Smile and set the table vintage style....

The Monday after the Spring Cleaning Sale - yikes! Lots of things to straighten up before Diane's Quilting Basics class meets tomorrow morning. Things were going pretty well....I was moving a bit slower than usual, but moving none the less. When out of the corner of my eye I saw the UPS truck pull up. Okay, we made a little bit of room after the sale, so that was a good thing. Then, I saw him get the hand truck out - uh oh! You guessed it - 5 big boxes of fabric! There were batiks from Hoffman and Moda; some new baby flannels; a darling kitty cloth book and coordinates; a panel of the solar system (wow!); a gorgeous soft blue and white group; a pinwale corduroy with ladybugs in browns; a wonderful lime green and black group; and then this very vintage, very fun 60" tablecloth print that you see here. Doesn't it just make you smile? My table is round now, so I'm trying to figure out how to make it work!

I wanted to let you know that I needed to smile. This is what I put in my last e-mail update to the Fab-Etc family.

On a very personal note, many of you are aware that my 7 year old grandson, Lukas, has been waging a battle for nearly 6 years with cancer. Lukas has a website www.lukasvoss.com where we track his fight. It hasn't been updated since the first of the year, but things are not going so well right now. I have been reluctant to talk a lot about this, but I've so appreciated the privilege of sharing with you in both the good and bad times in many of your lives over the last nearly 12 years, that I guess it's only fair that I let you share in mine. This is a difficult time for our family, and we would appreciate your thoughts and prayers. And for all of that, I am, as always.... sew thankful.

So, that's why I haven't been posting as regularly as I had been. I know many of you know about Luke, but I just thought I should share it here on the blog as well. Our daughter, Lydia, just started a blog last week to try and update family and friends with shorter notes. You can access it from Luke's website. Thanks so much to all of you for your kind words and thoughts of late - they mean a great deal to our family during a hard time.

I hope you all have a wonderful week....batten down the hatches....I hear it's going to be windy here in Whatcom county tonight. I have to go get the Tea Party tablecloths out of the dryer. Laundry has become my blog trademark - right!?!