8th Set of (Seven) Quilts in 2012

Here are my latest quilts and a close up of my cat quilt (Kaye requested a photo of the front and back, she liked the paw prints.) Often I put wild combinations together and wish I could show you every detail. I am still finding material at Deseret Industries (DI.) I am so fortunate that it is still about $1.00-3.00 a yard.

Paris 2012

My photos are on the Cloud drive, by google. Click on the link and wait several minutes then use advance button on the lower right on the screen. I hope you enjoy.  xoxo Pat

Paris Photos 2012

London 2012

I had so much fun in London.  Riding the metro was such a new experience for me.  I loved the beautiful gardens and buildings. Here is a PowerPoint I made from my photos from my trip. My photos are on the cloud drive .Click on the link and wait several minutes then the advance button on the lower right on the screen. I hope you enjoy.  xoxo Pat

London Photos 2012

Is it fog or is it smoke?

 I woke up this morning and looked out the window.  I felt like I lived in Snellville, Georgia again  or was visiting San Bruno, California.  Outside I saw this moisture hanging in the air.The fires in our area had been extinguished with yesterday's rain, so I think is is fog. Perhaps it has a little smoke in it too. Anyway, I took 2 photos to remember this day. Now I'm off on my morning walk.

quilts with frames or borders

I'm headed to Europe tomorrow so here is a post of my latest quilts.  I'll be back on June 28th.  xoxo Pat

25th Annual Barfuss Memorial Day Games

As the pictures show we had a great time, even though Nick and family were not here and Sally was ill.  We had more time to chill and visit with fewer people not from the family in attendance.  I think I liked it as much as when our children were little.

Artwork by Paul Shumway

I had my Shumway grandchildren here and everyone was drawing except Paul. He said he couldn't draw so I used a technique I learned from my son, Nick, and Wife, Jasmine. I asked him to draw me and I would color it. He loved the way his drawing looked so he kept drawing people and I colored them. Here are a few of them. Let me know...Is he another budding artist? I think so!

I'm OCD with quilts

Another 13 quilts, I made 9 of them this week! Yes, I'm OCD and proud.

Check out my new hair cut, for me it is really short, especially in the back.

Mabel is Baptised

I went to help out Dad and my Other Mother last week.  I drove them to Dr. and store. At the end of the week we went to Mabel's Baptism. (Rick drove up.)  Then we planted gardens & cleaned out the spa and room.  We had to leave them because we wore them out. So, this week I'm catching up on all that needs done here.

I was not the best teenager driver

 This is the kind of car my mom drove, a Metropolitan. I got to drive it as a teenager or “drag main” with it. The gears would sometimes stick and I knew just how to make them stick if I wanted to catch the attention of a carload of cute boys.They stopped and tried to help while my friend, Greta, and I flirted.  It always worked with the tourist boys.  After awhile all the local boys knew what I was up to and it didn’t work on them.

One time (just before I went off to college) we parked mom's car and drove around with some boys. We drove out to see the cabin on the Lake they were staying at. Very innocent, we didn’t stay long because we had to get back so my mom have the car. Not so fun was my first time home from college, Christmas break.  The police came to our home and grilled me I about the cabin we visited.  Greta and I both explained what happened.  We were believed, thank goodness! It seems the boys were not staying at the cabin but had broken in and stolen some things.  Luckily, Greta and I told the same stories and we weren’t charged with anything.

 

Another time I was driving dad’s car, a ford 500. Greta and I went to eat fries and a coke at Connie’s Restaurant. As we were leaving, I backed out and hit the bumper of the car behind me.  Greta got out and said there was no damage so we just drove back home.  Fifteen minutes later the police were at my house saying we had been in a hit and run car accident.  It had been reported by someone in the parking lot. Dad was so mad and I was so scared, I didn’t think any damage was caused!  We had to give our insurance information and go talk to the owner of the other car.  After all the hull-a-balloo the other car was not damaged and no charges were made.

 Anyway, that's how I remember the events.  Pat