GMAMA UNPLUGGED

MY COMPUTER HAS DIED!!??

HELP !!!!!

WHAT TO DO???  WHAT TO DO???

CALL COMPUTER GURU SON

"MATTHEW, COME QUICK, I CAN'T WRITE MY BLOG POST

AND

I HAVE AN UPCOMING BLOG HOP

FLAGS ON STICKS"

TO HIS CREDIT, MATTHEW DID NOT ASK FOR DETAILS 

SUCH AS

"MOTHER, WHAT IS A BLOG HOP?"

DID I TELL YOU MY SON MATTHEW IS A GENIUS?

HE PUT ALL THE MONEY I INVESTED INTO HIS EDUCATION

TO GOOD USE.  YES, I AM A PROUD MAMA!

HE INVESTIGATED THE COMPUTER, AND

GAVE IT A REAL PROFESSIONAL GOING OVER

AND

THAT'S WHEN HE WORKED HIS MAGIC

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YEP, THE DARN THING WAS

UNPLUGGED

GMAMA IS A HAPPY CAMPER

ONCE MORE

Please visit a fun new Blog Hop

Flags on Sticks

My Day is MARCH 31st

Our Cheerleader is Thearica at Pig Tails and Quilts

HERE IS THE SCHEDULE

March 25th

Pig Tales and Quilts

Fishkopp

Marjorie's Busy Corner

Jane's Quilting

Seams To Be Sew



March 26th

Living with Purpose

Life In The Scrapatch

Devoted Quilter

Made By Me In Red

Quilting Quietly



March 27th

Bumbleberry Stitches

Quilted Delights

Red Quilts

On the Banks of Frog Creek

Words & Stitches

K and S Sweets and Stitching



March 28th

How arT you?

Just Let Me Quilt

Robin's Fabric Nest

Patchouli Moon Studio

CeLynn's Sunflower Patch

Ravelly1

In Stitches and Seams

March 31st

Grandmama's Stories

More Stars in Comanche 

MooseStashQuilting

Pampered Pettit

ShirleyC 

Farm Gate Creations



April 1st

Sew Incredibly Crazy

Quilt Doodle Designs

Buzzing and Bumbling

Why Knot Kwilt?

Creatin' in the Sticks

Meadowbrook

April 2nd

Thimblemouse & Spouse

Stitchin' By The Lake

Just One More Stitch

The Quilting Queen Online

Selina quilts

Whims And Fancies



April 3rd

DachsiesWithMoxie

Just Keep Swimming

The House on the Side of the Hill

Texas Quilting Gal

Madame Samm

RUFFLES AND DOLL QUILTS

RUFFLES 

AND 

DOLL QUILTS

Here is today's list of RUFFLERS from the Blog Hop "Think Ruffles"

Please check out the cute projects on these BLOGS....SEW SEW SEW cute!!!!

March 14^th

Thimblemouse and Spouse

Jane's Quilting

Bear Creek Quilting Company

Ipiece to Mary

The Quilting Queen Online

Miss Priss Quilts

Sew We Quilt ( yes moi, the ruffled one) 

AND NOW 

FOR SOME "LITTLE" ITEMS I'VE BEEN WORKING ON:

DOLL QUILT #1

DOLL QUILT #2 in progress

DOLL QUILT #3 "KEEN ON GREEN"

a scrap buster quilt

BLESSINGS

HAPPY TRAILS

WHERE DO HORSES GO?

A TRIBUTE TO A GREAT FRIEND

BUCK

(Disclaimer, I had to use a computer image of a horse looking like Buck because I could NOT find a picture of Buck in all my collection of web pictures. Boo Hoo)  

On this farm we have buried many a pet but never a horse.  Dogs, cats, hamsters, gerbils, birds, goldfish, rabbits, goats, but NEVER a Horse!  I guess I had never thought much about it since Buck has been here for 27 yrs and none of us can imagine looking out toward the back pasture and not seeing Buck!  Today, I only see a large backhoe digging your grave and tears fall.  

Buck was 3 or 4 yrs. old when he came to live here on The Farm.  A beautiful Buckskin youngster with a gentle spirit, curiosity of a cat, white mane, and an air about him that told you he knew THIS was home, You were His and He was Yours.  Horses came and went over the years but Buck was constant.  Offers to buy, sell, or trade remained that...Offers...nothing more.  After all, how could you take the Prince away from his castle?  Buck mentored all the other horses who came to live here for a time.  Some he accepted others he didn't.  You could pretty much tell the value/quality of a horse by the way Buck took to him/her. 

Springtime and A new baby was a source of immediate curiosity and the paternal nature would be revealed in his protective response.  After all, this was His Home and everything thing and everyone who lived here belonged to Him.

Yes, Buck, you captured our hearts from the first week you came to us.  None more than the heart of Tractor Man, who lovingly fed you daily.  You looked forward to your time with him.  Truth be told, I imagine you know more of Tractor man's secret heartaches than I will ever know.  You were a constant companion and confidante, ready to simply LISTEN when listening was all that was needed.  You heard more of my husband's troubles, sorrows, and ponderings than did anyone else.

Thank you for always loving us, for protecting us, for all the times you bore us on your back, and most of all the Friendship you gave so unconditionally for the past 27 years.  As I watch you being laid to rest beside the barn on the Farm you called Home for 27 yrs., I realize I will never see you again.  That pasture will be forever empty of your presence...that beautiful white mane flowing in the wind in younger years when you loved to race with the other horses.  You always won!

Today I am also reminded that as much as you were loved Buck, God did not create you with an eternal soul.  I am grateful that a hole in the ground is not the end for me.  I have an eternal home in Heaven with my Sweet Jesus.  Perhaps, just perhaps, on God's New Earth, I could wish to see you running in the wind just one more time.

HAPPY TRAILS OLD FRIEND

May We Meet Again

Lovingly,

Your family

                                                                               

WAITING FOR SNOW

Nothing is as frustrating as Waiting for Snow to fall...

especially in the Deep South!

 Here is our most recent snow adventure picture taken at Christmas 2011.

WE WAIT...

WE WATCH.... 
EVERY WEATHER BULLETIN...I DO MEAN EVERY!

NO SELF RESPECTING SOUTHERN SNOW WATCHER WOULD BE WITHOUT A LOCAL WEATHER APP ON THEIR PHONE

OR

 ACCESS TO SOMEONE WHO FEELS HE/SHE IS SOMEWHAT OF A WEATHER GURU
(Tractor Man fills that bill here on the Farm)

Here is the current Live Dopplar Radar! 
 I DON'T WANT NO STINKIN' RAIN

I WANT SNOW !!!!!!!!

SEW...

WE WAIT...

AND WE WAIT...

(I can hear the snickers of you who live in snow country, trust me, I understand your impatience with us southerners wanting snow and you Northern Folks being rather tired of the white stuff.
Please indulge those of us in the Deep South who don't get to see Snow but once every few years.

I ALMOST GAVE UP HOPE
UNTIL
AROUND 4:30 P.M.
SOFTLY ....
IT STARTED....
 TO...
 FALL...

Snowy Backyard

Snowy Tree

Snowy Barn
(My Favorite Picture)

Southern Snow
February, 2014

Blessings

SHE WHO SEWS BLOG HOP...MY DAY

SHE WHO SEWS

JAN. 30, 2014

GMAMA is working on an 

Extreme Sewing Room

Make-Over

and this 

Blog Hop provided the perfect excuse for sewing up some cool items for my upcoming new sewing room.

Simple Sewing Cover

Reversible Sewing Cover

Cup Cover Cozy

(Simplicity Pattern)

for

Sewing Tools

Cup Cover Cozy

We made this at Sassy Sewers

Cup Cover Under Construction

One More Cup Cover

Valentine Cup Cozy  (needs trim)

Dresden Plate Seat Pad

I took a memory foam desk chair pillow and made a slip cover

Reversible and 

Removable

( for washing)

Wall Hanging

for 

new sewing room wall.

I Love to Read

Close-up of the fabric

Nothing Fancy ...All practical items...Just Like the Two of Us!

Here we are on our 41st Anniversary!!!

TRACTOR MAN AND GMAMA JANE

41ST ANNIVERSARY LUNCH

Thanks to Madame Samm for her Vision and Expertise in Marketing.  A Big Pat on the Back for Carla who organized and kept us all on the same page!  Great Job Ladies!!  Thanks for helping make "SEW WE QUILT" THE TOP NOTCH BLOG HOP QUILT SITE THAT IT IS!!

She Who Sews

Blog Hop

Schedule

 

January 31

More Stars in Comanche

Stitchin’ By The Lake

selina quilts

Jane's Quilting

Baa's Amazing Adventures!

Quiltscapes

 Grandmama's Stories

Blessings

Gmama Jane

QUILTIN' ALONG WITH MY SASSY SEWERS ON RETREAT

QUILTIN' WITH MY SASSY SEWERS

LAKEHOUSE RETREAT

JAN. 2014

We did it!!  We, meaning my sewing/quilting group, the Sassy Sewers, went on our very 1st retreat!!  We have evolved from a group of ladies who didn't know each other nor had little in common except for our desire to sew, quilt, or learn to quilt, into a group of ladies with much in

common.  Funny, how that can happen, isn't it?  My husband, Tractor Man, had heard me complain for over 2 yrs about my need to find a group of ladies to stitch with so his response was finally, "Well, why don't you form your own group?"........AND that's EXACTLY What I Did!!  A few well placed announcements in 2 church bulletins, A few phone calls, and a Facebook invitation, and I had a resemblance of a quilting group.  One Problem, most of the ladies who came didn't know how to sew and wanted to LEARN HOW to quilt.  Ok, Drop back and punt, Jane.  You can do this.

That was October 2012....Fast Forward to Jan. 2014 and the following pictures will tell you how things are going!

Lakehouse

What a PERFECT spot for a retreat!

Winter on Lake Weiss

Arrival Time

7 degrees!!!

Eating...What We Do Best!

Janice is holding down the Sewing Tables

Hard at Work on our Project!

Fancy Folded Star...Moda  Bake Shop

 Here we are working on our stars

Shirley was our Teacher since she had already 

made one; which we ALL fell in love with and decided

The Fancy Folded Star would make a great Retreat Project

Jan, all alone in her own world...that's just a long white straw Ladies!

Half-Way Thru the Process...Now for the Folding!

Nancy's Star in Progress

Beautiful Cabin Bedroom Furniture!

Part of the Gang watching me climbing up the bank

where I went down to stick my toe into Lake Weiss

7 degrees

Supper Time

Nancy's Homemade Lasagna

 Side View of the Cabin

 GoodBye Lake Weiss...We'll be Back When Warmer Weather Arrives

THANK YOU TAMARA 

for sharing your beautiful Lakehouse for our 1st Quilting Retreat!

MY RED WHITE & BLUE FANCY FOLDED STAR...STILL IN PROGRESS

Thank you for indulging me by reading along as I shared pictures of my Sassy Sewers First Quilt Retreat.

God has been good to bring together such a close knit group of ladies and allow us to not only share our love of stitching but of fellowship and friendship too!

Blessings,