Good Sunday Morning I hope today is as wonderful as yesterday.  I got so much sewing done I am amazed.  I sandwiched my scripture quilt which I am going to have professionally quilted.  I finished the top piece of another quilt and I completed the 2 blocks on the Ester quilt well I got them to the hand sewing part lol and I got another Kansas dust star almost finished all in one day!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If I could sew like that every day I would be finished with Christmas by the end of the next week lol.  I also found the comic book boards that I watched a tutorial on for organizing 2 yards or less of fabric with.  I found them on Amazon.com they were $12.41 for 100 7inX10in boards.  They will be here around Thursday of next week so I am finally going to get organized.  If anyone has a unique way of storing the mounds of scraps that comes with quilting that you just cant throw away please drop me a comment I also have 1000's of spools of thread and ribbon and everything else that comes along with a 35 year habit lol.  I am right now committed to making my very small sewing/cake decorating room as organized as I can without getting too OCD.  So today is my sister Anna's 70th Birthday I want to wish her a very happy birthday even if she is working!!  We are going to celebrate tomorrow starting with my sisters Conni and Nancy and myself going over and helping to clean her house (her house is not dirty but every year we have Thanksgiving at her house) so we are going to do the things that she isn't able to do mopping, dusting (if you could just see the as she calls them collections she has dusting is a big deal lol) and maybe if I can some organizing for her.  Then we "the sisters" are taking her to lunch and then the guys as they get off work are coming over to trim trees, bushhog the pasture, clean out the barn do the "Manly Things" that she can't do.  I may even surprise her with a truck load of limbs for the goats too that helps me to haul off some of the debre I have around lol (shrubs and tree debre) Joe is making a pot of his famous pinto beans, we are going to have a roast with the trimmings potatoes, carrots and onions, pickled beets, cole slaw, macaroni salad, and Anna's famous cornbread.  So we will be busy tomorrow and in there somewhere I have to fit in a test that the Dr. ordered lol.  All is well in the family lol

Today is going to be a long day I have been up an hour already and it's only 6:30 going to take Joe's Nephew to work at ( so in the mean time I'm  going to sew and then when I get back I'm doing my Bible Study for tonight go shopping with Nancy and Conni and try to sew some more .

I am praying that if your not up on current events and how the Bible plays into it that you would seek out a person, book, Pastor or church to help you get started in knowing how this all affects us and how it will affect us in the close future.  I am not going to get on a Political tangent but folks we can no longer have our heads stuck in the sand.  I am not against any ones rights being taken away.  I am not against any ones beliefs but in the same breath I am not going to stand quiet and allow my rights to be taken away either.  If it's fair for any Religious Group to have rights then it should be fair for my Religious Rights to be allowed.  If I choose to believe that marriage is a Holy Right between 1 man and 1 woman, I have that right to believe.  I'm not saying that I condemn anyone for thinking otherwise (God is the only Judge) I just am tired of having it SHOVED down my throat.  Why would one group be allowed to overpower another group?  If Chick fi la can say how they believe so can I.  Why do we have to go to such extremes in a Country that was founded on Christian Values to the right to Religious Freedoms to Fight for what is Right?  How come Americans who speak English have to learn another Country's Language to be able to communicate with them in OUR Country?  I think somehow we have gotten it turned around and so backwards that we can no longer see what is right.  OK I'm stopping I said I wasn't going on a Political Tangent lol.


I pray for you today to find a happy place within you and that you will share that with someone.  Reach out with a smile, a kind word, or a hug.  If you can afford it bless someone with a meal, a new shirt, or a small child with a doll or truck.  God will bless you with 10 times what you bless someone in need with.  My sister Conni has a tenant in the hospital and we went to check on her the other day.  This woman has no family here, we found out she has no food in her house, no vehicle, of all the things she doesn't have no family hit me the hardest.  I can't not imagine laying in a hospital and no one coming to visit.  I watched as we walked by some of the other rooms and realized that their are a lot of folks laying in there that have no one.  Maybe that is what you could do just go visit someone and take a bouquet of flowers I'm sure the nurses know who doesn't get visitors.  It saddens me that we have become a Nation of uncaring people.  If you think I'm wrong just watch those around you and how they treat one another.

Today's Tip:  As I'm working on a quilt I have a notebook that I assign to it.  This allows me to keep the instructions together I also make an extra copy of the templates (if it's a paper piece) to put with the instructions so if I want to make the same quilt or block another time the templates are with it.  I glue an envelope to a piece of paper to keep any plastic templates that I have with the instructions or punch holes in the top of the envelope if needed to be able to put it into the binder.  I hope this is helpful HAPPY SEWING!!!!!!!

I have been reading a lot from the Old Testament these days and I can only imagine what will take place in the future.  Today I am Reading from Zechariah 1:16 & 17  Therefore, thus say the Lord, "I will return to Jerusalem with compassion: My house will be built in it,"  declares the Lord of hosts, "and a measuring line will be stretched of Jerusalem,"  "Again, proclaim, saying 'Thus says the Lord of hosts, "My cities will again overflow with prosperity and the Lord will again comfort Zion and again choose Jerusalem,"'"