Dawn's Giveaway

Dawn is having a giveaway. She is giving away her signed quilt book on May 4th at 12 noon. Hurry over here and register.

Monday, May 4, 2009
And The Winner Is....


First, I would like to say WOW! What a great response. Thank you to all who left comments and posted about the giveaway. I had a lot of compliments on the cover and I am so glad to hear that you all like it. I wish I could give everyone a book but that is impossible.


I wanted to make this absolutely fair to everyone so I wrote down each person in order as they commented and assigned a number. If you posted you received 2 extra numbers. In total they ran from 1-200. I then used a random number generator on Random.org. And the totally random number is 61.




Number 61 is Shauna who came thru Quilt Hollow. Shauna email me your address and I will ship your book.




The second winner is Mary at Quilt Hollow, for the most referals. Good lord, that woman is popular.




Once again thanks for playing and I hope you stop back. If someone would like to order a signed copy they are 14.95 plus shipping. Send me an email and I will give you the info.


Thanks, Dawn

Shriner's Parade

On Saturday the Shriners put on a parade in our small town. Pictured below is one of my favorite groops. They made no noise and they looked sooo cool!

I took lots of pictures. You will get to see some more of my favorites from time to time.

Saturday Photo Hunt = Walking

PhotoHunt

Purple = Violence Unsilenced

When we did the Saturday Photo Hunt = Purple, I learned of a website that lets people tell their stories of Violence done to them. You can go Here to read these stories and encourage these people. This is a sticky post!

Roses Red

My husband finally bought himself a couple of knock out roses. He had hoped someone would give me one last year for Mother's day. (they are not my favorites) I didn't get one. He told everyone so I thought sure some of the children would get him one for Father's day. One DIL said she looked for some, but the ones she found had bugs in them and the store refused to sell them. So she got something else.

These are his new knock out roses.

The next photo of roses is an old Jackson&Perkins Blaze rose.

We bought these bushes back in the late '60's. We lived in town when they were purchased. We moved to the country a few years later and moved the rose bushes with us. When we built here in '71, the bushes moved one last time. This is the only one left.

This next bush started out as a hybrid yellow rose.

Over the years the canes died back and the red rose roots began to spring up. I think I had two yellow rose buds last year and even that little sprig is gone this year. Oh well, these wild red roses are pretty too!