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05-27-2014, 08:42 AM
#592
Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: the middle of Michigan
Posts: 850
OK, I follow two threads, checking in at least once a week. I got a pm from Barbara inviting me to join this group. I have been cutting and sending candy in a timely manner. I get a pm monthly with the next month's birthdays. I had no idea that there was a thread to follow associated with this group until yesterday! I am not antisocial, just ignorant! Thank you all for the lovely candy pieces. I sorted them yesterday into light, medium and dark. I love to touch them! I've been sewing since I was allowed to hold a needle. I remember playing under my great grandmother's quilt frame. I loved to hear the talk and gossip of her friends and neighbors though I didn't understand a word. They spoke in German! I made doll clothes, sewed buttons on my dad's work shirts and from 7 th grade made most of my clothes. I made shirts for my husband and clothes for my sons. I always knew that I would quilt when I got older. I started quilting at least 40 years ago with baby quilts and started quilting in a more dedicated way in the late 1990s. I garden, read, swim, have two Springer spaniels and love to spend time with my family. My sons live in Wisconsin, Florida, and one in Michigan. I have two grandchildren and one greatgranddaughter. I worked for thirty years as a Registered Nurse, primarily in emergency nursing. Again, thank you for the birthday wishes and candy.
05-27-2014, 11:11 AM
#593
Power Poster
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Mississippi
Posts: 26,117
Hi KarenG, glad you finally found us! Read along so you don't miss out on the great patterns we share and the awesome contests that Barb puts up for us after each birthday. She sends out some really nifty quilty prizes.
Glad you had a nice birthday and hope you enjoy your candy!
Glad you had a nice birthday and hope you enjoy your candy!
05-27-2014, 07:38 PM
#594
Super Member
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Oak Grove, MN
Posts: 1,671
OK, I follow two threads, checking in at least once a week. I got a pm from Barbara inviting me to join this group. I have been cutting and sending candy in a timely manner. I get a pm monthly with the next month's birthdays. I had no idea that there was a thread to follow associated with this group until yesterday! I am not antisocial, just ignorant!
05-28-2014, 05:19 AM
#595
Super Member
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Portage, Michigan
Posts: 7,496
Karen G. I was in your shoes all of last year. I had no idea that there was this on going conversation. Well, we are learning new tricks every day aren't we. Enjoy this thread and post your good work or progress. We love pictures.
05-28-2014, 05:33 AM
#597
Super Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: South Lyon, MI
Posts: 2,758
Hello Ladies...Happy May to all of you!
Hope you all had a lovely weekend. I know I did because we worked on the house and boy did it need it!
We cut down shrubs and trees, power washed the house , planted and weeded and weeded!
On Saturday I went to my in-laws house and we made shutters for my front window...they are so cute! Cut out a heart in the center of each of them and put a batten on the top and bottom.
after they are painted and on the house....painting the trim next I will take a picture!
Think I over did it on my left arm...cast is off and had to splint it after the weekend. I have a new appreciation for my husband on Tuesday he got up for work at 6am after our long hard working weekend. I could not get out of bed until 9am !!!
Other news...I got my self a new job (part time) still keeping the part time nanny gig.
I will be working from home for a company called CHI .... Cultural Homestay International. It is a Au Pair placement company. I will be the Coordinator for SE Michigan. This is a part time position that can turn into full time if I want it to. Plan is when I am finished with my nanny family that i will work this full time. (or at least more hours). It sounds very familiar to me to do this kind of work. Good thing the AuPairs (all from other countries) all have to be fluent in English!
Enjoy your day...
Barb
Hope you all had a lovely weekend. I know I did because we worked on the house and boy did it need it!
We cut down shrubs and trees, power washed the house , planted and weeded and weeded!
On Saturday I went to my in-laws house and we made shutters for my front window...they are so cute! Cut out a heart in the center of each of them and put a batten on the top and bottom.
after they are painted and on the house....painting the trim next I will take a picture!
Think I over did it on my left arm...cast is off and had to splint it after the weekend. I have a new appreciation for my husband on Tuesday he got up for work at 6am after our long hard working weekend. I could not get out of bed until 9am !!!
Other news...I got my self a new job (part time) still keeping the part time nanny gig.
I will be working from home for a company called CHI .... Cultural Homestay International. It is a Au Pair placement company. I will be the Coordinator for SE Michigan. This is a part time position that can turn into full time if I want it to. Plan is when I am finished with my nanny family that i will work this full time. (or at least more hours). It sounds very familiar to me to do this kind of work. Good thing the AuPairs (all from other countries) all have to be fluent in English!
Enjoy your day...
Barb
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