We Have A Winner

And the winner is… Sharyn Sowell! Thanks to everyone for participating. I appreciate hearing from all of you and for your very kind comments. I’ve nearly completed my first year of blogging, perhaps another (fabric) giveaway early January, to celebrate, eh?


Fun Day Trip

A couple of weeks ago, I took a drive across town to pick up some of the “Christmas Traditions” ornaments at the Fine Art LTD gallery. It was my first opportunity to see the finished product and I was quite pleased with the final result. What a privilege, to be a part of this interesting commemorative collection and discover the meaningful story of a 500 year Christian, Christmas tradition. The Christmas tree.

This weekend the “Christmas Traditions” ornaments, dinnerware, prints and greeting cards will be available for purchase at the “St Louis Holiday Magic” show December 3rd – 5th, held in the America’s Center. Come by and see me at the Fine Art LTD booth and say hello on Friday, Dec. 3


For additional information and details on this collection go to Joy Studio’s October 25th post titled “Announcing.”

500 yr celebration of the decorated Christmas tree from

The National Christmas Tree Assoc.

Additional Availability:

Country Door & Bass Pro shops – dinnerware
Fine Art LTD. – Glass ornaments, cards & prints
Quilting Treasures – Quilt fabric available March, 2011, exclusively in quilt shops

Riga – Be sure to watch this, it’s really fun!

Building Updates

Do you remember my posts last June regarding our new church building? Well, we’re still going, the work continues primarily by volunteers. Here are some shots I took yesterday morning on our standing Saturday work day.

Recently, spreading mulch, hanging lights inside and out, getting tiles laid and sewing (grass) seed! You can see all of the progress at Friendship Friends.


Font Snafu

OK, I realize that operating in the first year of my blog, I’m still a relatively new blogger and have a lot to learn. So, I have a question for any of the veteran bloggers out there. What would cause my blog site and a few others I noticed, to appear differently, only the text headings, for about a week now?

There are so many fonts that I really like but some, I just hate the look of and this was one of them. Following my last post, my blog name and all headings appeared something like the “B” column below. I disliked it so much and after many attempts to adjust, I was forced to give up and resign to the new ugly font. I seriously considered moving Joy Studio if I was not able to remove the unrequested change.

Then, as suddenly as it appeared, yesterday afternoon, it returned to it’s original font, something like column “A.” Someone suggested that perhaps, it was a setting on my end only? I changed nothing. I don’t get it. Did anyone else experience this last week? How does it appear to you now, please comment. Yep, technology, computers, you gotta love em, eh?

Is font type important? I suppose not really, eh?