The Wedding Quilt ~ Autumn Panel
The balloon represents Son's birthday season.
The geese are flying south and the leaves are falling.
Yet there is time left for a sailboat race.
And there's the ferry coming in to dock.
The large island off to the right represents Rock Point,
where the Groom went to youth camp some Summers.
Howard's it!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful, beautiful, beautiful wedding, listener. The same for the quilt: what love. . . .
Thanks so much! ♥
ReplyDeleteThis must be the "Ladies in Hats" thread! LOL!
ReplyDeleteYep! Love your new pic at FB!
ReplyDeleteBTW, looking at the wedding pics, where did your golden slippers go?
ReplyDeleteLOL! They went under my table, along with my hat. They were nice, and didn't hurt, but they weren't very supportive either and were way too loose for dancing. Since we knew I had a dance coming up with the Groom, Mah*Sweetie put my sandals under the table ahead of time. I probably ought to have put the champagne shoes back on after awhile, but I kept dancing now and then. More likely, I should have brought along some nicer looking sandals, but these were comfy and strong enough to keep me from getting a twisted ankle. So, I bow to Erma Bombeck who said, "If I had my life to live over, I would have worn comfortable shoes." Amen.
ReplyDeleteSorry to have missed Bill.
ReplyDeletelistener, I'm sooooooooo glad the wedding went well *hug*
Cooler today. Soft, quiet, rainy day. Very nice.
ReplyDeleteCoal-black exo-planet:
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OIC ~~ I prolly would have danced barefoot (but then I don't have a ma*hunny to think about those things, lol! You are a lucky dog!). (And ya, I still have a hunny, but he's far far away, and we've never done a wedding together.)
ReplyDeleteI would have danced barefoot by choice but that Son was already concerned enough that he might step on my toes. LOL! That's partly why we chose a peppy tune instead of a slow dance. But we figured three slow tunes in a row wasn't that exciting and we wanted to kick it up a notch and get that party going. It worked great. We also got a lot of notice for dancing with our granddaughters. The littlest was so cute...standing alone on the dance floor looking around for someone to come by and dance with her. One by one the soft-hearted menfolk present did that very thing...Josh Panda, the young man who sang "If I Had a Balloon" for Son and me to dance to, was first. He even taught her some dance steps that she picked up right away. [She's agile. At just barely age 2 she can do a perfect forward roll.] Then Grandad danced with her. Then Daddy. Then the other granddaughters joined her and we did too.
ReplyDeleteI hope you and your hunny get to attend a wedding yet one of these days. ;-)
Same here. And I'm not sorry. I'm just so grateful it was gorgeous for the wedding...and it's nice where Son and Daughter-in-Law are sweetiemooning. ♥♥
ReplyDeleteThanks, Cat! :-) I got a lot of compliments on: my dress and hat, the flowers, and how adorable the granddaughters are. They were incredibly well behaved too! I am so proud!
ReplyDeleteOh, and one of the Bride's aunties, who was at the Rehearsal Party, requested (and received) my cheesecake recipe. That went over well at the Party. I did NOT get enough sleep the three nights around the wedding, but I still got more during this wedding than I have with the others' weddings. That's interesting because this was also the most labour intensive of the batch.
ReplyDeleteThe Big Fat Italian Wedding Rehearsal Party, BTW, proved that Mah*Sweetie and Mahself know zilch about throwing parties and they know tons. Their idear of a "barbecue" turned out to be a big deal food party ~ from homemade stuff in crockpots to huge pans of stuff from their favourite restaurants to having their nephew come and make cakes (he also made the wedding cake) because he's a celebrated chef. We had provided paper products and brought lots of ice cream and toppings and the cheesecake and more. But they also bought more paper (actually, plastic!) products and there would have been enough dessert without what we brought. It's just what they wanted to do, and it's just their family's style. So we were kind of humbled, but that's okay. It all went fine.
About a half hour before we were going to give the quilt I'd made a relative of the Bride's walked up to her and presented them with the gift of a quilt she had made. I was concerned for a moment, but it was a machine-made quilt which had in the corners designs fitting for Hallowe'en, so I knew it wasn't intended to be a year-rounder. LOL! They both love the quilt I made and I can't begin to tell you how relieved I felt about that. There was never an expectation that it "should" be used for their main spread, but it's hand made and has symbolism specific to them. They'd had a lavender and gray comforter cover on their wish list, so I said I knew it isn't their colour scheme and immediately the Bride brushed that away declaring, "We have no colour scheme!" Ha! That's when I knew it was a hit. :-D
I went to an Italian family's Thanksgiving "dinner" one time. Don't think I would have survived twice. . . . The food started Wednesday night when we arrived, and didn't end until Sunday night when we left. Somewhere in there was a turkey. But that weekend was also my introduction to melon with prosciutto. . . . Eighteen kinds of everything. And then a couple more. Stunning, lol!
ReplyDeleteWow!! This group isn't quite that Italian, in many ways, but they've got the food part down well. LOL!
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