Originally Posted by Iceblossom (Post 8297652)

I've put together a batch of things to get at Amazon for my birthday including some quilting themed t-shirts, thread and machine needles but no fabric!

I was working on my postcard quilt over the virtual quilting weekend and had a really rough time seeing the black fabric or more exactly I press open and I could not see the seam allowance on the back at all. I was also using black thread, should have switched to grey. Had to go outside to line up the seams when I was putting the rows together. Didn't have any problems with any of the other colors but I don't remember having such issues before -- I've always enjoyed using black as a neutral. My vision stuff issues are hard to describe but basically I'm losing my ability to focus up close as well as tremendous distance vision loss.

No grandbaby yet, if he comes tomorrow we will share birthdays! LOL, I'd love that but I think my daughter in law would rather not :p

The year I was born it was Labor Day, and since I always had a holiday close enough to my birthday, I just would celebrate on the weekend so hubby and I went out to lunch on Monday. It was interesting, I had seen something like it on the Food Network or Travel Channel -- I think it was Andrew Zimmern in Vegas but off the strip. Anyway, it was a hot pot restaurant with a conveyor belt. I've had hot pot before as a family meal, but here it is designed for individuals and you sit at counters that have a built in place for your soup pot. There are a couple of booths as well. Then you choose the type of broth you'd like, and there is a little conveyor belt that goes buy with little color coded plates with items to put in the broth like meat, mushrooms, vegetables, noodles, etc. Your total is made by the color of your plates, sort of like dim sum.
https://hotpotworld.com/

It was not cheap and it was rather loud, more of a cafeteria setting than fine dining but it was fun. The neat thing is that they have vegan options and so it is a place that my keto hubby, my basic high protein/low carb, and my son and DDiL vegan eating styles can all be satisfied.

Originally Posted by oksewglad (Post 8297990)

Teen this will be an ideal project for you while house building is going on. Lori Holt colors fit your taste for sure.

Originally Posted by Iceblossom (Post 8298195)

My postcards aren't the type that are sent which are typically embellished and pieced and such. They are just postcard sized pieces of large scale pictures. I put them in an attic window block and then just simple black lattice, remember back before there were the static type of photo albums with the flip pages? Supposed to be like the old scrapbooks with the black pages.

With the fancy sort of them, I don't know if I could think of anything other than finding a perfect lovely box to put them in and keep them on the coffee table.

Here's the current picture, I haven't taken one yet with the borders on.

Edit: These are actual small postcard size. Maybe a nice simple treatment like this could put together the type that are sent? My concern would be the stiffness of a top made from what I've typically seen.