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In My Mail…

June 11, 2018 by Jo 8 Comments

I am so behind on my mail again. I’ll explain more in another post why…for now let me just get you caught up.

I’ve had two deliveries come in…this is from Chris. She was estate sale shopping and bought some goodies to share with me! Wasn’t that sweet?

I’ve said it before and will say it again and again, I love the cards most of all the things that are sent. It’s a human connection. It’s a reassurance that someone else connects and likes estate sales too. I love it….but I also love the fabric she sent. Check out the fun farm print. There’s about a yard there. I’m going to have to think on where that can go. I’m thinking about making a pillow case for Hubby. He eats and work farm. He might as well sleep with it too! HA!!

There were some bits and pieces sent along too….fun.

More pieces these all seem to be about 3 1/2 inches so I’ll size them up for sure and put them in the 3 1/2″ scrap bucket.

What a fun little package. Chris also sent some money to help with charity quilting postage. I so appreciate that. I have another box that’s going in Monday’s mail.

My next package came from Andi in Wisconsin, our great neighbor state! Check out what she sent….. [Read more…] about In My Mail…

More Goodies for a New Sewist

May 14, 2018 by Jo 9 Comments

This is post two about all of the things that blog readers sent for my new little sewist.

An organizer with goodies came from Lisa W. The organizer is something she will love.

The layers come apart and all sorts of sewing goodies can be stored there. Lisa even stocked it!

She also sent a cute little box to keep her “sewing stash” in. Lisa included some fun goodies in the box.

A blog reader who chose to be anonymous sent some 6″ squares. It looks like there is enough to make a nice quilt top. How sweet to share.

These awesome fabrics came from Teresa. She asked what I could use and I suggested pillow case fabrics. Oh aren’t these fun ones….check them out. [Read more…] about More Goodies for a New Sewist

My Mail…

May 13, 2018 by Jo Leave a Comment

I’m WAY behind on my mail box posts. My dining room table has boxes of goodies on it that came after my I said that I could use some things for my Neighbor Girl. I’m going to try to catch up over the next week or so. If you sent something, please be patient with me.

My first box came from Tina. She sent some things for Neighbor girl including some five inch squares and some fabric for a pillow case. There were some strips in the bunch…those I am passing on to my daughter Kayla. She’s a family consumer science teacher. Right now they are doing a sewing unit. They’ve been make Scrap Vortex blocks and she could use some fabrics to provide a little better variety. You can read about it on Kayla’s blog.

Also in the box were goodies for me! Shirts, magazines and stitching goodies. How fun. The magazines are going to my bedside. I typically look at something for a bit before I go to bed.

There were a couple of Christmas fabrics in the box. I have a friend who makes Christmas things for veterans….so I added it to the box of Christmas fabric that Sandra from the Oelwein gals, sent to me. The box is here waiting for the next time I see my friend so it was easy to add Tina’s fabrics to the box.

Sandra was so sweet…she included stickers for the kiddos. I have one little girl that wants stickers on EVERYTHING!! This will be fun. I think I’m going to save out the smiling stickers and write on a paper, “My Mommy makes me smile” and then let them put smiley stickers all over the paper. I think it will be cute.

Another box of goodies came. This was from Sandy. There were cross stitch goodies. It seems cross stitchers are just as generous as quilters…I had no doubt they would be. There was a thread organizer that I want to check out….

And look! All of this was in there…. [Read more…] about My Mail…

A Franklin Type of Surprise!!

May 4, 2018 by Jo 4 Comments

You will never believe this. I sure don’t believe it and I have proof in my hands.

A box came in the mail. I got the mail and it came about the same time things were coming for Neighbor Girl. The mailman had brought several boxes that day and the childcare kids put them all on the dining room table and I planned to open them after childcare was over. Childcare was done…I opened the packages. Yep, the things that people sent to Neighbor Girl were there. I was so impressed with all the things….then they sat on the dining room table waiting for me to write a blog post about them, sort and figure out how to give them to her.

I went to write the blog post about the things that were sent to Neighbor Girl and there in between two boxes was a small box. That little box had slipped in between the other boxes and I didn’t see it. I opened it and was THRILLED!!

This box was not for Neighbor Girl. It was for me! I couldn’t believe someone had sent it. There was a small note in the box that said:

You might remember that a bit ago I said something about treadling on my Franklin treadle machine that my family bought me for my birthday. I wrote about the learning curve and how I had gotten to enjoy it. I also said something about hoping to find some more bobbins….and look what came! [Read more…] about A Franklin Type of Surprise!!

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