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Morning Still Life

Thursday, August 9th, 2007

On Monday, before we knew Joshua would be coming home, I had a quiet moment. Eli was off to camp and I was all alone in the house (a RARE occurrence). There was a ripe mango in the fridge. Not for long…. when I set my things down to eat and read e-mails, I thought this looked so lovely:Morning Still Life

So that is my morning beauty break…. Joshua is improving daily, though he has a long way to go. Having friends over all day nearly wore him out yesterday, but he was so happy having first Taylor, then Kristina. And my Coastal Quilter friend Leigh Smith made us the most incredible dinner (which lasted for two!) of homemade lasagna, Italian bread, ice cream, and even some red wine (with two straws, which Paul had joked we would need since we were too tired to pour a glass), and a heavenly smelling candle! I should have taken pictures, but instead we inhaled the dinner. Gotta get her recipe!

Joshua is HOME HOME HOME!!!!

Monday, August 6th, 2007

As of 6:30 pm, about 3 weeks and 2 hours after he left the house, Joshua came HOME! We are all elated to say the least….here’s the sequence:

pulling into the garage

door openthru garageup stepsinsideAt computerpetting the dogsLife is good. Joshua is HOME! Blessings be, with thanks to all the angels, human and otherwise, that helped bring him home. 

Joshua update 8/6–quilt blocks!

Monday, August 6th, 2007

Sometime today, Monday, we will find out how the skin grafts did…. if well, then Joshua should be able to come home this week (and sooner is better!). In the meantime, it is a waiting game…keeping his foot elevated (so as not to float the skin grafts off…literally! eeek!). But blocks have been arriving by the half dozen…another six or so arrived in Saturday’s mail, which Paul brought with him to the hospital on Sunday. So, I added the new ones to the ones already up there, and laid them all out on the bench where Paul and I take turns sleeping.

The first photo is of the 15 blocks we had in the morning (when the light in the room was better). You can see a bit of the lap quilt from our sofa peeking out at the ends…that room desperately needed color and we needed a blankie!

15 blocks

This second photo shows more blocks but the photo isn’t as good…. 18 blocks

Published! In Quilting Arts Magazine!

Sunday, August 5th, 2007

Yes, I’m dancing on the tables! The first of two articles on bindings, titled On the Edge, is in the new August / September issue of Quilting Arts Magazine, and the second one will be out in the October/November issue. Here’s the cover:QA Aug. cover

My article is on p. 32…and I’ll share more after the magazine hits newsstands on August 7th. I’ve already shared one technique that ended on the editorial floor (I KNEW I sent more than they could fit in the available real estate –grin!), and later on another for using facings. In the meantime, I invite you to join me in a major happy dance!

Joshua update–8/5

Sunday, August 5th, 2007

Hi all! Well, it has been another week of some activity, more healing, and more waiting. Early in the week, Joshua was able to get up and about, walking 30 feet to the nurse’s desk (from his room) and back. Of course, that wiped him out for hours, but he did it! Then he graduated to a few steps with crutches, too!!!!Joshua with walker

He also asked me to bring his guitar; I told him once he got out of bed for the first time, I would, so I did. Here he is enjoying making music again. He was THRILLED when the guys form Northern Kingdom Music in Rockport (next town, where Joshua bought his guitar and takes lessons) actually came to visit him and brought him an awesome big hardback book about electric guitars! We are truly blessed to be in this giving, friendly community!

Joshua playing guitar in hospitalThen Joshua has skin graft surgery on Weds. to close the fasciotomies. I will NOT share pictures of that… if any of you went to the fasciotomy link on Wikipedia, well, his skin graft bandages look WAY worse. BUT, it means he is one step closer to leaving. BUT, he must stay in bed, with leg elevated for five full days (otherwise the graft can “float” off and not take, and we have to do it all over again. Once those five days are over, then he starts up with rehab all over again. FINALLY, when he can get to the bathroom on his own and get around, will he at long last be able to come home. We are all really looking forward to that! But, during the Weds. surgery, they removed the staples from his thigh (which just had a “regular”, not compound, fracture) which is healing quite well and seems to give him little trouble, and the also took the one staple for the scrape on his head (isn’t he lucky they didn’t have to shave a patch of his head with all that hair!

p1060876b.jpgWill let you all know when he’s home. THANK YOU SO MUCH TO ALL who have sent blocks! Here is a picture of the art piece Rosemary Claus-Gray sent (a kid with a broken leg, in traction, complete with real screw and pin in shin!), photos of the pets,which have now been joined by many of the blocks. I’m taking up some Pigma pens today to write each maker’s name on their block, then will take pics!