A NEW YEAR! A MARK IN TIME!!!

A new year is always a mark in time! So, yes, we have alot to talk about, right?..Lori and I are looking into 2008 with alot of vision and of course, questions. Will we have interest in our shoppe in a steady, reliable trend or will we see slow growth? We have no idea. We aren't worried about it. Since, we hope to bring to the shop what we need and what other want also, it may take time to sort that all out too. We have plans to stay focused on history, bringing it into our monthly sampler classes that we offer. In January it is the Underground RR; as I have said before you can "get onboard" at any time during the year. This past week, my daughter Leah and her gals were here to enjoy Christmas celebration. Her girls were very interested in our summer use of time..focusing on children, with Jos' Little Women in June and Little House on the Praire in July..Leahs' oldest girl Maddie has Juvenile Diabetes. We want to do charity quilting atleast one Sunday afternoon a month, if not more..and I told her I wanted to start out our special quilting with her..since she was my granddaughter I wanted her to feel special..so I told her my idea of JDRF quilting and making quilts for her first and her sisters Ellie and Caroline (CC), and then move on from there; her friends and group...also I needed her to name her "foundation", she thought for just a little while with a sweet big smile on her face and piped up...lets' call it "Maddie and Ellies' Quilts of Hope"...isn't that just perfect...her hope is that they will find a cure for childrens' diabetes soon...she wears an insulin pump, these are great, but they must have the tubing changed every 3 days..so she must endure a new needle poked deeper into her skin than an insulin shot; this way, the tiny catheter can be anchored to her pump and into her system....she really finds this a hard, difficult procedure and is very tense during it and puts it off as long as she can..plus it is invasive into "her"....so please pray for the "cure" and also for tubing changes. She also thinks, along with Ellie, that the Wounded Soldier charity quilting we also plan to do as "great"..Her little baby sister CC will be added as a subtitle in her quilting later...(cute)...She is only 9 girls! What a special gal..and her sisters are also unique! Why not? they belong to our daughter! ha ha....We also enjoyed our son Kevin and his wife Mindy and baby girl Coralynn...Cora could not get enough of her cousins and especially CC...Cora is only 18 months but we actually saw her "grow up" a little bit more being around these active, creative gals!..We connected with our son Steve and his wife Lori and kids; Andrew, Alyssa, Kirsten and Meg online with a video chat for a few minutes....it brought us all closer to hear them and see them so many miles away...our golden Shiloh is always a hit in any family activity, so she got stroked and balls tossed as usual, she loves her "kids"...so as you can see we are a family that is expanding here and also in Lebanon with our quilters coming one by one...
My sister Lori had her Christmas and I am sure stories to tell...her son Matt and his new bride Joanna returned from their honeymoon just before Christmas. Lori has an anniversary on the 30th of 25 years and we celebrated our 38th on my 58th birthday on the 27th...I know, I know!! STOP!!!
December proves to be crazy in these two families....so come and join us at Olde Glory anyway you can! Come and set up your machine any day,all day to complete or work on "something", we don't care what!! we will be soon posting our classes, etc, on oldgloryquilting.com...that is my longarm page but we will be also using it for our shoppe news...ok! got any comments? or needs or questions....let us know! we would love to hear from you!!! If we don't know you, you are just a friend we have not met yet!!
Have a safe New Year....come and join us at Olde Glory...January 2nd open for business or gatherings 8:30a.m.-4:30pm... open wednesday-saturday for now.
Happy and Continuing Quilted Blessings!! Karie