Paris Mode
I’m in the Paris mode judging from the guesses coming in for my new Block of the Month! You have me wishing for a pink, French Christmas quilt! Ahh, how many of you would really buy a pink Christmas quilt? Sale of one pattern to Bunny Hill but the rest of you? Well you saw the fabric I’m using in my last post and I’m in more of a universal mode, but I’m always dreaming of Paris…
I loved Paris and I would return in a minutes’ notice just for a chance to browse the flea markets for treasures! Anyone ready for a Paris treasure hunt? I actually looked up costs online today for next year. I’m hooked don’t you think?
I paid 10 Euros for this card of vintage Mother of Pearl buttons. It was a bargain. I would have paid more, I loved them so much. I’m not good at bargaining. I hate it, but I made myself ask if they would take less in my most French sounding English. At the same vendor I paid 25 Euros for one button. The bargaining didn’t work at all. I really wanted that button from 1880 and so I paid the money. Can’t show it to you now because I’ll be using it for something in the spring. You’ll appreciate it more when you see it.
As for that 5″ square of pink in my block of the month? Try looking at some of my other block of the months to see how I’ve used “pink”! Do you think I’ve used the entire square or do you think maybe I cut it up?
Guess what? We have a few correct guesses in the contest already! If you guess right you’ll get an email confirming that you’ve been entered in the contest.
Quilt shops can email me directly for the “La Petite Ecole” fabric sku’s I’ve used.
One more question for today. How many of you have Facebook pages and why? I’ve been visiting Facebook and I’m not sure I “get it”. Do you actually use Facebook? Do you use it every day?
Back soon!
Anne
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Marcia W.
“A Wee Tot’s Christmas” – full of toys with “ABC blocks” that have letters stacked spelling Christmas and images of cute animals (like b for bunny, a for angel, l for lamb). That’s this guess.
Joanne Moore
Forgot to share with you my Facebook experiences. I have been on Facebook for a few months now. I joined thru a quilt shop to receive quilt hints etc. I had no idea it can access one’s email list. Kind of creeped me out that Facebook started showing me photos of my friends and family already on Facebook. My 24 year old daughter friended me before she left on a month backpack adventure to Germany. This would be a great way to keep in touch… Well her second week involved having her wallet and passport stolen from her Hostel in Poland. We learned that Western Union really works! My husband and I had the pleasure of the 6am Sunday morning call of a crying daughter who at least was able to say “You told me so” as she did not lock up here belongings in spite of our advise. While spending our Sunday cancelling her cards and emailing back and forth with her, I told her to please not let this mishap get to her Grandparents ears until she returned home as they were already worried enough about her. On Monday, she posts on her Facebook “got robbed in Poland” Well who responds but my cousins on both my mom and dad’s side and my daughter’s cousins on my husband’s side. It is only a matter of minutes before this story would work its way thru cyberspace and telephone lines and fall in the grandparents laps. I was so angry I thought I would pop. I then spent the entire afternoon doing damage control, calling and emailing cousins and an aunt or two. We were able to contain the mishap until her return. I saved the folks weeks of worry and aged myself a couple of years. Moral of the story if you want to get any info out to lots of people fast? Go Facebook!! Extremely effective! I have not friended my other 2 kids as I DO NOT want to hear all about their adventures. The language used by young adults to each other is not meant for my eyes/ears. Yikes. Several nieces have friended me and last weekend I got to have 5 minutes of fear upon reading that my niece was at the truck race out in Lucerne, CA where 8 people were killed. SHe called me as soon as I facebooked her and she was only 25 yards from the accident but fortunately watching safely from up on a hill. It is an incredible communication tool and I have connected with various friends and family. However is all this information necessary or healthy for my nervous system?? To be determined!! Get Facebook, get tough!
May I guess again on the quilt? Is it the nativity scene with sheep which might be another of your favorite animals and a little pink baby Jesus? A “creche” which would be in keeping with the French theme?
Have a nice rest of the weekend! Would have loved to sent you pictures of my pets..I am the gal with the cat with the messed up head, the dog with the bad tummy and the now wisdomtoothless son. However I have not yet learned how to do that on the computer. My kids are my tech support so I will try to get a few lessons before they blast off to college again. I LOVED all the photos. You can check out a couple of photos on my facebook album and see my grey cat Elliot inspecting my layout of my Buttons and Bows quilt. I love that pattern of yours and have made several! Of course it took my daughter to get those photos on for me…Someday I will be a techno wiz..yeah right!
Jane Anderson
I have facebook, but do not use it as I feel it does not offer ebough privacy or security. I hear that the young people use it, and some do not usr it kindly. They say businesses should have a page?