it was easy to sell it to this particular client. she understands and appreciates my smooshy sentiments. i know she'll give it all the care and respect i would. i'll bet it will be passed down for a generation or two.
i have some international angels, too. i did get them appliqued to backgrounds, but they'll have to wait 'til next year. they'll be divided up to make quilts for my father, my niece and her brand new husband, and my nowhere-near-brand-new-old-geezer-brother and his wife-who's-my-sister-in-more-than-law.
i can't take credit for the deco-stitches. only for picking them out. built into my machine. but thanks all the same. :P