MizTricia1 from Alabama, USA

Hi MizTricia, what a magnificent piece of art! Well done to all. WHere will it be displayed after all the travels? Take care

Hi MizT. That is a beautiful quilt. I can imagine the work and dedication that went into it. Especially since it was done by many people in different places. I hope it finds a home where it can be seen by many more.

MizTricia, What a lot of love & skill went into the making of this gorgeous quilt. Thank you for giving your fellow Sudokuists a chance to see it up close. Hopefully, many more people will get to see & appreciate it at a permanent memorial somewhere in the future.

Hi, MizTricia! The quilt is beautiful! What a fitting tribute! Who has possession of the quilt?

hi there MizT
people tell me you are the wiz at avatars. i have ha a go but haven't got the hang of it yet. do you have any easy instructions? i realise i could go through your page here and maybe find some, but i have to log off now and don't have time. if you could paste them on to a message on my page, i would be soooo grateful! :):):):)

Hello again MizT - thank you for your message!
I have made one "pass" through the page you've sent me to and i can see there is lots of fun to be had... it;s late at night here just now and my head can't absorb it very well but i know now where to come back and look. Thank you very much.

Thank you for your welcome - I'm having a look around and a bit of a play I'll try using a smilie again, and hope that it works this time!!

I think I've got it

MizT, belated to your daughter. Hope everyone had a good time.

Hello MizTricia - thanks for visiting my page and viewing my photos.
I've just been browsing through yours and you certainly have some very interesting ones.
I have a friend in Albany who is a very keen quilter and belongs to a quilting club, or something like that, but I'm not sure if they are as intricate as yours.
Cheers

hi MizT, repaying your visit! If you would like to see the beach, then you can check my pics on Flickr (my name there is dsttc). Going up to Melbourne to help out D#2 today but will be around via my trusty laptop.

,MizTricia. Thank you for visiting my page and the birthday greeting. You are a very talented quilter (is that the right nomenclature?)! Someday, I hope to learn that skill, but for now, I buy them. I love what your group did for Sept. 11th. No wonder it wins ribbons! By the way, one of my daughters brought fresh peaches for my birthday; they were scrumptious and disappeared too quickly. Maybe I'll have to trade some of my apple crisp for some of your peaches?

Hi MizTricia, the kids playing the ball games and the photo that I called my class are the same kids. In Indonesia, most children wear their brown uniforms on a particular day of the week. It is their Pramuka or Scouts' uniform. The red and white is the regular primary school uniform throughout Indonesia. They then wear navy blue and white in Junior High and grey and white in Senior High. Thanks for having a look!

Hey MizTricia, Thanks for letting me know that I'm not the only one experiencing problems with photographs. I did send the mail like you suggested, but it was returned "undelivered"!! Have not tried to upload again, bit busy, will try again soon. Have you managed? Take care

OMG, Sudoku dieting is fun. Wisconson Angie has me soaking in Bloddy Marys, and you have my swimming in chocolate ... as long as I don't inhale. I wouldn't want to ... but you didn't say anything about swallowing. Hah.

It's me again! We had exactly the same situation - kept busy by our daughters!! My daughter was visiting from England and I never stopped for a minute. Enjoy having yours home! My heart is aching because I will not see my daughter for another year or so!!

MizT:
I want to leave you with a special thank-you and a trail of gifts for being so supportive to me over my verses, and when I first joined the site. You were the first person to leave me a welcome at my room. So I am leaving 6 of my premium strawberry tarts; some sheep as scatter cushions; and a Baa stocked with drinks for Ewe and your many guests

The agent said "elephant what?". But I agree about the composting, except that the Wichita zoo sells zoo-doo as a fund raiser and I'd hate to think of myself as beating the poor penguins out of a rasher of salt herring.

MizTricia,
Thank you for the kind birthday wish. I usually do the easy and medium puzzles but don't always post. By the time I get on it is usually late at night.
I love the 9-11 quilt. It looks like it took a lot of time and a lot of love. I hope you find a special permanent home for it. I would love to learn to quilt someday. I just need to find time.

MizTricia, thank you so much for your heartfelt words of condolence and especially for your offer of a patient, listening ear. I may take you up on that yet! I miss my mom like crazy but loving her completely meant letting her go. I have her overnight bag packed and it rests in the bedroom where she slept when she came for visits, a symbol that she'll always have a place in our home. Her old corduroy gardening jacket will hang in the front closet alongside my dad's grey vest. These little lasting monuments mean a lot to me and I find that, in some way, my parents aren't really gone. Bless you for caring; your kindness means more than I can say.

Hi Miz Tricia, I finally worked out how to add Flickr photos, my own photos and even a You Tube to my page. I have added an avatar, but would love a hint on where to get some more. The one that I have chosen is a photo of my own, but the majority of them don't shrink so small or are even still too big if I make them the right pixel size. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please feel free to drop in any time.

Hi MizTricia ... had a drive to my home town today to deliver some thank you cards and token gifts to the nurses who cared for my mother. It's Thanksgiving here, but we're not celebrating in the usual way--just taking quiet time to be thankful we had such a wonderful mom. Glad you liked her picture; that was a great day for her, dancing at her grandson's wedding. She was, as she appears in the photo, a gentle, lovely lady who also wasn't afraid to speak her mind (now I know where I get it!) Wishing you a blessed day.

Hi MizT. i was just scoping out the quilter's page and saw your note that your sunbonnet sue and sam was on flickr. it is beautiful. we're headed up to see mom at thanksgiving end of november, so i'll try to take pictures to post. i pieced different material together for each sam and sue, so no 2 are alike. and decorated each differently - like a sam with a fishing pole or a sue with butterflies, etc. since each great grandkid is so different, i thought each block should be individual also. lol

Thinking of you my friend ...

MizT, you've no idea the comfort you've been. Thanks for sharing how you keep your mother near. My friend lost her mom 25 years ago, and she still talks to her every day.
I'm now in the fight of the century with a local university, trying to deal with a hostile student; until now I've received little support. After today, we'll see ... Times like these, a girl needs her mom. That which doesn't kill us makes us stronger. We'll see about that too. Wishing you a thousand blessings, MizT--you're a real gem.

Cattle and peaches? Sounds like quite a combo. Yes, our weather has been more like August than October. However, it was great for extending the boating season. See ya around.

i think i finally figured out how i want to finish off the quilt for my grandgirl. i've had s.sue done i pinks for her for almost 2 years and only need to attach binding. i had it in a quilt frame until we moved and figured i would have to hand quilt it. that's overwhelming for a king size quilt! so it's been packed for 2 years. lol. just decided to do the binding then start hand quilting around each sue and call that done...lol i'll take a pix when i get it out again (unfinished)

Hi MizT, Glad you enjoyed having morning coffee in my back yard and I hope the kookaburras did not laugh at you. The orange flowers are "Clivia" and they originate from South Africa. Not sure of the dark red plant. Given as a cutting. It is the leaf that has the colour and is very easy to grow.The blossom is a double white flowering peach but fruit not suitable for eating. (No flesh)
Love your quilt. Congratulations to all who helped make it.We left home on 7/9 or as you would say 9/7 for a tour of East coast Canada/USA and were in New Brunswick on 9/11 and NY less than 3 weeks later. Found it very disturbing to be so far from home and close to the event and no idea what the outcome would be.(ie how Bush would react) Visiting NY at that time was very sobering.

Cooee MizT, just thought I'd drop in to see how you are because we don't seem to be able to co-ordinate our meeting times! Hope this note finds you and hubby well. Thinking of you.

MizT - I read your post in SA about your super blankie, and I want to let you know about some fantastic new sheets made of fuzzy microfiber - probably the same fabric as your throw. They're $50 a set (any size). I saw them in a recent Domestications catalog. I think their web address is www.domestications.com.

Hi, MizT! Glad you got my message. I almost bought the sheets last year, but then we had an unusually warm winter - never even had a freeze here (at least at our house, as attested to by the surviving impatiens!) I, too, bought fuzzy blankies at Wal-Mart: 2 "leopard" throws that I toss on top of the twin beds in the guest room in winter and a microfiber throw that I cuddle under when we have the fireplace cranked up (and the central heat off) in the evenings in winter. I don't know how I lived without the stuff! I've always been a purist about natural fibers (cotton, wool, silk, linen, etc.), but I am a big-time synthtetic "user" now! Of course, part of the reason I only used cotton for bedding was that up north the winters were so dry that anything but cotton would cause major static electricity shocks. I've found that here, even in the dead of winter, there's always a touch of humidity, so there's no problem. Anyway, if you buy the sheets, let me know how you like them! Cheers! Jane

MizTricia, I LOVED your funny story. That could be the story of my life! The Lord is good, but the calories, mean sons of a *^*))^$#!!! They seem to love hanging around my waistline.

Well at the moment, we are boatless We just sold our open bow and are shopping for a cruiser. Something 30'+. And I agree, any body of water that we will fit in works for us. I'll put a picture of the "Change In Latitude" on my page in a sec.

Next time you are this way you should take the the Eagle Fairy or the Grafton Fairy accros the river. You's love it.

Hello MizT! Thanks so much for the welcome! I have cousins in Alabama! Small world!

MizT,
My uncle lives in Guntersville, on the lake there, and I have a cousin in Tuscaloosa (I think :)

Thanks for commenting on the family! They are my pride! If there is one thing I do really well, it is having beautiful children! The puppy is a gift from my sister to my husband. He wanted another boy in the house so he wouldn't feel so outnumbered!! lol

Did you make all the quilts in your photos? They are beautiful! I am a beginner at knitting and crochet. Would love to try quilting but my sewing skills leave Much room for improvement!

I have added more pics! (this is fun!)

One is of my father and Uncle that was taken in Uncle's boat house on the lake! Circa 1970. They have lived there for a VERY long time...you never know...you could have met my uncle!

I have also added pics of some of my latest crochet projects and other artsy stuff I have done. Let me know what you think!

I think I'll wait on the quilt group...I don't have the time (with 3 kids) to even try to start a project like that...but when I'm ready I'll let you know!

Cheers MizT. Beth has asked me to pass on her thanks for the many messages she received, she was most touched. She sat on my lap this morning (I think it was a last minute regression!) and read them all. She's off out with her mates tonight, we did the family thing last night.

Hey hey MizTricia :)

Thank you for the very warm welcome.. And thanks for all the sudoku advice =).. Got to say, this site has some of the nicest and friendliest people =)... Glad to have joined...

Kind regards..
Peter :)

nice to have a note from you when i returned from a long weekend in Indiana, seeing the grandboys. that was great fun. they are growing much too rapidly!

the roses are in a pot, as are all my plants. i move them with us when we go from LA to NC. quite a trip for them i have about 10 pots that i take along. they don't really like the bouncy ride, but i trim and fertilize and they snap out of the shock. the tomato never did well, but that's probably due to my ill-planned planting times. lol!

of course, you can guess, that's there's more to the story about the quilt and why i've not had it out for so long. i was in a car accident 3 years ago; i was injured, not seriously, but enough to stop life as i knew it. i'm just now recovered enough to want to do things again. thank heavens for this website! it's been the thing to help me get better! i went to versailles for a hip replacement (injury from the accident), which is why i had so many pictures of versailles on this site.) i'm ready. i have an afghan to finish and a 4 crocheted scarves and an edge on a baby blanket. they don't take long at all to do and i can do each one in a evening. when those are done, i'll get out the quilt. i think i've figured out how to do the edges, then hand quilt, so at least i've got a plan for it now. i didn't have that a few weeks ago. thanks to HGTV and DIY TV channels. lol. i had considered using someone near Nashville, TN to finish it, but hadn't found anyone yet. (UPS stops there too and that is definitely the "right" area) lol. i should just buy stock in UPS, is send so much stuff with them. lol. but i'm about ready to tackle it myself. doesn't that sound like a HUGE improvement?!