Poppy Power!

A year ago or so, a student of mine gave me some wonderful vintage poppy seeds. I planted them in a February snow like she told me to do. The first year they did ok, but this year they are out of this world! They are at least three feet tall and are beautiful!


Look at this one, it has the prettiest ruffles to it all with the same set of seeds!


I just love looking at these poppies and I wish they would bloom even longer than they do. I have a current on going block of the month called the Secret Language of Flowers. A couple of month's ago I choose to do a poppy. The meaning for poppies is consolation. I did a bit of google research to get a little more information on why that was. Consolation just seemed a little random to me.

We'll it is not random at all! There was a poem written during World War I called Flanders Fields. Apparently in the fields were there was a lot of blood shed poppies would grow. How appropriate, a bright red flower! Now all Commonwealth countries(Australia, Canada and United Kingdom) celebrate Remembrance day on November 11. On that day they wear Poppies! After I found all of that information consolation didn't seem all that random for the meaning of a poppy.

(Not I just changed my post! The meaning of poppies is not courage! I just looked at my square, it is consolation! I just changed it throughout my post.)

Talk to you later,

Easter Fun!

I am finally getting around to posting some fun Easter photo's! Here is my 14 year with the required bunny ears above his head, it's Easter you know!


Here are my two youngest and of course we again see the required bunny ears!


We still love each other even though we fight all day long!(not me but the two little ones! Ha!)

Tomorrow I will get back to crazy quilting, I just had to post a few fun pictures of my family!

Talk to you later,

Happy Pink Saturday!

It has been quite awhile since I participated in Pink Saturday, but I just decided it would be fun to do today. This is block #4 of the wall hangings that we are doing for MCC. It is for April and of course, the theme is Easter. I am afraid there are two of us who already want to buy it! I have made this block three other times in jewel tone colors and in a larger size and I still don't personally own one! This one is smaller in pastel colors and I just LOVE it!

Have a very Happy Easter and a wonderful Pink Saturday,

MCC Crazy Quilt Update

It has taken me awhile to get up the courage to give you an update on how the MCC sale in Hutchinson went. The Pansy crazy quilt went for $575.......the range of emotions that went through all of us was varied. We are so used to our quilts going for around $1750 that we were just a bit disappointed and speechless. I can honestly say that every year our skills improve and I have seen a dramatic difference in the first few that we donated to now. It honestly was the BEST one we have ever donated. I was frustrated with the auctioneer(he called it a wall hanging), it measured 50 x 60 inches....hmmm.... and started the bidding at $100. They have always started at $500. Perhaps the economy has finally hit the MCC sale, I don't know. But here is what it boils down to. The MCC sale is not about how much the quilt makes. It is a heart issue. When you give, you give from your heart and not worry about the rest. All of us truly gave from our hearts and that is all that is required of us. Did the small price hurt my pride? Maybe just a bit, but the sale is to raise money for those who have been victim's of natural disaster's. Not to bolster my pride in how much it goes for.

Anyway, for those reason's we will donate again! We had already made some decision's to change the type of crazy quilt we donated and it turned out to be good decision's after the outcome of this year's sale. We are going to do 12 different wall hangings measuring 14 x 14 that feature something significant about each month. I have three of them pieced and I passed them out at the sale. The cream one at the top is for January and it is going to be a Snowflake theme.



This one I am sure you can guess February with a Valentine Theme.


Of course, this one is going to be March with a St. Patrick's day theme.

Anyway, I'll keep you posted as I get other squares posted, 9 more to go!

Talk to you later,

Cold Rainy Day Here...

Outside may be cold and gray, but the Daisy Girl is here to brighten you day!

Have a good day and I'll talk to you later,

Color Play

I am working on block #7 of my Secret Language of Flowers series. I made these two squares to see which one would work best.

I let you guess which one I decided to use and what flower I am doing next......

Talk to you later,

Dutch Hyacinths

I just finished these Dutch Hyacinths for a class I am teaching this week. Nothing like getting them done at the last minute! I don't know if any of you remember a cartoon that Bill Cosby did called "Little Bill", but in one of the episodes all the kid's have a preschool program and they sing, "Spring is here, Spring is here, it's the best time of the year!" I would have to agree with that!

Talk to you later,