Just an ordinary day.

I'm "celebrating" just an ordinary day in the week, a Wednesday no less, and a leap year to boot!  Nothing wrong with a little ordinary, no flashy stuff, but thankful for a nice day.

It rained most of the day, so I'll post a photo I took the other morning of a cardinal singing at the top of his lungs as I walked out to the car (photo of the red cardinal is a little fuzzy unfortunately, had the wrong camera to shoot this one).

BSoleille!  Finding the bright spot in ordinary.....

terri

Horsing around!

Today it was a glorious sunny afternoon, and I headed over to my vet to pick up my dogs monthly heart-worm pills.  It was a great drive out in the country.  Once I arrived at Davidsonville Vetinary Clinic, the doc's horse Abby was out "greeting" patrons.  I could not help but capture her welcoming "smile".

BSoleille!

terri

The moon and the stars......

Tonight I am going to direct my sights upward, to the big sky, with the most beautiful array of the moon and planets displayed across the ink-stained sky!  No matter where you are in the world you can see this formation for the next few weeks.  I just had my "boys" go take a look with me and see the wonder in these big and very bright stars.  Unfortunately,  my camera cannot capture the beauty, so I'll have to add a photo from my archives.  So my photo is a recent sunset to round out this post: the sun, the moon and the stars!

BSoleille - finding the bright stars in the sky.....

terri

Apple mania at the mall

I had a 3:00pm Apple class today, but once there it was way too crazy to even think about taking my computer out to work on my current project. I Checked in and immediately went to one of their big 27" screen iMacs to reschedule. And this is what I'm thankful for, getting one of my favorite instructors later in the week!

Can't beat a great crab cake!

In celebrating a friend's birthday tonight at a restaurant in Baltimore called "Sascha's", I ordered a crab cake sandwich that was just delicious!  Thankful to live in Maryland and enjoy this wonderful cuisine!

My photo today is dug out from the "archives" with Lucy-Loo and her big blue eyes....(I should have taken a photo of my crabcake!)

BSoleille!

terri

Love my iPad!

A little technology today extolling the virtues of the iPad!  I am thankful to be a proud owner of one.  Just like I said about my computer, if you hang on tight enough and push the right buttons, the power is so great it could send you to the moon (well almost)!

As a matter of fact, the weekly newsletter that my brother-in-law Don Tomoff puts out, certainly helps me learn this wonderful device with his valuable tips and tricks of all things iPad!  I am including the link here in this post to use and learn.....Weekly iPad newsletter-Thornhill Financial

Photo is of my iPad, Generation 1, a game changer for sure......

BSoleille, finding the bright stars of technology!

terri

A glorious day!

Had to go out and enjoy the brilliant sunshine, ultra blue skies (with big white clouds, I must add) and mild temps today with the dogs around the Crofton Parkway!  Once home, I could not but help notice the crocuses preening in the front garden while the sunlight danced across the very brown lawn.  I ran inside to get my camera and had to capture their beauty.   A sign of spring around the corner sans snow?

BSoleille, the bright side of these beautiful "early bird" flowers....

terri

Today I met a King!

How often can you say that, meeting a king?  But today I did just that, thanks to my friend Janet who invited me to the National Press Club in Washington, DC., to meet King Peggy!  King Peggy launched her world wide book tour this evening along with her co-writer, Eleanor Herman.  This is an incredible real-life fairy tale of an American secretary  who became an African King (a king of 7,000 in Otuam, Ghana).  Very interesting.  Photo today of me and King Peggy signing my copy of her book!

BSoleille!

terri

Day of rest but not really

My day of rest consisted of machine quilting two quilts for a FACS teacher and standing for a large portion of the day. After sitting on my butt for 4 days it was a welcome relief!
Here is the second one done- Boo for Halloween.

Home sweet home!

Had a great time over the weekend, and the lights have gone down at the retreat center!  Thankful that I had such a wonderful "krewe" to help make this Mardi-Gras themed quilt retreat a great success!  My photo is of me wearing the "royal crown"; given to one who completes something and called affectionately, "queen of completion crown".  I wore it a few times for at least 3 minutes each.  I had to bequeathe the crown to another "queen" who completed another project!  The crown certainly made the rounds!!!

BSoleille!

terri

Shrove Sunday

Thankful for a productive day quilting at West River. My photo is me and one of my bunk mates, Marcy. We were being silly with our Mardi Gras masks after waking up this morning! Great weekend with my quilting buddies!

Big fun making bags at retreat!

Besides the quilt I'm almost done with that is shown here in this post, I made an essential wallet, a "sweet treat" bag, (courtesy of the best make-n-take teacher Mary Nielson), a royal pincushion (courtesy of Amy Morusiewicz), and a pressing table (courtesy of Mary and Cappy). The time here is flying by.

At last, Retreat 2012!!!!

Final day to ready myself for quilt retreat 2012

Excited about my packing done, because not only do I need to pack for myself and all my supplies and personal items, I have a lot of fun Mardi Gras themed stuff packed as well. This post is written on my iPhone because I did not want to miss a day in posting, so this is a practice round so I can still post from a remote location and not my computer as usual.

My photo is my guilds Block of the Month "heart" block and I think just to darn cute!
Well, I can't figure out how to do a photo from my phone...

I'll figure it out I hope.
BSoleille,
Terri

Countdown to Quilt Retreat 2012!

I am getting very excited about my guild's upcoming retreat this weekend.  I have been very busy getting ready for our Mardi-Gras themed sewfest, and am thankful I have such a wonderful crew to help make it a great one!  (although due to mild temps in Maryland, I don't think we will be snowed in this year.)  Today I finished my "brown bag" gift, where we employ a "Yankee Swap" type exchange for Friday night!  That's my photo today.  Love those lady bugs!

 

BSoleille, finding the "luck of the lady bug"!

terri

Happy Valentine's Day

Today is a day of 'love'.  It's a blessing to be loved every day and it is one of life's greatest gifts.  LOVE!  "Where there is love, there is life!" Ghandi
So a toast to "love" in all forms.....

BSoleille, finding the bright side of love!

terri

Learning something new....

Today I floated out of my Apple Class after spending 2+ hours ensconsed in a world of blogging, book writing and photography.  The instructors are sooo good, and I am thankful I have been going for the past few years learning all I can in the few hours a week I spend there.  Of course, every computer has more on it than we will ever get to, but knowing the enormous possibilities is what keeps me planted and plugging along with my computer projects!

My photo is the infinite possiblities found in quilting (like computing), and as the magazines suggest, "no two quilts ever have to be alike".

BSoleille!

terri

Games and Movies

Playing a few mean games of Bananagrams and a few movies certainly rounds out a weekend, especially having my daughter home from college for too short of a weekend visit! And I love that feeling of thinking about seeing (what I think is) a good movie, that hard to describe feeling that lingers the rest of the day.  Photo of playing Bananagrams!  Word games live forever!!!

BSoleille!

terri

Breakfast for 4

A wonderful weekend since my daughter Olivia came home for a visit.  Of course, it goes by way too fast, and she will be off and back to college tomorrow, but ah, today is so great to be together!  My photo is the family at our favorite breakfast spot, Chick and Ruth's on Main Street in downtown Annapolis!

BSoleille!

terri

Date Night at MI Casita's

Tonight, I am thankful I was able to go on a real "date night" with my husband.  The past few weeks, our date night included our 17 year old son, but he had his own plans tonight, so that is another thing to thankful for! Mi Casita's Mexican Restaurant is a little place in Crofton, MD, that it so "Cheer's" like,  everyone knows your name (they may say it in Spanish, but hey, they still know it).

BSoleille!

terri