Welcome to Mountaintop Quilting Studio

This is where you find me exploring a variety of creative adventures mostly about but not limited to quilting. I'm a firm believer that one increases their creativity by being open to and playing with a variety of cretative endeavors ... at least that my excuse for today. Enjoy your sourjourn through my studio playroom. May you find encouragement and inspiration, and on occassion, a little pin-prick that may be thought-provoking or spark your imagination. Thank you for stopping by.

You may have heard via the grapevine that we have moved. Yes you heard correctly. We purchased a house in Lenox Dale MA in the Berkshire Mountains of Western Massachusetts and are currently selling our home in Oregon. To explain my long absence … how did this all come about?

It all started in September last year when we returned from our vacation:

• September: what would you think about moving to MA to be closer to the kids and the grandbabies?
• Mid-October: go to MA and start looking at houses; make an offer; loose the offer
• November: still looking but thinking this will be a Spring Event. Keep slowly sorting, organizing and packing boxes with non-essentials.
• Late November (week of Thanksgiving): person who outbid us lost his funding. Are we still interested? Make a new offer
• December: Offer accepted, house closed, and how soon can you be here to take possession. No more slowly sorting and organizing. Now we're packing in earnest!
• Mid-December: packers (friends and pros) come to help, movers show up a day early to load the van, and after a whirlwind of 3 days we are on our way. Car is packed; we leave Friday morning and arrive at our new home Monday afternoon sliding into western Massachusetts right between two ferocious Winter storms gripping the nation making for treacherous driving.
• December 22nd: unloading the van - started at 7:00 AM and finished at midnight. After 2 days of unpacking boxes looking for essentials we were ready for a break.
• December 25th: Yeah! Christmas with Toby and his family (love those grandbabies) in Boston. That's what this move was all about.

And now, we begin making a new home, meeting new friends … we love our village life with walks to the post office for our mail and chatting with new neighbors along the way.

LO credits: various elements from Scrap Girls and Tangie Baxter.

Comments

• Let us know when you want the Quilt Shop Hop! Janice and I will be glad to show you around...... And oh - we have a Statler get together every month or two in Manchester, NH - We'll put you on the invite list!
  by Joyce.... Again on 13 January 2010 at 9:06 p.m.
• Welcome to New England Kay!!!!! I think we're probably only about 2 hours away from each other now.... How do you say RETREAT in New England???????????
  by Joyce on 13 January 2010 at 9:02 p.m.