My Life

 Since we have been home from NC life has been a little hectic.  

I have been going to see a lymphedema specialist for fluid retention after my radiation.

The massage techniques I did before going helped it to all be gone.

The therapist gave me more to do.

In addition she gave me a lot of stretching exercises.

It appears that radiation can cause adhesions and make the scar hard.

It also restricts my arm movement a bit.

She said it is not uncommon for breast cancer survivors to develop rotator cuff injuries.

It seems we compensate in a way that harms our rotator cuff.

So I am learning new stretches.

They help with movement and with keeping the scar supple.

For Christmas we got our eldest daughter stuff to make sourdough bread.

She has made LOTS of bread.

She also discovered that she could make biscuits from the discard.

She brought some of the discard over the other day and I made biscuits today.

I had to take my car in to get the bumper fixed after a mild accident while I was in NC.

Finally got that back.

My regular sewing machine had to go in for service.

The cable that allowed me to use the hands free system frayed.

That meant I could not use hands free to lift the presser foot.

I didn't realize how much I used this until it was broken, sigh.

I got that back yesterday.

It's been a crazy few weeks!

I finally got in to get a haircut and highlight.

I haven't had a haircut or highlight since last summer.

It feels so much better!

I found a new slow cooker recipe for candied pecans.

Can you believe these are sugar free??

They were amazing!!

On top of all of this, I have been binding quilts as fast as I can.

It is so much easier to do the machine binding on the Bernina 770!

The LED lighting is AWESOME!

It has been raining here so no pics of the most recent bindings.

I went to bind my oldest WIP only to realize that I don't have enough of the fabric I need to make enough binding.

I am not sure of the name either so I took my best guess and placed an order.

We will see when it gets here is it is the right choice.

Fingers crossed!

~XOP~

I Have So Much To Share

 I FINALLY got my hair cut!  It's been almost a year and a half.  It got SO long.

I had to find a new stylist. 

 She took 7 inches off my hair and highlighted it.  I LOVE how it turned out!

I will be going back to her again.  

She did a fabulous job. 

 I feel so much better with my hair being shorter.

We have been going through TONS of stuff from the garage.  I cam across some old slides, used my light box to view them.  I found this "beauty" in the mix.  Me when I was 11 in my aunt's wedding dress holding my cat, Princess.

This was a nice find too. 

 Me with my best friend, Kathy in swimsuits my mom made us so we could match!!! 

Not made out of swim suit fabric but pretty cute. 

OK back to quilty content.  

I finished this Meadowland quilt quite some time ago.  

I just gifted it last weekend. 

 I made it for our priest. 

 I really love the quilt and the photos don't really do it justice.  

The colors were so icy in color and looked so beautiful together.  

It was difficult to get a pic in the bright sunlight but our priest, Father Kimball, loved it!

We had a birthday party for him at the church and I was able to gift it to him then.

I promise you I have been working on things, but need to take some photos. 

 As I said we are also going through the "stuff" in the garage and selling stuff off. 

 It is SLOW going but I am happy to be doing it.  It is time to purge!!

~XOP~