Some of this year’s quilts. 

 Waiting for Spring

This has been one of the coldest, wettest winters I can remember, but now daffodils are blooming and temperatures are rising. There is an exciting year ahead. A new great grandson in April and one who is now 5 months old. What a blessing to have babies in the house again! 

Charity quilts have kept me busy, and I have 2 classes to teach coming up. It gives me such pleasure to sit and sew! I have to thank my beautiful mom for teaching me. I miss her voice. Mom passed away March 2, 2025. 

Well, it has been 5 years since I posted here. A lot has happened in my life, but God is good and I am truly blessed. I have been working diligently to complete multiple charity quilts for different places that have needs. This year my goal is to complete some of my UFOs that are projects I started a few years ago! I will show you some progress as it goes. 

This little girl is taking a nap in the sunshine! It has been a very cold winter so far!

What Will You Plan for Making 2021 a Great Year?

I have been so lax at coming back to my little BlogSpot.  Seems I get tied up with too many other thoughts and never get back to writing here. Well hoping to have a better spirit of doing these little things that will hopefully count as a blessing come sometime in the future.

As for 2020, well, words cannot express what this past year has been like. A global pandemic that has taken hundreds of thousands lives, caused a major recession in our country's economy, businesses closed, shortages of necessary supplies, a country completely divided by hatred with little to no respect for our fellow citizens. Our country seems to have lost its' love for Christ and Christian values. The year has included one of the most controversial political presidential races this country has ever seen. 

I miss the fellowship of my Sunday School class being together, socializing together, worshiping together. I miss my quilting friends and our sew days, fellowship and fun. But thru all of this sadness from the past year, I am truly blessed. God has given me each day, an opportunity to live for him. I have continued to quilt and have made multiple quilts for charitable purposes. 

Here's to a new year of promise, joy and love. 

Grannie Jose's Poems

My dear great grandmother, Josephine Spangler, was truly a poet. Although her life was spent in the mountains of Va., she told stories of news events in several of her poems. Most though, were of life on the mountain, letters to her husband during the war, tributes to her mother, and friends. She was legally blind, and would have anyone write her poems as she spoke them, therefore several are on any kind of paper that could be found. In my collection, I even have a few that I wrote when I was a child. I was always amazed at how they just seemed to flow from her lips, and it was not easy to keep up with her when you were the one writing!Here is just one of many, and I hope to share more in the future. Her daughters also wrote some poetry and gave it to Grannie Jose, this poem below was written by Bernice Rakes to her Mom, followed by Grannie Jose's response.

Mother's Coiffure

written in 1956 by Bernice Rakes

My mother's hair is turning gray,

I helped to make the change.

Her hair would be a lovely brown

if I could rearrange .

In life, I'll live so different

I'd never fret or cry.

And when she told me what to do,

I'd never ask her why.

And if I ever had a pain

I'd face it with a smile.

I'd say "I love you" many times

I'd make her life worthwhile.

I'd say my prayers every night

and go to Sunday School

I'd read the Bible everyday

and never break a rule.

I would not wander far away

or leave her all alone.

When duty called me from her side,

I'd always hurry home.

I cannot turn the pages back

The wrongs I can't undo.

But I very well know what should have been

Now I'm a mother too.

Josephine Spangler's response

Turn not your thoughts backwards

on life's rugged way 

and brood over heartaches of yesterday.

But look at the flowers blooming so sweet

Now those that have faded and fell at your feet.

Think of today

with all of it's charms

And what the future may hold 

in her arms.

Turn your face toward the sun

and the shadows you see

will all fall behind you

where heartaches should be.

It's Official!

Although I have been retired for a month, I have had so many things happening that today is the first day I actually feel retired.

I have had such good intentions, and now more than ever want to see them thru! Be back soon with great things to come!

Today's A New Day

Today was an awesome day!! Early start and off to church. What a wonderful Lord's day when you 

can listen to a wonderful message, enjoy Bible study with a great Sunday school class, and then HOME

for some GOOD sewing time with your best friend.

Spent the afternoon making Kleenex purse carriers for gift bags for a mission trip in June. Feeling HAPPY!!!