We Bee's annual holiday extravaganza...

We Bee Quilters Holiday Party 2011...

We all made bee hive needle holders....

Ginger, our 2011 QUILT-O champ!

Andy's entire home just oozes out creativity!

Fun little snow globe

Andy's butler Edward...

 

awesome gift basket

20 years of We Bee Quilters...

How blessed are we?  I've known these ladies for 20 years...yes, I was a wee babe when we started meeting up monthly at each others homes.  Each year we go to Black Butte Ranch and the Sisters Quilt Show.  We've been through so much together.  I'm a better person knowing and being friends with each one of these amazing ladies...here's to the next 20...Yes, I'll be driving the special bus by the next 20, but it's ALL good!

Melissa, Holly, Margaret, Chris, Barb, Melinda, Janice, Ginger, Patti, Andy and I.  Missing Viv & Jenny.

View this morning from Andy's Condo...AMAZING weather we had today!

View from the place we were sewing...

Holly completed a project pop-up bag....

Melissa working on sorting/cutting things down to size...

Andy  cutting up mice...

Janice machine quilting

Margaret working on her latest beading project.

Melinda graphing out her next project.

Chris working on her latest creation.

FUN wall hanging at the Beachcombers Haven

Melissa ready to kill a bee...

Ginger and Holly got caught by a sneaker wave.

This is what I did all day.....details coming soon...

WeBees Annual Christmas Party 2010...

As always, our WeBee Quilters Christmas Party at Andy's home is one of the highlights of the holiday season for me! Andy truly is the hostess with the mostess! She leaves no detailed undone....she manages to top herself year after year and I'm always amazed where she comes up with all her ideas, considering Google is not her forte....

When we arrived and I saw the ginger bread house she had on display with the cheese and crackers, I told her it looked just the like one we had made this morning at Intel with Charlotte. She kinda looked at me funny and at the time it didn't dawn on me WHY she looked at me funny....well, fast forward until after dinner and QUILTO (which I FINALLY won this year---and I get the cool trophy for the entire year), Andy then tells us what our "activity" will be for the evening....YOU guessed it, we were each making a ginger bread house of our very own....we had a great time...folks got really creative and I think it's safe to say we all ate too much of the building supplies (candy)...

I'm so blessed to have known most of these ladies for the past 20 years...we are all so lucky to have each other in our lives. I'm a lucky girl and I'm so very, VERY grateful to have them as dear friends!

Chris & Barb, we miss you guys! Jenny, we are sorry you couldn't be with us tonight, but we know you had a great time at your concert!

Merry Christmas my We Bee Quilters!

New BEE dress for Charlotte...

My friend Betty learned to knit last winter and has been going crazy making stuff ever since. She also has a fancy embroidery machine, so she was able to digitize the Bee (from our Wee Bees for a Cure banner) and put him on the dress! Super cute!

THANK YOU Betty! Charlie loves her new dress! ;-)

QUILT-O Champ '09....

Melinda is our champ (again) this year...she's now won the coveted trophy a record three times. Way to go Melinda!

We Bees Christmas Party '09...

Group photo of the 10 of us...I'll have more details tomorrow...I just LOVE these gals! We've been together almost 20 years...amazing. Andy is the hostess with the mostess and always manages to out do herself every year.

THANK YOU Andy and THANK YOU We Bee Quilters! No matter what we've been through, we are always here for each other and I can't imagine my life without all of you.

Super cute pumpkin!!!

Charlie and I went to my monthly quilt group meeting tonight at Melinda's home. She had the place all decked out in Halloween and lots of yummy treats for us to eat. Charlie did OK, luckily Melinda dug out some of her sons' toys to help keep Charlie busy...

There was a funny discussion about the "assignment" from the Craft Warehouse monthly QUILTING meeting and this month being a "craft" pumpkin, not a quilt block like they usually do (for the QUILTING group)...needless to say a few of our quilt group weren't too thrilled about the assignment and passed.....

Fast forward about 5 minutes and Melinda passes out the most adorable pumpkins (she made) as gifts for all of us....I just about choked because of the previous discussion about making pumpkins....

Check out the stem...if you click on the photo, it will get bigger..the stem is a wine cork, roughed up and a sharpie for coloring...another use for all those wine corks out there!

THANK YOU Melinda for being such a wonderful hostess (as always), for pulling out Justin & Garrett's old toys for Charlie to play with and of course the wonderful PUMPKINS!!!

Birthday goodness keeps rolling in...

Our WeBees quilt group started this "decade" celebration years and years ago (actually right after I turned 30). The basket, along with all the fabric goodness goes to those "special" birthday girls whose birthdays come around every 10 years.

I was the lucky recipient tonight at our monthly meeting. All the fabric is "kid oriented" fabric so that when Charlotte gets her first twin sized bed, Mommy can make her a twin size quilt.

THANKS you guys! Love all the fabric fun. Can't wait to show Charlotte all the fabric tomorrow afternoon when I get home from work. She was sound asleep when I got home tonight.