California Spring

It really is spring in California.

Buddy and I took our first camp trip this weekend, and if you follow beyondthereef on facebook as a fan, you'll realize it was his very first camp trip.

When you live "in the city", getting out into the hills is a real treat.  

For just a few hours of driving, you are rewarded with a whole new set of flowers, scrub, birds, and people.  It's really a treat.  I would suggest being a tourist in your own state, if you have a chance.

For Buddy, it meant a tent, eating in the tent, watching prairie dogs and birds and squirrels and all sorts of things he could never ever catch.

For me, it is a whole new file of flowers and blooms to applique.

And while they may not be tropical, or Hawaiian, the shapes and the structure will lend themselves beautifully to that Hawaiian fabric.

Finally.

I thot you'd like to see some of Buddy's camping pics.

And last but not least, I hope you can see it...

Buddy and a Prairie Dog

(I think.  Or maybe a really small gopher?  Look just 'lower of center' and above the clump of dirt to the right of Buddy's right elbow)

Good dog, Buddy.

BeginAgain.

2010

...in Giving we Get...

b e y o n d   t h e   r e e f

come visit us at

ROAD TO CALIFORNIA

Thursday - Sunday

January 14-17

On Sunday, the show is having a

SALE-abration

11:00 - 3:30

so we are participating by giving back

GO RED - GO PINK

(just for Sunday's Sale-a-bration)

proceeds for the specially packaged red and pink fabrics

will be donated to support heart health awareness

and breast cancer awareness

in addition to that

moondoggie and gidget 

pattern books

will be $8.00/book (regularly $14)

with 100% of the purchase price being donated to

Lab Rescue in Southern and Central California.

Long live dogs.

Long live women.

Long live quilters that realize

it is in giving that we truly get.

BeginAgain

2010

natalie.

thanks for making our part of this celebration a real celebration of life

please come and visit us

booth 302,304, 306

I have been sending to a select group of you, your own personal emails.

I saw you at a show, or you wrote to me, and you asked me.

Please email me.

Reminders.

And for the rest of you, here it is.

The Seven Sisters Quilt Show is this weekend.

At the Madonna Inn Expo Center.

In San Luis Obispo California.

9-5 and 9-4

Saturday and Sunday

Now, if I seem a little tired as you come by to see me, please be kind to me.

And compliment me on the booth.

And the quilts.

And the hula girl fabric quilt (we have kits).

And the Paper Dolls quilt (we have kits).

And maybe my hair or something like that.

Fake it about the hair.

Please.

Anything.

It takes a lot to get ready to 'get on the road'...

It is girls weekend for me, too.  With Katey and Lisa (oh, okay, we're gonna have Paul and Chip the dog with us too).

We're gonna be at some great place to eat and drink and carry on after the show setup on Friday.

We'll see you there!!

And the next morning, since Katey is in charge, we'll go for a run.

We'll see you there, too - Katey in front, me bringing up the rear.  Like I tell people about running, I do it, I just don't do it well.

THEN we'll do the quilt show.

So, if I seem a little tired when you see me...

Thanks for thinking of

b e y o n d   t h e   r e e f

sparkle and shine

2009

(sorry I have not written more - more in the days to come)