Not Just Company



sewing Debbie!




I hate ladders!





Chuck's tie pillow




sewing chair





Sun room love seat.




sun room chase

 I can't believe that Debbie finally came to Brambly Pines!  We've been talking on the phone for almost two years, planning on her coming up.  She drove up from Florida, last Wednesday and got here around dinner time.  There was time for the " tour" of the house, the garden, the girls house and the barn, before dark.  Thursday, I showed her around Moulton and we did a little shopping.  Thursday night, she went to Book Club with me and it happened to be out at Betty's house ( who is in Quilt Guild with me) because the book we read this month was called " The Good Bye Quilt".  Betty offered to have the meeting at her house and have a " bed turning".....which is layering all the quilts she had made and pulled them off one at a time to show each one.  I knew Debbie would enjoy going with me, since she also quilts.  It was fun having everyone meet Deb and her everyone.   We had plans on spending the next day, going to the orchard on the TN border, showing Debbie Huntsville and then going to check out Mooresville. ( some place Chuck and I have never been)  The plans got changed because Debbie didn't feel well, riding in the car along with the heat, so we came back home and as she felt better, she offered to do some projects.  First we stenciled the saying that I had in the TV room in the Florida house, over the kitchen windows and Debbie had promised me that when we moved into the new house, she would come up and help me with the saying.  It turned out to be easy because we only used the words to the stencil and not the scroll to it.  Next, project was covering the computer chair that I had Chuck bring up from the barn, to use at my sewing machines.  I knew Deb could do a much better job of it then me and it turned out sooooo cute!  Then, I had a " tie pillow" all cut out and ready to sew since about a year before we even moved.  I dug that out and we finished that.  It's so pretty, in the black/white chair in Chuck's room.  Next!!!!!!  Debbie recovered the cushion to the chase in the sun room and when she got that finished, she did the cushion to the love seat and made the two pillows for it also.  You don't know how happy I was to have those cushions done!!!!!  I had done the two chair cushions when we first moved in and I couldn't make myself tackle the others.  Thank you!! thank you!! thank you!! Debbie!!!! The " over 100 year old wicker" that's in the sun room, actually came from Debbie.  She didn't have a use for it any more when she moved and I traded her a HUGE! Stag horn fern for it.  I think it was a perfect trade for both of us.  Debbie is the kind of company everyone should have.  In fact, she is off to visit a friend in Kansas City to help with her son's wedding.  In a week, she is heading back this way and stopping in St. Louis to visit friends and maybe some in TN.  Then, she will come back here to spend one or two nights before heading for home.  I told her I wasn't sad when she left the other day like I am when all my other company leaves, because I knew she would be back in just a week.  When she leaves again....then I will be sad.  She promises to come back though and I'm going to hold her to it.  We have always been " project friends" if it wasn't at her house, it was at mine.  We haven't lost that, even though we are now 12 hours apart.