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2018 Recap

 Hey guys!  I'm back!  I know I haven't posted a lot this past year.  But it's been an exciting, hectic few years for us as a family.  I've made several quilts that I'm going to blast through.  As I get older, times flies by so fast!  Not a joke.  So all of you youngsters out there, enjoy each day and don't take it for granted!

1.  The most exciting event is my youngest son got married to a very sweet young lady, Lily.  Their picture is below.  It was the most beautiful, calm, full of love wedding that I've been to.  We had only close family and a few friends. 


Aren't they gorgeous!

 2.  My husband and I traveled to Italy for two weeks to see my sister and brother in law.  We had a fabulous time!  Italy is beautiful and overwhelmingly full of history! These are some of the best pictures that we took.  Our favorite city to visit was Florence, Italy by far.  We enjoyed walking and roaming around, people watching, just enjoying each other's company.

  My Blog link is below if you guys want to read about our adventures.
   
 https://cynztravelblog.blogspot.com/

Us in Venice and San Gimignano enjoying gelato and the views

 Florence, Italy neighborhood roads were incredible!

 Florence, Italy

The Colosseum, Rome, Italy

 Trevi Fountain, Rome, Italy

Fiesole, Italy
Ok.  On to my quilts...I'm just going to post all of the pictures of all of the quilts I've made this past year.  It surprises me that I've made so many.  
I made this Marine Corp quilt for a friend of mine's son.

 I made this Army quilt for her other son.

This is a quilt I made for a family baby.

 This quilt was a Christmas present I made for my sister and my brother in law. I turned some of the pictures I took into embroidery designs.  I used the pictures that were meaningful to her from her time in Florence.
 The embroidery picture above is the gate to the house they lived in for two years.

This green door was the beginning of the monster hill we had to climb to get to her house.



She loved her quilt.  I'm proud to say that my quilt hung up in Florence, Italy for six months before they came back to the US.

 I made a Tshirt quilt for a birthday present for one of my adopted son's wife, Katie.  She loved it.  She chose the colors.  My husband said it's the prettiest tshirt quilt I've made.

I also made my parents a "Clean/Dirty" magnet for their dishwasher. They were using a towel of different colors to signify clean or dirty. So this magnet simplified it for them.
  
I made a few more projects through the year as gifts for the special people in my life.  But I can't seem to find the pictures right now.  Did I tell you I'm trying really hard to be more organized?



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