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You are invited to Dress a Girl Around the World We'll be sewing pillowcases into dresses Wednesday, August 31 beginning at 1:30pm at my house Send me a note for directions and details The pattern for the dresses are very simple.  You don't need anything other than the most basic sewing skills.  Please bring a sewing machine if you have one.  I'll have at least one exta. You will also need the following supplies: new or gently used pillowcase thread 14-inches of ¼” or ½” elastic 32-36” of doublefold bias tape I'll have: scissors safety pins thread ruler sewing pins My good friend, Michelle made a dress with a group of ladies at a her mom's sewing machine shop. Lots of inspiration!

The boys went to bed. I went to my sewing closet. I sewed a quilt patch for  Quilts of Valor .  In less than two hours. Because I used the Quilt In a Day plan for making this Log Cabin pattern I ended up with extra fabric in each strip of color.  It was easy to make a few extra patches.  I have visions of a small table runner or centerpiece...someday. This is the patch I'll be mailing tomorrow.  There's still time for you to add your patch to Quilts of Valor. The finished size needs to be 7.5" x 7.5" and needs to be red, white and blue only.  See here for more details.   I'm pretty sure this is the first time I've ever sewn for charity. It's motivating! And a lot of fun, too.  I only wish I could join the other girls at the shop and work on our pieces together.  The next project I want to sew is a pillowcase dress for  Dress A Girl Around The World .  Anyone els...

My sister is going to school in Boston. Do you know what Boston is home to? Well, besides the Freedom Trail, Faneuil Hall, the Red Sox, Boston Common, Make Way for Ducklings , Old North Church, a Tea Party, about a thousand universities, the USS Constitution, Cheer's... Dunkin' Donuts! Anyway We have a new Dunkin' Donuts in the neighborhood so we had to take her there.   She had the Boston Creme He wanted a "white" donut. He'll eat anything with chocolate! I think I had one of each!  Fun day! FYI: If you first stuff your boys full of donuts you shop at Target at your own risk.

If you missed my invitation, our Bible Study group will be working through Priscilla Shirer's book Life Interrupted for the next 10 weeks.  You can find it on Amazon or Christianbook.com, both in a paperback and an e-book format. Here's the schedule for the reading and discussion.  Feel free to chime in, if you happen to be reading along. On August 4 we will discuss Chapters 1 & 2 August 11 - Chapter 3 August 18 - Chapters 4 & 5 August 25 - Chapter 6 September 1 - Chapters 7 & 8 September 8 - Chapter 9 September 15 - Chapters 10 & 11 September 22 - Chapter 12 September 29, October 6 and October 13 - BREAK for the school district break October 20 - Chapters 13 & 14 October 27 - Chapter 15 I just started chapter two.  Initially I was keeping notes about passages and ideas I thought I might want to discuss in our Bible study group.  They quickly grew too numerous and frequent so I started underlining and making no...