Happy birthday to me...

... Happy birthday to me
Today is my birthday,
Happy birthday to meeee! 

Three things to be happy about:
(1) happy tunes
(2) a stash of candy
(3) the difference a day makes

Today I reach the grand ole age of ... one year older!  What a difference a day (or a decade or five) makes; here I am at 7 (I think).  This was my second grade picture:


grade-school photo

My mother made that dress, in fact she made all our clothes.  I can remember her taking my father's old pants and cutting them down to make skirts for us.  Did she do it to recycle or "go green" or "upcycle"?  Nope, the simple truth is she couldn't afford to buy us new clothes so she used what she had!  She would save flour and feed sacks, cut around the words to make our clothes.  If the feedsacks were white, she'd bleach out all the writing, then make the clothes.

I was a senior in high school when this was taken for the year book:

high-school photo

Ahhh, so young and innocent - and thin!  My older sister Faye loaned me her necklace, she was a great sister. 

Shortly before (or after) my 40th birthday, this was taken for my church directory:


for church directory

And this one was taken a couple weeks ago in Sandy's quilt studio:

January 2013

Graying hair, dry skin ... I've hardly changed at all, right??  ;o)

Have a great Friday, make someone's day, sew forth and sew on...