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Thursday, March 28, 2024

Happy Girl Gang Wednesday

On Thursday again  :)

I'm getting good at this ...

Pep worked for Health Midwest for years 

First at Baptist Hospital where he was a

Security Supervisor and when it closed he

transferred to Research Hospital.  Altogether, 

between the 2 hospitals he worked there for around

35 years.  He was on the Midnight Shift where he could either

have a very quiet night or a very active and sometimes

violent night. Dealing with people on PCP can be interesting .

 For those of you who don't know Kansas

City, both hospitals are close to "the hood".  

When he fell and collapsed a lung, we called 911 and they

took him to the hospital in Cameron who said he needed to

go to a larger hospital as they weren't equipped to handle it so

we life flighted him to Research.  I think I have already

said that he was in intensive care for 2 weeks before he

went to join Jesus in heaven.

On April 9th at 3:00 pm, Research is having a 

"Celebration of Life" memorial for him.  I've notified the men

that worked with him and Zoie and I will go too.  The boys have already

taken so much time off that they will wait for the memorial we will

have here.  I'll tell you about that later.  For right now, I any of you 

want to come, just let Tammy know so I can inform Research as they're

providing munchies.

Someone once said - "In order to be happy you need 3 things -

1.  Someone to love

2. Something to do and

3. Something to look forward to"

I lost my #1, I do have my quilting and eventually I will

join him in heaven.  I did promise Zoie that it would be

quite awhile from now though.

For right now - we do have a kit on sale this week, one 

of my spring favorites.

It's Beeskeps and Violets 

and you can go to the store to get your copy 

by clicking here.

Now, have the best week with the people and the 
quilts that you love, and I'll see you next week.

Thursday, March 21, 2024

Happy Girl Gang Wednesday #2

On Thursday this week.
This is "Snowy Night"
the quilt that I've been working on.


See all of those scallops with circles in the center.

Last week I told you that I sat and stitched all of
the scallops while Pep was in intensive care.  
It gave me something to do and was 
soothing to me and to Pep.  When I got home
I couldn't find them.  I searched everywhere but 
 I finally gave up and started over. 
Today I sewed the borders on and tomorrow it
should go to the quilters.  That's fine with me 
because I love the quilt but I'm really tired of snow
and those scallops.

This is "Spring Break BOM and the pattern
is on special this week.
You can go to the store to get your pattern 
by clicking here.


Now, have the best week with the people and the 
quilts that you love, and I'll see you next week.




































































 

 

Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Happy Girl Gang Wednesday

On Wednesday this week even....

When dad was in intensive care at Research for

2 weeks I went to the hospital every day to sit with

him and, of course, I took some stitching to do.  I

was working on Adleys Quilt at the time but the blocks


were all too large to work on there so instead I switched
to the border swags on Snowy Night.


There are 14 swags each on the top and bottom
borders and 10 swags on each side border.  I sat
and sewed the circles on each swag while Pep
dozed.  It was comforting to me and comforting to Pep
because it made things seem normal to both of us.
He was very used to me stitching while we watched tv.
We got his tablet from at home so he could watch
some of his shows instead of tv.

Anyway, when I got home finally I haven't been able
to find all of the swags. We searched everywhere and 
couldn't find them.  So I started in doing them 
again and today I finished.  I have the center of the
quilt done and tomorrow will do the borders.  Yay!!!

So tomorrow I will have a new top to send off to
the quilter and today I took a picture of my baby chickens.


To celebrate the new babies our special this week
is the kit for Little Lavender chicken birds.


 
Now, have the best week with the people and the 
quilts that you love, and I'll see you next week.






 

Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Happy Girl Gang Wednesday

 And I Hope you enjoyed the last 2 days

of weather because it seems to have 

drastically changed.  I must say I definitely

prefer the 52 degree days instead of the 

16 degree days.  Nina was here on the last

52 degree day and said she wasn't looking

forward to the migraine that was coming

with the change in the barometric 

pressure.  I don't blame her.  I'm really glad 

that migraines aren't on my list of ailments 

On to a more pleasant subject.

We're having a Rufus BOGO this week.  

Those of you who have been with me for

awhile know that before Mufin I had an awesome

cat named Rufus.  He was white and grey and had

a very attractive personality as well as being 

an ever so cute kitty.

Our special this week is the kit for

Rufus in the Garden


and the pattern for

Rufus in the Pumpkin Patch.


Pep would have wanted the Rufus in the Pumpkin Patch
because both of his kittys are black.

I am very slowly adjusting to the fact that I won't get to
see him again until I die and go to heaven but at least I
know I will then.

Right now I'm working on my last "for now" winter quilt -
Snowy Night.  I'll try to remember to show it to you next week.

You can go to the store to get your kit by 
clicking here

Now, have the best week with the people and the 
quilts that you love, and I'll see you next week.

Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Happy Girl Gang Wednesday

For those of you that have sent 

cards and well wishes, Thank you so much.

I really, really miss him - but I guess that's 

to be expected after 55 years of marriage.

My day will be going along and then something

little will trigger the fact that I won't see him

again until I go to heaven too.

I told his cat Dueces that "Daddy went to 

heaven without us" but we'll join him there

later.  And we will but not for awhile because I

promised our granddaughter Zoie it would be 

quite sometime before I left.  And I've got to at

least finish Adley's quilt and Snowy night.  I worked

on the scallops in the border of Snowy Night while

I was at the hospital even though Adley's Quilt is a

baby quilt and he is already born but the blocks were to big

to fit on my lap.  That tree block is 12' X 24".


And I'm sure Adley will enjoy the quilt as a toddler.
I'm working on the train block now.

Ok, back to the present time.

The special this week is "To Market, to Market" kit.

You can go to the store to get your kit by 
clicking here




Thursday, February 8, 2024

Happy Girl Gang Wednesday

On Thursday this week.

I'm going straight to the item on sale

because I want to look at something cheerful

and I love this quilt.


This is the "Feathered Star" BOM quilt that I gave to
Mark Dunn of Moda.  He said he wanted to buy one of my
quilts to remember me by.  Well, I don't sell my quilts,
they're mine, but I do give them to people I care about
so I gave him this one.  It's on display in a showroom at
Moda in Dallas if you ever get there.  Or now, with
this pattern you can make your own.
You can go to the store to buy the pattern by
clicking here.


This is a picture of Pep and I taken last year.
Sadly he is no longer with us.  He fell in our living 
room and in the process one of his lungs collapsed.   
We have Life Flight Eagle and got him quickly to
Research Hospital in Kansas City but after 2 weeks in 
Intensive Care, as I told his cat Dueces, he went to
heaven without us - but we will join him there later.

  Our daughter Kelly is living with me.  The boys 
want me to move to Liberty to be closer to them 
but Pep and I bought this land and built our house 
and loosing my home would be like
loosing him all over again.  So Right now I'm just 
taking one day at a time.   I have Tammy and Jeff 
who takes care of the land - I have my dogs and cats and 
chickens.  And of Course my quilts.

Now, have the best week with the people and the 
quilts that you love, and I'll see you next week.




 

Wednesday, January 3, 2024

Happy Girl Gang Wednesday -

Its 2024!!!

We hope you all had a great Christmas and New Years

full of fun and family.

And speaking of family

here's our grandson Jake 

(or as he's known now Dr. Findley) 

in his Christmas Sweater.


He asked for a cooking apron for Christmas
so

that's what we got him.  I thought
it was really neat.
And as you can see, he's a cat person and I've
already shown you Muffin asleep in the


 blue chair in the Bedroom so
I took a few pictures of our Sam sleeping
on the railing.



And before you think we're not being
very fair to Sam I should show you


Sam's bed in our room.  I have no idea why 
he thinks sleeping on our coats on the
railing is better but he does :)

Now for what's on sale this week.


Birds & Bunnies, Herbs and Honeys BOM

You can go to the store 
to get your copy by clicking here.

Now, have the best week with the people and 
quilts that you love and I'll see you next week.