Social Benefits of Laughter: Laughter connects us with others...We have often discussed how we are always happy inside out when together...First thing that popped in my mind when I saw this picture was our Laughter...This is not a posed smile for a picture from Sherry.. but a spontaneous reaction to what was going on around her...For Laughter is contagious...Rhona captured this picture while on retreat at the farm...
After returning home from a trip, Rhona only had a couple days till we were going to Judith's for a Christmas get together...She journeyed to Joann's and found a pattern, selected her fabric, came home, cut out, sewed this coat to wear for that night...She puts me to shame all she can get done in the time I waste piddling...it would take me the two days to make up mind what I wanted....I have forgotten the type of fabric, but the feel was wonderful....
MJ beget (to bring into existence :0).. this doll for "The Elder" several years back...surprised her on one of our Chocolate nights...We all were in awe at the preciseness of Jody's characteristic that MJ had captured... with the books laying at her feet.. Jody loves books....a shopping bag with fabric, and supplies.. she has the dyed sorta red hair she wore at that time....even the hand made rose pin she is so famous for wearing...all the wonderful things that make Jody..our Jody...Lots of love and effort went into this classic one of a kind art doll... Jody loves this doll almost as much as we love her...The Ol'Blogger...
as the pink (wore out) socks of Audrey's hanging here remind us...When one walks by the laundry door it always brings a smile..
Pictured is the first "Fisherman" for our group...By the "Elder"(Jody) I remember when we first saw it...we were breathless...Jody's grandson loved to fish..so this was made for him...she even used real sea horses with the fisherman...
Cross-stitch is a popular form of counted-thread embroidery in which X-shaped stitches in a tiled pattern are used to form a picture. Rhona made this gorgeous afghan which features animals from all over the world...Includes an elephant, monkey, tiger, kangaroo, polar bear, and more...for her daughter Amber.. Rhona has truly mastered this art...Every project she has done that I have seen are simple outstanding...The Ol'Blogger
If you remember a few postings back I told you Cindy P joined us for our February meeting...I have some pictures from then to share...
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Not completed when it was time to leave...but a good start...when he is finished I hope to get a picture for our blog...we always enjoy her so much when she can join us...Her favorite saying to us is "This is the best day of my life." Everyday is the best day of her life I do believe...she is such joy...The Ol'Blogger
After our time with Jarad and family..we decided since Red Lobster was so close to Jarad's we would eat at "Red Lobster"....giggle...inside joke... as every restaurant was the same differences of distanced..I am the one who claimed it was closest...I wanted to eat there..it worked:0).. Kauri, Jarad's 7 year old, joined us for our outing...She was a perfect little lady the whole day..
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Our next stop was Shiisa Quilt Shoppe...Where fabric and supplies was purchased...They have a treasure chest of scraps which you are able to buy as much as you can stuff into the bags they have...Pictured are the girls helping Rhona and Kauri as they stuff their bags... You would think one of them would have picked out the holes from the Ol'Bloggers hair in the back...Pictures always shows every detail..
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Rhona's Show-N-Tell was totally amazing to say the least...One of them is her April UFO...so will have to wait to see it...but here are pictures of her Calendar Quilt..There is a button up main quilt and each month a different quilt to button on...Pictured her are January,February and March all finished... 
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April, May,June and July tops are completed now she will sandwich together and quilt...Of course she will get the others done as the year progresses...And she has a full time job...we will be looking forward to seeing them...
Kathy's Show-N-Tell...."The Fisherman" she is creating for her brothers 60Th birthday...He is a captain of a tug boat...what a wonderful gift....
Kathy wastes nothing...you need to click and enlarge this picture to get the full effect...her watch had quit working...instead of getting rid of it...she opens it up takes out the insides and fills it with teeny tiny beads and creates a new bracelet...How does her mind work!!!! Now she can change the beads for each outfit she wears it with...
This was a part of her show-n-tell at Cindy's last month...I hadn't gotten to it..so I am add it here....She received little boxes with candies in it at work..so using that as a pattern she recreated this one...Sherry was very thankful..the perfect size for her Easter gifts...The Ol'Blogger
Starting Show-N-Tell with Sherry...the first item was the completed knife she is making for the lil men in her life for Easter...that would be her grandsons and great nephews.....six total...
Of course that means she needs something for the" lil ladies" so she designed these little boxes to hold the bracelets and necklace for granddaughters and great nieces she made them...
Taking a dermal with a cut off wheel to cut the silverware...then using a drill to drill the holes she needed..she placed them around a pipe she had purchased in the plumbing section at Lowe's...and beat it out with a rubber hammer...with jump rings and the closure on the back they were complete...Yes, we all want our own...so will be planning a bracelet work day soon...
Sherry beaded this bracelet with size 11 beads for herself...
This months gathering began with arriving at "The Elders" after getting situated in the SoTA Van...
We were off...of course there were two more in the back seat...but they didn't get in this picture...but we knew they were with us...giggle
Jarad reading the Birthday Card we gave him...pure joy...
Ready Set Go....
Oops checking the label 
Accounts for the above picture.
Rhona's UFO for Feburary is this lovely quilt.... She bought this while they were in Chicago...Cindy told us she helped her cut out the pieces...now that is a true sister....I love the quilting she did on this...
From the 2005 Timbleberries club came this pattern...Cindy machine pieced and quilted it all in the month of Jan 2010...and it was her UFO for Feb...2010
The back is just as magnificent as the front...with the houses and stars...among other things this was one of the projects Cindy worked on during the quilting retreat at the farmhouse in Jan...Those girls do accomplish a lot on these retreats amongst the laughter, chatter and food...It feels so good to complete a project that had been on the shelves waiting for so long...
Jody got this pattern for Sherry sometime back...instead of working on her UFO...she sewed the embroidery book to hold her embroidery floss and supplies....if you enlarge you can see her beautiful embroidery on the outside front and back... 
The Ol'Blogger
