Hello from Cumming, Georgia!
Yes, Georgia’s been on my mind for quite a while – there is so much to LOVE about Georgia.
This morning’s love about Georgia was listening to the lady working the breakfast area at the Hampton Inn where I spent the night.
Oh, that sweet southern drawl gets sweeter the further south you go. It is music to my soul!
I’ve lived in the South from Texas to South Carolina to North Carolina and into Virginia since 1999, and the dialect does change from area to area – but I know when I’ve been on a West Coast trip, or far North East that things are different the moment I step off the plane.
Here in the South, it’s home. It’s comforting. I know I’ll never sound like this – we tend to speak the way we learned to speak our vowels, wherever we learned them. My Minnesota twang will never leave me, but I know what I hear and how it makes me feel.
Georgia is for sweet peach tea and front porch rockers and long talks about nothing, and everything. I’m so happy to be here!
For more information, visit the Quiltville Inn Web Page HERE.
This post was written when the house was first purchased in 2017.
In my hand I hold the keys to my next chapter – The soon to be Quiltville Inn Retreat Center.
It all started in December of 2016 after spending Thanksgiving on Key Largo in Florida.
The North Carolina cabin had just gone on the market. We were looking a bit further afield for a place with more acreage (and no home owner’s association!) and had found a place we wanted to look at just across the NC/VA state line.
I remember that first trip up to Mouth of Wilson, Virginia vividly. We loved the area, the whole feel of the place. And after touring the cabin for the first time, we took a drive around the area to see what we could see.
It was on that first trip that I spied this wonderful old place with a “for sale by owner” sign in the front yard. Dreams began.
I’d even taken a couple of photographs – posting them with a “Wouldn’t it be wonderful if?” or “Wouldn’t this make a great…”
Many times I drove by, and still the house was there, for sale sign in the yard.
We had been talking for years about the need for me to slow down. To have people come to ME. To LIVE LIFE instead of TRAVEL THROUGH LIFE. I love the travel, don’t get me wrong..but I’m ready for a change.
This was Sadie’s face yesterday as I rushed around the cabin, gathering my things – putting everything “right” before heading down the mountain yesterday afternoon.
No, this quilt isn’t completely bound yet – but I’ve just one side and the hanging sleeve and label to go. I’m getting there.
Why the early departure?
I just felt the need to get home and give myself just a bit more time to be ready for Sunday’s trip to Georgia -
I’ll be visiting guilds in Cummings, Oconee and Snellville in a 5-day-Frenzy of quilty activity.
I hope I’ll see many of you there!
I’m taking a break from packing the van, washing clothes, re-packing my suitcase for Sunday’s trip to Georgia on a 3-guild tour to draw for this month’s Quilty Box winners!
We’ll be drawing for TWO lucky folks – someone is going to win the April full-sized Quilty Box curated by Shayla Wolfe.
A second runner-up winner will be receiving the Quilty Box Mini, a smaller version including charm pack of the same Foundation fabric by Shayla Wolf for Windham Fabrics.
TWO WINNERS! And either one could be you!
