A Quilters Nearly Perfect Day

I am still at the beach. My family, as least most of it, is here. The food is awesome. I slept well, and, next to my sweet husband. The only thing that could make this day more perfect is if I were quilting. I hope all of you who are lovely enough to be checking in on me and my musings, are equally blessed on this Thanksgiving weekend.

Quilter at the Beach

Here we are at our beach house for Thanksgiving. There must be something about the beach...I mean, I actually slept like a "normal" person last night, eight hours of bliss. Trouble is, that is about two days worth of sleeping for me on a "Dianne-normal" night so now, here it is nearly midnight and I am bouncing off the walls. If I were at home, I would be sewing or designing or doing anything other than sleeping. I am ready for action and the entire house is snoring....except me, of course. How many novels can I read? I knew I should have snuck in my sewing machine when no one was looking.

The neatest news is that Timeless Treasures sent my fabric samples. I am so excited. To think the selvage edge will, in the near future, read, "Timeless Treasures Fabrics, Inc, all rights reserved, 'Save Our Ship' by Dianne Springer.'" Karen Griska, get ready....quilters start your machines,...

OOOPs

How about that second image? I suppose I deleted it in my fog of a mind. I have had so little sleep I am fluxuating between giddy and bitchy. Interestingly, I am not sure anyone is noticing a difference in my little world. Oh well, here is my gorgeous flower image:

Perhaps I am a true quilter because this reminds me of a

Dresden Plate block. Whatchathink?

Welcome the Globetrotting Quilters

Hi and welcome back to me and my world. This first image is the word "Welcome" in Balinese. I thought it was beautiful and appropriate. The other image is one of the beauties that I was able to see every morning when I woke up. These water lilies were all over the grounds of the hotel where we stayed in Bali. Most of our time was spent in Sanur at the Segara Village Hotel. I loved it there. Unfortunately, it turned out to be much more challenging than I had planned to send images and emails other than by my cell phone. I had actually bought a new very small computer to use. Alas, the cord did not fit any adaptor that we could find. So much for well laid plans....

I hope you will check in from time to time to see a few more memories of my trip. I am planning to go back in about two years and hope some of you can go with me. Anyone who is even vaguely interested should call so we can talk. Thanks for checking in. I am exhausted so this is going to be shorter than I had hoped. More later....

Lists Lists and more Lists

I am writing a new "To Do" list. Hm-m--m---m, next, I probably need to start making a list of my "To Do" lists....

Two days and counting. I feel like the mileage counter on the GPS, it only shows whole miles to your destination until it gets less than 10 miles away, then it counts in tenths of a mile. I am definitely into the Tenths Away mode, ohmygosh.Notimeforspacesbetweenwordsoranywhereelse.WishmeluckthatIcankeepfromstraying tooofarfrommyliiiiiist.DidImentionthatIamseriouslyADD?????????

Quilt Market Speeding Forward

Help. I need to put brakes on the days that are speeding past me. I have waaaay too many things on my To Do List with waaaay too little time to do them in. To make matters more stressful, it seems we will have to leave for Houston a day earlier!!!

Today we spent the day working on shelves for our shipping boxes that keep falling all over the place any time we try to get some from the stack. Think that little chore was at the top of our "To Do" list??? HAHAHA, it was not even on the first ten pages of "the list." Oh well.

How about another fabric from the "Save Our Ship" line by Yours Truly?

Houston Quilt Market

Houston Quilt Market was the last thing on my mind last night. Hey, my sweet husband who works out of town came home and I love to make him feel missed and welcome. A smile on that man's face is what I live for and he is definitely smiling. Priorities, priorities, heh heh.

Back to Quilt Market. Still have not cleaned up the mess, in fact, it is worse. Am I surprised??? It does not help that my sewing machine is not cooperating. I took it in twice to the shop and both times it worked perfectly for the mechanic. And I thought I only had three "children." Sick, take them to the doctor, not sick.....and still a bill at the end of the visit.

On to more fun things. How about another image of my fabric line? Whatchathink? (anyone out there have any idea what a challenge uploading images is for me??!!!???)

Sneak Peak #2 -- Future Quilts?

Well, for the last three days I have been trying to upload the second image of my fabrics. I watched the little circle thingie on my computer go around and around and around and....to no avail. I will now try it for the fourth time. If this does not work, there will be no more trying until my husband gets here for the weekend. I hope the image is worth this, grrrrr.

Yippppeeeeeeeeeeeeee me. See whacha think.

Favric, Threads, Boxes, Quilts...

I entered the World of Disorder when I entered my sewing room, yesterday. GROSS. I see a clean-up day in my future. But, for today, think I'll go shopping, heh, heh.

Oh, I seem to recall that I said I would start showing images of fabrics that are supposed to be introduced this Spring. First, I freaked out that no fabric company would see them as potential fabrics. Overcame that hurdle. Now, I am in freak-out mode, again, worrying whether shops will purchase them, then, if purchased, will they sit on shelves???, ignored??????....gulp.

A Month of Quilt Shows

Best intentions....supposedly the world is paved with them. If that is true, then my own personal good intentions, alone, could pave the entire state of Louisiana. I mean, I had intended to not only report on our Quilt Shows and travels from Louisiana, to Alabama, to Florida, back to Alabama, on to Louisiana, then to Des Moines, then.....well, you get the idea, I was so confident I even included photographs in my "plan," in my intentions. Brainstorm!!! I just realized what went wrong -- I should have put on my "To Do" list, "Don't write anything the entire time you are gone." We all know how that goes, it immediately gets Done!%$#!!!

All of the shows went well, that means we enjoyed ourselves and spent more than we made. It would be such a shock to my system if I reversed that routine and actually managed to make a profit. My husband might even start to think that is better and even worse, expect it, gulp. I have thought about this a lot as I travel, set up booths, take them down, etc. and realized I love the whole process, some parts, of course, more than others. My favorite part is meeting everyone. Most folks are great. The exceptions can make mincemeat of a day, but, luckily those idiots are few and far between.

Do you like sneak previews? I am going to start posting images of my fabrics that are going to be introduced in the Spring. Oops...is that considered an intention??? uhoh.