DVD Player

Ed served as a board member on our Subdivision Association.

They made a wonderful donation of a DVD player to the Dialysis Center here in Prescott, Arizona.
They also purchased cards from Blockbusters for movie rental for the patients receiving dialysis at the center. Each patient has their own little TV to watch and will now be watching DVD movies in memory of Ed.

So what I'm doing now is trying to keep the DVD donations coming to my house so the patients will keep getting new movies in the future. I"ll take them down to the Dialysis center for the patients.

So if any of YOU have any DVD's you dont care to use anymore, would you please send them to my house for the dialysis patients?

You have my heartfelt gratitude for doing this for Ed and me. Thank you. thank you, thank you.

Here is a picture of the DVD they installed at the dialysis center here in Prescott

SAD NEWS

Well as many of you know I lost my sweetheart on October 28th, 2008.

Ed died in my arms from a blood clot, he went very quick and in no pain.

It really was such a shock to our family and friends because he really didn't die of any of his medical problems. I don't know how I'll get along without my 'BEST FRIEND". As I was his caretaker for six years, my life is very empty right now.

With the help of my family and friends I haven't been alone for much more than a couple days since this happened and I"m so happy for all of them and all their help. More company is coming mid January and then in the spring.

And I want to thank everyone for all the lovely emails, notes, cards, and loving concerns for our whole family during these most difficult times.

Here is a picture of Ed in early October 2008, hard to believe he really is gone.

Sunset

Look what we have had tonight, yup, a drop dead gorgeous sunset right off our deck.

Thought you would enjoying seeing it too.

Happy October

I sure do love Pumpkins and couldnt resist cutting it up and putting some beautiful flowers I received in them. Aren't they pretty. Just love fall.

Hope you all are having a great fall wherever you are.

Arizona Bead Round Robin

And here are the back of Jo's dolls. It was so hard to stop beading and there are two more girls to work on the doll so I had to stop and get them ready to go to Ronda.

What a joy to work on these dolls.

Arizona Bead Round Robin

Here is Jo's Holimans dolls from Payson, Arizona. They were so much fun to bead on I could hardly stop.

Hope you like them Jo.

Seasonal Round Robin

And here is the back of Karols doll.

Seasonal Round Robin

I"m having a wonderful time doing these round robins. Here is Karol Berzins from Fitchburg Ma. Fall doll. She wanted her to look like the fall colors of the East Coast.

I made stacks of beads representing leaves in reds, oranges and golds colors next to brown dirt. I started on the front of the doll and carried around to the back. She was great fun to work on.

Alicias Princess Quilt

Well we've been very busy with family coming and going for over two weeks now.

This was a present to our 3 yrs old G/daughter from Milwaukee. As all little girls these day's, she is into the Princess theme for her bedroom too. So of course Grandma had to make her a quilt for her room. Pieced by me and quilted by Gwen McNallan.

Hope you like it, she sure did.

BAD Seasons Round Robin Dolls

This is the back of Karols Fall Doll.

BAD Seasons Round Robin

This doll belongs to Karol Berzins from Fitchburg Ma. She wanted her Season choice to be Fall. Since we lived on the East Coast before here, I know and saw lots of fall colors on the East Coast which were drop dead beautiful to say the least.

On this doll I tried to makes piles of red, orange and gold leaves stacked using the Boucle stitch against dark brown dirt, also done in l5's hex's. My favorite is l5's hex beads, very small but they look great and nice and neat looking.

I hope Karol likes what I did.

Arizona Beaded Round Robin

This is the back of Nightbeaders Dolls.

Arizona Beaded Round Robin

This is Nightbeaders who lives in Mesa's doll. Anyone that know's me knows I about 'flipped out' when I opened this round for this month and it was my Green Bay Packers doll! How can she expect me to forward! lol

The other Doll is her "A" Doll for Arizona, we were allowed to send two doll's on this round to each of the player's. It worked out fine with all of us.

On the BF Packer Doll I did the stack of green seed beads with gold tops on the bottom of the doll. Also, added medium sized beads around the stack, then did the Boucle stitch using l5 hex seed beads in greens and golds.

On the A Doll Nightbeader wanted Turquoise and Coral beading, so I did the Turquoise chips and filled in with l5's seed beads in Corals.

It was so fun for me to work on these dolls. Hope you enjoy them.

Beaded Black Quilt

Thought you would like to see the last Beaded Black Quilt I made for our High Desert Bead Society here in Prescott. Many members made the blocks for five quilts and I put them together and Marcia Kearns quilted them for us. This is the last one left and I had to take a picture for something else so thought you would like to see it too. They were/are donated to charities in our community.

These squares are all hand beaded using seed beads and other objects.

Hope you enjoy the quilt.

We've had family non/stop for three weeks and were having a wonderful time visiting and taking them to cities around Prescott. They will all be gone soon and it will be very sad to see them go. Then it will be back to creating BIG TIME!

Back of Round Robin doll

And here is the back of Kathleen's Tree doll.

Growth Round Robin doll

Well its been some time since I've posted. I really don't have any excuse, just life!

Here is a tree that belongs to Kathleen Chrisman from Mechanicsville, Va. I did the middle and the bottom of the tree trunk on both sides. It doesnt look like a lot but this is about 4 inches tall in beading. As tree's are my favorite in nature, this was a fun project to work on.

Hope you enjoyed what I have done.

I'm also busy working on more round robin dolls, getting ready for once a year sale I"m in, and working on a quilt for my g/daughter who will be here in early October. So you might not see my things for awhile until I get some extra free time. Check back soon though, things change in my life daily!