Homestead Heritage...

Took a break from cleaning and took Our first field trip...

Homestead Heritage.. has a little of everything. Homestead craft village at Brazo’s De Dios.

Started off with breakfast at Cafe Homestaed.

The barn, gifts and fine furniture.

I think this will be on my to do list...

Blacksmith Shop..

Homestead Gristmill

With working water wheel..



1st time I’ve ever been in a cheese cave.. 17 stairs down into a cave...



Granary, syrup mill, Potter’s House, herb garden, basket shop, farm, fiber crafts, woodworking school... and so much more.. amazing place.. the grounds were gorgeous. HomesteadHeritage.com

Thanks for the Memories...

Work ended for me Friday, May 18th. 27 years with the School District has come to an end. Everyone at work had a luncheon for me.

My co-worker, Penny Cook ended her 20 year shift also. 

She’s going on a cruise...and I have my bags packed and have moved to Texas to be with my kids and grand kids.

The tables were all decorated...

And lunch was served. 



It has been a wild ride for all these years... I have seen the district go through some great changes and not so great changes. I am glad I chose to leave this year.

I feel sorry for the sub that is filling in for me.

They have adopted a new Language Arts program, and this was delivered the day before I left. Yikes!

Finish...

5 mins here, 5 mins there... in between packing, my goal was to finish it before before I had to pack my machine away.

Quilting is done. It’s weird that each picture was taken minutes within each other and the colors are so off. The one laying on grass are the true colors.

I put this together last year.... and it moved from pile to pile, then hung for a while.. pattern in middle is not that dense but looking at the back it is ver scrunchy looking. I echoed the border, which took FOR-EV-ER!

It’s a Kim Diehl free pattern. I made it with leftover fabrics from another quilt. This label, to me looks like a badge! It was a leftover from the front flowers.


So now it’s done.

Crawford...

When we get to Texas, this is the house we will be staying at until we figure out where we want to settle down.

It belongs to my daughters ‘Texas Family’. Both parents have passed away within 1 1/2 yrs of each other and here it sits empty for the last year. It needs help and they are hoping we can bring some life back to it.

These are just some of the pictures...

Things have died off... some have over grown... and a lot of cleaning is needed.

It’s a beautiful piece of land.. 60+ acres...

Here is the work shop...

The garage..

I can’t wait to get there and help this wonderful family bring their parents house back to life.

Here is Kim’s house (daughter) who is my daughters friend.

They have about 5 family homes scattered throughout the property along with ‘Scott Airport’ landing strip.

And all over their property are blue bonnets!

Can’t wait to start the next chapter of our lives!

Waco, Tx...

We did the Waco run today...

Started out with breakfast.. at Chip and Joana Gaines (Fixer Upper) Magnolia Table

The wait was 1 1/2 hrs so we got a warm beverage to drink while we waited and the toured the take away portion of the place.

It was CHILLY..... wow!

Absolutely gorgeous restaurant. The food was spectacular! Home made tater tots, avocado toast, peppered bacon and biscuits and gravy. I didn’t take a actual photo of the inside.. I was in awe... and then Jo’s Mom came in and walked right by us! Our food was delivered in like 8 mins also.

Look at the bathroom!!

Then we went over to the Silo’s.. the Findery & Findery II.

Drove by a couple fixer upper houses, Jimmy Don’s, lunch and then a stop at the store and then home. I’m pooped!

Baby quilt is done...

A co-worker is having a grand baby boy due in a couple of months and asked me if I would make a quilt for him. Daughter in law picked “woodland theme” to decorate the baby’s room.

She is an older friend, so I sat down with her and looked on Etsy and found some material to what she described. She picked it out, then I bought it for her.

She said she would pay me for everything. Materials, time and quilting.

I agreed, knowing that she has no idea what all goes into making and quilting a quilt.

11 hours later, plus material.. she has a quilt. There is no way I am going to charge her and if I was, she would be flabbergasted at how much it would really cost. She is the sweetest friend. Amazes me that people think we can just “whip” these up and the cost is not very much. If they only knew!

And the softest backing EVER!

SOLD!

Went on the market Monday morning at 9:00, 4 hours later, a phone call.

That’s all it took! 60 days and we are on out way to Texas! Youza!!!

A little early... I am...

Here it is...

Happy Halloween... by Amy Bradley designs. Measures about 56 1/2” x 66 1/2”.

Without the binding on. 

It sat on the machine for like 3 days. I couldn’t get the courage up to free motion quilt it. So I just did an all over pattern. So I quilted it up, put the binding on..Did the sew on binding with the accent color in it.

And here it is... backing is pretty cute also.

When you look at the over all quilt, the faces don’t look bad with all the quilting lines on it. One of these days, I’ll get the courage. I want to buy the right rulers and get a different foot for the machine before I attempt it.

Looks pretty cute. I need to sew on the button eyes, then it will be done!

AAAHHHH!

Here it is! It’s for real now! We have climbed the mountain and it’s all down hill from here.

House hits the market next week. The photographer came and after 1 1/2 hrs of picture and drone taking we are ready to roll. My daughter in law snapped this picture while I was at work.

They have been here 2 weeks... and left this am.

Now I can get into my sewing rooms and start something up again.