Yep, I'm another year older today!!

I have officially nudged past the mid 50's. Mind you I've just edged over the middle of the 50's so I'm thinkin I'm still in the middle and I'm holding on!!! Got a great package from Carol to start the birthday celebration ..........a box of delicious chocolates. Thanks Carol. Let the celebrating begin!
Had a wonderful birthday dinner at the Cheese Cake Factory with my family on Sunday! It was a beautiful evening in Palm Dessert, with the temperature about 82 degrees. We sat out on the patio at the restaurant and enjoyed the evening. Got great presents from the kids. A really cute new workout outfit to wear to the gym (although after all the cheesecake, I might hold off wearing it for a while)! My girl got me the cutest metal snowman sign and on the back was a note that she has tickets for the two of us to see the Nutcracker in December. That was always our thing we did together when she was little, our Christmas tradition, and I am so excited that we are going to go!!! Very special that she knows what that means to me!

Today was a very busy day at the shop. People are really getting in to decorating for Fall, as well as getting those Christmas quilts going. I can't believe how close Christmas is. This time of year my little binding business keeps me pretty busy, so I don't get much quilting done.......but call me crazy, which many people do........I love putting bindings on. Thought I would show you some of my customers quilts that I have finished. This quilt belongs to one of our morning ladies, Jan. It's from one of the Buggy Barn books. Their quilts are so much fun to do! The quilt is very striking in white and green.

Here's Nurse Carol's sailboat quilt. Look at all those little pinwheels between the ships. You can't tell by the picture, but the quilting is wonderful! Little puffy clouds quilted in the sky around the sails.................way cute!!! ..... and another Nurse Carol quilt that the quilters just brought in today. I told her I'm going to take my time putting the binding on this one!!!! I think it needs to live at my house for quite a long time :-)!!!!!!!!

Every Monday night at the shop we have a group that has been coming for a number of years. They always have quilts to show and here are some of what we got to ooooh and ahhhhh over tonight.Also, did I mention the Death by Chocolate birthday cake. Yummy!!!!!

When I come home from class I am always wired, well tonight it's probably from the big slab of chocolate birthday cake, but usually it's from all the projects that everyone is working on. Usually I come home and poke around in my sewing room for a couple hours plotting all the things I'm going to get done!

Some of you may have read over on Sharon's blog that Kim is being left all of Sharon's fabric. Well, that's just fine, but I'll be holding her Christmas Quilt hostage till she comes home! Sharon, this would look great in my bedroom:-)!

Thanks to my wonderful family and all my great friends for making my birthday so special! Later gators!