So Much To Show!

They filled the whole porch!

These wonderful ladies who came from Missouri, Ohio, Virginia, Georgia and beyond.

We had a wonderful week, and while I missed most of them on Monday due to my early morning airport run, I came back to find all of the kind things they did for me to make flipping the house so much easier.

The rain laundry!  They cleaned off the design walls with sticky rollers.  They recovered the pressing stations with new freezer paper giving me one less thing on my to-do list as a welcome home to Dave.

These little things.  They mean so much.  Thank you ladies!

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This Was Our Weekend!

I'm just going to put this right here front and center.

If you go hungry at retreat, it's your own doing.  LOL!

This was our Sunday lunch spread - as Sunday was the last full day of retreat, everything came out of the fridge for the best snacky kind of lunch you could ever have.

The last day of retreat is the best day to revisit all of the leftover tasty morsels from the previous days of plentiful food.

There's something here for everyone!

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Friday In The Rain!

The rain came in torrents yesterday morning.

I had finished writing yesterday's blog (my desk is in the basement) and when I went upstairs it looked like 5pm in the winter outside.

I texted over to Jen - no walk, rain incoming!

And right when I sent the text, the sky opened and whooo-doggie! It POURED!

Thus began my "accomplishing little to nothing" day.

This was the scene I walked into later as everyone was on the porch for lunch.  Rain had moved on...

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We're Just Getting Started!

Well this makes things interesting!

I'm really excited to see my "Just Another String Star" coming together.

I was a bit intimidated at first - not that I haven't done Y seams before, but it had been a while and there was the additional stretch and bulk of diamonds with bias on ALL edges, and also all of the seams in the diamonds from the string piecing.

I've developed a system and things are now coming together smoothly!

Except for Hazel. Always Hazel!

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