Lots of trees in winter

      The 2024 Christmas cards are ready to be written out and mailed. I was able to stamp, paint, add pastels and glue them all up and they are just ready to write out and send. All the mailing labels on the envelopes. Now just to gather up the strength to write them out!

Painted many strips

Over 100 ready to write!

Back to business

      I feel like a huge weight has been sitting on my head and have been unable to write and post. The longer it went, the harder it is to get back to it. I want to write and post, but I feel like I was stuck in cold molasses. I have been working on lots of things and I will post photos of them, but I am not going to try to go in order, but just get them out there.
    I am posting what is on my wall at the moment- a very scrappy In and Out top (free pattern, Jo's Country Junction). I had made one before, but a ton of strips from Quiltdiva Julie had me try a scrappy low volume background one. I think it looks happy which is what I was going for.

     I think the Helene disaster has affected me deeply. I visited Asheville in March and drove through WNC and was stunned by the beauty and people. When I saw the places I had seen and photographed just totally devastated and left to fend for themselves, I tried to do what I could and still am. I sent quilts to Keepsake Quilting which they distributed with help (over 3,000), sent support to Samaritan's Purse (mudding out, rebuilding), Operation Rescue (brings donated campers to families in tents), Valley Hope Church (Christmas presents for families), Mountain River Campground (rebuilding), Montgomery Sky Farm (feeding thousands) and others that I vetted. All of these places have great followups on Instagram. Please let us not forget these fellow Americans who have lost literally everything, especially in winter and at Christmas.