Tomorrow will mark the 2 month anniversary of when my daughter was admitted to the hospital in Galway, Ireland. We finally have some joyous news to report! She has been cleared to be discharged next week and she and her husband will be returning to the US
I have not posted on my daughter's progress recently so I thought it was time to bring you Cuties up to date. Here is my granddaughter's CaringBridge post from today. "Both my Aunt
I am so happy that I can bring you this awesome news. I talked with my daughter this morning for the first time in more than 3 weeks. She is breathing on her own and fighting hard to recover. She is not yet able to move her body but is getting physical th
Yesterday brought another bit of thanksgiving and joy. Kathie was able to sit in a chair for a few minutes. Baby steps forward but each one, no matter how small, is a win. Thank you for all your prayers and messages of support. Teresa
God has answered our prayers. For the first time in almost two weeks I feel like a huge weight has been lifted from my heart. My daughter woke up today and is aware of what is going on around her. While she is still very ill and has many challenges ahead
Today I have returned from Ireland from what was suppose to be a dream vacation that turned into a nightmare. There were eight of us, my four children, a son in law, 2 granddaughters and me. My youngest daughter became ill and was admitted to the ICU in G
Does anyone know what you are suppose to do with the animals that are on Adorable Applique's page today?
I did a couple of test coasters today and there are some mistakes that I had to do a save on but unless you have done these designs I don't think you will see them. All in all I am pleased with the end result. The black outline stitch is not one of the
I have finished the last of the poinsettia coasters. The pictures are of the different fabrics I used. I made 7 sets with four coasters in each set, plus a few singles to keep for myself.Thanks again to Kim for the lovely design.
Today's project is the poinsettia coaster from Kim. I want to get some festive fabrics in other colors and make some more of these. edited 12/6. This coaster has an additional file where you can make the inner petals a contrasting color so I stitched tha
Last night I tried something new to me, a zipper bag in a zipper bag.I got this pattern on Etsy thanks to a heads up from Bev. I think that once you know the basic idea here you could do this with any two bags by stopping your machine, jumping ahead and s
After my kids dad died they asked me to make something for them out of his uniform shirts. Here is the first of the memory pillows that I made. Each of them will get one like this. There were 5 brand new shirts so there was plenty to make 18x18 in. pillow
When I saw that Kreative Kiwi had the Christmas Teddies on sale I knew that they would be my next set of coasters. Using an applique patch design I made these ITH coasters. The first set I did in the 4x4 size but I wanted more of the fabric to show so I
Recently my grandchildren's Grandpa passed away. Using some of his bandana handkerchiefs I made these coin purses so they can carry a little bit of Grandpa with them. Our family name is Valentine so I thought the heart shape is very appropriate to rememb
A host of heavenly angels, 25 in all Two different styles, photo 2 are bell skirts and photo 3 are original skirts. I think I have done enough FSL for now.
