Folky Favorites Pillow

I love how this pillow turned out.  The design is a Chestnut Junction pattern.  I had two different fabrics I liked for the border and backing but couldn't make up my mind which one I liked better.  I left the choice up to my 7 mo. old grand daughter Bella.  She chose this one.  I love it.

We've had two severe rain storms the past few days which has left many of us with water damaged basements and garages.  My husband has been working for 2 days to get the first flooded waters out and carpets dried ( indoor/outdoor) when it poured again today and more water got in.  We called our home owners and won't know until early next week if we're covered for water damage, but the carpet smells and we're worried about mildew setting in, so the chances are pretty good we're going to have to rip them out.  There's always someone worse off.  While we got approx. 3-4 inches of water ....a neighbor had 3 1/2 FEET of water in their newly refurbished basement and had to call in emergency restoration trucks.  We don't even live near a creek or river so I can only imagine the damage done to homes that are those vicinities.  

Our pool is finally open and while it wasn't a sunny day today, after the first rainfall I took two of my grand daughters in the pool to cool off since it's so humid.  The water was cold, but not freezing and we stayed in for almost an hour before the rains started again.  It was so refreshing.

Hope everyone is enjoying their weekend!

Morning Glory Fiberfill - Attention Myla

I always purchased a 5# box of Morning Glory at Walmart and the past 2 weeks have been reading in a craft forum that Walmart has discontinued selling it.  WHAT!!!!  My sister-in-law goes to Walmart almost every weekend so when she went this past Sunday I told her to pick me up 2 boxes.  They were already sold out and she was told that they are no longer carrying it.
Someone sent me a link for Morning Glory on Face Book and I joined so that I can keep up on what's going on.  Currently the only place that is selling these 5# boxes now is Morning Glory's distributor Marshall Dry Goods Co, Inc. for $12.99 a box.  I believe it was around $10 at Walmart the last time I bought one.
The only 'drawback' from what I understand, at least here on the East Coast is that the shipping is almost the same as the price of the fill.
The good news is that we've been told if we want Michaels and JoAnn Fabrics to start stocking this item, WE have to get on the ball and call them, let them know there is a HUGE demand for this product.
  Here is the number for JoAnn Fabrics 1-888-739-4120
If you don't want to call, you can fill out the form on the JoAnn contact page.
If you'd like to keep up on what's going on with Morning Glory Fiberfill, visit their Face Book Page

Working On Candlemats

Finished these up a couple days ago and working on some more to send to a consignment shop in Massachusetts.  

My husband went to Walmarts on Sunday to pick up some paint and I asked him to see if they had any Morning Glory fiberfill left.  He called to say no, but there were a couple large bags of a fiberfill called Fairfield that were 50 oz. bags.  I told him to go ahead and buy me 2 bags.  That came to $17 for approximately 7 lbs 10 oz.  I haven't worked with it yet since I've been working on stitcheries but I did want some on hand for when I started projects that I needed fill for.
Our pool was a mess last year.  I can count on one hand how many times we were able to get in it.  Early Aug. we were so disgusted we just closed it up.  We were positive that we'd probably have to buy a new liner.  We took the cover off on Monday morning and to our surprise the liner looked great.  We emptied the pool and Hubby got in Monday eve. to clean it out.  The sides needed scrubbed and there was a lot of 'gunk' on the bottom.  It took him several hours, but when he was done, it looked great.  By early evening yesterday the pool was filled with fresh water and hubby had picked up 50# of the Shockwave granules.  He got the filter and hoses hooked up and of course one of the hoses had sprung a leak near where it joins the connector to the pump.  So he applied silicone and wants that to dry for 24 hours before I can turn the filter on.  I'm bummed about that, it's really hot today and I was hoping to take the 2 smallest grandkids in it this afternoon.  So instead I turned on the AC and we're chillin'.