I was able to get our regular lunch place (Spunky Pig/H&F, in Heber Springs, Arkansas) to provide free lunch for the Nicholas Project ladies today! We had BBQ pork sandwiches (the best!), potato salad, coleslaw, awesome baked beans, and iced tea. Wasn't that nice of them? And because of our nonprofit status, I was able to give them a receipt for the value of the meal for the six of us, for their taxes.
And now back to work. Here's Eloise, stitching away!
I have to share a funny story that you all will love. One of our ladies is new to all this sewing stuff, so we've been teaching her some simple things and she's been a good sport about it all. She mostly loves the fellowship of it all, as we all do. Well by the end of today we were wrapping it up and came across a bag of oddball scraps. Well, we got so excited and silly over that bag! We dumped it out on the table and all just dove into it, claiming our favorites, imaging what we would to with them -- just a fun, silly free-for-all. So during all this, Cindy (the novice) was watching like we were from another planet. She exclaimed, "I can't believe how you all are acting over a bag of leftover junk!" We just laughed at her and said, "You just wait, once the bug bites you, it will all become clear and you'll be just like us silly girl!" Her (Cindy) mother recently gave her an old sewing machine in a cabinet. We promised to teach her how to sew after January, and after she gets that old machine tuned up. She has no idea how addicting this can get - LOL.
Here's Cindy at the ironing board:
Janet and Velma:
Ellen joined us, her first venture after recovery from a massive stroke, from which God saved her, having arranged everything perfectly in place for a skilled doctor who just "happened" to be near her when it happened! Here's sweet Ellen:
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