A Mom Story

Growing up, we spent summers in a camper in South Myrtle Beach.  We were there more than we were home which was great for a couple of kids.  As soon as the sun was up, we were on the beach...mom sunning it in a beach chair, my brother playing in the sand with the rest of the little boys and me in the water and walking the beach, thinking I was all that...and I was being 13 looking 18.  I was collecting boys like shells.  My mom was clueless, of course, because she was ancient at 32 years old...ancient.

This was about the same time that Jaws hit the theaters so a shark siting was BIG neighborhood news.  One day a man was fishing very near where my friends and I were swimming...and oh my gosh...he caught a shark!  It did look like a scene from the movie (though the shark was a bitty sand shark but still...)  Yes, everyone scrambled out of the water.  The crowd gathered around the great fisherman and his deadly catch...including my mother.

She was enthralled.

She gathered in closer to get a better look.

She took photos to document the event.

I was so confused...Mom doesn't care about sharks...

Fast forward...oh 35 years...I'm scanning Mom's photo albums just in case something happens...we can't lose these very valuable family history documents...

I find the shark photos...

...and I laugh.

Mom doesn't care for sharks.

Not. One. Bit.


Happy Mother's Day.

Crazy Busy Week

I look back and wonder how in the world I worked a "regular" job and got anything else done.  I am crazy busy which is a great thing.

The first part of the week, I was busting it to get a sample of Animal Crackers finished to send to Pattern Peddlers for their booth at market.  Yeah...I pretty much started and finished this quilt in a 24 hour period...from cutting it out to putting on the label.  There was copious amounts of coffee involved.

On Tuesday, I taught Animal Crackers at Sew Original in Boone.  We had a great ol' time.  One quilter was making the baby quilt for someone who has llamas...so she had her husband draw a llama for her applique.  It was super cute!

And we hung out at Sew Original playing with fabric...I mean working...

The rest of the week, I've been working on a very special project that is on a short deadline.  I'll be hard at this one all weekend and next week too.

Then this evening I got to visit with lots of folks I hadn't seen in a while as they came to Sew Original to congratulate Lee Monroe for getting published in Stitch magazine.  Being on the road, I've felt disconnected from a lot of my quilty friends.  I'm really going to enjoy being home.

Yeah...things are crazy busy but as Mrs. G says life is good!