All there is, is Love...

Love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love.

There's nothing you can do that can't be done. 

Nothing you can sing that can't be sung.

Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game It's easy. 

There's nothing you can make that can't be made. 

No one you can save that can't be saved. 

Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be you in time - It's easy.  

All you need is love, all you need is love, All you need is love, love, love is all you need.

Love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love.

All you need is love, all you need is love, All you need is love, love, love is all you need. 

There's nothing you can know that isn't known. 

Nothing you can see that isn't shown. 

Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be. It's easy. 

All you need is love, all you need is love, All you need is love, love, love is all you need. 

All you need is love (all together now) 

All you need is love (everybody) 

All you need is love, love, love is all you need. 

--Lennon/McCartney

Amira Sue-Lin Simons

Truth teller, Giver of Love, Creator, Free Spirit

Mommy, Mother, Grandmanu

Her passing leaves a vacuum in my life.

I love her, she is free.

June 4, 1951- October 12, 2011

Coburg, Oregon 9-11-11 5:30am-10am--- Annual treasure hunt

I love pictures that evoke and idea or a memory for me. These inspire color combinations, quilt block ideas, and just funny juxtaposition of things. They make me smile and remember what a great time I had at the Coburg Antique Fair with 2 awesome sisters. That they are nice enough to hang out with me and shop and laugh and in the early morning hours is so great!. I did buy 2 quilt tops... I had too. Maybe we can have a future quilt show of all of the old tops that I simply had to rescue from the rag pile. I am a such sucker.

JMB

You said the "Word of the Day!"

So glad I have a friend to share a bit of "ham" and Pee-wee with!

More from the Coburg Antique Fair shortly!

JMB

The little bear with embryo hands...

Some one is not very happy that their quilt was sent away... but he still kept knitting and knitting and knitting.
This little project (Doll Quilt Swap #11) is finally done, finally sent, and finally received. What a relief! It is very small, I think only about 14"x 11". I spent so much time agonizing over how to quilt it, and if I even had the skillz to make a tiny quilt, but by the end I really enjoyed the process of making it "just right". Now if I could just find the picture of the little beauty that I received... at least it is a 3 day weekend.

JMB

Fullness of life :)

1. {this moment}, 2. Jellies, 3. "Naps are Pretty Amazing", 4. www.flickr.com/photos/annamariahorner/6035218021/in/faves..., 5. Amos Lee at the Cuthbert under a full moon, 6. Gratitude, 7. clean., 8. "Blanc lumière" en Arles, 9. Growing uP, 10. Spools, 11. DQS 11 Progress, 12. August 14, 2011, 13. Pillow WIP done!!!, 14. Suburb, 15. the bees, 16. water lilies, 17. Beach huts, 18. Molly's Sketchbook: Felt Flower Charms, 19. + and x blocks, 20. BeeFF quilt in progress , 21. Ringo Pie Sunlight for Marit, 22. coordinating, 23. bee imaginative top, 24. 175/365, 25. Plans for RIngo Pie

My mom had surgery for a really yucky infection in her original tumor site this morning. She made it through and I just wanted to post some pretty pictures. I love that people are so generous with their lives on Flickr. They post pretty things that either spark me creatively, emotionally, or just give my eyes a little joyride.

I love making mosaics... and then sitting and looking at them when I need a little pick me up. I appreciate all of your thoughts and comments the past months, and acknowledge that my responses have been spotty at best. Every one of them I have read and taken some comfort from. Between Cancer, infections, planning trips to Hawaii, and those three gorgeous and ACTIVE kids of mine--- time is FULL. Life is very full. I was looking across the room the other day at Big Daddy and just thinking that I am glad that when there is an ebb in the fullness of life right now, we will still have each other. We still will have laughter, a messy house, and love. Maybe I don't like the messy house, but it comes with the other two SO I WILL TAKE IT!

I just want to get to September and take my mom to Hawaii. I really do.

I am thankful right now for a resilient spirit. At this moment I know that I will not be given more than I can handle, but that it takes me a moment to find my legs to stand. I know that I am able to laugh and cry-- sometimes simultaneously... and then go and fold some laundry so that we can all have clean clothes.

JMB

Working small... perhaps for the LAST time!

This little quilty has been making me work and work. It is leaving tomorrow for my DQS#11 partner-- are they stateside or are they cross the sea-- you won't know until they get it! I have to say that it is looking pretty sweet right now (after I finished the quilting and binding.) Man, if I put the energy in to one of my regular size quilts that I put in to this one--- maybe I need to do just that and hang up the swap hat for a while and make some human size quilts.

If you want to check up on the other stuff I have been up to this week-- Yup, we had a flash mob quilt show. It was pretty fun. I'd do it again. You should stage one too.

;)

JMB

a little sand, a little sun, a little fun...

We are at the beach for a bit of fun. Big Daddy's cousins came out from the Midwest for their first taste of the Pacific. Thank you Oregon coast gods for giving us such a beautiful day yesterday! Man, kids sure do like sand. I also had forgotten the joy of flying a kite.

I needed that.

JMB