Welcome to the last day of 2017. It has been a year of great successes and not so great successes. Not gonna say they are failures, just not successes yet! Thought I'd share a bit of both as I review 2017 and plan for 2018. CHALLENGE 2017 I started the year with the goal of finishing 52 quilted projects. I succeeded in finishing and blogging about 27 finished quilts. I KNOW I've completed more quilts, but somehow I lost my mojo for blogging about them. Below is a picture of the 3 most recent quilt finishes. I'll write and post blogs about each of them later once I have some good pictures of them. PATTERN PUBLISHING I had also wanted to review and re-publish some of my patterns and my begin
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We are smack dab in the middle of our late fall-early winter time in the sun. We've been heading to Mexico for 4 years now in an attempt to prevent my annual no sun Seasonal Affective Disorder melt down. SAD is a seasonal depression and for me is characterized by drawing away from people and anxiety over any decision I need to make. Sometimes even the decision between tea or coffee can be a challenge! I've struggled Christmas for as long as I can remember and as the Birth of our Savior is a key part of my faith that really really sucked!!!! But when I realized that Christmas occurred during the shortest days of the year, things became a bit clearer and brighter! I was diagnosed over 20 year
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