I'm on a roll

Or I have lost my marbles. I'm not sure which.

Back in the day when my kids were little, Quik Trip had squarts. For their 50th anniversary, they sold them again. I bought 2 thinking this would help me get the water I am trying to drink in. I like that they have a lid and a straw and they are reusable. I admit it, I am addicted to QT tea but not all of the plastic cups that I really don't like to keep and have to throw away them away daily was making me feel guilty. I have given up the water bottle habit and gone to the filtered water pitcher. The first day, I remembered what I didn't like about squarts. They sweat. They sweat A LOT. I also remembered that I didn't like it back then either and made myself a squart koozie like I had done before.

I walked into my brand new QT close to my house and the young guy working there commented that he liked what I did with the squart. He said he would pay me to make him one. I told him it wasn't necessary and asked what color he would like. The one I had looked like rainbow sherbet and kind of frilly.

His eyes lit up and he said blue and black so I went to get the colors he requested and made it a little more manly. When I took it in to him, he was busy so I just dropped it off and went about getting my tea. The next thing I know, he is talking loudly about how cool it is and telling someone to make sure I don't leave. He brings a girl who works there to me and says "This is her, this is the lady I told you about." Then he tells me that she wants one too and hands me some money and says to not even think about not taking it. He keeps saying "This is so cool, I hate the way the cups sweat." I asked the girl what color she want and she tells me blue and green. Here I go back to my least favorite place to get some more thread. She loved hers too.

I had actually started making one to fit the QT cups for a girl at work who is also addicted to the tea and carries it around with her from office to office leaving little puddles everywhere she goes.

My daughter B liked it and I gave her the sherbet colored one I had made first since she needed a squart too. Then there needed to be one for grandson C I used the blue and black and made a different design for his. Next came a call from my son in law J asking for an orange one.

My niece saw those and wanted a pink one then her 3 year old said he needed blue.

Someone at the night job saw me working on them and asked for a green one.

Then Saturday, I had 4 other people ask for one.

The girls at my day job wanted one so I've made 3 there. I've created a monster.

I still don't have one for myself. I just "test" the one I just made each time.

I have to admit, it is fun to be able to crank something out in a short amount of time and for little money and be useful.

I thought about selling them on etsy but I see that there are already a few people doing that so I will just keep on doing what I do and if someone wants to pay me for them, I will let them and if they don't I'll just give it to them.

What kind of flower are you?

My daughter Deana wrote the most beautiful tribute to "her mother's mothers" for Mother's Day. She picked a flower that reminded her of each of my grandmothers, my mother, my mother-in-law and for me and then wrote something about each of us and told why she picked that flower for us. She took the photos of each of these flowers herself. It was so touching.



The coincidence here is that I had tried several times to get on the computer Sunday to post a tribute to my mothers before me and put on photos of them and to my daughters who are all mothers now but couldn't get on. Even though Ang's baby isn't due for a couple of months, she is still a mother.


I am going to swipe the part she wrote about me to show you. I hope she doesn't mind. :) I tend to "borrow" her pictures quite often. She and her husband have quite an eye for taking beautiful photos. I have the eye, something just happens between when I see what I want to take the picture of and when I see what I took the picture of. I am so thankful fo rdigital cameras! I delete more than I keep.


Danetta...My Momma. The BEST...BEST BEST mom a kid could ask for. I know a lot of people say that because you're supposed to, but really, I LOVED having her as my mom growing up. She was just the right mix of smart, and pretty, and fun, and silly, and mean, and good. She would dance when she cleaned the house, and let us skate across the freshly waxed kitchen floor. She made us clothes, and every single meal. I have always had silly names for her, Mo-Mo, Mommafro, Mommy Poo. Today she's the person I talk to every day. She's a very different mom now in my mind from the mom I had growing up. Not that it's a bad thing, just that the mom I needed then, is not the mom I need now. And I think that's what I love most of all about her. She is always EXACTLY what she was meant to be when God decided she was supposed to be my mom. So why is the most important lady in my life a little daisy? I guess because it's so unassuming, just like her. But tell me, who doesn't smile when they see a daisy?
They brighten any day.
















I saw this on a blog I was looking at today and it made me wonder. I love to take these little quiz things so I thougth I would check it out. Go ahead, have some fun and let me know what kind of flower you are and if you agree with the description they have to match the flower picked for you.
http://www.thisgardenisillegal.com/flower-quiz

They say I am a sunflower - "When your friends think smile, they think of you. There is not a day that goes by that you can't find something good about the world and your fellow human."

Star Quilt A Long

I ventured out yesterday after having lunch with Brenna and her family to purchase the fabrics for Amanda Jean's 2nd quilt-a-long. This one is going to be various star patterns. I think this is what I have chosen to make my version. The fabric underneath is what caught my eye first when I went in. I think I will use it for the setting blocks. Then I found these fat quarters to go along with it. I will use the white ones for the lighter pieces and go from there. I still have to get the background fabric though. let the fact that the background fabric I had in mind for this is more of a cream color than white when I focused in on this combination. Now, it's back to the store... OH NO.

Growing up, these were my very favorite color combinations. When I was in 16 and got my very own room for the first time since I was 19 months old, these were the colors I chose to decorate it. My great-aunt Iva crocheted me a pillow in these colors to put on my bed.

Happy May Day

This day always reminds me of the time when my kids were little and the teachers at school had their class make little May Baskets and told them to give them to someone to make them happy. Deana promptly took hers and hung it on the door of the little man across the street whose wife had recently died.
It was such a big gesture from such a sweet little girl.

Look how sweet!

Who knew when I started this goofy little piece of my life that anyone would even read it much less tell me that they enjoyed visiting. Thank you Aunt Jo you really make my day too.

I would like to pass this award on to:

Linda at All Stitched Up.
Linda was one of the first "strangers" to visit my blog and has helped me in so many ways since then. It is a real treat to see beautiful items she is making and blogging about.

AmandaJean at Crazy Mom Quilts
I've never seen anyone who can accomplish things like she does and it is always such an inspiration to see her work. I love looking to see what she beautiful combination she will come up with next.

G'G'Ma at G'G'Ma Quilts.
She too does beautiful work and has such sweet stories.

I know these ladies get this type of award all the time but the really do make my day.