Staying healthy

My sister sent me this in an email; it's so hilarious I just had to share!

To Maintain A Healthy Level Of Insanity 

1.. At Lunch Time, Sit In Your Parked Car With Sunglasses on and point a Hair Dryer At Passing Cars..... See If They Slow Down. 

2. Page Yourself Over The Intercom. Don't Disguise Your Voice. 

3. Every Time Someone Asks You To Do Something, ask If They Want Fries with that. 

4. Put Decaf In The Coffee Maker For 3 Weeks.  Once Everyone has Gotten Over Their Caffeine Addictions, Switch to Espresso.

5. In the Memo Field Of All Your Checks, Write 'For Marijuana'.

6. Skip down the hall Rather Than Walk and see how many looks you get. 

7. Order a Diet Water whenever you go out to eat, with a serious face. 

8. Specify That Your Drive-through Order Is 'To Go'.

9. Sing Along At The Opera. 

10. Five Days In Advance, Tell Your Friends You Can't Attend Their Party Because You have a headache. 

11. When The Money Comes Out The ATM, Scream 'I Won! I Won!' 

12. When Leaving the Zoo, Start Running towards the Parking lot, Yelling 'Run For Your Lives! They're Loose!'

13. Tell Your Children Over Dinner, 'Due To The Economy, We Are Going To Have To Let One Of You Go.' 

And The  Final Way To Keep A Healthy Level Of Insanity 

14. PICK UP A BOX OF CONDOMS AT THE PHARMACY, GO TO THE COUNTER AND ASK WHERE THE FITTING ROOM IS LOCATED.

Happy Fall-back day everybody!

Goodness!

Goodness me, where is Miss Eat-Sleep-Quilt????

When last seen she was about to share her Alaska quilting cruise experiences... oh well, that's old news by now!  She's still among us, just had a MAJOR "not-wanting-to-post-anything-to-the-blog" spell!  Didn't realize it was a month, though.  No wait - now its TWO months, holy smoke!  8o(

Moving right along...

At our bee meeting last week we had a wonderful workshop after viewing the completed AIDS panel, it turned out wonderfully!

Several of our members made a 10-1/2" block, our design choice, which were incorporated into a single 3'x 6' panel to be donated to Names Project Foundation.  One of the great things about making blocks for an AIDS panel is that just about anything goes... it can be appliqued, pieced, dedicated to a loved one, an optimistic message... anything!

Sandy taught a great basket workshop....

this is the bowl she demo'd from start to finish...

Sandy is a great teacher, and very patient!  She didn't mind answering the same question over and over, bless her!

My basket turned out a weeeeee bit differently...

Kinda wobbly and I used white thread instead of black, it gives the bowl an entirely different look... oh well, it was fun though!

Here are some cute puppies Linda made for a craft sale...

too cute!!

That's it for now, have a great Saturday... sew forth and sew on til later!

A few pictures

Three things to be happy about:
(1) fresh linen on your bed
(2) reading between the lines
(3) that after-shower feeling

Hi everybody!  First I want to thank you one and all for your kind comments and well wishes regarding my brother-in-law.  There's never a good time to lose a loved one, but it helps to know other people are thinking about you.  :o)

I want to share just a few pictures with you from the Alaska cruise, I didn't take too many though (sometimes I'm so busy gawking at things I forget to take pictures!).

As we pulled into Ketchikan (our first stop) at 7 am, the stores were open and waiting for us!  Renea and I wanted to sample the local flavor, and walking through the shopping district near the pier was a great way to do it.

Couldn't resist taking a photo with Mr. Moose!  See those jackets?  It was right chilly!

Of course we had to include a visit to the Silver Thimble quilt shop!  I don't have any pictures but they had great Alaska-themed fabrics, and kits by local designers.  

In bygone days, Alaska was known for it's brothels to service the gold miners, trappers and other workers - with Creek Street in Ketchikan being one of the most notorious areas!  Most of them are now being used as shops; a few were kept intact for tours...

(Some of the shots above were taken in Skagway)

For lunch, Renea, Cathy and I took a trolley up the mountain to the Cape Fox Lodge, where we had some really great halibut  - simply delicious!  

We thought this sign was funny!

Cape Fox Lodge had some beautiful totems, including the Council of the Clans totems by Tlingit carver Lee Wallace

 After lunch, another stroll through the downtown area back to the ship - an interesting day in Ketchikan!

Looking towards the pier - our ship looks as big as a building!

That's enough for now - sew forth and sew on til later!