After all these years, I think my Grandmother was right!

Well, sorry I have no pictures to post with this, wish I did! It would be proof for my case, but unfortunately I put off the pictures and now, I have nothing! Ok, well to the story! I really think there is someone or someones (I think it might be a conspiriacy) in my family who is trying to make me look senile so they can go ahead and put me away somewhere! Or my other theory is that my grandmother may have been right, the neighbors do come in and steal things! She's been gone for over 30 years and I'm just now realizing that maybe she was right! I remember vividly being at her house in Malden, Massachusetts and watching while she looked all through her pantry for peanut butter. She couldn't find it anywhere and finally declared that those horrible neighbors of hers must have stolen it. She wasn't kidding either! I was a teenager at the time and thought that was a ridiculous thing to think that a neighbor would come in to just steal peanut butter of all things. Well, it's happened to me! Or perhaps my family is setting me up to think I'm loosing my mind. I made a perfectly nice child's size apron to keep here at my house for when my grandchildren come to cook. If you look at older post you will see a similiar one that my granddaughter and I made. This one is almost identical except no name and no star buttons on it. But now I can not find it anywhere!!! Even my granddaughter helped me look all around for it, and we can not find it! I've spent two days looking for it. Well, ok, not two days, but a couple of minutes for each of the past two days. I'm also missing a set of pink star buttons. The ones on the pictured apron in the older blog. Those went missing as well. They were gone for so long that I had to purchase a second set so we could finish the original apron project. Those have still not been located! So now I'm thinking that my family is taking these things and hiding them from me so that I'll go willing into the place they want to put me. Or just maybe my grandmother was right! Someone, probably my no good neighbors, are coming in and stealing from me! So far they've taken my star shaped pink buttons and now the child's apron to match! Never can trust people that's what she always said!
(NOTE: Now while I don't seriously think my neighbors read this blog, just in case, I AM KIDDING about the no good neighbors part!!!!! I have very nice neighbors and a good neighborhood and so far I don't think they've stooped to stealing child's size aprons yet. And to my family, no I'm still hanging on here, regardless of how many things I can't easily find!) Now on to day three of my search..... I'm sure it will turn up someday, I just hope it's before I'm long gone and the family is cleaning up my stuff!

TO DO LIST

Yes, It's me! I'm back! I've been busy trying to get things checked off my to do list. Sometime around November, I made a list of all the “To Do” projects that were waiting for my attention. Some had been waiting a very long time and others found themselves on and off the list very quickly. Here are the things I’ve checked off my list so far. (Note: They were not completed in this order.)

Hem up my daughter’s bathroom curtain
Make a Duvet Cover for my granddaughter
Sew Christmas Stockings to the Tree Skirt
(old Christmas stockings from when my children were little. I couldn't bear to throw them out, so I saved them by sewing them on a tree skirt I had made a few years back.)
Make a Foot Stool Cover
Make and Cover Dog Bone Pillows (3)
Fix Beach Umbrella for my daughter
Sew an apron with my granddaughter and make a second one to keep at my house
for when she comes to cook

It feels so good to see the list of accomplishments! I often think that I don’t get very much done, especially when I read other Fiber Artist blogs, but after looking at this list, that’s not too bad for the last several months. I’ve been trying to get my list whittled down so I can make room for more of my art projects – Yeah!! Here’s what I currently have left -

Remaining To Do List:
Three Baby Quilts
Embroider BBQ Shirts for my husband
Make a “Very Hungary Caterpillar” Art Quilt for my daughter’s classroom
Matching pillow for my granddaughter's duvet cover

So here are a couple of pictures of the fruits of my labor.

The Dog Bone Pillows - I gave them this name because of their shape.

These use to be sold in department stores a few years back, but of course are no longer in stock. I've tried lots of different types, but these are the only ones that work to support my neck and ease the pain. So after I lost one on a trip in Europe and the others got worn, I was long over due to make new ones. I used one of the old ones and made a pattern. It comes in two sizes, regular and large. (The pattern only- I'm not making any more for now!)

Here's my granddaughter debuting her new apron that I helped her sew. We went to a fabric store and she carefully picked out the fabric herself. While I could have probably dyed it up myself, I was so delighted that we had such similar taste! And she insisted that it needed pink star buttons to make it fancy. I couldn't have agreed more!

Can you figure out what items on the To Do list got added in and marked off more quickly than others? Well can you help me? When there is such delight in getting our project done? And now we need to make a matching pillow for the Duvet next! (It will have pink buttons as well!)

Hope!

A little break from those who look to this blog for quilting info or family pictures. I couldn't post all of this on facebook because they limit the space allowed. So that's why it's all here.

For those who don't know, I love art and especially fiber art, I love plants and especially orchids, I love pets and especially Springer Spaniels, let's see, oh yes, my favorite, I love my family (no especially part here, I love you all, well maybe especially my husband of 32+ years)! And I especially love Bible Study (the inductive way, see http://www.precept.org/ for more info on that) and above all else, I Love my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! I recently had a birthday (for ID theft risk I won't mention exactly when) and the topic of getting older came up. So here's my response to Birthdays and Getting Older...

Even though we get older with each birthday, we can still have hope! We're all growing older, that's the earthly fact! But there's hope for those who believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God! Our hope is that while our bodies are decaying, our inner man is being renewed! (2 Corinthians 4:16) Yeah that's good news, especially when you've had a birthday and your body doesn't work like it did when you were in high school. (Well most of us.) It's just an earthly fact, but it's not the truth, it's a temporary condition! Now that's certainly worth celebrating! I have hope that I have put on a new self, that is being renewed day by day! (Colossians 3:10) And I have all eternity to look forward to! So I'm setting my mind on things above! And I'm only passing through on my way there because my citizenship is in heaven, from which also I eagerly wait for my Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ! (Philippians 3:20) Now this is the best news ever to those who truly believe! Yeah!!!!!!!!!