I'm baaack!

So, it's July 2016 and I'm finally posting an update. Since I don't have any followers on this blog I guess no one has missed me. Hmm. What has happened while I've been gone? Well since no one asked, I'll tell you. I had 2 discs fused on my neck which is why I couldn't sew, stitch or hardly type. The relief was almost immediate, but I had other complications that got worked out with physical therapy. I did start sewing again, but slowly. Now that the pain in my neck is gone, my body is noticing how much my lower back is hurting. I need the same surgery there, so it is almost impossible to lean over a cutting table right now. Or even clean my house (not to worry -- my friends have teenagers that I pay dirt cheap wages to clean because they don't know any better).

Of course nothing - not even not being able to hardly walk has kept me from attending the International Quilt Festival each year. Last year I got to work part-time for Quilts, Inc. the company that runs the festival, as a proofreader and data entry specialist. I typed all those little title plaques and description pages at the show. Well, I wasn't the only one. But it was fun seeing all the exhibition quilts before the show. So beautiful!

50th birthday celebration with friends at Pinot's Palette in Sugar Land, TX. I'm the blond one the back row.

I turned 50!!! It was a bad week for most of my friends so only a few of us were able to get together to paint, but we had a blast. I chose a Monet for us to paint. I would definitely do it again.

Blane hanging my fabric wall

I got a fabric wall! My wonderful husband helped me make it and hung it for me using a bracket method. I found some grey felt on sale 40% off and it was marked down on top of that. I bought the whole bolt. We used pink insulation board from the hardware store and just stapled the felt on. It's holding so far, but several of the staples came out while we were working on it.

My DH got laid off from his Oil & Gas job, but so did almost everyone else in Houston. He's found a contract job, that is not in Oil & Gas (thank goodness), but I now have to find a job too. Also, we are experiencing the nightmare that is Obama Care. Ughh.

In the meantime, I've been collecting fabric for that time when I will feel back to normal and can sew and cut with no issues at all - HA! In reality I'm trying to work on one thing at a time, slowly. But the husband has put a moratorium on any more fabric coming into the house until I finish at least one project I already have. And just as I found a new quilt shop only 5 minutes from my house - It Seam to Be Sew opened in February 2016. They carry modern fabrics and brights. My favorites. Guess I'll have to get back to it no matter how slowly I go. Thank goodness the sewing machine has a Speed Racer setting.

Happy sewing!