It is Saturday afternoon and I am having a very nice day!! The house and studio are clean. The fridge is full of yummy leftovers and I’m playing in the studio.

Gabrielle wondered why I would consider feeding 20 people. My theory is  if you’re gonna cook, you might as well cook big!! It is no more work than cooking for four. Last night we celebrated the tenure of our Realtor and good friend Dean Mitchell as the chairman of the board of The Living Room, a daytime shelter and resource for homeless and at risk women and children. Steve is Treasurer of the board. It was a beautiful evening and we set up tables on the patio. I served grilled tri-tip, BBQ chicken (purchased freshly cooked from my favorite market), a broccoli/cheese/egg dish for the vegetarians, wonderful bread, Caesar salad, rosemary roasted potatoes (purple, red and Yukon gold – so pretty). Appetizers, bean salad and desserts were provided by others.

Everyone was gone and we had done as much clean-up as we wanted by 9 pm. So I came up here to watch the movie – Enduring Love – and fused some post cards and did some hand stitching.

Pam had this admonition on her blog which was from the brother of an artist friend whose life was ended prematurely – "Take whatever we have and what little time we have and create." Then there was Mrs. Mel telling us all is right with the world because she was finally back in the studio making art!!

These postings made me reflect back on my week of a quilt a day and how happy I had been. Every night at dinner, I would say to Steve. " I have to go finish a quilt and I am so happy!"

And so I have been happy this morning making some new post cards. The first three have been sent to Virginia Speigel for her Fiber Art for a Cause. Click on her name if you feel compelled to buy one. All proceeds go to the American Cancer Society. I sent 2 in earlier this month and felt compelled to do some more. Here they are:

Update: My cards sold out in about an hour!

This is Purple Rain (Purchased by Karey Bresenhan for the Collection of the International Quilt Festival)

This is Mallory Brook Reflection (cj rosager Collection)

This is Dot.Calm 2 (Collection of Anna Haase)

The next two are being mailed out by me. Dot.Calm 3 is going to someone special and the sunflower is going to my sister-in-law who is undergoing chemotherapy for a tumor in the uterus.

So, you can see why I am happy! Been making little fiber gems and you know I am crazy for the fiber!!