Quilts With Love
"What's done in love is done well." --Van Gogh
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Saying Goodbye
10 years of longarm machine quilting for others and now it's time to retire. :)
If you would like to contact me, my email is: quiltswithlove @ sbcglobal.net <----no spaces, of course.
Visit me on my new blog: http://regardsmrslove.blogspot.com/ I wish a celebrity a happy birthday every day!
Sunday, January 9, 2011
New Years Resolution: Get Back To Blogging!
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Introducing...The Quilts With Love Studio on Etsy
Friday, November 5, 2010
Please.
Thank you.
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Attention Twilight Eclipse Fans!
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Follow my friend/TQC member Elizabeth's link to see details and info about this wonderful quilt--->
http://emsewandsew.blogspot.com/2010/06/eclipse-give-to-win-quilt.html
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Give us a break and take one!
If you have followed my blog for the last few years, you have noticed that I haven't been keeping up with it for quite a while. I was diagnosed with Lyme disease in July 2007. I now have it under control, but it triggered Fibromyalgia. I am currently part of a chronic pain program through a hospital near my home. It's a wonderful program, however I'm learning to make some temporary life changes. I'm learning to pace myself better and slow down as I get my pain under control. Once I have it under control, I will slowly add more activities to my life. Blogging is an activity that I need to slow down on for now. I am still quilting, however just not as much right now.
Soon I'll be back to the 'ol Vivian and do more blogging and quilting, but for now I'm taking a break. Take care and I'll be back before you know it!
Friday, April 2, 2010
If Life Gives You Lemons...
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Here's a great recipe I got from an episode of Barefoot Contessa with Ina Garten:
1 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice (5 to 6 lemons)
3/4 cup superfine sugar
1 cup crushed ice
Place all the ingredients in a blender and process until completely smooth on "puree." Add to 4 cups cold water. Serve over ice. (I made the lemonade base and froze it for future lemonade.)
I squeezed enough lemons the other night to make about 9 pitchers of lemonade! We're all set for summer! :)
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Monday, March 29, 2010
A Country Baby
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I'm headed up to the "country" aka Utah to see this cute little "country" baby soon. So this is fleece blanket #3 for him. Can a baby have too many blankets?
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Now, get back to work Grandma! Lots of quilting to do!
Thursday, March 4, 2010
The Mystery Object
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...but figured that would be a little dangerous. Next I considered using a credit card or a spatula. No time. So I took of driving and eventually the ice began to melt and I made it to my destination safe and sound.
Later that day I put a comment on my Facebook 'wall' about the experience with ice I had had that morning. I received many comments from friends giving me suggestions about what to do next time. Later that evening, at a ladies dinner at my church, a friend (who read what I had written on Facebook) told me she had a gift for me. It looked something like this one...
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Do you know what this is?
We had a good laugh about it. Later, I returned to my seat at the dinner. With a big smile on my face I showed the ladies at my table the gift I had just received. I held it up for all to see it. I expected them to laugh about it too. But their reactions surprised me. With puzzled looks they asked, "What is that?" I said, "It's an ice scraper!" One said, "Oh is that what one looks like?" I forgot that I was sitting with California natives, who had never even one!
Well, on Christmas morning, look at the gift I got from Daughter #2....Another ice scraper. But this was is fancy one! It's from Brookstone. I think my daughter gave it to me as kind of a gag gift, never thinking I would actually ever use it. Unless of course, I found ice on my windshield here in Yorba Linda again! But guess where I got to use it?
In Utah in January, when I got to visit my grandson! Here I am scraping the windshield. (Actually this picture was posed. My DH did the scraping for me while I waited in the car with the heater running! But he really did use my ice scraper!)
And this is my grandson with his mom, Daughter #1, in Utah in his new snowsuit. Poor little guy lives in the freezing snow. The snowsuit's a little big, but I'm sure he'll grow into it soon enough!
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Now get back to work, Vivian!
Saturday, February 20, 2010
An Unexpected Package
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Saturday, February 13, 2010
A New Member of the Club
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Below is the first picture I saw of Jay. It came over on my cell phone (via text) from my son-in-law. It was love at first sight! (check out that blonde hair!)
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Now back to quilting! Lots of little boy quilts to make for my grandson!
Friday, December 4, 2009
Busy, Busy, Busy
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Friday, November 27, 2009
Sharing
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Monday, November 23, 2009
Special Things
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