Bad News...Busy Day....Leaving for a show early in the morning....

My oh my...what a day.

I have been running around...

packing for our trip...

We are leaving for Loveland Colorado...

early in the morning for a show.

And since we went down to help my son

this last week...

we didn't leave ourselves enough

time to get done all we needed to.

So it has been rush..rush...rush all day.

I finished my sketch for the second block

of the Mystery Block of the Month...

pulled the fabrics for it...

managed to get  it transferred on to cloth,

into the hoop,

and even a little bit of stitching done on it.

I had to do the applique pieces 3 times...

At first, they just weren't drawn 

where I could get in the corners well enough.

Then I didn't mirror image my freezer paper...

have you all ever done that one before?

Next I  went out back to the shoppe,

where Ken was busily working away

making kits,

and asked him for the bolt of fabric

I needed.

It was gone.

He had used it up in kits.

"Okay", I tell myself, "breathe...John'aLee...

it won't do any good to get angry....

go to Plan B...

find something else that will work."

Which is what I did...

but I can't say there weren't

fumes coming out of my ears!

I stop and whip up my hubby

some breakfast.

Kill with kindness eh?

I then finish cutting all the fabrics

for 54  Strawberry-Li-Cious Blocks

for this new Mystery Block of the Month

 project.

The phone rings...

I look at the number...

it 's the doc calling...

"What in the world are they calling me for?"

I ask myself.

"You need to schedule a biopsy on the lump

in your left breast." The lady tells me.

I couldn't believe my ears.

I had a mammogram done in July....

they wanted more testing done...

so they had me come in for a sonogram.

The technician who performed the sonogram

told me he thought

everything looked fine.

That the lump was just a cyst.

And I'd totally put the whole thing 

out of my mind.

So boy howdy did this throw me in 

a tail spin.

What's a gal to do?

PRAY!!

So that's my bad news....

which will hopefully turn to good news

after the testing is done.

The mayor in town, who is a good friend

and customer,

just found out yesterday

that she has Stage 4 Lung Cancer.

I was devastated to say the least.

I immediately had the Guitar Man

pull out the soft Winter Roses Rag quilt

we take to shows...

I wrapped it up...

put some Mylar templates in the gift too...

for her to make some 'hexis'

while she is going for treatment...

and wrote her a letter...

telling her to wrap herself up in

the quilt when her days got

too much for her and to know that

she is so loved!!

Her name is Janet.....

please add her to your prayer list.

A project I am working on with my own 'hexi' templates.

I finished out the day by making

that knothead husband of mine

some tostadas for dinner....

went out and designed some more

Meet Me In Paris kits for him,

worked on my blog

and am now calling it a day.

Hmmmm...it's only 1:06 a.m.

And I have to get up at 6 and be on the road?

Mom and Dad are expecting us for dinner

at their house in Castle Rock...

so I am hitting the sheets!