"May all "May all your troubles last as long as your New year's resolutions"- Oscar Wilde
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Contact Information for Mary Lou Weidman- email-Lattegirl@aol.com for personal letters -
address 1521 N.Argonne-#276,Spokane Valley,WA 99212 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Well, the new year has begin and I am busy making quilt and enjoying my family and friends and Grandchildren as they play hockey, draw and pretend. It has been really nice to be at home with my husband and to enjoy the season.
I am looking forward to meeting new friends this year as I teach Story Quilts, Hoochy Mama techniques and how to get your artist out and stretch your abilites to surprise others and especially yourself. I am teaching a good number of classes this year and hope to meet YOU in one of them.
We are blessed to be a blessing and it is nice to give some of what you have.
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Come and join us for the fourth annual "Mary Lou Story Quilt Happy Go Lucky Retreat-June 2nd- through the 8th-see the retreat page for details.
$600. Food is provided as well as a great art center with good light and a chef's kitchen attached to work space. We are surrounded by fun places to visit and so far we have FUN and creative people signed up! Come and join us please, you will love it!
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Check out this wonderful interview with myself and Mel McFarland -you may learn something about letting go! If you need to try something new and want an easy way to get outside your every day quilting, our new book is for YOU. And you may learn something new by reading the interview. They did a nice job on this.
http://www.martingale-pub.com/news/?p=493
The NEW BOOK is here and the response is WONDERFUL !
Out of the Box -Easy Piecing Blocks. I did this book with my friend Mel McFarland who is easy to work with and a good and fun friend. We work well together. This book is $25. and is all about easy piecing cats, cupcakes, coffee pot and cups, princess's, high heels, popcicles, handbags and much more. Done the easy piecing hoochy way, it is quick and has lots of fun along the way.
If you would like to order the book, simply go to "go shopping" above and I will send it right out to you.
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Christmas, Children, is not a date. It is a State of MinChrist
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I just updated new dates that I am teaching on the schedule above. Great places, great workshops and fun new friendships made while we invent, get creative, stretch and bring our inner artists out for fun and for nice surprises for us and our fellow students. Check out and see if I am coming somewhere close to YOU
PLEASE consider coming to my own story quilt retreat in Post Falls Idaho right next to beautiful Coeur d'Alene where we will have our final dinner at the Coeur d'Alene restaurant. We are meeting early to enjoy the Farm Chicks show in Spokane first which has antiques, collectibles and fabric, old tableclothes, buttons and all kinds of things to sew on quilts. This show is wonderful. Cost for the retreat is $600. We have Miss Tina coming from California to do the cooking for us (chef's kitchen right where we work! June 3rd through the 8th. Great fun and wonderful girls.
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I have TWO Blogs now- Please come and see the ideas, tips and good news in there. I have some pretty funny things right now.
Http://Marylouweidman.blogspot.com ANDMarylouweidman.blogspot.com
http://marylouweidman-marylou.blogspot.com/
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Come and check out the nicest chatroom ever....lovely girls who share info on quilting, crafting, links, places to get good deals, pattern ideas, recipes and advice on lots of things....LOVELY and lasting friends.
chatroom http://groups.yahoo.com/group/marylouweidman/messages?o=1
OR OR OR Yahoogroups.com (Marylouweidman)
Hooray, I just got a box of fabric from Timeless Treasures and I will be working with them on many things...stay tuned. I am hoping to come up with a beautiful light giving fabric line or two for all of us to use. These people who work there are really NICE and I encourage you to buy their products that are pretty and have a nice hand to their fabric.
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My newsletter is also available to those who want to get it from my Yahoogroups.com page-just type in my name or go to my blog and scroll down the right column to sign up instantly. If you cannot get signed up on my newsletter list, write to me at Marylouquilts@aol.com and I will send you an invitation. I send out fun tips, what I am doing and great recipes.http://marylouweidman-marylou.blogspot.com At least some of them are and they are fun!
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"If you always do what you have always done, you always get what you've always got."
Think about this if you are still doing the same old things over and over- this might be the year you change and expand and invent and challenge yourself!
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I want to thank Becki from Quiltropolis for helping me to learn my way around websites.
I am hoping that as time goes on, I will become better at listing everything I need for your needs and wants.
Wishing you a wonderful year with the same joy YOU bring to others.
Thank you for coming here and for supporting me, I love my quilting friends.
Please check out my blogs for many photos and other nice things friend.