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Have you heard?  There was a solar eclipse yesterday!! We headed to St. Joe, Mo for a Eclipse party at  the home of Dan's old college buddy!  The day started out wonderful. We had the perfect place for viewing! And what we saw was very cool! But then the clouds came and totality was not meant to be for us. 😢 But we did get to see it turn to night as we drove out of town trying to chase some sunshine.  I wish we had taken pictures but we were too busy watching in awe. And as we headed west the sky cleared a little and we stopped along the side of the road to see this: In the end it was a bust but I did manage to stop at a quilt store on the way home and picked up these really cute row by row patterns.  I can wait to include them in a baby quilt.  While we might of missed totality the trip was not in vain! I borrowed this from a Facebook post as it is one of the coolest pics of the 2017 Eclipse that ...

For awhile there I was doing really well and then... Well stuff happens.  The other day I was trying to figure out some way to organize all of my projects etc and I looked online for all sorts of products etc.  and then I realized I did start a blog and this is where I was supposed to do all of that!! So here we go again.   First of all the biggest news I have is that I have a new sewing machine!!!  Yup hubby finally said go get one...well he's been wanting for me to get one for quite awhile but I just didn't feel like I needed a new one.   But the Bernina company was having a zero financing promotion and we found a promo machine on sale in Omaha!!  (Just don't ask me how much...let's just say I can never, ever, ever ask for anything again!!) And boy has she been fun!  The BSR foot is everything that they say it is. Quilting was so much easier, I just had to remember to slow it down a little. And the bigger throat plate is just wonderf...