About the Photo

Everyone is still sleep here and I’m not thinking real clear…yet? Coffee in hand and I’ve been playing with photo’s. Isn’t if unbelievable how a simple photo can be changed into something pretty good. The top one is just a white rose with pink edges. A little Photoshop and here is the AFTER,

Yellow rose photo — Yellow Rose by Beth Ann Strub

AFTER

This is one that was from a Holiday shoot and I loved the idea, but not the picture, but now I LIKE.

Black and White Candles and Red Flowers

Candles and Red Flowers

I need to get moving, laundry (towels) are not going to do themselves? Have a GREAT day.

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I met a Boy and We Married 39 years ago !

It’s been a ride, adventure and laughs ! It’s been hard, fun, presser driven and at time crazy. But, with time….a lot of time… 39 years, we have at figured out????

So YOUNG, so happy. He gave me two sons and those boys gave two daughter-in-laws, and four grand boys. I am blessed.

at the Dallas Cowboys game

We are NOW ready for 39 more years !

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How to Mend a Quilt

I’m always on the look out for old quilts and IF I think I can save them I purchase them. They have to be washable and usable, nothing better to me no matter the temperature is a quilt to cuddle in. This is the Quilt AFTER, I am sharing this from my Quilt Ladies site, this post is NUTS on Pinterest ! follow me if you LIKE

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3 blocks that needed attention,
I ALWAYS wash quilts before I mend, this one turned out
VERY nice, they usually do !

I like making a paper temple for the applique piece I’m adding

Try to make it exact and add seam allowance at the time of cutting (it’s easier to do this way)

This is the same fabric, one is the right side

and one it the back side

Add the seam allowance and cut out piece

Fold down the point and press

Fold the sides over, I like to press everything and I use the tip of the small scissors to hold as the fabric will get HOT !

Applique the pink down and I then hand quilted, forgot to picture !

3 baskets I fixed on this quilt

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Getting Old Part Two and with ONLY a bit of Grace

Things here have been a little bit crazy and I’m hoping for a bit of calm to settle over us. At times it still seems crazy, but I’ve adjusted or accepting a bit better lately. Read Last Month Part One

I have heard a lot this past month or so about empathy, and you are under the opinion I have none. And, as I’ve politely tried to say and will say here in my own way, bullshit.

Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within the other being’s frame of reference, i.e., the capacity to place oneself in another’s position.

And really I do get it….but, I’m moving through survival mode. My way is, look and solve the problem, see what is needed and what HAS to be done. I can’t seem to find empathy at those moments, but isn’t that empathy too, getting it done?

Long ago, a Hospice worker said to us, “Nothing but the truth is to be spoken from this time forward.” I hear her saying that in the back of my mind so often. It’s also a pretty good way to live one’s life.

As we settle in, the work has not stopped. The daily needs of life still have to be taken care of. I have learned to ask for help, to understand it’s alright to take time for me and that life becomes all about potty and poop. And, or the cleaning up of it.

Lessons learned.

Ask the VERY hard questions, of yourself, of others, of services. EVERY thing you can think of, ask the questions.
I had to fire the first service we had started. It was about Mom and what was best for her, not them, HER. This is where I have no empathy, it’s the momma bear in me.
Everyone has an opinion and I do just what I think is best. I listen, I thank them, but we (Mom and I) talk it over and do what is needed.
Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another and feelings with the heart of another and I like to add, ONLY after all the work is done.

I’ve learned to cry often (a hot shower is designed for that), WE laugh often and I NEVER fight or argue with her. Why…life always comes down to potty and poop.

Please be kind…or don’t leave a comment

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Nothing would be possible without all of you and The Quilt Ladies Books. This is how the books looked for years, after the past printing I decide to only put them on Kindle and NOOK It was a time and printing cost decision. I have been asked to have them printed on the Amazon site, but the book would be over 50.oo and at 9.99 it’s a bargain on Kindle and NOOK

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Quilts Around my House

Just a few more of the Quilts Around my House

Little applique, machine pieced, hand appliqued and quilted. Quilt measures seven inches by seven inches.

This is packing tubs set up as a bedroom to sale our home. This is the quilt that I use every night watching TV. Machine pieced and hand quilted.

The Quilt for the Grand’s to use here at our house, Grand #3 loved to play on it, eat lunch on it and have popcorn on it ! Machine pieced and hand quilted.

Husband’s office quilt from his working days. Machine pieced and hand quilted.

husband's office bow tie quilt by beth ann doing

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From my Quilt Picture Files

I LOVE quilts and I’ve been making quilts for YEARS. A friend was over doing a project and wanted to see my quilts. It’s easier to show them in photos. I was taken a back with her response, “Why are you NOT showing them daily?” Well, I will be for the next few days. I’m running away for a few days, please don’t tell anyone…… I hope to get a video of them all soon too, but here is a few for you to see. Please take a moment to sign up on the right side for my newsletter.

This is from my red, white and blue period, I had a thing for it for about six months. Machine pieced and hand quilted

This is one of the quilts that I loved to piece and it’s STILL sitting waiting to be quilted. My pattern…my idea??? Machine pieced.

This is my Mom’s snuggle quilt, I made it about eight years ago for Christmas for her. Machine pieced and I hand quilted.

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Today is my Birthday !

And I’m getting OLD. Yes….OLD.

Yes, 59 in the NEW 39. Yeah, you keep believing that. It’s not, it’s 59.

Old bones, gray hair and these brown spots had seem to have a life of their own. It’s all about preservation at this time. Keep the body moving or things will start growing….Where it should NOT be growing. Where getting out of a chair can take on a whole process itself….REALLY. BUT, I’m laughing my way through it.. Or trying too, what’s a Lady to do ?

GET OLD…Wise and HAPPIER. And I Laugh, out loud. I know I shouldn’t sometimes, BUT, I’m OLD. So I do ! HA !

So today as most days it’s ALL ABOUT ME. Go over and purchase a quilt pattern for yourself and me !

So, it’s my Birthday and here are two of my Flower Photo’s. I LOVE them. These are “after’s” and then before’s. Just a bit of computer work on them. Nothing is really as it seems ! Not even 59 Years Old today…I AM 59??? Holy Shit…

White Rose Photo — (c) Beth Ann Strub White Rose

Orange Rose and Water Drops Photo — (c) Beth Ann Strub

Orange Rose with water drops photo — (c) Beth Ann Strub

Enjoy Each Day, Each moment and LAUGH, OUT LOUD !

Beth Ann

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All ABOUT “ME”

I love saying that, “All about me” over the years that’s not happened much in my life. I think with age….and taking a bit of time. I’ve learned what I need, want and NOW is the TIME.

I always felt The Quilt Ladies site was my retreat. Husband worked hours and hours a week and the site was all I felt I had. BUT…Now, I’m writing, sewing, reading, painting, decorating (almost 4 years here, time for changes) and still quilting, but that too has taken a bit of a change. Lots of color and hand work.

Daughter-n-law #1 is a graphic designer and I asked and she helped me with my new logo: So many ideas, I love them all. Here’s Rita’s Etsy Site Flourish Files & Design, ask and she CAN do it.

“What I’m a doing” WAS to be my site name, but from the time I checked, to the time of purchase the name was GONE. And that’s just fine. I love

www.BethAnnDoing.com Things always happen for the best. With me it’s the just letting it happen, not a strong suit of mine. But I have done this by myself and for myself. “I” did this site for ME. Music to my ears.Here’s some FYI things.

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Getting OLD is hard, BUT I’m Making a List – Part One

getting old with a bit of grace My Mom lives VERY close to me here, it had been the plan. She is moving into a new stage of aging and I don’t like what I see. And, OK before you all get all high and mighty, yes I love her, but I have to say a couple of things. So….please don’t email me all about HOW great it all was with your XVZ… Because, REALLY it’s NOT all sunshine and roses. Plus, that’s the reason you’ve not heard anything about her for YEARS. It’s NOW my turn.

And maybe it’s not Mom I’m thinking about, maybe it’s myself and HOW I want this to all go down when I’m her age.

Mom’s 88 years old and my Dad passed in 1997. So being alone in not new to her or helping her is not new to me. But it is VERY stressful. Mom has never been a glass half full person. I have gotten services started and with their help, a prayer and maybe a little luck I can get through this. Husband and I left the other day and he said rubbing my back, “I think your angel winds are just about ready to pop.”

But, can “I” do that, can I turn my life, my CONTROL over to another? I really don’t think I can, but I also know I will HAVE to. So, as with everything I’ve started a list. Nothing in the world can make me happier than a list. That…plus writing here, to the blank unseen. What I see her need or do, what I want different and why. Every little thing I see is written down.

MOVE to the kids: Husband keeps saying, “When we get older.” well, yes but how old? I’m going to need a support system not just the kids and grands. I need friends, church, a bit of a social life and how long do you wait to go start that process all over again?
ALWAYS tell the TRUTH: health issues suck, I know they suck, but if you have burning when you potty, UTI, tell me and we will get drugs to help you.
LAUGH, out loud and strong: Yes, it’s all serious, but we all know going into live, we are going to die in the long run. And baby….I want mine to be a party.

I’m going to let that be… for today I’m heading for a cup of coffee and hopefully a little nap, then the fun can start again. Bless us all, PLEASE only Kindness in comments.

Beth Ann

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