I walked the streets of Taos yesterday. It was delightful, and the biggest surprise was to find a fabric shop Common threads, Uncommon fabrics http://images.travelpod.com/bin/tripwow/flash/tripwow.swf The Lisa And Pams Patterned Pathways, a Creative Journey Slideshow: Pam’s trip from Alamogordo, New Mexico, United States to 3 cities Taos, Taormina and Chimayo was created by TripAdvisor. See…

Darn It…..

Quilted cars. Fabric that made my heart stop, huge visas and wonderful weather….. Yesterday was an amazing day. I received news that two of my quilts were juried into Houston, and that my quilts arrived in Birmingham two days after I sent them… but now I have to pay duty as well. I'm also smarting…

It’s official

Summer 2011, a fitting theme for our trip. (it's actually my $3.50 Wallyworld Tshirt) Lunch yesterday with our wonderful Quilt festival group was our first program on the agenda yesterday…. we were absolutely thrilled with the results, those gals worked so hard. It means the three identification  units are able to be purchased and a…

I’m thrilled.

Our final figure raised at the event on the weekend was around $16000…. We have some expenses to be deducted….. but the amount will be close to this…. Thank you, thank you, thank you….  

Our version of ‘Thelma and Louise’ without the drama at the end.

It's late evening and I've been doing business all day…. it's quite boring really but quite essential. Is it just a week ago that I left South Africa? Miss Lisa and I are off on another adventure tomorrow… Both of us have worked our little fingers to the bone this year and a week on…

Cats alive with pencils….!!!!

Miss Tilly, the cats who live in the notebook with Alice Isabella have learned to write with pencils in their tails or is it 'tales' just as you suggested. !!! Love Bamma

A neat story.

We had a surprise – A husband bought a special present for his wife while she was in class yesterday. She hasn't noticed him come in to the class room. Look what's on the bottom of the machine…..  your name Best wishes…… Pam Holland It must be yours…..!!!!! Wooow……!!!! a brand new Janome Horizon "I…

Southern New Mexico Quilt Festival

I just couldn't write the blog last night, I was so tired. But this morning I was raring to go…. Lisa cooked eggs for breakfast…. it's bit like feeding a race horse…. "I need protein"   We drove past huge mountains tipped by the sun and captured a quilted hot air balloon. Was it really in…

Quilting is making a difference in this community.

With coffee in hand, the morning began with a radio interview with friends and organisers Rainee and Lisa and as this is about the 5th time I've done this here it was just like having a morning chat over breakfast. The Committee has done a wonderful job of advertising… even down to information printed on…