Nice People

While I have been writing on on my blog I have met some very nice people. I continue to meet nice people which has made blogging very enjoyable to me. I have to admit when I started this I wasn't so sure it was going to be much fun because I did not know a lot about the computer but let me tell you I have learned a lot. I really enjoy reading the comments and visiting everyone's blogs. You all are so talented and inspirational to me. Keep it up!

Now back to "Nice People." Several entries ago I mentioned something about a knitting for needy project that I had read about in a Mary Janes Farm magazine. Elaine over at Soggy Bottom Flats Quilting and Stitching read that post and asked if she could send me the newest issue. I said yes, if she wanted to. She did and she also included these two very pretty red fat quarters.

How very nice of you, Elaine. Thanks so very much.

Another very nice person is Linda at All Stitched Up. She along with Stephanie were the hosts of the Christmas in July swap. Linda was having a giveaway and I won one of her wonderful bag patterns that she has designed. Such talent. Thank you very much Linda.

With Passion,

Carrie P.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. Demosthenes

Real Reason

Here is the real reason we go to the Outer Banks. The surf. My husband is a surfer. He has surfed since he was young. He taught our boys to surf when they were teens. This year our daughter gave it a try. My #2 son is teaching his fiance to surf and even bought her a pink board.
The surf wasn't the greatest for them this year but they did get to surf every day. Here is my son waiting for some waves.
The day the we took a trip into Manteo I looked in the window of this shop and saw these looms. I don't know how to weave even though it is fascinating to me. The shop is called Endless Possibilities. The shop weaves items to raise money for Crisis Intervention and Prevention Center. They will teach you to weave and it is all volunteers that come in and do the weaving. At each loom are baskets with different colors of discarded fabrics and yarns. When a product is done then it hangs in the shop to be sold. Great concept, don't you think?

I saw this rug/table runner hanging and I love the colors so I bought one. Here is their website if you are interested in checking it out. www.ragweavers.com
There is also a combination antique/quilt shop in Manteo. I didn't buy any fabric but I did find this very unique embroidered table scarf.


On our way to the Outer Banks we did stop in a town called Wilson which was a little out of the way but not too much. The shop is called Four Sisters Quilt Works. They had some very nice fabrics.


I did buy several yards of this fabric. The design is from the nursery rhymes. I don't know how I am going to use it yet but it just really caught my eye so I bought some. To the right in the picture is some pale blue fabric with intentions of using it for the background fabric in an applique project one day.
Take a look at Humpty Dumpty. I have always seen him with clothes on but now he looks like a real egg.
Here is what I worked on while I was staying in the air conditioned beach house.
I wanted to show you this picture too. There was a fenced in area for the sea turtle eggs. This was the first time I had seen this on the beach. It would have been neat to actually seen them hatch.

It was a good trip and everyone enjoyed themselves. Now it is back to the real world. Thanks for letting me share with you all and thanks for the well wishes for our vacation.

With Passion,

Carrie P.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. Helen Keller

OBX Trip

No place like home. That is where I am at today. We got home mid afternoon on Saturday. We had lots to unpack. Less food since we ate most of it during the week. I really like to buy most of what we need at home because prices are so much more at the beach. I have a few things to share. Today I wanted to share the pictures of the lighthouses.

This is the Cape Hatteras lighthouse. We just stopped to take a picture of it so you all could see it. We have been up in it many times. This is one lighthouse that was also moved from its original site. We were fortunate to see it at the original site and now at its new one. If you want to read more about it you can go here.
We (me,my husband, and his parents) had to take a ferry to the next lighthouse which in all the years we have been going to the Outer Banks we have never visited. We had to wait for two hours to get on the ferry. Everyone waits in line with their car. It was very hot and humid but we were going to wait for the two hours which was pretty much on the dot. We drove our car on the ferry boat and took a 40 minute ride to the next island. We did enjoy the ride.
We stopped to eat some lunch at one of the many crowded restaurants. Then we went over to the Ocracoke lighthouse. Not much too it but it was neat to see. You can't go in this lighthouse.
This plague was at the lighthouse to read the history of the lighthouse.
We did visit two antique stores but didn't find anything to buy. Then it was back to the ferry landing which we only had to wait about 15 minutes to get on it this time. On our way back to the beach house I took this picture. We always get tickled when we drive past this space ship sitting in someone's yard. If you look close you can see aliens in the windows.
I will have one more post tomorrow about the trip which involves fibers and fabrics.

With Passion,

Carrie P.

All the flowers of tomorrow are in the seeds of today. German Proverb

Bodie Island Lighthouse, OBX

I thought I would do a post this morning while we are waiting for some rain to pass by.
Yesterday we went into a town called Manteo and did a little shopping. It has been very hot and humid here so it felt good to walk into each air conditioned shop. We stopped in one shop that was full of weaving looms which I will share those pictures with you all later. First I need to take a picture of the table runner I bought.
Anyway, on our way into Manteo we stopped at the Bodie Island lighthouse. This lighthouse was erected in 1872. This plaque was in the entry way and you will notice how the spelling is different. Bodie versus Body. We were told by the volunteer outside the lighthouse that in 1872 the people making the plaque just spelled Body the only way they knew how because the name is pronounced "body." The name of the lighthouse we were told was named after an English family. Bodie. I think it is so neat to see the longitude and latitude on the plaque too.
You can not go to the top of this is lighthouse because the metal stair case needs work and is not safe but we told the lighthouse has a new budget so they are going to repair the stairs so one day it will be open to the public.
Today we are going to take a ferry to Okracoke Island and drive around the island and see another light house which we have not ever seen before. We will stop by the Hatteras lighthouse too. So these posts are for Belinda. I know many of us love lighthouses and she is one them. Enjoy.

With Passion,

Carrie P.

A smile is the light in the window of your face that tells people you're at home. ~Author Unknown

ps. I just wanted to let you all know about the quotes that I post on the end of my entries. The one for today was from a web site but most of the other ones are from a calendar that I got at the beginning of the year. I am glad that you read and enjoy the quotes.

OBX

If you live in North Carolina you know what OBX stands for. For those of you who don't know it, OBX stands for the Outer Banks which means the ocean and the beach and light houses and shopping and eating and relaxing. Well, I guess you figured out I am going on vacation! I have my reading material ready.
I have my hand work supplies ready and packed.
Now I have clothes to pack and lots of other things to do so that I can be ready to leave in the morning. I am looking forward to spending this time with my family and friends. My in-laws are coming down from Illinois to spend the week with us too. My #2 son's future in laws will come spend a few days with us. And we also have some friends who are going to drive their RV over for a few days. If I have Internet connection I might try to do some posts. So I am off to get busy and now I leave you with some applique.

With Passion,

Carrie P.

The sea, once it casts it spell, holds one in its net forever. Jacques Cousteau