After a week of M & M. it is very quiet around here. We took them to the airport today and tonight they are sound asleep in their own beds. After I got home from the airport, I got an urgent call from the church office that the newsletter was printing with odd fonts and bad photos. Oh oh – can’t have that. The problem is, I create the file at home on my apple then I take it in on a cd and open it on a pc and do the final edits and prepare it for printing on the magical Toshiba copier/printer. It prints on ledger, folds and staples from the computer so that the photos print quite well. Anyway, I fiddled with it and checked my links and decided to make a pdf and print – did the trick – it looks great. But I was at the office until 7 helping because of the delay.

Here are pics of Miles and Mia and their fused quiltlets. These were made with Mrs. Mel’s scraps which are prefused and many are cut into neat shapes or already fused into flowers and such. So this was just great fun for M & M.

Notice the bench with wheels in the lower right corner!

Mrs. Mel, Mia just loved your flowers!!

OK, now I have to get ready to run a guild business meeting tomorrow.

I have gotten many queries about why I moved my blog. Well, for one, the ease of adding a banner without going into the template, trying to figure out the HTML and where to add it. It can be done in Blogger, but in TypePad Plus, it is just plain easy. How do you like my new banner? Setting up TypeLists and Photo Albums is a breeze. There is no need for a site counter – it is part of the deal. There is a cost for this, but I think the options available and the ease of managing the site is worth it. Besides, I had to follow my daughters to the new neighborhood.

Today has been one of those days. Meeting at 8:30 am with Fr. Matt – back from a month of vacation. Did the final edits on the church newsletter, left it for proofing. Home to walk the dog and make labels for the Guild newsletter. Spent a little time with Mia and  Miles, who spent most of the day at the pool. Back to church to make corrections on the newsletter for printing tomorrow. Came home expecting to go out to dinner, but Mia wasn’t feeling well (I think she swallowed too much pool water!) so picked up take out and ate in the backyard – it was much nicer anyway. We enjoyed a show of silly dancing by Miles and some acrobatics by a recovered Mia.

Tomorrow is a sad day as we drive M & M and Steph to the airport. The good news is that I will be able to get back to quilting and creating again. Tomorrow morning M & M and I are going to zig zag the edges of their fused quiltlets, then I will get pics and post them.

This is a conversation between Grandpa Steve and Miles while driving in the car:

Steve: Miles, look at that big American Flag!

Miles: Actually, it is the flag of the United States. I’m right and you are wrong!!

Hope  you had a great fourth of July. We had lots of pool time and Uncle Mark showed up. Then we had a great barbecue in the back-yard with the adults consuming some fabulous Sonoma County Pinot Noir. Miles and Mia made fused quiltlets – photos to come tomorrow!

How many times could I hear Mia say. "Please come to the pool and watch me swim!!"  So I donned my new bathing suit with the pocket for my prosthetic and headed for the pool. I was so afraid the boob would just float away. It is sort of weird, but I think I can still enjoy being in the water. You are not going to see pictures of me in the bathing suit or in the pool!!
But, here is

Mia:

And here is my handsome husband with Miles.

DebR, this is just for you. These are the shoes I bought Mia yesterday. She almost slept with them on last night.

Here is cutie patootie Miles. (Notice my vanity license plate)

All this fun and I still managed to get the church newsletter done!!

Here I am. This is the new home for Crazy for Fiber! Welcome… Be sure to change your links to my new blog so that you will not miss any of my craziness!! This is still a work in progress. Give me a few days to get this looking super fantastic.