"Memories of My Wedding Day" won an Honorable Mention at the Utah Quilt & Sewing Market (formerly HMQS) - WOW! I got one of those awesome calls "We were wondering if you will be in attendance for the award ceremony, your quilt has won a ribbon" WOW!! Of course, I wasn't going to be there, but they live streamed the awards so I got to see it, yeah :) Mine was the first one announced and that was amazing. I'll get a ribbon and $50. The judging comments were emailed and for "best feature" they said "Phenomenal quilting design and execution." WOW again!!! I'm excited to send this quilt a few more places this year and see what happens! Here is a screenshot from the awards video on Facebook :)
Youngest DD heard back that she won 2 more scholarships - yeah! The ALJC Women's Esprit Woman Of Wisdom Scholarship through our church denomination and the Fish Family scholarship. The family scholarship was by recommendation of the school counselor, no application or essay. So I wrote a letter to her counselor asking for his recommendation - maybe it helped, who knows, but it was worth a try! The ALJC scholarship will be awarded at the General Conference in Knoxville, TN in June - so looks like DD & I have a trip coming up. We are excited about it and she is over the moon about winning this one. She really thought it would go to someone who grew up in the church, or was a "somebody" (pastor's kid, evangelist's kid, etc.) in the church at the national level. I felt confident she would win - but I was shocked to hear that there were probably 75+ applicants. I might have been more nervous if I had known that, LOL.
This was a photo we took after church when it was announced. The funny part is, it is supposed to remain a secret, for the most part, until the scholarship is presented at the General Ministry Conference. So Bro. Joel began by saying "This, what happens next here, is not for social media. Really. It's not for Facebook or any social media. No pictures, no posting, nothing outside these walls" and he was staring right at an older lady who is notorious for posting all kinds of stuff on there, LOL. Then he called DD up to the podium, and the lady behind us murmured "Uh oh." I almost laughed, because it would never occur to me to think something bad was up, I'd be thinking "I wonder what great thing is going down?" but I guess that's just my personality, LOL. I figure it's ok to post here, because, well, I have about one person who reads this (besides me, and I already know) so almost no one will see it!
Quilting has stalled out. It's probably my thyroid still not being right, I've just had no energy. I think I only cooked one time in 10 days lately - and dishes were done less often than that :( Hopefully, hopefully, hopefully my thyroid is getting better with the new medicine dosage. It's been about a month, and that's how long it took to level out last fall . . . . so we shall see. Shoulder is not healed, but the pain has gotten considerably better, so that's progress. The same vintage quilt has been on the frame since Jan. or Feb. and it's still there - not halfway done. At this point, I'll be struggling to finish it and the niece's t-shirt quilt by the end of May, and then one more t-shirt quilt by the next weekend. Crossing my fingers!!
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