Gratitude

This past week as I was twittering, one of the twitterers was having a contest.

1. Go to her blog and select shop from catalog
2. Select ‘something’ under $8.00
3. Go to checkout, fill in necessary info
4. Check phone/fax for payments
5. Click submit

That’s all you had to do and if your info came through in a certain amount of time, you won a full quilt pattern.  I came in at the last second.  An email was sent to me telling me I had won.  I’d never done anything like that before, so needless to say, I was excited!

I emailed back and told them ‘thank you’.  Common courtesy, easy to do… “Thanks” …that was it.

I received an email back saying  they rarely receive an email of gratitude…so they so appreciated what I had done.  What I had done? Nothing more than saying ‘Thanks’.

I have to admit, there are times someone has done something for me…and when I get home I think…’Did I say Thank You?”  Yikes, where are my manners?  Shamefully, it’s so easy to forget.  But that email reminded me…how important it is to say…..         

So…to all of you who are reading my blog…THANK YOU!  I hope you are enjoying it.  Send me an email if you have ideas of other things you would like to see ‘aired’ on this blog

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Scrappy Thoughts

When I started this blog, my first concern was “What am I going to write about?”  Then, when I finally decided on a blog name…I thought, that’s what scrappy  and musings is all about…

Creating conversations.

I just finished making a scrappy table topper in my quilting group, Covenant Quilters.  Scrappy quilts are different from other quilts in that you are taking the leftover from other projects and making a new project. These scraps can be of any color (blues, pinks, browns, oranges, purples, etc.) You do not have to organize by color or by size. If a scrap of material is too big, you cut it down to fit the block you’re working on. You, essentially, make the pieces fit. (though there are patterns where you can actually cut the material to the proper size.)  At first, the blocks looks like patches of leftovers, but when all the blocks are put together and the borders are added…voila (that’s a french saying) you have a quilt whether it be a wall hanging, a table topper or a full size quilt.

Musings are the same way…day in and day out all sorts of thoughts cross our minds…what to say to a friend, how to respond to an inquiry, talking with a rude customer service person, someone cuts you off on the highway, an article you read, politicians making promises, etc.  These thoughts don’t come one at a time…they usually jumble all together…they are musings all day long.  When you convey to a friend or  spouse about your day, you take all the ‘musings’ and make them coherent…complete thoughts, complete sentences so the hearer understands more completely.

Scrappy and musings…fragments put together in a conversation. Let’s build something together in our conversations …friendships, encouragements, listeners…yes, and even maybe a scrappy quilt.