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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

Friday, 20 March 2009

Well it has been long time since I have taken time out to write anything but that doesn't mean things have not been going on. I don't know what the latest news is on Melisa so I am going to find out and post it. Recently though my cousin John was visiting and made a generous contribution to us for Melisa. I am happy to have been able to help and with the prospect of giving up my job I can maybe do a little bit more before we leave these shores. I am nervous about letting go but that is because I want to try and do everything. it is ok to let others do their part I keep trying to tell myself but I am not listening.

A sad day yesterday. You really have to stop and take stock and make sure you let the people in your life know that they make a difference to your very existence. I want to make it my business to help the people I love really understand that I care about them. I want to do that because I know how encouraging I find it when people reach out to me. I have one friend I will always love no matter what because she loved me even when I was unlovable and even mean to her. She did it because she said she knew I loved God. That made me stop and think. She only told me after we had been through a thing or two and got my senses back. I never looked at her in the same way again. She doesn't know it but she really made me think very long and hard about how i show love.

I will tell her today though.

More later

Troye
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Anonymous said...

the things you have done - and do for melisa and every other child I see you with - is an inspiration to me and all of the Fennells

6 May 2009 at 05:01

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