Another birthday bites the dust

Wow, I had no idea so many famous people shared my birthday.

Birthdays on June 28

Kenny Cunningham Athlete 1971 Steve Burton Actor 1970 John Cusack Actor 1966 Mary Stuart Masterson Actress 1966 Mike Fitzpatrick Politician 1963 John Elway Athlete 1960 Brian Roberts Businessman 1959 Georgi Purvanov Statesman 1957 Lalla Ward Actor 1951 Don Baylor Coach 1949 Kathy Bates Actress 1948 Mark Helprin Novelist 1947 Robert Asprin Author 1946 Howard Barker Playwright 1946 Bruce Davison Actor 1946 Gilda Radner Actress 1946 Jane Harman Politician 1945 Donald Johanson Scientist 1943 Ed Pastor Politician 1943 Jim Kolbe Politician 1942 Rupert Sheldrake Scientist 1942 Muhammad Yunus Economist 1940 Major Owens Politician 1936 Major R. Owens Politician 1936 Carl Levin Politician 1934 Pat Morita Actor 1932 Junior Johnson Celebrity 1931 John S. Bell Physicist 1928 Hans Blix Diplomat 1928 Harold Evans Journalist 1928 Mel Brooks Comedian 1926 George Morgan Musician 1924 William Whitelaw Politician 1918 George Lloyd Composer 1913 Eric Ambler Writer 1909 Ashley Montagu Scientist 1905 Ashley Montague Scientist 1905 Richard Rodgers Composer 1902 Esther Forbes Author 1891 Pierre Laval Politician 1883 Alexis Carrel Scientist 1873 Luigi Pirandello Playwright 1867 Frederick William Faber Theologian 1814 William Hooper Politician 1742 Jean Jacques Rousseau Philosopher 1712 Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher 1712 Peter Paul Rubens Artist 1577

Back to the Sewing Machine, well, at least ONE of them...

Hi. Did you miss me? I've been missing myself lately. We just got back from our yearly jount to FLA. This year we opted to stay at Grandma Hunnybunny's and just go to the beach. We were going to go more than one day, but alas, the dreaded yellow flag was up on the second day. Things have changed with Grandma Hunnybunny; her cast of characters has changed from Aunt Hunnybunny (Hunnybunny's sister) to Mother Hunnybunny, (Hunnybunny's mother). Aunt Hunnybunny has a new little Hunnybunny of her own named Tyler. He is so sweet, and he snuggled me!            

We picked up Hollywood for a few weeks this summer. He made the trip to Florida without being too bored.




And he turned sweet 16! His party of sorts was a couple of friends, along with She who must be Obeyed  and Jerricho! I had fun with her as She is now almost 11! What did we do for kicks? We sorted fabric! That kid was always organizing so I gave her the opportunity to help me cut down my fabric hoard of scraps.  She thought it was great! My kind of kid! 

This week, I've been fairly selfish. While I have been working on The Legal Adult's quilt, I took out a little time to cut myself out a dress. Here's the pattern:

I don't even own a dress besides my wedding dress and if I ever had a special occasion, I'd be in trouble. My friend Robin told me long ago and far away to find a simple pattern and start with that, so that's what I did. I also got my little orphan machine fixed.

 

It was in storage as I used it to make those stitches you see, but then it didn't work at all. I took it back to the Nameless Fix-It shop here in town, and he wanted me to throw more money at it.  I took it to a place where I usually just get fabric, but they had fixed my Pfaff Hobby so wonderfully that I decided to see if they could make this little machine stitch again. It's called the Quilter's Square and they totally rock!

Look what I got in the mail!!!

Debra Spincic made this great quilt for me! ( I hope she doesn't mind that I stole her picture: see the one on the left  I tried to take and you'll see why!) It was to commemorate getting into LPN school, but wow....was I taken completely by surprise! She talked about it in this post. The funny part is that I actually read it, and never picked up on the fact that it was for ME! She is a wonderful friend, and I wanted to take this opportunity to thank her from the bottom of my heart!  Debra gets me, and that is not a great feat! Thank you, Debra! I smile every time I touch this quilt or see it.....I smile because of you!