Tag: pillow

• Loss…

  A year ago tomorrow still seems all too vivid. Getting the phone call that said a decision had been made by my Aunt. She was ready to go home… to be with the Lord. After fighting a good fight she stepped back in order to let God do His will. The toll on this decision…

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  September 18, 2024

  Family

  21st birthday, aunt, awkward, birthday, birthdays, bittersweet, celebrate, celebrations, cousins, crafts, death, decisions, Family, grieving, Lord, love, memories, peach rose, pillow, present, stitching, Sunday, supper

• Caffeine

  Sometimes it’s good and a lot of times it’s not. Yesterday as I mentioned I was a bit panicky. I don’t always do well with deadlines. Procrastination was a word I knew well in school. It was a word I lived by literally. This project was nothing like procrastination though. As soon as we met…

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  August 15, 2024

  Family, Spontaneity At It’s Best

  birthday, caffeine, deadlines, dr. pepper, fabric, finished, God, grateful, panicky, patterns, pillow, presents, procrastination, school, sleeping in, stitches, strength, sweet tea, tractors, visualization

• Play Time… Learning

  Technically I still feel like I am an amateur myself. Using a machine is much different than the sewing I have been doing with cross-stitch using my hands without a machine. Yet I was fortunate enough to find some paw print and Americana dog fabric lately, in the hopes to have some fun with my…

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  June 18, 2024

  American Heritage, Are These American Ideals Gone?, Spontaneity At It’s Best

  accomplishments, art, aunts, cousins, effort, empowered, energy, fabric, food, girls, Grandma’s machine, Grandmas, heat, learn, love, lovingly teach, nieces, pedal, pillow, quilting, sewing, sewing machine, sewing machines, teach, time

• Sewing

  The last few days have been very intriguing. I have had three ladies who have reputations for being good seamstresses ecstatic about my new interest in sewing with my Grandma’s machine. Plus my new Brother machine. Which has been a big blessing for me as well. I just finished my helicopter pillow this evening. I…

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  June 11, 2024

  American Heritage, Modern American History, Spontaneity At It’s Best

  articles, Brother machine, exciting, finishing, hand sewing, home-decor, interests, lifestyle, needles, pillow, pillows, quilting, results, seamstresses, sewing, sewing machine, stitches, surgery waiting room, waiting

• One of My Projects

  This is just a glimpse into one of my other projects I am currently working on this week. I’m finally on the name and then I am hoping to have this made into a pillow for a gift. Right now I am only averaging a letter a day so hopefully I will still get it…

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  May 8, 2024

  Unique Prayers, Women

  cross-stitch, gift, glimpse, name, pillow