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Hello All! Thanks for visiting the website. Boy howdy I am working hard on my quilts. Each one is different and tells a little something about me. Sometimes I just go random but there is always something special about each one. I'm pretty cool, at least I think so, I laugh a lot and I laugh loudly. I'm delighted you're looking at this website and considering supporting us. Thanks for passing through Miss Troye! Andy will join us and tell you about himself. he loves cooking, tennis, his music and anything Redskins. He will tell you more about himself later.

What has been happening up to now

Well a lot has been happening. At long last I received the batting I ordered from Tennessee!! I laughed when I saw how big the package was. Cyrus is holding it in one of the photos so you can see what I am talking about. It looks like a fat carpet. The funny thing is four friends in different parts of the world helped me get it here. This will be yet another story I can tell my grand daughters when they are older..

In fact I have had so much support from friends and family I can no longer say I am doing this on my own. Thanks to Barish who set up this blog spot, , my mother in law gave generously out of her stash of African fabrics which she collects on her travels throughout Tanzania and Sierra Leone. The lovely Katherine helped update and edit my pictures and is also a gold mine of insight and input she offers her opinion without buffers sometimes I don't know where she got that personality trait from, honestly. Andy is just a rock and supports most everything I do (LOL). I have been very encouraged by friends and associates who have just called or stopped me to ask how it is going, which is so helpful to me. There have been many offers of assistance. Someone even offered to come and sit and keep me company while I sewed.

I have been dying fabric, altering denim and all sorts of lovely things like that. I went to London last week for a training course but while I was there I could not resist a quick pit stop into Liberty's (beautiful leafy red fabric). I called into a haberdasher's in Northwood Hills where I buy my calico. I raced there after my course finished to make it before closing time at one on Saturday. Thankfully my bags were not lost at terminal 5 at Heathrow.

Any way I am well on my way and I hope together we really can help Melisa. Sometimes when I feel like giving up I just think of her and I am supplied with the energy and the will to carry on.

Thanks for stopping

Troye

Some of the pictures are just fabric yet to be cut into squares triangles or strips

Monday, 4 August 2008

It is still today where she is but it is yesterday from here. My mother had her birthday. I just finished speaking to her and she was so excited about a fund raiser she and the rest of my family are a part of to help a little boy the know. She said she danced until her feet hurt but she had a great time.

My mother is a wonderful inspiration to me. She has no idea how much her encouraging words mean to me. I can still remember even after all of theses years how she encouraged me to apply to Colorado College. I resisted and I can still see my feet as I walked to the bus stop to go to CC. I got there a whole 90 minutes early for my interview. I remember looking up at the ceiling thinking I will never walk these halls. Well the rest as they say is history.

Mothers are amazing people. You may not always see eye to eye with them but they are a major influence whether they believe it or not.

Happiest of birthdays Mom
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Anonymous said...

Truer words were never spoken! Its such a deep relationship - I dont' see eye to eye on a lot of things with my mom but have certainly learned to appreciate her more and more the older I've gotten. I've learned to put the things that bug me about her aside a bit more and just appreciate all of her tremendous acts of kindness.
Lori

4 September 2008 at 22:15

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