Originally Posted by Gwyn
If there is anyone out there who needs to have a 'choice' as Grandma 12 has described, send me your address in a pm. I will send you a quick squishy. Once you open it, I can send you another, until you aren't stressing quite so hard. Gwyn
Now you have a great idea that has become "contagious"...
If we each supported one another, we would really all become winners and not just the one...they can have the Jack Pot Bonanza for the month...
So my envelope for Vovoa is stuffed, addressed and ready for the post. Just the thought of it seems to have helped her.
Any other takers? Warning...I am not sending much ...just what will fit stuffed inside a legal size envelope. One block perhaps, or add your own bits and it can become a wall hanging or a table runner...something small, workable, special...
Oh, and while I was at Dr's office getting something for my severe shooting/stabbing spinal pain...weighed in... 263.5
Thats a total loss of 42+ pounds since discharge...no surgery or stomach reducing junk...just plain old fashioned sick to death...and what saved my life has made me diabetic.
So you can all know.
I withdrew from the competition.
I need CW fabric to make a quilt of 4" blocks like I need a hole in my head!
And it sounds to this Grandma, as if you gals need the encouragement.
So for those of you who need the crunch, but not the calories and guilt...
1/4 cup grape nuts cereal
1/4 cup un-sweetened chunky applesauce
1/4 cup non-fat small curd cottage cheese
1 tsp cinnamon
1 pkg artificial sweetener of choice.
So yummy when warmed up, it reminds me of Dutch Apple Pie.
It will fit in a coffee mug, or pretty bowl...serve to yourself as if you were dining in some elite, high priced, ultra fancy bistro.
Calming, cheerful music playing in the background...maybe some Italian romantic singer... a lovely table cloth...don't won one? Make your own...they are simply made of fabric, don't ya know...
how about adding some scented candle light?
scrounge a bit in some second hand shop...and get a pretty tea set, an odd silver spoon and sundries...
So when temptation hits...give yourself something better...
guilt free...refined...dignified...lady like.
So here, for the very first time on the quilting board...an old photo of me out in our very own greenhouse...with all the lovely bits that made my then 8 year old Granddaughter have such fond memories of her wee bit of time spent with me...her da is in the Army.
Green house is gone..as are the lovely roses. And now days there is snow on my mountain top...but I still love to dress dolls, I still adore tea time, I still work on my quilts with soft music to set a tone...etc.
Don't particularly feel much like a lady you say?
It is something that grows inside you, slowly over time, when you feed it the lady like ingredients...music, flowers, tea, ambiance', "joie de vivre", and good friends. Eventually your lady will begin to emerge on her own...and then you can show others how to accomplish the same fete accompli'
Do you like my French?
I looked it up to throw a bit of the elite in for a kikkero...