Pigtales&Quilts: Friends and Birthdays

2010 Ronald McDonald House Raffle Quilts! Photos Updated 3/5

Join us in our efforts to raise funds for the Ronald McDonald House of Stanford located at 520 Sand Hill Road in Palo Alto, CA!! Our contact at the House is Linda Lyons, Development Director! Why don't you take a tour through their HOUSE! Quilters from the HGTV Quilting and Needlework Forum have joined together to make this fundraiser possible! The whole month of February, quilts will be arriving from all over the country from each of the HGTV Quilters who signed on to make a quilt for the raffle. Visit the RAFFLE POST and read about our raffle and then help us by purchasing tickets! The Ronald McDonald House of Stanford will receive 100% of the proceeds from the raffle! I will continue to update the photos on the slideshow as the quilts arrive! There will be 36 quilts eligible for winning in this years raffle on September 11, 2010!! We raised $1,835.00 for the Ronald McDonald House in Durham, NC in 2008! We were able to present the Ronald McDonald House in Dallas, TX with $4,000 from last years raffle which was held in July 2009! Can we bust that mark wide open and raise even more with the current raffle! We need your help! Please, tell your family, friends or co workers about this and help us reach our goal of exceeding last year’s ticket sales!! Email me for tickets! Thanks so much for your support!

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Friends and Birthdays

I have found some of my very best friends online in several different communities! Quilting communities, Facebook and Blogland! And to think if I had not bought my first ever computer, I would have never met the 200+ new friends that I have now! Around 1/2 of these friends I have met in person, some more than once. Some I have spent nights in their homes...some have spent nights in my home!

I spend several hours on the phone with some...especially Nicki! She and I can pass 2 hours away before we know it! I love talking to her and I love it even more that I consider her one of my closest friends! She sent me these wonderful piggie houseslippers for my birthday!

Complete with pigtails

I have also become good friends with Riane from the Netherlands! Her beautiful daughter Brechje touched my heart several months ago and I sent her a quilt along with a Dotee Doll. Since then we have kept in contact either through our blogs or by mail. Riane makes handmade cards and I am the lucky recipient of one of these beauties for my birthday! Along with the cutest ever bag! Thanks Riane! I love both!!

And last but certainly not least by any stretch of the imagination is Elaine!! I had the pleasure of meeting this lovely lady this past April at my first ever quilt retreat! Elaine warms the hearts of all who come in contact with her! I made a wonderful new friend this year and treasure our friendship always! And I love to hear her voice on the other end of the telephone! Love that accent! She sent me this sweet plaque for my birthday! It will have a spot on my sewing cabinet...once I get it cleaned off! I am such a messy crafter! :)

2 comments:

Arlette said...: Happy Birthday, Thearica! Hope your day was fabulous!
Aloha!; November 24, 2009 6:59 PM
Merry said...: These are late wishes but I hope your day was wonderful. My computer is trying me at the moment. Firstly, we have a bug that is slowing everything down and then we were offline for a couple of days as the modem died. But I agree with you I love meeting all the lovely people in computerland. Love those piggy slippers.; November 26, 2009 8:47 PM