Gustav, can't you dissapear???

Well, I haven't really had time to check in on any of the giveaways... but I haven't' been contacted as a winner. I know some are not over yet... so there's still hope.

However, I just posted over on our family blog about our possible hurricane situation. We will find out tomorrow if the city officials will call a mandatory evacuation or not. So there's a 99.99% chance that I will not be spending any part of Labor Day weekend sewing. :(

Just wanted everyone to know - in case I'm away from blog land for a while. Hopefully I'll be back on line soon with updates now that I have a laptop. :) The computer towers to the two old computers will go with me in the van.

and b/c this time I have the twins and all their stuff... I've thought and thought about it and most likely all my "stuff" will get bagged up and taken to the upstairs guest bedroom this hurricane. There's only so much room in the van.

Traveling alone with 3 kids and a dog is sure to be an adventure - so pray for me if you get a chance. :P We'll be headed to Jackson, MS which is about a 5 hour drive. Boy, those books on CD for Nora I ordered should would be handy about now... only they haven't arrived yet! :{

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Oh, and something new I added on the sidebar is a geo tracker -cool hua? I had no idea I had visitors from so far away! :) Helloooooo to all of you readers :) :) :)


So for all of you Quiltville Mystery players - have a lot of fun this weekend!!! I can't wait to see what you create after I get to where I'm going!

Love from Texas!

WOW, Blogland is overflowing with generosity

More blogaversaries = more blog-give-away!!! Wow, I was just over at Luv2Stitch visiting and man oh man does she have the luck for finding blog-give-aways! I'll save you some time and only list the few that are still current ;)

Can you believe this???!! Must be a blue moon event in blog land with all of these quilters being so generous! Not that quilters surprise me with their generosity... I learned long ago that quilter =s generous :) I'm just hoping I get lucky with one of them ;) ~bonnie



First off, Amy's Passions is having a blog-give-away, in honor of her 100th post! All you have to do is leave a comment or make a post telling about your favorite quilt! And since I just wrote about my "first quilt" being the one my mom and I made together when I was growing up and now all of three of my little ones have taken turns using it to sleep is will always be my most cherished favorite quilt! :) Better Hurry and enter - chances close tonight!



Next up is Jessie in Singapore. She's celebrating her first year of blogging with by giving away a very lovely and gorgeous scissors holder and fob. If I win this I know just the perfect friend to give it to as a birthday gift - or perhaps a "just because gift" ;)


and Vicky E over at Mid-Ohio Knitter has an assortment of loot to give away in celebration of her 200th post! Take a look. I don't get to the LQS very often (remember mom of 3 kids under 4!) so I sure hope I get lucky on one of those MODA packs! :) Don't you just love her bears at the top of her page??? I do! :)

Gina at Quilting in the Valleys is itching to give away something too in excitement of her
200th post... she didn't exactly mention what -but I am sure chances are it is something we don't have ;) Check it out, she'll draw a name Sept. 1st.

and well folks, there you have it - don't say you never get to enter the blog drawings b/c if you are here reading, I just gave you directions to all the ones I know of! :P

Love from Texas!

Alert, Alert, Alert = Blog-give-away heads up ;)

wow can you imagine I found one before it even started? actually two! - no make that THREE!!!

so take a look and bookmark them to make sure you revisit to find out when they start and what you can win.

Dana over at Old Red Barn Co. is actually giving away THREE Quilts! You have to make a youTube video to enter. Doubt I'll ever figure out that one... but maybe? I'm not very creative...

and Susan over at The Reluctant Quilter is having a bloganniversary - and says she'll post details tomorrow.

OH, and there's another - Connie over at Cootie Bug mentioned last Wednesday, that she's thinking of hosting a blog-give-away soon... I just checked and no details yet -so keep watching!


wow, look at that THREE blog-give-away ALERTS! and all three BEFORE they've been officially posted!! What's up with that? Must be a blue moon! b/c I'm usually clicking to read their blogs after the fact. LOL

so do you know of any blog-give-aways coming up? or still available to enter? If so please share!!! :)

Love from Texas!

Show and Tell

JulieKQuilts showed a Sunbonnet Sue quilt and asked that we show ours. While I have never made one (yet) I do have a very special one that I mentioned in the previous post.... and since I didn't post it's photo yesterday, I'll go ahead and post here. You can read about my Sun Bonnet Sue quilt's story here.

and if you haven't stopped by in a while, you can click on the link and read - then skip it in the next post ;)

Love from Texas!

My "First" quilt(s)

Susan over at Ape over Quilting recently held a blog-give-away - sorry you missed it, as I missed it too. I just happened to find her blog a day or two too late. However, she had asked what our "first quilt" was... and for a photo and even though the contest is over, it still makes for a great prompt for a blog entry don't cha think? ;)

So it got me to thinking... and thinking... which is considered my first quilt? hummmmm -let's see....

First quilt? Now that is sorta complicated... For me there are several that were my "firsts" :)

The first quilt I ever RECEIVED As a GIFT: was from my grandmother, who I call Momma Newt. When I was born she gave this Dutch Doll Quilt to my mother as a special secret gift to me. She had made it when she was a little girl growing up using flour sacks for the background fabric and feed sacks for the dutch doll dresses. She didn't want any of the other Aunts/cousins to find out about it and feel like they missed out on something so special... but b/c she was already at the age of 69 the year I was born... she was so scared that she'd die before I ever got old enough to remember her, and since I was the youngest of 18 grand kids (the 17th grand kid was a preteen when I was born...)

Or what about the first quilt I ever made by myself... (which was a very large King size when I finished... I didn't know when to stop! LOL - but it made a great gift to my husband at that time my fiancee for his King size water bed.)

Oh, and then there's the first quilt I ever "hand quilted"...

and there's the first quilt I ever made from a class... I used homespuns and while it was a rather plain pattern, I didn't care, I just wanted to learn how to use sashings and keep the blocks straight with each other. :)

Oh, and of course there's the first mystery quilt I ever made... look how young Nora was then :)
and of course, let's not forget the first quilt I ever made for Charity...what a great feeling of acomplishment there is in making a quilt for charity!!!

and there's also the first BOM quilt I ever participated in... still isn't finished yet! Top is waiting the final piano key boarder...I think the last time I posted about it was in May of 2007 before the twins were born...

But the most special of FIRST Quilts... is the first quilt I can remember helping my mother make - that was from start to finish to be made for ME!

I loved helping my mother when she quilted. I sat on a stool on the opposite side of her machine and it was my job to cut apart the segments as she chain pieced.. and getting them paired up and lining them up read for her to run thru again... I learned how to finger press before I could count to 100. :c) She told me stories of how she use to work for "Fruit of the Loom" years before I was born and I pretended that we worked there together... she was the sew'er and I was her cutter and presser. :)

I have no idea just how many quilts we together turned out -as my mom gave all of her quilts away -wedding gifts, birthdays, anniversaries... babies... So this was a very memorable moment b/c from the time we started this quilt - it was for me!!! Talk about exciting!

Actually it was just meant to be a doll quilt that my mom suggested we make to use up some of her scraps and leftover blocks...

I was about 8 or 9 years old and my mom had some left over 4patch blocks... and was only gonna make it about 12" square.

I kept begging her to make it bigger... bigger than a blanket for my Barbie...

so we added some more blocks... and I said I need it bigger... for my Cabbage Patch doll...

so we again, added more blocks...

then after we looked at it once more, I begged her to make it bigger and insisted we go BIGGER... for my "one day, real live baby"

My mom was out of leftovers by this time, and really did not want to make more and suggested it was large enough..... but either I was super cute and polite as I persisted... or she was in a good mood... b/c she did in fact help me double it's current size so that it would be big enough to be a real "baby quilt for one day."

Oh, and I am forever so VERY GRATEFUL that my doll quilt grew and grew a little each time we looked at it.

Mom died of a brain tumor in 1999 just two years after I was married. She never got to meet my children, but I know that she sees them... and smiles like I do remembering the day we made that quilt together.

Love from Texas!