Trip to Kentucky - Views of the Homes I lived in as a Child - Relative in the War of 1776

In June I made a trip to Kentucky to do some research on our family history.  I was with my cousin Marian who is 85 and a delightful lady.  She has been working on family history for about 50 years.  She has an unbelievable amount of information.  I know you don't want to hear about our family so I'll let you see some of the photos I took and maybe a little about the family. 

The above photo is the view from my mother, father and grandfather's grave site.  They have all been gone over 40 years and I see this as a beautiful place to lie.

The weather was amazing and the sky was so blue with big puffy clouds every day I was there.

This grave stone has been replaced - look at the dates and he was in the war in 1776!

Another relative who the family had the original gravestone replaced.  The original stones are still there. 

This cemetery which was a small one off a gravel road and shaded by trees was so pretty and peaceful.   I looked up to see  the amazing sky.

This is downtown of this tiny town I was raised in and it was hard to get a good photo.  There isn't much there.

This is the grade school that I went to but the part of the building to the right was not there in the 50's and 60's.  It's not a grade school anymore.

This is one of the houses that I lived in growing up.  My father built all of our homes.

The last house we lived in and the highway runs in front so I ended up taking a photo of a car going by.

This is the little house that I came home from the hospital to.  We called it the block house since the exterior was concrete block but now they had siding on it.

This house sits back off the road and I didn't want to get too close and bother the people.  This was a beautiful home and still is.

 

Well that is this part of the trip.  I also visited Janice Holt Giles home as she has always been a favorite author of mine.  I never seem to have the time to visit her home place so this time I made the time to do it.

 

I hope everyone is having a great Tuesday - I'm on vacation the rest of this week and this morning I started working on the garage.  After the remodel last year I just gave up and now it's time to get cleaned out and get rid of some items.

 

Anyone else having a lot of rain?  It's raining in Indiana every day and I said I wouldn't have to go to Ireland to see the green as we are so green here!!

 

I've started back sewing after a spell where I was just not interested.  I have one top (easy) done and another half done.  I'll show you soon!!

 

 

Trip to Bloomington and State Park

I have my granddaughters for 4.5 days and today we went to Bloomington Indiana to some bookstores and the Japanese Grocery.  The following are photos on the way and when we came back by Nashville we drove through the State Park.  We've had lots of rain and everything is so green.  I hope you enjoy my photos and I take these as I drive.  I just hold up the camera and click.  I suggest you try it sometime as you can end up with some good photos.  You see so much more than when you're going along at 60mph. 

Starting our trip

Love the sky today

 I need to dust in my car!!

Gnaw Bone Indiana is a real place!!

We'll need to turn for Bloomington

Starting up the big hill

Aren't the trees beautiful and I love the shadows

A shelf at the used bookstore.  Very unique store and it's like something out of a movie.

State Park Photos now

I hope you get a chance to go to Brown County State Park in Nashville Indiana It's a beautiful park with lots of deer and wildlife.  There is a camp area, a camp area for you to bring your horses, nice Inn, restaurant, and all the trails you could ever want.

I hope you enjoyed our day with us.  We had a great time and got home before the rain came.

 

Quiet Week and More Quilt Show Photos

Not much going on in my life this week.  I worked every day and I've just felt kinda lethargic.  Anyone else have weeks like that?  I thought I'd share more photos from the International Quilt Festival.  Wouldn't it be nice if I could say I was sharing photos from Paducah KY?

This quilt below was representing our very dry summer last year.  I must say that is how I felt and I sure hope we don't have that dry of a summer this year.

This is some 10x10 squares that I would like to use in a quilt and I keep trying them out in different ways on my design wall.  This is the first time I've used layer cakes and this is two of them.  Any suggestions?  Should I put the yellow and blue together with white and the others together with a white or should I use other colors? 

 

 

Should I divide them up and use some of all the colors in both quilts?  Lots of decisions!!  Or maybe I need to take them down and put them in a drawer again?  LOL  I'm sure no one else ever does that.  I love these bright strong colors but just not sure!!!

It's in the 50's and cloudy today.  I did go out and pull some weeds.  Never a problem with the weed crop!

Have a great day/evening!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Blue Sky, Clouds, Sunshine & Driving in The Country

These are photos that I took from the car going about 60mph and I thought they turned out well.  My friend was driving and I was in the back seat.  The sky was amazing and I just started pointing and shooting.  I thought they turned out great.

This is a barn that appears to be falling down.  I like old barns as they have so much character

These are rock walls on Hwy 46 and they have so much beauty

I love looking at the shapes of the trees against the sky.  Remember that I'm just clicking away so I did not know what I had until I down loaded all of these.  I'm going to do this more often as you get some great photos.

Look at the great shadow of the pine trees.

This looks so clean and neat with the white fence, green of the grass, the trees and that amazing sky.

I saw this coming up and started clicking.  I think this is a great little stream.  I played in little creeks and streams when I was growing up.  Wonderful memories.

You can see the frame of the car in this photo as I was trying to capture the barn way out in the field.

All of these photos were taken on Highway 46 between Greensburg and Columbus Indiana.

 

Cindy Walter Painting Class

One of the classes that I took at the International Quilt Festival was Fabric Painting Master Class with Cindy Walter.  She has been teaching this class for years now and I found her to be an excellent teacher, patient and she taught most  everything in her book in the day long class.  She had us paint on white fabric and mine was white good quality muslin.

We painted on the cloth dry and we spritzed water on the fabric to dampen it and painted.

On the next two I used stamps and bubble wrap.

The next one I used salt and you can see it still has the salt on it.

Cindy was selling some of her items and this is the paint that we used

The Dyna-Flow I've been using so I am just showing you the package

These are the small brushes that Cindy uses and they are good brushes

This is Stabilized Fabric that you can paint on and then it has a peel off back

                                                       These are the inkjet sheets and I was able to get one package

The fabrics below were black polka dots on white fabric.  When I got home I painted them these colors.  I painted them so that there are light and darker areas.  I'm thinking about putting them in a small quilt. 

This gives you info on some of the things that you can do.  I know that Cindy is coming out with a new book in the fall.  If you have an opportunity to take a class and you are interested in painting on fabric then go for it.  There is sooo much to learn.  I'm going to paint on ugly fabric this week-end I hope and I'll show you what happens with that.  I'll make sure and take before and after photos.