prednisone dosage are always the worst, but hopefully this will be the last time.  I should stay at this level from [...]

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