Hi Dot,
 > DeFuniak is about 3.5 hours from Camilla.
So that's about 4.5 hours from me.  I'd thought about trying to meet you half 
way if you could travel, else I'd come on into DeFuniak Springs to see you.
I'm trying to clean out some of the "good stuff" (clutter to others) and I 
have a grocery sack half filled with quilting magazines, that I got while
working at Hancocks.  We go the discarded magazines and I pulled all the
quilting ones for an aunt in KY but I don't know when I'll get them there to
her, and I think that she has had to stop because of arthritis, and I thought 
of
you, when I read your note about a quilt magazine someone had sent to you.
These are magazines from Jun 1994 to Jul 1996, are you interested?
 > My daughter lives on Ruben
 > st. Just outside Albany near Maury's.  Don't know if you know where that
 > is or not. Her voice number is 776-1528.
Doesn't sound familiar, but I notice the phone is a Sylvester # so it's not 
long distance.
 > She is starting to embroider a little but that is the extent of her 
crafting.  Did they close that
At least she is starting, slowly but it'll take hold.  My daughter was the 
same way.  Now she does X-stitch, Some RS and when I was visiting with her 
last month, I showed her how to make some topiaries.
 > Did they close that Piece Goods Store over in the Wal-Mart plaza in 
bany?
Piece Goods moved into where Hancocks was about Dec 1996, (DUMB MOVE on their 
part) and yes they did close.  Bankrupcy finally caught up with them.  
AIN!!
 > I'm hoping to go through surgery some time in Oct or Nov
For your leg?  Hope all goes well for you.
 > and hopefully make it up to GA sometime in Dec.  I don't know for sure 
hat
 > type of shape I'll be in though so I can't promise anything.
No problem.  We can wait and see
 > My snail mail is
I had it here somewhere in all this paper that has accumulated.  Have now got 
something to sort it with, but, have to find the time to do the 
sorting............ ;-).  Figured it was easier to ask again.
 > I still have the paper with your name and phone number for when I get up
 > that way.  It would be so nice to meet someone from the echo and be able
 > to talk crafts over coffee or tea or something.
Nice to be able to put faces with names.  Pat Knox was within 40 miles of me 
when she went to FL down I-75.  We could have met in Tifton, GA.
 > What have your endeavors been recently?
Not a whole lot.  I did participate in the RS card exchange recently, and 
enjoyed that.  Got some really nice cards, and different techniques.
I've really got to do some serious organizing.  There are supplies I KNOW are 
here...............somewhere!
 > I'm still doing blocks
I see that.  Also that you got a lot of blocks back from other exchanges 
because they were hand stitched.  The only reason I can think of is that all 
the others may be machine sewn and machine quilted, and there would be a big 
difference if yours is the only completely hand stitched one.
 > and I'm going to try and get into Pergamano and RS'ing.
I want to do Pergamano also.  Will be getting the supplies from Julia when I 
can.  Her prices were pretty good and she has ALL the supplies available.
Lost my job beginning of Aug, so have to be careful for a while.
 > Do they have rs'ing places up there.
Not just for RS.  Old America and Cloth World/Joanns carry some things, but 
not
everything that is needed.
 > Here it is not popular.  We had a shop in Shalimar
 > that I use to pass all the time.  I tried calling them the other day but
 > to my dismay they have gone out of business.  Oh well, back to the
 > drawing board and mail order catalogs. 
I really don't know about the popularity of it here because I'm not out that 
much.  I know that there was a Stampin' Up rep at a craft show here last Nov 
but I don't know where she lived.
Went to a Craft show in Colummbus last year and there were several booths 
there.  One in particular had absolutely beautiful stamps.  I did quite a bit 
of damage, over $100.00.
 > Will chat soon.
I found out Wed that I will have to fly to Newport, RI to drive my mother 
back home from my sister's.  "Something" has put her down and she can't
drive back by herself.  She's seeing the Dr. and we hope she'll be up to the 
trip by then.  It's usually a three day trip with 2 nights in a motel, but it 
may take longer, depending on how easily she tires.  Of course, I will be 
doing all the driving, but she'll need to navigate if possible.  She's been 
making the trip there and back since she moved in with me in 1988.  Mother 
turned 76 years in June and this is the first time I have ever heard her 
sound anywhere close to being "old" or older than she is.
I'll leave GA on 28 Sep and we'll leave Newport on Mon, 29 Sep and hope to be 
back within the week.
Have made arrangements to have a cell phone with me.  Neither my sister or I 
would make the trip without having one with us this time.
Take care,
Donna
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