Dean's been busy working on a quilt for her husband, and Linda and I have been helping out. Dean does the sewing, Linda has been helping with the ironing and the cutting and I help with the squaring up. Gonna be a nice quilt when you finish with it Dean.

We had our meeting on the 28, and discussed a few items. Carol would like for us to get together and do the napkin wraps for the Valentine dance at the Center. She suggested doing it on the 11th of February, which is our normal business meeting and the Wednesday before the dance. Please try to make the meeting and plan on staying after a little while so we can work to get the napkins wrapped, the more we have the quicker it gets done. We had a few gifts that were brought in for Susan's B-Day party, which they celebrated earlier in the month with a suprise party for her. But she still got some nice gifts, and went home with a carload.

And of course, what would a trip be to Fredericksburg if we didn't stop in at Pocketful of Poises. We all dropped a little cash there, and we all walked away with some new ideas. Thanks Barbara and Dean for spending the day with me. We sure did have a wonderful time, and of course we look forward to doing it agian, maybe with a bigger group next time.

Lo and behold, on our way back to the truck, we just happened to stumble upon a fudge shop! Who would have thought that they would have on of those in Fredericksburg. They had a wonderful assortment of chocolate's and a big selection of sugar free stuff, this made the whole group happy!

After spending about 2 hours at the gem show, we headed off to Fredericksburg in search of lunch. Of course you couldn't park on Main street so we parked a block off of Main and did some walking. We had lunch at a cute little restaurant, and were able to catch out second wind.

This was a really cool cow skull that had been covered in turquoise, the picture really doesn't do it justice.

What a great time we had on a girl's day out. Barbara, Dean and I did a road trip to Fredericksburg to a gem and mineral show. We saw some of the most amazing rocks, they even had a black room where the rocks glowed in the dark. It was awesome!

Birthday Club Info:

January- Susan- Jan. 4
Fav. colors-green,brown,turquoise,amber,black,silver,orange
Fav.things- snakes,turtles,jewelry,antique linens,vintage "anything" hobbies- gardening,sewing ,not cooking,travel,beadwork,makin'stuff
fav.drink-chai tea from starbucks
fav.food-anything i don't have to cook myself
fav.collectibles-jadite dishes,beads,depression glass

February- Sheri-Apr.1
fav.colors-blue,yellow, purple
fav.things- butterflies,hummingbirds,angels hobbies- kaleb,quilting,machine embroidery
fav.drink-coffee
fav.food-chocolate
fav.collectible- butterflies,hummingbirds,angels,threads

March- Betty-Apr.12
fav colors- purple, pinks, wines, greens, and golds
fav thing- embroidery, quilting hobbies- doing cards
fav food- veggies, candy ??
fav collectible- tea cups

April- Linda-Aug.12
fav color- blue, red, wine, tan, beige
fav things- jewelery of any kind hobbies- sewing, quilting, watching birds
fav drink- coffee, margarita's, coke, tea
fav food- axes deer, chicken, beef
fav collectible- small wall quilts

May- Terry- Sept. 9
fav color- greens
fav things- having time to sew, becoming a grand mother, reading a good book hobbies- love to quilt, sew, embroidery, working on blogspot, gardening, canning
fav drink- oooooooooooooo mojito- sooo gooood!!!!!!!!
fav collectible- butterflies, red birds, fabric

June- Rita-Sept.19
fav colors- lime greens, fuschia pink, orange, black and white
fav things- plants that thrive, birds-especially hummers, flamingo's of course hobbies- gardening, quilting, yard art, altered art, bird watching-feeding
fav drink- margarita's, coffee
fav food- unfortunately, everything
fav collectible- bowling balls, yard art, flamingo's other info- love crazy quilts, hand embroidery

July- Carol- Sept.23
fav colors- purples, greens, earth tones, burgundy, gold tones
fav things- hiking, sewing for Kimber, decorating for christmas,working in the yard, making what was old, "new again", in style and usable hobbies- redesigning wearables, making jewelry, reading, hand applique
fav drink- white wine, kahlua, iced tea, shiner bock, flavored coffee's
fav food- dark, dark, chocolate, eclairs, and veggie pizza when i really want to be bad fav collectible- embellishments, lace, beads, yarn, threads, unusual coffee mugs, landscape fabric,wind chimes othe info- love christmas decorations, thinking outside the box, being creative

Aug- Tricia- Nov.16
fav color- i really like everything
fav things- primitive fabrics, 30's fabric, antiques, yard art, hummingbirds, bird houses, etc hobbies- gardening, cooking, yard art
fav drink- coffee, mt. dew
fav food- OMG everything
fav collectible- i really don't collect anything but like anything old

Sept- Lisa-12-2
fav colors-dark purple, electric blue, royal blue, orange, bright jewel tones
fav things- indian stuff, coca cola stuff, good trashy novels, kokopelli, rocks, jewelry, silver hobbies- quilting, beading, reading, jewelry making
fav drink- coca cola fav food- mexican
fav collectible- weird yard art, wind chimes, dragonflies, silver jewelry, ILS
other info- i don't do fou-fou

Oct-Dean-12-28
fav colors- pink(dark), lime greens, turquoise, blue, purple, most any color
fav things- heritage club, sewing hobbies- sewing, reading
fav drink- coffee, tea
fav food- anything almost
fav collectible- no roosters, dragonflies
other info- for my birthday i would like all of us to go to lunch, NO PRESENTS, of that's okay, too much stuff, small house

Don't worry Mom, I'll take care of these...

And a Grand time was had by all..........

Susan had alot of help opening her gifts! Did she make a haul or what!

You Go Birthday Girl

To YOU

SUSAN

Were you SUPRISED??? Alot of planning went into a suprise birthday party for Susan. I'm sorry to say that I was unable to attend as I had to work, but I heard that a grand time was had by all, and who know's, we just might have to do it again!

Happy New year to one and All!

Hope that the holidays were good to everyone and that Santa brought you all that you wished for. As we are all getting ready for the year, I am open to suggestion for what ya'll want to do this year. We have already planned a day trip for January 17, gonna go to Fredericksburg to a gem and mineral show and do lunch up there. More info to come at the meeting on the 14th. Yes, this is the first meeting of the new year.