Hello Everyone, All good things happening here under the oaks at Sew'n Wild Oaks. My Heritage pattern is available along with a kit at Keepsake Quilting. The catalog will be arriving to your mailbox next month. Keepsake is taking pre-orders for the kits now. Click HERE to get more information. Everything you see in the next series of pictures is sitting on the floor in my living room. We arrived back home from the quilt show in Fremont, and the bins and tubs of product and quilts made it inside the house and that is where it all sits. The booth looked inviting and charming. It is always fun to put everything out on display. I'm applying to have a booth at a prestigious 3-day show next year. I have to submit pictures and a description of why my booth should be accepted and what makes the booth unique. The pictures and written explanation are ranked by the guild members. The highest ranked vendors are assigned the largest spots, then the smaller spaces are filled by the lower ranking vendors. Everyone has to go through the same process even if you were accepted in the past. I'm a bit nervous to apply now because I was told at the conclusion of the show last weekend that most quilting is going modern and perhaps my style is too traditional and has a definite niche in that realm. I've never been a vendor chair for a quilt show, but it is my assumption that you would want to have vendors from the full quilting spectrum......modern to traditional. I'm still scratching my head over this and have had a bit of heartburn about the entire issue. Not to worry, I'm sticking with my style, my inviting booth, and my marketing strategy. The highlight of the weekend was having my granddaughter Harleigh work the booth with us. She's a quick study and figured out the cash register much quicker than I ever will.  Since this was a local show for me, only a few miles from my house, many of my quilting buddies stopped by to say hello. Harleigh was amazed at how many people knew her from the blog and her adventures raising Kevin the pig. She is now knows as "Kevin's Mom". My youngest son turns 40 next week. In our family that means you get a slide show set to music of your entire life. All three of our kids have had a camera in their face since they were in the womb. I'm sifting through thousands of pictures of Kade, and trying to condense his life down to 200 pictures. I have been walking back through time and memories while pulling this together. Kade is our middle child, our rebel, our "I'm going to test Mom & Dad to their limit" kid. Kade is the reason I went prematurely gray!!! If someone had told me when he was 16 he would grow up to be an excellent husband and parent, coach to many, and all-round good citizen and person......I would not have thought it possible. He is the most loving and kind person, and we love him more every day. He would do anything for us and is always the first to offer help. Here he is with his beautiful wife Athena, on their wedding day in Hawaii. Of course these pictures are in the slide show too! Anything is fair game for Mom's slide show! Soon, Lynn