littlehud wrote:
My youngest daughter has a cameo from her grandma. She has been gone over fifteen years, yet the cameo stills smells like her perfume. Every time she takes it out it makes me think of her. We remember with all our senses.

I wholeheartedly agree that we remember with all our senses. There are many smells that make me think of individual ppl...like baby powder just takes me right back to when my kids were small and cuddly.

Ruth wrote:
good post thank you :D

yw, I love it, and will probably eventually do it in calligraphy for sewing room, but like everyone here, I also love to share. :D

Ghee quiltncrazy, so sweet of you to share with us. Thanks

yw, paldmal. Like a beautiful quilt, you just want everybody to enjoy it. :wink:

HI,
I'm new to the Quilting Forum, but love your poem. Do you know if there is anyway I can print it out? It is so great you have something from your Grandmother.
Nancy

yes, you can print it out. Be sure and add the author's name as I believe it is copyrighted. You will also need to enlarge it, cause when I printed it, the print came out very small.
Just in case, you hold left button down while dragging over poem, when
highlighted, you right click, and then click on copy. I go to my documents and right click and paste.
To enlarge, you will need to highlight it again, and click on number size you want.
Then go to File and go down to print. If you already knew all that, lol, just go, duuuh!!! :lol: (I need help, so glad to give it, just hope it's comprehendable.) :wink:

Love the poem; it is so true. Funny how a person's smell can comfort us--even little ones. When my mom passed, my granddaughter was 2. She had often fallen asleep on her great-grandma's lap. They lived with Mom at the time. We could not get Jay to sleep (she cried and cried) at night after Mom passed. We tried everything' including me holding her in Mom's chair then my sister suggested putting her to bed with one of Mom's lap afgans. It worked!! Jay snuggled up to the "blankie" and fell asleep with no problems. As the "grandma scent" faded, so did Jay's need to cope with the loss at bedtime.

Great poem. And congratulations on acquiring a new quilt from your Grandma. I'm sure that she would be pleased that it will used it and loved.

kd124, that is a sweet story. Right now, I am the only one that can 'rock' my smallest grandbaby to sleep. I hope it's bc I smell good, lol.

key4unc wrote:
Great poem. And congratulations on acquiring a new quilt from your Grandma. I'm sure that she would be pleased that it will used it and loved.

We were so close, I know that this is how she would feel. ty, key4unc. :)

Loved the poem and the notes about their grandmothers. I've been told that my mother's mother made many quilts. According to my oldest aunt, at one time she had a total of 37 stacked in a pile. How she had time to quilt, I don't know, as she had 9 children in a very small house. No one knows what happened to all those quilts, but I have her glasses. The cousins agreed that I should have them, as I was the oldest grandchild and probably remember her best. She has been gone over 60 years, but I fondly remember little things about her.