LOPEZ Girls have Flower Power fun for two full days and many smiles and chuckles later

Above is laurie Latta's original and FUN lady bug-these quilts are awesome and the sky is the limit! Flower Power is alot of fun!
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Every butterfly is different and fun and a whole quilt of butterflies is quite something!


We met in the Port Stanley school on Lopez Island. It was refurbished and was alot of fun to teach in. The bathrooms are outhouses outdoors (fancy ones) and the place is a wonderful visit to history and how kids learned in a different environment than now.

Below is Laurie of Lopez who is a teacher (retired) in real life and very sharp, witty and fun. She helped me by demo'ing all of the blocks and she didn't get to work on her own project but she did it willingly and happily because that is how she is.

Below is a photo of Laurie Latta's bird and flower. She was a slave in the class and she sewed samples and helped-she is my good friend who is a "cupcake" and all of those friends have to pay a price to be my friend. :0)

Barbara realized soon how creative this method is and she ran with it-who wouldn't smile with this fun bird in their garden?



Here is a garden worm that had us all smiling



Below is Ann who has the only quilt shop on Lopez-she is very creative isn't she? Nice gal too.

Nancy let me take a photo of her glasses which made me smile- I would have WM (Walmart) or KM (K-Mart) or TG (Target-Haha). Maybe GoodWill should brand their own glasses-
In truth the letters had bling on them and so you know I was envious. :0)

Below is Nancy who has the best outlook on life ever and she was so much fun. It is always fun seeing how ones flower garden progresses and she had a nice smile each time a new flower joined the bunch.


Backgrounds vary but the flowers are always pretty and Fun! I am working on new flowers and things to add on to these-great fun for me also. If you book me for a workshop, remember that day two is when everyone goes "AHA! and runs with the technique so we can get the harder flowers going. Not that they are ever hard, it is just "Out of the Box" thinking

Below is Annie who makes amazing glass jewelry, garden art and loads of other things with her husband Jimmy for the Saturday Market-if you go to Lopez, you must see her booth on Saturday's-so much fun in the summer there! But Annie just got a quilting machine so one wonders if she will have time for glass-know what I mean?



I am sorry to the girls I got from the behind's but I wanted to show the girl sewing and they helped block some of the light that wouldn't let me get a photo earlier. Lopez is a pristine, beautiful and creative place with Wonderful, creative and inventive quilters!

Back from Phoenix, Surgery and Nice Cousins and Friends

Phew! What an experience this last week has been! The week started out well in Prescott Arizona and the classes were lots of fun with really imaginative girls who were great to be with! Visited the most darling quilt shop downtown Prescott and spent lots of cash....
Packed my things into my rented car and drove to my Uncle Phil and Aunt Cora's house. Got there in time for lunch and I didn't feel hungry. We talked old times and then dinner time came and I felt tired but my back was hurting (again). About 2am I knew I was in worse pain than I thought and I thought it was heart related. Because my relatives don't drive any longer I didn't want to wake them so I packed everything up and using my GPS drove to a hospital an hour away. My gas light went on and I had to pump gas while having the dry heaves and a chip delivery man gave me a nasty look. I figured out later that at 2:30 in the morning, my hair a mess and me pumping gas with the dry heaves probably looked like I was drunk or something. Who else would this happen to?
Anyway, I made it to the hospital and spent all week there while they did loads of tests. The fourth day, they did a gall bladder surgery for a badly infected gall bladder with four stones over 2 centemeters,I have no idea what size that is.
And I have a spot on my liver which they took a biopsy of. I still have not heard what that means. I stayed two more days, went back and slept at my Aunt and Uncles house. I was MOST lucky that my cousin Mary Eleanor (my age) is an RN and came up every day to the hospital as my advocate and when I went to fly home, she took all of my luggage and handed it in so I would not have to lift anything. She is wonderful. Got to see other cousins who also helped in different ways and friends Curt and Joan Pintler while in the hospital also. I commented that it was lovely to get sick in a city where I had family. And lovely family. My hope now is that I can go back to Phoenix soon and visit my cousin Patty who is dear and funny and fighting cancer (her daughter is the RN).
I decided that photos of the trip would be fun to show....no photos once I got into the hospital though....
Sorry this sounds so long and drawn out. I love my family who were most worried and friends who wrote on facebook etc. It is nice to feel loved when you also feel so vulnerable. When you are alone in a city with no family, it is wonderful to count on letters (emails) from friends who send prayers and positive thoughts...and those who bawled me out for driving myself to the hospital as well. :0) lIFE IS GOOD AND IT IS GOOD TO HAVE GOOD HEALTH.