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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

Saturday, 10 January 2009

Well today is the 10th of January. Nothing extraordinary, beginning as most days do. Today however is the opening of the Art Exhibition "Prisms of Creativity" at the Antik Hotel here is Istanbul. The great thing is two quilts are in the exhibition. YIIIIIIIIIIPPPPPPPPPPEEEE. I am nervous I can tell you but I am really excited. I really put my heart and soul and a few pieces of real treasure into Salome; Here is what I wrote on the back of that wall quilt:

Salome, the girl who danced for the head of John the Baptist,

I heard it said that while Jesus walked the earth more miracles happened at that time than other time in history. It would stand to reason then that the influence of evil would have been present in equal measure. As I thought about it after having one day read the account of John the baptist, I thought what kind of dance could a woman do that would make a man promise up to half his kingdom? Upon further reflection I thought perhaps Salome did not dance alone. Who then really did dance before Herod Antipas? Who entranced him to the point of delirium that he promised to give her after her dance whatever she wanted even up to half his kingdom which was considerable by any standards. How was a man so ensnared that he was responsible for with bringing an end to the ministry of a man the who was cousin to Jesus? Was it Salome who danced or a greater adversary of Christ?

at the very bottom I wrote what I remembered of a quote from the usual suspects:

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people that he didn't exist Verbal Kint/ Keyser Soze.

What is my point? I have decided to offer this quilt for sale to help Melisa!!! I have made a promise to help her until I leave Turkey and what a great opportunity to do that!

I really do feel priviledged to be able to do this. I hope it goes really well. Wish me luck

Troye
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Saturday, 3 January 2009

Well it has been a while but I am still at it!! I get yet another opportunity to raise money for Melisa. I am entering "Salome"into an exhibition and on faith I am going to offer her for sale for 1000 dollars!!!! Am I nervous am I fearful? Heck yeah but I am faithful and hopeful too!!! 20% will go the the exhibitors charity the rest goes to the Melisa fund. It is hard to describe how energized I feel about helping this little girl.

Seeing her and the joy of her father really does make it all worth it. It really truly is better to give an it is to receive.

Stay tuned will post pictures here.
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