Pat Sloan's Corner

Cross Country Christmas Day 1

You saw that photo of me a few days ago looking at slides? My dad took zillions of photos.. almost all on slides. And being the BEST DAD in the universe... when his 'little girl' asked for some Christmas photos he started to dig in and found me a bunch! So every day during this blog hop you will see a holiday photo from my childhood.. this trip down memory lane has been extraordinary!

Our topic for today is 'A Childhood Memory' and of those I have many!! It was hard to come up with just ONE to share... but I did... so here it goes!

Like many people a big part of the Holiday season was visiting the grandparents and in my case also 2 sets of Great-Grandparents. I was lucky enough to have some of my Great-grandparents for many years.

In my family everyone wanted us to come to THEIR house. And early on that meant my parents had to drive a few hours from home to PA. Then we'd drive another few hours up into the mountains to some relatives. Then back down to another set. Then a few hrs over to see my Great Grand-parents, Ma-Ma and Da-Da and Great Aunt June. 

I loved going to see them as my Ma-Ma (The shorter older lady) and my Aunt June (the taller lady) are the two that gave me my love of making things. We'd do projects, we'd hunt around for things and they always had a stocking filled with goodies for me at Christmas!   Thanks to them a Christmas Stocking filled to over flowing means love to me.

The rest of the cast above is my mother's Father's family - On the far left is my grand-mother Na-Na, Great Aunt June, great grand-mother Ma-Ma, my grandfather Pop-Pop (this is my mom's dad and his sister and parents), and my great grand-father Da-Da (do you see a name trend here?)

And.. I'd really like to know WHO they allowed to cut my hair.. this one is not as BAD as other photos I found... Either I did not sit still or someone was using a chain saw to trim my bangs!

Question.. did you grow up with Great Grand-parents?

Now HOP over to Gudrun's blog.. there are prizes!! And click the logo below for the list of blogs.. visit everyones and leave comments

Tues is Food and Cookie Day!

xxoo... Pat

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The BIG Reveal!!

This is ME with my beautiful mom!! Do I look STUNNED with excitement or what??

I was ALL of 4 weeks old in this photo.  See the 'loot' behind me? The ROCKING horse mom is trying to balance me on... maybe my OWN Christmas tree in white??

I was the First grandchild on BOTH sides.. AND the first girl baby for my granny to play with. Can we spell SPOILED???? Like.. VERY spoiled??  I have a blissful 3.5 yrs until brother 1 came along...

I'm NOT sure he is enjoying HIS first Christmas as much as I did... just saying.....

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So who WAS the cutie pie on my blog ???  

Well Sherri Falls of 'This & That'!! MY NEW BFF!!!!!  She is so adorable.. even more so in person. I was lucky to spend a little time in Houston with her and her husband Paul. Sherri we need to spend a whole dinner chatting next time!!

And only a precious FEW of you picked her, was that dark haired baby throwing you off?

Kersten  is the winner of a fabric and some Aurifil threads from ME!

Visit ALL the other blogs again and see WHO IS WHO! (CLICK HERE FOR THE BLOG LIST)

THEN come back tomorrow for Day 1. Gudrun is the Featured designer and we ALL will share a 'Childhood Memory' from a holiday of long ago! 

PLUS the featured designer will have a free pattern and a 'leave a comment' giveaway! 

AND... if you leave comments for the next 12 days on all our blogs you will be in the running for a GRAND PRIZE that has gifts from ALL 12 of us.... super cool eh?

 

Quiltmaker's 100 Quilt Blocks Web Tour!

I'm SO EXCITED that I was asked to design a block for QuiltMaker Magazine's 100 Quilt Blocks Collector's Edition! 

AND I just heard the issue will be hitting the stores soon!

To celebrate, the magazine has invited many of us to a Web Tour, I can't WAIT!! 

The designers are divided into five groups, one for each day of the week. Each day from Monday, Nov. 9 to Friday, Nov. 13.

Of course there will be prizes... DAILY prizes!

And there will be merriment... there always is if you hang out with me!

But wait there's more!! I also have a copy of the issue to giveaway to one lucky person on my day... love love love that!

Quiltmaker Magazine has all the details at this page of their website, so bookmark it and go there everyday to see which blogs to tour! www.quiltmaker.com/100blocks

My day of the tour is 'Friday the 13th... Lucky Friday in my house... and YOU may just be lucky enough to win a copy of the issue... or... mabye something else.. be sure to some by and leave me a comment on Friday... 'our day'!