Another sore point for me...

Grammar Matters again!!!

trying not to vent... but really????

Extra Book

I somehow ended up with 2 copies of Cool Girls Quilt by Linda Lun DeBono.  If you would like the additional copy, let me know:)  It has been sitting on my desk reminding me to do something with it for about a year now- sad, but true!  If you can give this book a new home without the dust catching duties, please let me know:)  I will send it to the first person that requests it via comments.  Please remember to send me your mailing address, as well. 

Thanks:)

Grammar does matter.

Disclosure:  I am a bit testy and don't feel very accommodating lately.  I do not profess to be a grammar expert, but some things are so basic, they should not be written incorrectly, IMHO.  

I was blog surfing and reading some recent posts at various sites and ran across a grating misuse of the French word, voila.  The blogger incorrectly spelled it as "walla" numerous times throughout her blog, which leads me to believe that she doesn't know that she is wrong.  I considered emailing her to let her know, but don't really know how to tell her the appropriate spelling without offending her.  To ensure that I am, in fact, correct, I located this definition:

"Walla is a word used by retarded Americans who don't know any foreign languages and barely know their own. The correct word they are looking for is "voila", which loosely translates as "here it is", "there you go", or similar meanings."  (UrbanDictionary.com).  This is a bit more caustic than I would prefer but does get the point across. 

I find that I am increasingly less tolerant as I age.  

My best friend recently posted on his FB page:

"Grammar is important. Capitalization is the difference between helping your Uncle Jack off a horse & helping your uncle jack off a horse."

I wholeheartedly agree with this.  I truly believe that, as a whole, we, especially our youth, are not taught to be mindful and careful in our grammar, or in other areas of importance.   In school, I lost points for errors such as run on sentences, misspelled words, incorrect punctuation, and the like.  These same errors have been ignored by more recent educators as my children have brought home papers from school with the grammatical errors completely ignored and graded an "A."  Then, my children are aggravated with me for showing them the correction and insisting that it does matter although it clearly doesn't matter to their respective teachers.  My daughter has actually been known to leave her work at school just so I did not have ready access to it for correction.  In their worlds, commonplace and incorrect gets them good grades so why should they strive for better since society clearly doesn't expect or demand it.  I have found this to be true in both the government schools as well as the private schools my kids have been enrolled in.  

 When did we get so complacent and non-caring?   Why do people not care about correctness anymore?  Why is it that I am considered to be anal-retentive and/or rude for applying proper grammar and correcting grammatical errors?  Have we really set your standards so low that we don't even notice?  I strive very hard to mean what I say and say what I mean.  We seem to have become a nation of sheeple that idly follow the path of least resistance without utilizing our innate gift of being unique and having opinions.  God, help us all! 

I do try to be accurate; if there is an error, please point it out to me so that I can correct it and avoid making the same mistake at a later time.  Please try to ignore my rant if you find it offensive.  This was intended to be a way of venting, not to insult or instigate.

 

Customer Service:

Shawna at 1choice4quilting is just awesome!  I found her blog via another blog ad for a giveaway.  I really like being sent to various blogs because I always see something neat, cool or inspiring when I hop from site to site.  For me, blogging is more about looking at the sites and posts of others more than about writing on my own blog.  Backwards, to be sure, but I really am liking it.

Back on track:)  I found 1 choice 4 quilting and placed an order for some items that were on sale.  OMGoodness!!!!!  Shawna sent me an email and got the order out immediately.  It arrived within just a few days- priority mail.  AND: each item was in its own sealed baggie with a label on it telling me how much yardage and what fabric was in the bag.  How cool is that???  AND: she sent me a handful of extra goodies---just because she could:)  

Seriously, if there is anything you need, check out her site; you won't regret it!!!

...I need to get better with the photos, huh?  Who wants to read posts without photos???!!!

Nathan likes watching Chloe:)  Senior Prom 2011.

Clearly, Jesse and I weren't prepared for photos:)  But, it is really nice to have one of us together!  We don't have any family pics since Jesse was 2-3 and she is now 16.

My other Baby Boy turned 22 yesterday.  I swear to you, they were babies yesterday!!!  Honest:)

I won a couple of giveaways lately:)

Animal Party Too by Amy Schimler

Ryan recently sent me these fabulous prints from a giveaway I won from his site:)  These prints are fun and bright and I can't wait to figure out how to best use them.  For now, I am not cutting into them because I want to save them for a perfect project:)  I am a wimp about cutting into my fabulous fabrics!

I also won this FABULOUS candle mat from Wanda!!!  She made this with 4+ layers of felt and each individual layer is hand sewn with a blanket stitch.  Personally, I don't know what Wanda was thinking when she claimed that this is a candle mat because seriously, it is way to pretty to chance messing it up with candle wax:)  It currently resides on my end table next to my couch.  I am amazed by Wanda's talent, patience and generosity.  I am glad to be a blogging buddy of hers:)

Wanda also sent me a great book.  It has so many patterns in it and I have loved looking through it .  I think that my favorite block so far is the Buttercup Block.  You see, Buttercups are my very favorite flower.  I love the brightness of their blooms but mostly just love that they are a symbol of Springtime's arrival.  When I was little, my Granny always had tons of buttercups lining her property.  She planted them, interspersed with spider grass, as a border of her yard right at the street.  Under the dogwood tree, she has a couple of Easter Lilies planted, too.  Every year at Easter, she would let me pick one of her Lilies and place it in water colored with food dyes to change the beautiful white Lily to purple or blue or pink or whatever else I came up with:)  I sure do miss my Granny!

I think that maybe I should buy lottery tickets since I have had such good fortune with giveaways lately:)  I have been richly Blessed!

Thanks for stopping by and I wish you a fabulous Spring day filled with Buttercups:)

Sunkissed

Sunkissed is simply fabulous.  Until Monday, QuiltHome.com has the entire line at 20% off.  The coupon code is QHSW20.  I am pretty sure that I need some of each print:)  Oh, to be independently wealthy.....

I wish my computer skills were better honed so that I could post a picture of the yummy fabrics...

Samantha Walker's Enchanted Garden

A couple of weeks ago, I entered a blog giveaway for a bundle of Samantha Walker's  new line Enchanted Garden.  I actually won!!!   She sent me a 1/2 yard cut of each of the coordinates in the turquoise colorway. 

Isn't it pretty?

 

 

I think that I am going to need more of the brown circles print to use as a background piece and want to play with the Wave Pattern that I seem to have fallen in love with recently.  I am supposed to be hemming pants today but just would rather have a lethargic day of doing exactly what I want:)  I think I will do just that!

So, today I would like to have new pajama pants and a start on an Enchanted Wave Throw:)

Have a Blessed Weekend:)