Another Reminder...

If you haven't heard from your swap partner, please contact me....coolmommary@fastmail.fm.   Otherwise I assume everything is going fine!

Thank you,

Mary

SQS1

REMINDER:

December 1st mailing deadline for SQS1!!!!  Please email me once you have mailed your quilt to your swap partner.  For everyone that has already, Thank you!! 

The small quilts that I have seen are exceptionally Beautiful.  All you ladies have done a really Great Job!  I am thinking maybe in January around the 15th to do another one...they are really fun to do and you ladies have done such a Great Job, what do you think?  It could be a winter themed...thinking darker colors, and was thinking picking a specific object like a Snowman or Evergreen Tree that would have to be incorporated into your small quilt...just bouncing around ideas....any ideas??? 

Hugs,

Mary

New pictures of Cooper at the Lake on Thanksgiving...

New Updated Picture of SQS! "Twist Quilt"

Hi hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!!!  Here is the completed top of the "Twist Quilt"!  I love the Green border and the Binding, really, really adorable!     Very Great Job Done!  OK I want ALL of these Quilts, I have to admit!

Isn't it Adorable I really really love the green and then the red binding she used!!!! 

Happy Sunday Everyone!

Love,

Mary

SQS1

Just a friendly reminder, once you have received your small quilt, please drop me a note telling me.....Jennifer received her and she loves it (it was the small Pink Quilt that I posted yesterday), so our small quilts are finding their way to their New Owners.   And she is trilled with it! 
So Please let me know when your precious cargo arrives,  Thanks and Hugs, Mary

Happy  Thanksgiving Everyone!!!

SQS1

Another Lady emailed me a picture of  her Beauty....She also made a mug rug for her swapper!!  Love the polka dots and ofcourse I LOVE PINK!!!  Sooo Pretty!!  And the Stripes!!  Love It!! 

Hope all you Quilt Swappers have a wonderful Thanksgiving Holiday,

Hugs,

Mary

Remember those scraps....

Remember those scraps, well this is what I am making...I changed the paisley fabric to the browns because it just didn't look right to me...so this is what I ended up...now I have to baste and make three more of these blocks for a table topper! 

Hope you are all having a productive day!

Hugs,

Mary

Here's another one!! SQS1

Just received a pic from one of my swap ladies that this quilt started out as squares and then took a turn for a Twist!!!!  Wait to see this one....The solid ones really "Pop" don't you think!!  Really Beautiful fabrics too!

GREAT JOB all of you ladies are doing!!!  Oh I am soooo excited about this Swap!  Such creativity!!!  Loving This!!!

Hugs,

Mary

SQS1

OH MY GOSH, I just was sent a picture of  another small quilt done...are you ready...isn't it just Beautiful!  Oh I love the colors and the applique, really Beautiful, Beautiful Job!!!!  Wow!!!  I just know the swapper that gets this one is just going to love it!

These small quilts we have been making are all sooo different and all soooooo Beautiful!   Job Well Done Ladies!!!!

Now I only need to hear from 4 more ladies and get their pics and I will be one happy Swap Mamma!!!!

Hugs to All this Sunday Night,

Mary

Sneak Peak at a New Project

Yes I am starting one of many "new projects"...

here are some pics:

more  to come....

Hugs,

Mary

Food for Thought - Happy Sunday

...A  young boy was walking home from Sunday School when he cut through a park to get home quicker.  On his way through the park he remembered a Chocolate Bar his Mom had placed inside the pocket of his jacket.  On removing his candy bar, be began breaking off a piece when he noticed an elderly lady sitting all alone on a park bench...At first, he thought the lady looked lonely, so as he got closer to her, he thought "maybe she would like a piece of my candy bar", so he stopped in front of her and smiled and offered her a piece of candy.  The lady accepted with a Smile....He then decided to sit next to the lady and together they shared his candy bar...never speaking a word, just smiling at one another.   When the young boy was done, he Smiled at her and she gave him her best Smile back.  As he entered his house, his Mom greeted him and asked, "Why do you have a Big Smile on you?"  The young boy replied, "I just shared my candy bar with Jesus"!

...The Elderly Lady went home and when she entered her home, her Sister asked her Why do you have a Big Smile on your face...the Lady replied "I just received a candy bar from Jesus!  She then told her sister, I thought Jesus would have been much older, but he wasn't he was a Young Boy!

Moral of the Story,  we find Jesus in the poor, the lonely, the elderly, the sick, the imprisoned and yes, Children!

I truly believe this with my whole Heart!  We don't find him in material things or status, we only find him in helping others...think about it...that is where Jesus is...if you are looking....

Hugs,

Mary

Cooper got a new Bed!

This came in the mail today for Cooper....a New Bed from a company named "Frontgate".  For any of you that own dogs, this is one Great Bed.  Cooper has had two knee surgeries and this bed is orthopedic.  He loves it...Yeah!!

Oh and I think I got the "comment" thingy working now..don't know why it stopped??? But hopefully it is working again,  Thank you Pat and Karen for emailing me to tell me....

Hugs,

Mary

PLEASE LEAVE COMMENTS

BLOGGERS IF YOU READ MY POSTS PLEASE I JUST LOVE COMMENTS!   PLEASE LEAVE THEM...I READ SOME BLOGS AND I AM TOTALLY IMPRESSED WHEN I SEE 36 COMMENTS...I AM LIKE WOW PEOPLE MUST REALLY LIKE THIS BLOG...WHENEVER I VISIT A BLOG I ALWAYS LEAVE A COMMENT....I AM FEELING A LITTLE BIT UNLOVED.....HUGS TO ALL, MARY

THANK GOD IT IS FRIDAY :)

TODAY I AM THANKFUL FOR ....


THAT GOD HAS A PLAN FOR ME, SOMETIMES I THINK I KNOW WHAT IT IS, OTHER TIMES I HAVE NO IDEA, BUT I TRUST THAT HE KNOWS WHAT HE IS DOING, SO JUST GOING FOR THE RIDE AND TRUSTING !


MY 88 YR OLD MOM...OH I COULD WRITE A BOOK ABOUT MY MOM!  SHE INSPIRES ME, TRULY, WITH SO MANY HEALTH ISSUES, SHE JUST KEEPS ON GOING...SHE STILL DRIVES ONLY IN THE A.M., STILL READS HER BOOKS EVEN THOUGH SHE HAS MACULAR DEGENERATION IN BOTH EYES,  USING AT NIGHT IN BED A FLASHLIGHT TO SEE THE WORDS (WE  HAVE BOUGHT HER THE KINDLE AND ALLTHE GADGETS,, BUT SHE REFUSES TO USE THEM AND MAKES US TAKE THEM BACK  - BECAUSE WE SPENT TO MUCH MONEY)...SHE HAS BURIED EVERYONE SHE EVER KNEW, SHE IS THE LAST BUT NEVER DOUBTS  HER FAITH  OR  GOD...SHE HAS LIVED  THROUGH THE DEPRESSION AND SURVIVED, BUT MOST  IMPORTANTLY  MY MOM AND MY DAD (WHO DIED IN 04)  TAUGHT EACH OF US UNCONDITIONAL LOVE! i TOLD YOU SHE INSPIRES ME....I AM SOOOOOO THANKFUL FOR HER!!!  OH AND IT WAS WATCHING HER THAT I LEARNED TO SEW!!!!


32 YEARS AGO, I MARRIED A REALLY  GOOD GUY, DAVE, MY HUBBY AND I AM THANKFUL THAT GOD PLACED HIM IN MY  LIFE....YES HE IS  OBSESSED WITH THE CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS AND I MEAN OBSESSED - GOES TO EVERY GAME IN CHGO, WATCHES EVERY GAME WHEN THEY ARE OUT OF  TOWN, AND DURING THE YEAR WE GO TO SOME OUT OF STATE GAMES - LIKE ROADIES!!   SOMETIMES I CAN TAKE IT OTHER TIMES I CAN'T, BUT IF THAT IS THE WORST THING...WHY AM I COMPLAINING.   HE IS THE  BEST FATHER TO OUR 3 YOUNG ADULTS...HAVE NICKNAMED HIM THE "DISNEY DAD" BECAUSE TRULY HE  CAN NOT SAY NO TO  ANY ONE OF  THE THEM...YES THEY COME TO THE GAMES TOO EVEN THE OUT OF STATE ONES, I TOLD YOU HE IS OBSESSED!   BUT  I  LOVE HIM  AND WOULD DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN....:)


OK HAPPY FRIDAY EVERYONE!  HOPING TO GET SOME SEWING DONE OVER THE WEEKEND AND HOPE i HAVEN'T GIVEN ANY ONE A HEADACHE WITH THIS PURPLE BACKGROUND....OH I JUST LOVE TO AMUSE MYSELF...


HUGS,


MARY

Thursday....What I Am Thankful for Today!

Hello Fellow Bloggers,

What I am Thankful for today...

This should have been the first one....really Thankful For a phone call from my youngest away at college, Emily...called just to talk, spent an hour on the phone while getting ready for work...I am blessed because what 18 yr old calls their Mom just to talk, Thank you God for Emily, Kate and Mike!!  :)  my three special blessings...

1.  Sheep - now I know you think I have really lost it but on my way to work today I passed a small farm that had sheep grazing in the field and I thought "Oh how cool"!!!  I live in the suburbs south of Chicago, so we have little pumpkin farms and stables that you can go horseback riding, so to see Sheep was really something I thought!

2.  Moisturizing Cream for your legs

3.  A Warm Car - cold here this morning in the 30's

4.  Warm Kiss from my Cooper

5.  Smiles - I went into Panera again today, like I do everyday to get my British Breakfast Hot Tea, and I purposely smiled at everyone I came in contact with, today some smiled back some just looked at me, but it made me feel good smiling :)

6.  Clothing - A warm sweatshirt I am wearing today, I am thankful for that, some people are less fortunate.
So then I started thinking about all of the people that don't have warm clothes for the winter...

7.  Radio in car - was jammin to Taylor Swift and Kelly Clarkson!!

8.  Sun, Sun, Sun love the Sun, let there be light!!  That is my motto - don't care that it is cold...just please God make the Sun come out and it did!!

9.  Anyone reading my blog and commenting - Thank You :)

Hugs,

Mary

SQS1

SMALL QUILT SWAP 1 MAILING DEADLINE:   DECEMBER 1, 2011

PLEASE EMAIL ME ONCE YOU HAVE MAILED YOUR QUILT!
coolmommary@fastmail.fm

Things I am Thankful for...

I was reading Megan's blog yesterday...Will Work For Fabric and she is listing everyday things she is Thankful for and I thought what a Great Idea...so today I am starting my little list or big list...

Driving into work today I was thinking "I am so Thankful for...

1.  The Sunshine...doesn't matter if it is hot or cold outside but I really need the Sun!

2.  My Pilates Instructor, Brenda, who is the most positive person in the world and always gives us a Great workout....

3.  British Breakfast Tea from Panera Bread and Toffee Nut Cookies....

4.  Cooper my dog

5.  Family

6.  A car to drive from place to place

7.  A Smile...I have found that whereever you go if you smile at people, they return the smile...total strangers smiling - it's wonderful!!

8.  A Warm Home

9.  My Health - Hands that can sew or wipe away a tear...

Ok now I am getting sappy, but I was thinking of all of these things as I drove...it was nice, made me Smile, Again....

Lots of Hugs to All of You,

Mary

Starting a new project....

Hi everyone or whomever is reading my blog today....

Pilates in the a.m., then ran errands then started on a new project...  Cut out background fabric and realized I didn't have enough..oh I hate that, but found new fabrics that I liked better...so made bias strips and traced pattern pieces..this one will be hand pieced.  I like hand piecing it relaxes me so am trying to get this together for the next week to work on.  Lately, I hate watching TV without something to stitch in my lap so that is what I am up to...

What are all of you working on??

I also want to update my blog I feel like mine is too clutered,  but don't want to pay money to have someone design one, so will be working on that too. 

Well, that's it for a Monday, will post pics when I get pieces basted down.

Hugs,

Mary

Oh he makes me laugh!!

So I was doing the Laundry and along comes my "helper" Cooper....well, he isn't really a helper he is more of a "give that back to me" kind of a helper...but he is my faithful companion....and he does make me Laugh... so this is what Cooper was up to this afternoon....in the third picture, well, he is just really showing off and as you can see, for some wierd reason, Cooper loves Mop Heads!!!  Silly Dog!!!

Another picture!

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A Little Peak....

This is what I have been working on this afternoon - now I have started to quilt it!  It started out as a flower, then I thought it need the little bird...then some borders...

Now for the quilting, that will be done tonight!

Happy Sunday Quilting....

Mary

Happy, Happy Sunday

Happy Sunday everyone!  Mid 60's today although the wind is like 40 miles an hour right now :(!!

So...what am I going to do today, light cleaning of house and then SEW!!!!!!!!!!

More to see later on today.... Oh the anticipation......(ok I am humoring myself here, I don't really believe anyone is reading this and anxiously awaiting what I am going to do...but it is nice to dream!!)

So will be back later.....

Have a Safe and Happy Sunday - fooling around with colors here!!! 

Bye for now,

Mary   

SQS1

JUST A FRIENDLY REMINDER: 

ALL SMALL QUILTS MUST BE POSTMARKED DECEMBER 1ST  FOR MAILING TO YOUR SWAP PARTNER....

Also, don't forget to add a tag to the back of your small quilt so the recipient knows who it is coming from and a little note if you want - describing why you choose a particular design, color, etc.  It just makes it more personal,

OK - so remember DECEMBER 1ST!!!  

Also if I haven't heard from you could you please drop me a note:  coolmommary@fastmail.fm letting me know your progress.  Thank  you!  Already 2 quilts have been sent!  Yeah!

They are turning out really pretty too!!!

Quilting Hugs to All,

Mary

AR-BE GARAGE DOORS, INC. - WE ARE IN A COMMERCIAL!!

My Husband's Company AR-BE GARAGE DOORS, INC., located in OakLawn, IL. is on the Chicago Blackhawks.com home page and our commercial is going to be aired in 1-2 weeks Pre and Post Blackhawk Games, Comcast and other Media Venues!!  We are a Corporate Sponsor for the Chicago Blackhawks, to see video click on Link:

That's my car and I am driving and those are my neighbor's 4 little boys who all play Hockey, so adorable!!!!  NHL VideoCenter Click the following to access the sent link:


AR-BE Garage Doors w/ Crawford, Bolland

This video can also be accessed using this link: http://video.blackhawks.nhl.com/videocenter/console?catid=813&id=134341


We are soooo excited about this! 

Hugs, Mary

Another Swapper just sent me pics....SQS1

Hi Ladies,

Another Quilt Swapper just emailed me hers is ready to go too....Oh my these are turning out just Beautiful!  I am not revealing what lucky lady is getting this one, but here are the pics:

I love the fabric and the colors....look at the teacup fabric, LOVE IT!!!!

Great Job Ladies.....Quilting Hugs to all,

Mary

1st Quilt done and sent....SQS1!!!!

Hi!!  I am sooo excited just heard from one of our SQS1 swappers and she has finished and this little Beauty is on it's way to it's lucky new owner.... 

Isn't it just Beautiful!!  Oh I love the colors!!  

Great Job Done!  Hugs, Mary

and one Sue Spargo table runner...

Just sewed the panels together, changed one thing, where the rick rack is added, I added a different fabric because I like it better...that's it for today!!

Hugs, Mary

You could say I am on a roll....

Ok, so this little stitchery I started about 4 years ago....just added borders to it - I just love, love Snowmen...so wanted to get this little one out of the way,

Hugs,

Mary