SHQ Show & Tell (incl Mirror Mirror), Anniversary dinner, Death by Chocolate Trifle, Pat/Jan/me

Thank you all for your kind emails and texts on my ''unscheduled'' blog entry. There are 2 excellent women to follow on FB:

-Heather Delaney Reese

-Heather Cox Richardson

Both are political commentators, putting themselves out there to continue to tell us the truth.

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HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO US!!!!! 

I headed out to quilting on Thursday (5/28) after my honey packed the car.  I had 2 people who couldn’t make my class in May, so I got them started on what they had to get done, and worked on my QoV blocks the rest of the time.  We had some lovely show and tell:

and since Carolina was finally back from her 54 day cruise, I finally took in my MIRROR MIRROR quilt as well (she is crazy about the color teal, so I wanted to make sure she had a chance to see it): 

I had forgotten that border of 2-1/2 inch squares all around it.....you don't see those when it's on the bed!

When I got home, Marvella came over for just a bit of cutting instruction, and then I set my hair and read my book in the late afternoon, after which Michael and I changed clothes and headed out to our anniversary dinner at 131 Main:

We split a Ceasar Salad:

then I had grouper (which my dad ALWAYS ordered if it was available, once they moved to Florida):

and Michael had crab cakes: 

We finished off the evening with a warm brownie, a scoop of vanilla ice cream and this fabulous white chocolate/dark chocolate sauce:

  It was a lovely evening and a wonderful anniversary….21 years!

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Friday morning (5/29) I was up and out early to pick up Pat and head to Matthews for a visit with Jan: 

We had a lovely time talking and we decided to have lunch at the sit down restaurant where she lives…and it was EXCELLENT!  Pat brought a bit of show and tell:

and we finally headed home around 2 PM, and for some reason I was absolutely exhausted and spent the afternoon reading my book (after baking a chocolate cake).

I finally finished THE CORRESPONDENT and it was EXCELLENT!  I wasn’t sure I would like it…(the entire book is just a series of letters) and it took just a bit of time to get into it….but it was a truly lovely book, I highly recommend it!!! 

Around dinnertime I finally had some energy and Michael and I put together our second trifle….DEATH BY CHOCOLATE:

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I was up early Saturday (5/30) to get a customer quilt loaded up: 

Michael was watching the weather the entire day to make sure I could keep my machine going (thunder storms were all around us) and by dinnertime,  I was over half-way done:

I headed upstairs to change clothes and get ready for company.  Dave & Laura:

and Susan & Josh:

came over for another evening of Tripoli…with a brand new Tripoli board made by Laura & Dave: 

I don’t remember ever laughing so much while playing this game….even though I was the BIG LOSER!!!!  We served our new trifle and everyone liked it, with one guest labeling it SUPERB!!!!  I think Michael’s addition of the toffee bits really made it!!!

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On Sunday (5/31) I worked on the customer t-shirt quilt and got the quilting finished, and got all of the bobbin ends woven in and off of the frame.  I also got a skinny, dark border put on the HST quilt:

and then used all of my scraps to get an outer border on it:

Just before dinner I got a backing pieced for this quilt as I hope to load it up on Monday.

And 10 years ago...

-Food and Fiber Floozie: garden planting, Leila's quilt started, start of patriotic strata

-Food and Fiber Floozie: hidden wells started, Leila's quilt finished, cinnamon buns

-Food and Fiber Floozie: Elsie, cinnamon buns, golf cart parade, Cookie & Elsie a duex, new patriotic quilt top continues

*** I have my very own built in alarm clock....it's called a bladder and it does not have a snooze button. ***

*** If anyone gets a message from me about canned meat, don't open it....it's SPAM. ***

*** Did we totally wipe out ''ring around the collar'' in the 80's? I never hear about it anymore. ***