…I don’t need my happy light, today. I’m emerging for a little blogging to let you know what I have been doing.

On Thursday, I awoke with a really obnoxious sinusitis. I usually have a cold or have allergies that cause an attack. This time it was brought on by exposing myself to below freezing temperatures. Before the last snow arrived, I was walking every day in the below freezing weather — not a good idea for me with the impaired sinuses.

Thursday night, Jayme and Mark (my son) arrived for a long week-end. We took them out to dinner and yesterday, Steve took them downtown while I stayed home and did hand quilting and rested. Last night, I made pasta for the whole family. Miles and Mia love playing rough house with Uncle Mark.

Today, everyone has gone out to the Columbia Gorge to go hiking. I took Maggie on a long walk. The snow on the sidewalks has mostly melted and is not so treacherous. Last night, the temp didn’t go below 32° for the first time in over a week. It was beautiful. The sun was shining and I didn’t even wear a hat.

I have been busy trying to get two pieces done to enter in shows. I have a lot of machine quilting to do on the Fragments piece. I also want to do some embellishment of some kind. I spent some time cutting the organza over the copper fabric.

I have a piece that I started at AQT that I have renamed "A Thin Place." A thin place is a Celtic term for a place where the veil is lifted and we get a glimpse of the divine — a kind of aha moment. Here is the piece at Tahoe:

It has hand dyed silk for the base and hand painted silk organza cut in pieces and laid over the top. I am having the best time doing hand stitching with pearl cotton and pearl silk. I am doing different little stitches on each rectangle of organza. I am really loving this piece.

I must run out and do some errands and prepare to feed the troops again. Tomorrow night we will go out for Mr. C’s birthday. I’ll be back early  next week.