Have You Missed Me? & Golden Quilters Awards

I've been MIA for a while 'cause I'm on vacation.  It's winding down and I will be back in town in a couple days posting and buggin'  ya'll.     Have you missed me?


Congratulations to all the Golden Quilter Awards for 2011 by SEW CAL GAL.  Great job, Darlene, and my thanks go out to whomever nominated my Etsy Shop.  That is quite flattering to be nominated among some of those great shops.

She just posted about the Spring Shop Hop.......so make sure you GO check it out and visit all the shops for some great prizes.


I'll be back in a couple of days.

These Feet Were Meant for Walking the Beach!

Sigh........vacation is over, but not in my heart & mind.   

It's HOT here in S. Texas today and my mind and heart are taking me back to Pacifica, CA on vacation last week;  where the air is crisp, cool, NO HUMIDITY......(notice that last part in Caps??)...and the beach beckons to my feet.

The pounding waves, the frothy surf, the sandpipers & seagulls........ahhhhh!  that's better. 

Ohhhhhhhhh!  that cool water sure feels good!

Just a little further out......that feels better!

Wonderfully refreshing!

"Come on guys, the water's great"..........

But......alas......it's time to GO!  (You didn't think I could post on my blog without capitalizing the word GO, did you?)   

I left  my footprints and my heart in San Francisco!

More vacation pictures tomorrow..........

(what?...you thought I was finished sharing my vacation?....you gotta be kidding! 

I took hundreds of pictures. )

GO WINNER! Today's the Day!

With being on vacation in California at my son's, I wanted to announce the winner of my GO Giveaway in a special way.   Here we are on my first day here...just had to GO to the beach.  I got my shorts wet too!

Let's GO take a stroll and think about life........fills my soul.

Surf and sand.......nothing better for my kind of vacation.

Ok...ok...enough of me in the ocean.  You want to know who won the GO, don't you?

We had to set the scene...Candles...crystal bowl with all the numbered entries.   Life is just a bowl of cherries, (fun & to be enjoyed).  On my mesh bag...   "Any day spent sewing is a good day".  There's my Christmas fabric circles cut with my GO for making yo-yo's and stored in my mesh "sewing day" bag. 

My son drawing out the winning entry.... and............

It's number 65!   Who is number 65?





The  suspense is building..........






Oh!  I'm being mean, teasing you like this.........fun for me! 





Drum roll please.............ta da....ta da....ta da....




Congratulations to: 



Maxwells who entered on 8/13/10 from Wilmington, DE and has a blog Thompson Family Quilts.  Please email me your name & address so I can contact AccuQuilt to send you a Free GO cutter and 3 free dies of your choice.

Thanks everyone, it's been fun!