An Enlightening Day.....

Yesterday I drove to the town of Concord to take a class at Thimble Creek Quilt Store to make Anne Sutton's Bitty Bird pin cushion. Anne's patterns are just wonderful, bright and cheery. Now I am no crafter. I'm not good with my hands making little crafty detailed things. Give me big quilt pieces and I'm great but I was way out of my element. However, the class was taught by Nireko Ohira and it was just a delight. She was warm, giving, friendly and, most of all, so patient and helpful to me. I can't thank her enough for such a great class. Even though it's quite a drive for me (it took me almost three hours because of a freeway accident) I would not ever hesitate to take a class from her if she was the teacher. If you are anywhere in the area, check into their classes. I know that she has one scheduled for March 27th to make a French covered box. It is exquisite!!!! Thanks again, Nireko! You are awesome!!!!! By the way, the above picture is not mine. Mine is not quite finished but I wanted you to see how adorable Bitty Bird is.

After my long day yesterday I was less than perky - I think I'm just TIRED! Anyway, I didn't need to get up this morning to have a whole line of electrical outlets not working in he house. Nothing was out like the refrigerators or anything like that. But we had no lights in the kitchen and it needed to be fixed. We finally got an electrician out here and after an hour he figured it out. We had had someone come out yesterday to fix our garage door opener. I had told my husband that it could be something to do with what that repair man did. I told him that you always go back to the last thing that happened and check that first. Do I get an AMEN, Ladies!!?!! Anyway, it turns out that the plug that the garage door opener was plugged into was defective and got jostled when the other guy was messing with it. Somehow it made all the other outlets/lines in that bank not work. OOOOOOHHHHH, trying not to say I TOLD YOU SO!!! It's all better now, though.

I thought I would check my blog as I was tired and flustered (it's tiring to say "I Told You So!") and my blog friends make me feel happy. So it was to my surprise to find that I had been given a "You Make My Day" award by Trudy from Crows In My Attic. Now Trudy, you have truly made my day and I should just give the award back to you! Isn't it wonderful how God sends us these little nudges of encouragement just when we need it? It couldn't have come at a better time. Bless you! So I'm feeling humbled and that I really don't deserve it.


The rules for the “You Make My Day” award are to present it to those whose blogs bring you happiness and inspiration and make you feel happy about blog land. Let them know through email or by posting a comment on their blog so they can pass it on. Blogland is filled with such wonderful people. I know that we all have our days, like I have just experienced, where we are off our game and are less than nice. But for the most part, I feel that bloggers as a rule are positive, caring and unselfish people. There are lots of bloggers I could give this to so if I don't mention you, please don't take offence. I appreciate you all and want to thank you all for enriching my life.

Here are just some of the wonderful blog friends that I truly love and appreciate:

Becky from Sweet Cottage Dreams: First and foremost. I couldn't have done all this without you. You have become such a dear friend. Who would have known that by clicking on that funny word "blog" I would be led to someone who lives so close to me and has so many of the same interests that I do. Thank you so much for being my friend!

Also:

Penny from Lavender Hill Studio:

Anna from Thimbleanna:

Amy from Four Sisters in a Cottage

Esther from Esther Sunday's Journal

Mary from Isabella's Closet

You've all made my day!!!