Selvage Potholders

I took the "fabric" that I had made from selvages, and made five 6" potholders. I'm going to give four of these to the gals who dropped their selvages into my bag at SpoolSpinners Bee, if they can recognize any of the selvages!

And here are the backs of those potholders.

Next time, I am going to use only, or mostly, the selvage that has the printing on it, and dispose of the side that has no writing.

Now Charlie and I are going out to Leo's restaurant to celebrate our 41st wedding anniversary. How CAN we have been married for that long?

Sara

Gratitudes:

Still married after all these years

Still laugh together daily

But still both drop things in piles, rather than file

40th Anniversary celebrated

We had a great time for our anniversary! First champage and appetizers at Peter and Lynne's house. Then downtown to Leo's restaurant where we all had well prepared and delicious food for dinner. We laughed over how cold the people must be who rode past in a horse-drawn carriage while we drank more champagne in the warmth.

How fortunate we are in our children. They surprise and delight us with shared laughter and tales of their lives as 30-somethings. Lynne and John, their spouses, are valuable additions to our family, and provide more humor.

This morning before the early church service let out, Martha made our "No Stain" punch--one bottle of Vernor's gingerale and one bottle of white grape juice. Lynne was bustling around getting the food on the table and everything "just right".

And Peter was cutting up fake flowers Martha had purchased for the table decorations.

When the early service was over, we took the real flowers off the top of the cake, and cut the first pieces. One layer of chocolate and one of lemon. There were not a lot of folks at the 8:00 service because we had icey roads.

But there was a good crowd at 10:00 plus some friends from our exercise class.

So we cut another cake and ate more turtles and drank more punch with or without champagne.

And Lynne's Dad even drove over from Holland!

Marti and John left for the airport and St. Louis, and the rest of us went out to the bookstore for lunch.

When we finally got home at about 1:30pm, Charlie and I had quite a stack of anniversary cards to enjoy together. And then I took a nap! Entertaining is an exhausting business for me.

Charlie has gone back to church for the Lenten soup supper, but I am staying home with an apple and some sharp cheddar.

Sara

Gratitudes:

So many blessings!

Rack of lamb for dinner

John singing the hymn "Lift high the Cross"

House work

Yesterday I reworked the house block by taking the roof off and building a new house UNDER it. That's the green striped, rather tropical looking house.




Then I constructed a new roof of dotted black fabric on the old house. That's the patchwork house. Hmmm. That roof looks a little narrow, and not straight. Guess we'll just called it "liberated".



This AM while DD and DSIL were still sleeping in, I put borders on the most recent Bargello.


I had bought this railroad track fabric when a local store was going out of business, just for the fun of it. Now I can see that it makes a good striped border which looks simply brown and black from a distance.

I always slow down once I get to the borders, andeven slower when it's time for the backing...NOW.

Guess I'll sew together some of those 10.5" squares that Bonnie suggested for backings. I have collected quite a pile of them. They are of a wide variety of colors and patterns, and I have to push myself to just put them together. Unlike Bonnie, I like to offset them by a half a square so there once again aren't seams to match.


Getting ready for the Anniversary Celebration tomorrow, I took Martha over to the church to meet the cake(s) delivery and set up the reception table for our anniversary party after the early service tomorrow. We have filled the refrigerator up with punch makings and champagne, and have the dishes of Jordan almonds on the smaller tables. Now I'm ready to put my feet up for an hour before we get ready for the Family Festive Dinner at a Restaurant.


Sara


Exercise: Up and down the stairs at the church


Gratitudes:
Flowers from Sue R.
Sunshine again
39 years, 364 days of kindness

Anniversary celebration

Sunday is our 40th wedding anniversary. Our daughter Martha and her husband are coming tonight from St. Louis to spend the weekend with us, so we will go out for a family dinner celebration on Saturday with them and son Peter and his wife, who live here in Grand Rapids.

The big party will be after church on Sunday after each service. We have ordered a small "wedding" cake for each coffee hour and will also have punch, cookies and turtles.

Here's how we looked 40 years ago in frigid Minneapolis leaving the church:

I guess we should have another photo taken in the same pose. Compare faces!

Last night I finished a Welcome-to-your-new-House-Block for Bonnie Hunter. Tanya [http://lazygalquilting.blogspot.com/ ]suggested that friends do this, and for uniformity sake we should all use a "neutral" RED background.

I worked very hard to make the printed patchwork on the top one come out exactly on the seam lines, but then failed to make the roof big enough! So I will send her the bottom one that was a better roofing job, plus I had that yellow fabric with the already woven in. . .what do you call those little wooden sticks between the pieces of glass in a window? Anyway, they were provided nicely by the fabric. Plus smooches on the door to welcome her in.

In the same envelope I sent a block from the Carolina Crossroads, which was the thank you agreed upon by that group.

Sara

Exercise: 50 min class in the pool

Gratitudes:

Facial today

conversation with Peter

Martha & John here and laughing