A Celebration and a Cause

"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together." Vincent Van Gogh

Last night we attended the Cook Children's Volunteer Dinner with part of our family. Dick was one of the volunteers being honored for his service.  A very nice evening...dinner a the TCU Student Union Center..we got to meet some of the people he works with on his floor.  These are the ladies who nominated him for the award.  Of course, I had to tease him about making a speech...being a more than reticent person, he was adamant that he would not have to give one!!  There was a video presentation about the volunteers.  It was really inspiring to see many of the things they do at Cook... to hear their stories...and the gratitude of the Cook people for the volunteers.

And the second part of my blog is the "CAUSE"!  I don't usually listen to Oprah, but I do often watch "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" which came on right before Oprah.  So today, after the Millionaire, before I turned the tv off, Oprah's show came on...I was intrigued by the topic...to sign a pledge to not use cell phones or text while driving.  That happens to be a subject I am very concerned about...as they say, texting/talking while driving is as dangerous as driving drunk!  So after the show, I went to her website and have signed the pledge (although I am not one who does that anyway; I hardly ever even have my phone on!) but I do want to encourage everyone I know to sign the pledge and to really live by what you have pledged!!

A Really Fun Day!

"The position of the artist is humble. He/she is essentially a channel."  Piet Mondrian

(This is my new "feature"!  A quote with my blogs!

Today all the family from Fort Worth area went up to McKinney to see Andrea's new house.  It is really neat....I know she will love it...it is her first!  We also met her friend Sara, with whom she has been living  since returning from California...a very nice young lady!  The upper left pic is Andrea in her soon to be quilting studio...a really large room above her garage.  The lower left is a pic of the house with her dad in front.  The house isn't completed yet but that makes all the more fun, to be able to pick out a lot of the decor items!  And the pic on the right is Andrea with her dad on our way out! Then we all went out to a yummy lunch of hamburgers to celebrate!

I have been sewing some things for the Cook Children's hospital...This is a lap quilt that I had started in a class on machine quilting several years ago.  My friend Heather was teaching the class...that was before she had moved to Fort Worth.  The center part was divided into radiating sections in which we did different stitches.  I hated to "waste my work" so I finally finished the quilting, added some borders and sent off with Dick to Cook.

I am now working on my recipe quilt blocks for the Studo Q meeting next week...1. the color or shape of pain and 2. earth awareness.  And I finished reading another Alice Hoffman book..."Second Nature".  She is really becoming one of my all time favorite authors!!  This is about the eighth book of hers I have read. My goal is to read them all...even those written 'way back in the 80's.