Happy birthday, Kim and Limbania!

rehak wrote: And I've got a couple of years to go to get there yet :shock: I guess that makes me the baby of the group (again)

Happy birthday to both Kim and Limbania! I turned 50 a couple of years ago and celebrated for the entire year. I figure you only turn 50 once! Enjoy!!

Glad you're getting back on track, Maureen. Enjoy getting back into your art!

Happy late birthday to you Limbania. I am glad that you came through all the chemo and other treatments you had over the year and hope the new treatment will help you continue a happy and healthy life.

Happy re-birthday, Limbania. I'm so glad you made it

So happy to read you're getting up and going Maureen. Sounds like you'll still be very busy, but having fun too.

Very glad to hear Kim is getting better and wish her a very happy birthday. I just turned 50 myself (Jun14) and although I don't feel that different, it's amazing to realize I've been here for half a century :shock: :shock: , specially when last year I really doubted I was going to make it. But here I was, celebrating my 50th birthday and what I consider my 1st re-birthday, since a year ago on that day I had the last chemo treatment and at the time I really thought that if cancer didn't kill me, chemo would. Thankfully, here I am. Still dealing with some uncertainties since just found out from my last blood work that the tumor markers have gone up, slightly below the upper limit. So now I started a new treatment to make sure those markers go down ASAP. If they don't, will have a pet scan to find out what's gong on.

It's good to know you are getting back to yourself again Maureen and I am really hoping to meet you at Birmingham. I am also very pleased to know that Kim is feeling better. I know how she feels about that particular milestone birthday. I hope her husband listens to you.

twiglet wrote:
Wendy, I was never normal but yes, I am slowly getting back my get up and go which had got up and went and taking things easy. I taught a workshop yesterday and that’s the last workshop I will be teaching plus classes for the summer.

My group Threadlines are having another 4 day workshop next week on Indigo and Shibori but this time including colour. We are having another exhibition next year called ‘Marks and Stitches’ so will be working towards that and I am really looking forward to getting messy and “playing”.

While I am here, I would just like to say a thank you to all of you who personally wrote to Kim to thank her for taking the photos of our Chinese Whispers quilts and putting them on flikr and Powerpoint plus letting me send her photos to you all. It was much appreciated especially as she was ill at the time.

She is coming along fine now and looking forward to her 50th birthday which is next month. I have been put in charge of the task of not letting her husband hold a surprise party for her as she would absolutely hate it and he would be in the doghouse forever and ever

Ditto what Lorna said, Maureen.

Thank you, Maureen! What a great name and a great group of ladies. The one we talked to said they had met at classes and finally developed their own group.

Maureen, I do hope you are relaxed and feeling well and that your daughter is well.

Lorna

Now we know.

Thanks Maureen, Are you feeling more normal now

I was going to mention that the name Filanderers has something to do with thread as I recall someone telling me years ago but thought I better get it from the horse’s mouth so I asked one of the group and this is her reply: -

"A philanderer is a man who "loves" and has relationships with many different women. We love and have relationships with everything to do with thread - woven, stitched, etc. French for 'thread' is 'fil', so we liked the idea of substituting 'fil' for 'phil' in Filanderers! It would not have seemed so amusing if there was any philandering going on, but we are such upright souls! "

Now you know.

Lorna, thank you again for mailing the quilt. Your check will be out in the mail tomorrow.

Renata wrote:

I agree with Nancy and Renata!